Tips on drying seeds for next year's planting

During our peach canning party last night, one of the moms mentioned how the green life looks an awful lot like "Little House on the Prairie." There's a part of me that thinks this is fabulous. But someone stop me if I start wearing my hair like Ma Ingalls and knitting sweaters from dog hair (and more power to you if you currently do knit from dog hair!).

If we're to make it through the winter in style like the Ingalls clan, we've got our work cut out for us. So far, I'm trying to think of our edible garden as experimental. Some successes, some failures. All a learning experience and a good way to get our hands in the dirt. Thank goodness we have the CSA, or otherwise we'd have starved trying to feed ourselves on our garden's output. If there's any real success, it's the tomato my daughter grew from a seed planted with the help of Burgerville at the Greener Living show last spring. My daughter faithfully reminded us to water it, and we apparently got it in the ground at the right time. Consequently it's looking like it may take over our small front garden, and bust out and say "Feed me Seymour, feed me!" any minute now. It's got loads of baby green tomatoes and I think they may ripen before fall.

As far as I know, we've neither bought, picked or eaten any GMO produce this year, so we're thinking of saving some seeds to plant next year (so nothing for you Monsanto spies to bother with). My friend April said her dad does it every year. Piece of cake. Save the seeds, dry them and label/store. Can it be that simple? Do you have any tips to share on drying and saving seeds to plant next year?