One way to stretch this summer season is dehydrating your harvest. You can cross junk food and expensive store-bought snacks off your family's shopping list and add to your cupboard homemade, preservative-free fruit leathers, candied apricots, beef jerkies, "sun" dried tomatoes, banana chips, and so much more!

For over three decades Mary T. Bell has promoted food drying throughout North and Central America by writing books and inspiring students. Drying your food saves you money, and minimizes the demands on the planet, plus it tastes really good! It is never too late to start dehydrating your food.