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Archives for June 2017

76June 29, 2017Gardening by Erica

How To Identify and Control Four Common Garden Pests of the Pacific Northwest

Here’s how to accurately identify and successfully control four of the most common garden pests in the Pacific Northwest garden: slugs, cabbage moth caterpillar, leaf miner, and pea leaf weevil.

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12June 26, 2017Homestead Animals by Erica

The One Livestock Animal I'm Obsessed With

If I could make the impossible happen on my one-third of an acre, this is the one livestock animal I’d really want to have.

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0June 24, 2017Productive Home by Erica

Productive Home Weekly Report: 6/24/17

An attempt to log weekly productive home achievements. Please join in!

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68June 23, 2017Food Preservation by Erica

Home Canned Spaghetti Sauce For People Who Like Ragu

What do you do if you love growing tomatoes and making homemade pasta sauce, but your partner only wants Ragu from the store? In this post, analysing the appeal of store bought pasta sauce, and crafting a homemade, home-canned version that can win over picky taste-buds.

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462June 21, 2017Food Preservation by Erica

Skimming Foam From Jam: Everything You Need To Know

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about skimming the foam from jam. It is necessary for safe canning? Why do some jams foam more than others? What can you do with the foam you skim? Is there a way to stop jam from foaming? And more.

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2June 19, 2017Food Preservation by Erica

Simple Strawberry Vanilla Sauce

This strawberry sauce calls for only 3 ingredients – it’s an easy, versatile preserve.

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0June 17, 2017Productive Home by Erica

Productive Home Weekly Report: 6/17/17

An attempt to log weekly productive home achievements. Please join in!

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1June 16, 2017Recent Posts by Erica

5 Things Friday: 6/16/17

Five Things Friday this week: simple salads, “Foods of the Enslaved,” how I carry my tools around, why young Greeks are going back to the land and more.

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15June 14, 2017Life and Family by Erica

Productive People With Young Children: A Message From Your Future

All parents know there’s this ideal where you slow down, radiate constant availability, and move at the pace of a young child following a snail through the garden. And then there’s reality. All the love in the world, but also: your To Do list, nagging in the back of your mind; this feeling that you are being squeezed all the time, from all directions, and no matter how hard you work, or how organized you are, you can’t quite get out of the vice; a sense that those adorable, busy, tiny hands are thwarting your simple need for some adult accomplishment; the unbidden resentment when the 45 minutes you counted on to just get this one thing done evaporates as your kid unexpectedly vomits warm, semi-digested California roll down your back (true story).

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14June 12, 2017Productive Home by Erica

Top 5 Cleaning Products To Hoard For The Zombie Apocalypse

Want to make sure your home cleaning preps are on point? Check out what 5 cleaning products are most important to stock for a long-term emergency situation.

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1June 10, 2017Productive Home by Erica

Productive Home Weekly Report: 6/10/17

An attempt to log weekly productive home achievements. Please join in!

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8June 8, 2017Homeschooling by Erica

Six Reasons We Started Homeschooling

We’ve been homeschooling for a year now. There are challenges and advantages to this educational system, but for us, for now, it’s definitely the right choice. Here’s six reasons why we chose to homeschool.

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Hi! I'm Erica, the founder of NWEdible and the author of The Hands-On Home. I garden, keep chickens and ducks, homeschool my two kids and generally run around making messes on my one-third of an acre in suburban Seattle. Thanks for reading!

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