For New Year’s Eve, Homebrew Husband and I had dinner and hung out with good friends (sans children) at a local, casual, historic hotel. It’s a bit hard to describe this place. Local Pacific Northwest folks, it was one of the McMenamins properties called The Anderson School. The hotel is a converted High School with kitchy rooms…
5 Things Friday 1/5/18: Seed Inventory, Salt Lamps, Portuguese Kale
Five Things Friday: where I assemble assorted favorites, oddities, announcements, discoveries, random thoughts, life tidbits and whatever else wasn’t quite long enough for a real post. This week: why you should inventory your seeds now, the nicest glow in the room comes from my salt lamp, seeds are total destruction if you don’t understand growth and more.
2018 Word List Brainstorming Session
So, 2017 was kinda a weird year, huh? I realized just at the end of December that I’ve been carrying some anger in me. Like, unexpected, wow I-really-didn’t-know-I-was-that-on-edge anger. Some of you made 2017 the year of embracing your anger. Without judgement, as soon as I could name this feeling of being vaguely on edge…
January Gardening Chores For The Pacific Northwest
January means one thing when you are a gardener: a mailbox stuffed to bursting with seed catalogs. With a stack of seed catalogs and well-thumbed gardening books by our side, and ground that’s still too cold and wet to work, the name of the January game is mostly planning, not planting.
December Gardening Chores For The Pacific Northwest
Well, it’s December, and let’s be honest: most of us are pretty busy with the indoor bustle of the holiday season and are happy the garden is in a self-tending way. So far, November and December have been relatively mild, and I’ve still got tender herbs like lemon verbena growing well in sheltered locations. Harvesting…
No Spend November: Week 2 Results
Week 2 Review for No Spend November. Here’s what’s gone well, what’s been hard, and what food I’ve been making with food from my freezer, pantry and garden.
If You Could Outsource It All, Would You?
I’m reading this quick little book on geopolitics and trends in political economy called “The Retreat of Western Liberalism.” Highly recommended, if you’re into that kind of thing and want a clearer view of how a world that seems a little topsy-turvy right now got that way. There’s a discussion in the book about job and income growth…
No Spend November: Week 1 Results
Week 1 Review for No Spend November. Here’s what’s gone well, what’s been hard, and what food I’ve been making with food from my freezer, pantry and garden.
How To Include Oils And Fats In Your Food Storage
What is a good way to store fats in your food preps? What are good fats to store for long-term stability? What oils work for long-term food storage? This post tackles the tricky issue of incorporating fats into a long(ish)-term food storage plan.
No Spend November: A Money Savings Challenge
November is a fantastic month to save gobs of money, break bad spending habits and get off the hedonic treadmill. Join me this month for No Spend November and see how much you can save and make due with what you already have.
November Gardening Chores For The Pacific Northwest
Update for November, 2017: This is the first fall I can remember where I have actively gardened but haven’t employed any season-extension techniques. I am, typically, a huge fan of year-round gardening, cloches, and all manner of garden hacks that let me extend my fresh-veg season beyond the normal growing season. This year has been…
Patreon Exclusive Content For October: Full Archive
An archive of all NWEdible exclusive Patreon content for the month of August, 2017. This should make it easier for Patrons to search for the information they want to rewatch or access later.