Food preservation is a way to keep food from going to waste and dehydration is an easy way to preserve food.  Freeze drying is a new concept for the home consumer and can be useful to start a business, as well as food storage for natural disasters.  Food preservation (Dehydration and Freeze Drying) was presented at the Estill County Extension Office on May 21 at 1:00 and June 17^th at 6:00.  Freeze drying information was gathered from Utah Extension and Penn State Extension.  The participants learned how to dehydrate fruits, fruit leathers, vegetables, and beef jerky.  They tasted the differences between freeze-dried and dehydrated.  Twelve people participated and four copies of the information were given to clients that could not attend.  One hundred percent of participants identified research-based methods of home food preservation because of the program.  All the participants identified various methods for dehydrating foods. Ninety-five percent felt confident that they could identify ways to detect moisture or spoilage in home dried foods.   A follow-up program is being planned to offer additional food preservation programming.