Solar Food Drying

Links to articles, photos, and other sites related to solar food drying

Solar Food Drying Articles on the Web

Want Summer Flavor to Last All Year? Use a Solar Food Dehydrator
By Leah Zerbe, Rodale.com, July 2011

Solar Food Dryers Blog
An in-depth blog by Cindy Conner on her solar food drying experience in Ashland, VA from Homeplace Earth: Education and Design for a Sustainable World (May 2011). See also her Nov. 2011 follow-up blog: Solar Food Dryers - Update

Build a Solar Food Dehydrator
By Eben Fodor
Mother Earth News, Aug/Sept 2006

Drying Produce with the Sun
by Eben Fodor
HomePower Magazine, Issue#119, page 58 (Jun/Jul 2007)
(Note: this pdf file starts on a blank page, so scroll down)

The Appalachian Solar Food Dryer
by Dennis Scanlin
Home Power, issue#69, page 24 (Feb/Mar 1999)
This is a good indirect solar dryer design.

Drying Food with the Sun
by Sue Robishaw
Countryside Magazine, 1999

Food Drying
by Marcella Shaffer
Backwoods Home Magazine (1999)

Solar Food Dryers
by Larisa Welk and Lucien Holy
Very simple solar food dryer design.

Solar Food Dryer Designs and Photos

Two SunWorks dryers were built for this small farm in the Vancouver, BC area.

Larger version of SunWorks dryer built by Devon Bonady at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon.

A French version of the SunWorks dryer built with boards instead of plywood.

Leaf for Life solar dryer has an interesting design with instructions.

Solar Food Dryer Designs from MIT ATS Program Website (Note: metal may get hot!)

Box dryer design by North Dakota State University

How-to site with photos of various larger solar dryers