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🫙 Preserving the Harvest Freezing, jam, ferments, and canning safely. Four age tiers — pick yours and dig in. Every tier is hands-on, not just reading.
Little Explorer · 5–7 Field Researcher · 8–10 Scholar · 11–14 Apprentice · 15–18
Week 2 · Soil & Seed
Saving & Storing Seeds Wet-process tomato seeds; paper-envelope dry seeds.
Seeds are alive
Stored seeds are dormant — still respiring slowly. Cool + dry + dark + low oxygen extends life from 1 year to 20+. The Svalbard Vault holds seeds at −18°C in glass.
Drag & Sort
Wet or dry processing? Some seeds need to ferment out of their pulp. Sort each.
Tray
Tomato Cucumber Bean Lettuce Squash / pumpkin Sunflower Pepper
Wet-process (ferment then dry)
Daily Streak
Seed-drying streak Check seeds every day for a week. Mark today once they're laid out flat in a single layer, out of the sun.
🫙 Locked badge
Seed Bank You banked seed the way it's meant to be banked.
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Little Explorer · 5–7 Field Researcher · 8–10 Scholar · 11–14 Apprentice · 15–18
Freeze berries Dry apple rings Spoiled or safe?
The easiest way to save summer
Freeze a tray of berries Berries spoil in 3 days. Frozen, they last 9 months. This is the easiest food preservation there is.
Progress 0 of 5 steps
1 🫐 Wash berries gently in cold water
Pick out any squishy or moldy ones — one bad berry can spoil the bunch.
2 📜 Lay them in a single layer on a baking tray
Use parchment paper so they don't stick.
3 ❄️ Freeze the tray for 2 hours
Freezing each berry separately keeps them from clumping later.
4 🛍️ Pour the frozen berries into a freezer bag
Squeeze out the air, label with the date.
5 🥞 Use within 9 months — smoothies, muffins, pancakes!
Frozen berries are picked at peak ripeness, often better than 'fresh' ones flown from far away.