Broccoli is delicious and a great crop for early spring & fall gardens. Learn all about growing broccoli successfully in your backyard garden for a healthy harvest.
Jodi Torpey, Master Gardener
How to Grow Artichokes—the Ornamental Edible
Plant once, harvest for YEARS. That’s the beauty of growing artichokes in your garden. And? The plants are pretty enough for the front yard!
Saving Tomato Seeds is a Gardening Tradition
Learn how to save tomato seeds from your favorite heirloom variety. Saving tomato seeds is easy with these simple instructions.
Growing Arugula for Gourmet Greens
Arugula is a type of easy-to-grow leafy salad green that adds a slight peppery kick to salads and mesclun mixes.
How to Grow Eggplant in Your Garden
Ready to grow eggplant in your garden for a delightful harvest? Read on to find out all about growing this eye-popping vegetable crop.
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!
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.
How to Grow Thyme in Gardens and Containers
Growing thyme in the home garden provides flavor for the table, but it’s also a versatile plant that can fill many needs in the landscape!
Aloha! I’m Kris Bordessa, author, hobby farmer, gardener, chicken wrangler, and eternal experimenter.
If you’re ready to shake up your pantry routine and shift from boxed to homemade, be sure to check out Attainable Sustainable Pantry (National Geographic Books), launching in March 2025.
My earlier book, Attainable Sustainable: The Lost Art of Self-Reliant Living (also from 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.
