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Garden-grown Sungold cherry tomatoes are the sweetest, tangiest, most snackable cherry tomato of them all! Simply freeze-dried in halves, they make a delicious snack.
Simply prepared, low-sugar snacks made from raw fruit and vegetables harvested in our gardens. Grown using organic, no-chemical methods in our biodiverse and regenerative homestead garden.
Our small batch snacks made in our home kitchen have that unmistakable homemade taste. Made from this year's harvest using fresh fruit preserved within hours of harvesting.
We preserve our garden-grown produce with a home-scale freeze dryer (the same process used to make astronaut ice cream!). There are zero preservatives, chemicals, or sulfites.
Freeze-dried produce has a crunchy texture and the flavor is bright and fresh.
To freeze-dry, we take our fresh garden product directly to our home-scale freeze-drying machine. The freeze-drying process requires a specialty machine to remove water from foods by rapidly freezing down to -40 degrees, then lowering the pressure with a vacuum, removing the ice via a process called sublimation. Because of the extremely low temperatures, the fruit retains more of its original qualities: its color, shape, nutrients, and aromatics are closer to fresh.
Fun fact: Ancient Inca farmers in the Andes discovered the technique of freeze-drying well before modern science by using the extreme temperatures of the altiplano to preserve potatoes. They're called chuño!
The same attention to detail and quality you expect from Walnut Studiolo, now available in small batch handcrafted herbs, balms, fruit, baked goods, and gifts from our forest, gardens and kitchen. Learn more about our on-site, biodiverse and regenerative homestead.
Seasonal and limited, prepared by licensed food handlers (us!) in our home under the Oregon Cottage Foods and Farm Direct laws. Available within the USA only.
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These products are homemade and prepared in our domestic kitchen, not in an inspected food establishment, in accordance with the Oregon Cottage Foods and the Oregon Farm Direct Marketing Laws by a certified food handler (permit #21gi84-k9k8a37). Beloved pet cats are present in our household. Common allergens marked in bold. Not for resale. Not all states and countries recognize Oregon's food marketing laws; we claim no responsibility for recipient local laws.
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