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Harvest and Prepare Fresh Squash

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What happens here

Begin by harvesting fresh squash from your garden. The video demonstrates picking yellow squash and zucchini from raised garden beds. Once harvested, thoroughly wash your hands to ensure cleanliness before handling the produce. Prepare the squash by trimming off both ends. Then, slice the squash into uniform pieces, ideally between 3/4 inch and 1 inch thick, to ensure consistent drying results.

Goal: Obtain and prepare fresh squash for freeze-drying.

Tools and materials

  • Basket or Bowl — Holding the harvested squash
  • Cutting Board — Providing a stable surface for slicing squash
  • Knife — Slicing the squash into uniform pieces
  • Squash N/A — The primary ingredient for freeze-drying

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with a problem that we have this is not a problem this is absolutely gorgeous these are my raay bed gardens that you saw in a past video there'll be a link right up here if you want to watch that and a link at the end of this video what I'm getting here is a bumper crop of squash this kind of stuff right here this guy probably could stay on for one more day I do like them when they're sweet young and tender like that if we go in here we still see more squash couple more sweet young and Tinder right here so these guys are doing great there's a squash plant in here there's zucchini right in here okay when you got squash like this guys you got to pick it every single day if you don't it's going to get out of hand there's two or three squash plants there two or three more there and let's just walk over here and check these out we're in the outdoor kitchen space right here just so you guys know this is from Carolina Barn builders and this is more squash more yellow squash I see one in there right now oh baby you're going in the free dryer that's so perfect just that Palm siiz squash that is the best ever so let's show you the freeze dryer this is what we're going to be using today it's called prep for life you're going to see some lights and stuff in the background this is the prep for Life freeze dryer right here is our screen can't see a whole lot in it but super simple all we do is slide our trays which are right here into the freeze dryer hit the go button and we go that's it it freeze dries super simple it couldn't be any more simple than that this thing is awesome for little snacks like marshmallows strawberries I also have some little trays so we can make little squash bites you can make apple bites you can take apples puree them up and make a little apple snack you can make all sorts of stuff my dad has some fig trees and we got about a five gallon bucket of figs off of them last year I made fig snacks and snacked on them all winter long guys so you can make super healthy snacks to keep you from eating that process junk all that's going to be in this is squash and that's it one ingredient so we got our cutting board we've got our squash we picked all the squash for the day we've got a yucky bucket this is our yucky bucket that will go to the chickens and all we're going to do is simply take our squash and we're going to be cutting it into specific sizes specific say that about 15 times we're going to cut the ends off we got our hands all washed from…

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