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!
GROW
When you grow a garden, you no longer need to count on the supermarket produce section. Or in my case, the delivery barge. Taking control of where your food comes from can start right in your own backyard. Or even on a sunny windowsill.
From growing vegetables and fruits to natural pest control and soil improvement, there’s plenty of inspiration for new gardeners here. Start small or start big; just get started!
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.
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.
The Basics of Growing Grapes in Your Garden
Growing grapes is a fruitful way to use some of your garden space. They are beautiful plants with tasty and versatile fruit and leaves!
How to Grow Lemongrass (in the Garden and in Containers)
A lemongrass plant is easy to grow and pretty, too. Growing lemongrass in your own garden means you’ll have it on hand when recipes call for this herb.
How to Harvest Basil Seeds (And Grow Free Plants!)
Allow your basil plants to go to seed so you can start plenty of free basil seedlings next year!
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.
