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Northwest Edible Life

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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.

  • How Not To Die From Botulism
  • How To Make Pectin-Free Jam
  • Stop Throwing Away Free Tomato Sauce
  • You Can Make Bacon at Home
  • Culture Your Cukes: Lacto-Fermented Pickles
  • Lacto-fermented Salsa

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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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