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284October 23, 2017Productive Home by Erica

Preparedness 101: How To Build A Two Week Emergency Pantry

Let’s say your home is safe but a regional disaster like an ice storm or hurricane has crippled normal electricity, water, and emergency services. As you hunker down and wait for the amazing people who keep our grid running to repair damage, clear roads, reroute supplies, fix power lines, and generally to the dirty work…

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8October 16, 2017Productive Home by Erica

Preparedness 101: Shun Ignorance and Reject Panic – Focus On Readiness

Unfortunately, since I started writing this series, the number of specific, urgent things I can point to as reasons to be prepared have just gone up. Puerto Rico is a heartbreaking example of long-term infrastructure disruption, and a cautionary tale in terms of how long it might take for outside help from government agencies to…

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28September 27, 2017Productive Home by Erica

Preparedness 101: Hunkering Down At Home

I’ve been dealing with my own minor family health emergency here at the NWEdible homestead, so let’s recap. If you have followed along and completed our emergency challenges this month, here’s where you stand: You understand your most likely emergency threats. You know what kind of sane preparedness will let you sleep at night, feeling secure that…

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8September 6, 2017Productive Home by Erica

Preparedness 101: Everyone Has A Zombie Apocalypse Scenario

New Orleans had her Katrina. New York had her 9/11. Houston has her Harvey. No matter where you live, there is some disaster that can put all others to shame, some event so upending that you will always remember what you were doing when this thing happened. Lets call this your Zombie Apocalypse Scenario. The Centers for…

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0September 1, 2017Recent Posts by Erica

5 Things Friday: 9/1/17

This week’s Five Things Friday randomness: emergency preparedness, helping after Harvey, apples and (finally) planting the fall starts, acidulating your tomatoes, the town where Golden Delicious apples grow wild, American power dynamics, Henry Rollins gets poetic, and more.

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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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64February 20, 2014Productive Home by Erica

Food Storage For People Who Don’t Hate Food

In the preparedness world, things like this list go around periodically: This is a guide to building your food storage on $5 a week. Ignoring for a minute that food prices have clearly gone up since this list was put together (5 pounds of honey for $5? I don’t think so), my reaction every time…

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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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