Homemade mango jam brings the flavor of the tropics to your morning toast! Make up a batch and preserve it for the pantry.
Propagating Rosemary from Cuttings
Add some flavor to your garden by propagating rosemary plants. It’s easy and a great way to add more plants to your herb garden for free!
Bulk Food Storage: How to Buy (and Store) Natural Foods
These staples are the basis of inexpensive meals and excellent for emergency stores. Learn how to buy and store dried beans, legumes, and whole grains.
Delicious Caramelized Onion Jam with Balsamic Vinegar
This easy to make savory-sweet caramelized onion jam recipe is a great way to preserve onions. It’s divine on toasted baguettes with goat cheese. Or pizza.
Easy Pumpkin Bar Recipe for a Quick Dessert
This pumpkin spice bar recipe holds together well, making them a great addition to a potluck table. They’re easy to pick up and eat without needing a plate.
Delicious Sweet & Savory Tomato Jam for Canning
This easy tomato jam recipe makes a sweet and savory spread that’s a good addition to a BLT or grilled cheese sandwich.
Make this Sweet and Savory Tomato Chutney to Preserve the Harvest
This sweet, tangy tomato chutney recipe is one of my favorite ways to preserve an abundant tomato crop from the vegetable garden.
Growing Dill in the Home Garden
Dill is an attractive and aromatic plant to grow in a garden. Feathery-like foliage is used for flavoring and large, umbrella-like flower heads produce dill seeds.
Chow Chow Recipe: Green Tomato Relish for the Pantry
This chow chow recipe has a funny name, but it’s a delicious green tomato relish ready for canning. Preserve some for your pantry!
Aloha! I’m Kris Bordessa, author and certified Master Food Preserver, hobby farmer, gardener, chicken wrangler, and eternal experimenter.
I’m thrilled that 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 aim to encourage readers — that’s you! — to embrace a more self-reliant lifestyle, one small step at a time.
Limited on space? Don’t let that keep you from growing some of your own food! In my 5-Gallon Garden course, I’ll show you how to grow food in the space you have! Learn more about it here.
