I've been playing around with dehydrating spring mix and escarole in the oven for my tortoise. She is a super picky eater and doesn't like to eat greens like she's supposed to. So once I dehydrated the greens in the oven, I put them in the food processor to chop them up into very small pieces. This way I can hide the small dried green bits in her pellet food. I want to buy a coffee bean grinder too, so I can get the pieces into more of a powder, which will hopefully help me disguise the greens even more.
I have a big Norway Maple tree in my backyard. My crabbies like to munch on the fresh leaves. I trimmed some branches today and didn't want to waste all those leaves. So I decided to try baking them in the oven too (I washed them first). It worked! I set the oven at 225°F and baked them for 25 mins. I did leave the oven door cracked for the first 10 mins though. Condensation builds up on the door from the water in the leaves if you don't. I took them out and crumbled them up. Then once the second batch is done, I'm going to pop them into the food processor. Now my crabs can have fresh leaves all year long.
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