The Solar Food Dryer describes how to use solar energy to dry your food instead of costly electricity. With your own solar-powered food dryer, you can quickly and efficiently dry all your extra garden veggies, fruits, and herbs to preserve their goodness all year long–with free sunshine! Applicable to a wide geography–wherever gardens grow–this well-illustrated book – Complete step-by-step plans for building a high-performance, low-cost solar food dryer from readily available materials – Solar energy design concepts – Food drying tips and recipes – Resources, references, solar charts, and more Eben Fodor is an organic gardener with a background in solar energy and engineering. He works as a community planning consultant in Eugene, Oregon.