DIY Tomato and Other Garden Starts

We use a LOT of tomatoes at The Return Homestead. This year we are planting just over 200 plants. We have Jet Star, Taracata, Pink Ox Heart, Baxter Bush, and our favorite, Cherokee Purple. Yes, that is a lot of tomatoes. We will can both tomato sauce and cooked salsas. Most of them will be freeze-dried and ground into powder. The powder is shelf stable, easy to store, and all we have to do is add water to the consistency we want for paste, sauce, or soup. And, of course, we will slice and eat them right off the plant.