Growing your own food doesn’t have to be expensive or all-consuming. Check out these tips to make your garden thrive with less work.
GARDEN PLANNING
Planning a vegetable garden means thinking about what you have, what you need, and what you want from your gardening efforts.
Starting a vegetable garden requires a bit of forethought. You could just toss seeds into the wind and hope for the best, but that’s unlikely to generate a worthwhile crop.
Understanding the needs of different crops will help you decide where to plant them. Or whether to plant them at all. Garden planning sometimes means compromising on what will grow well versus your ideals.
Growing Persimmons: The Best Varieties for a Picky Palate
Growing persimmons for a late fall harvest on your homestead? Choosing a persimmon tree will depend on a few factors and how you plan to use the persimmons you grow. Here’s how to decide between an American persimmon tree or a Fuyu persimmon tree.
What You Need to Know About Planting Bare Root Fruit Trees
Time to choose your bare root fruit trees for your home orchard! You’ll have a better selection now, too, before trees leaf out.
The Advantage of Mulching in the Garden
The advantage of mulching in a garden can’t be overstated. From moisture retention to weed suppression and beyond, this tactic is a winner!
Urban Gardening for a Healthy Harvest
Want to grow some of your own food in the city? Urban gardening has its challenges, but with a little thoughtfulness, you can have success!
What are Heirloom Seeds (And 6 Reasons to Grow Them)
There are plenty of reasons to choose heirloom seeds instead of their hybrid cousins. Your vegetable garden will shine with some of these vintage varieties!
Small Vegetable Garden Ideas: Get the Most from Your Space
These small garden ideas will help you get the most bang for your vegetable gardening buck!
Drought Gardening for an Abundant Harvest
Choosing drought tolerant crops and using water wise methods when planting a vegetable garden can assure a harvest in harsh conditions. Drought conditions aren’t ideal, but there are some tactics you can take to create a drought tolerant garden that will produce a harvest for you.
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.)
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.
