Crab apples are a great addition to small gardens and orchards, plus they offer some surprising benefits! Consider adding crabapple trees to your “must plant” list.
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Growing Honeyberries aka Haskap Berry
Plant honeyberries if you love blueberries but live in a climate too cold to grow them. Great for eating fresh, jams, baked goods, and juice!
Growing Fennel for Fronds, Seeds, and Bulbs
Growing fennel is a great way to add delicious leaves, seeds, and bulbs to your kitchen creations, with a pretty look in your garden!
Annuals vs. Perennials: Making the Most of the Space You Have
Trying to figure out what will provide the best harvest for your space? Understanding annuals vs. perennials is a good place to start planning a garden.
Adding Edible Flowers to Your Salads (and Garden)
Add flowers you can eat to your garden for a bonus food source. Here’s how to use edible flowers in your kitchen (and how to know what’s safe to eat.)
Grow a Stir-Fry Garden with Bok Choy
Bok choy, also known as Chinese white cabbage, is an easy-to-grow vegetable to eat raw or for your home stir-fry garden.
Growing Sage for Flavor and Beauty
Growing sage in your herb garden attracts pollinators, can be used in the kitchen and medicinally and is an asset to your garden and health!
How to Grow Your Own Organic Broccoli Sprouts
Growing broccoli sprouts right on your countertop is a great way to add a little healthy crunch to your diet, no matter the season!
How to Grow Hot Peppers for Homegrown Fiery Flavor
Grow hot peppers in your vegetable garden this year for flavor and heat! There are many flavors, colors, and levels of heat to choose from.
Aloha! I’m Kris Bordessa, author and certified Master Food Preserver, hobby farmer, gardener, chicken wrangler, and eternal experimenter.
My book, Attainable Sustainable: The Lost Art of Self-Reliant Living (National Geographic Books) was awarded the best how-to book of 2020 by the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Here at Attainable Sustainable, I encourage readers to embrace a more self-reliant lifestyle, one small step at a time.
