Welcome to Northwest Edible Life, thank you so much for visiting!
On this site you’ll find edible gardening tips and growing experiments, free downloadables to help you organize your home and garden, DIY tutorials, recipes, growing guides, ramblings and rants from a garden-obsessed chef (that’s me) and more.
There’s a lot here. This page is designed to help you find your way around.
If you want to know more about me, check out the About page. If you have a question about my garden (size, zone, etc.) it’s probably answered in the FAQ.
Keep In Touch
If you like what you read here, you might want to subscribe. New posts go out several times a week, and I send periodic special announcements, recipes and tips to my subscribers.
The NWEdible community also keeps up a pretty good banter on Facebook and Twitter.
If you’d like to get in touch with me, please do!
Popular Posts
Here’s a sampling of posts people really seem to like. Think of it as a greatest hits collection.
- The Terrible Tragedy of the Healthy Eater
- Never Buy A Rotten Avocado Again
- Wall Mounted Clothes Drying Rack, Perfected
- You Absolutely Should Not Get Backyard Chickens
- How To Make Pectin-Free Jam: Ditch The Box and Increase The Creativity In Your Preserves
- How To Turn A Mason Jar Into A Fermenting Crock
- How To Use Pee In Your Garden
- When and How To Harvest Broccoli and Cauliflower
- 5 Ways To Use Coffee Grounds In The Garden
- DIY Mason Jar Stir-Fry Sauce
Everything I’ve Ever Posted
If you can’t get enough NWEdible, or you prefer to browse chronologically, you’ll want the Giant List of All The Posts page.
Gardening Essentials Posts
These are posts that cover basics for growing your own vegetables.
- The Seed Starting 101 Series: Key Components For Healthy Seedlings, A Step-By-Step Visual Guide to Growing Seedlings at Home and Up-Potting
- How To Pick Your Vegetable Seeds without Going Crazy
- Which Seed Starting Supplies Are Worth It, And Which Aren’t?
- How To Make Succession Planting and Year Round Gardening Really Work
- Plant Sex: Open Pollinated, Hybrid and GMO Seeds
- Stop Ripping Up Your Lawn To Grow Veggies
Kitchen Tips and Hacks
These are some tricks I’ve learned along the way about cooking and food stuff.
- Magically Fast and Easy Homemade Mayonnaise
- Never Buy A Rotten Avocado Again
- How To Get The Seeds Out Of A Pomegranate Without Going Crazy
- How To Dice An Onion – Fast
Food Preservation 101
Here’s a few posts that cover food preservation – safety, methods and a few recipes.