Understand Freeze-Drying Benefits and Equipment

hey there folks this is josh stoney ridge farmer welcome back to the bounty of the farm it's so beautiful out here guys today i'm out in the squash patch and here's what you get when you raise squash i can't eat all this so we end up sharing a lot of squash with the neighbors and we end up throwing a lot of squash into the chicken coop and feeding the chickens it's good for the chickens but it's not so good for the guy that works so hard to grow this squash so what we're going to do today is we're going to talk a little bit about preserving okay so the ultimate prepper machine is in my garage right now and it's called a harvest right freeze dryer what we're going to be doing is taking the squash cutting it up and freeze drying it so it will be shelf stable for 25 years that means no refrigeration not canning it not freezing it and turning it into mush now if you know when you freeze squash like this it just turns to mush when you cook it so today we're going to show you guys how a freeze dryer works and how we're going to be saving our bounty of squash pretty much every day i'm picking this much squash out of the garden and i'll have a bounty of squash to cook all winter long now and it'll taste delicious and retain its nutritive value which is really important to me i know i can go to the store and buy it but it's not as good as what i grew at home let's have some fun so i'm out here in my shop in my garage and this is the harvest right freeze drier i'm going to get you some close-ups of this thing and i'll explain exactly how it works to you also got a pretty cool knife set we're going to show you today we've got a day sponsor so we'll show you that also but first let's walk around and we'll show you the harvest right freeze dryer this is i believe the extra large we've got one two three four trace i think it's the large model we'll open it up i'll just get you in here a little closer and show you this is a vacuum chamber okay this vacuum chamber is locked and latched closed and this is a rubber gasket you got to make sure that rubber gasket is is sealed up tight that's the menu right there it's pretty simple all you got to do is hit the start button these are the trays that we're going to be putting our food in what we want to do is ensure that our trays are completely full before we start this critter up okay the way this works this is a vacuum chamber okay in other words it freezes under vacuum and this is a vacuum pump this is the pump that comes…