The edible sweet potato vine provides winter greens when grown indoors during cold weather. For mid-winter fresh greens, sweet potato leaves can’t be beat.
INDOOR GARDENING
Harvest Wintertime Flavor with a Windowsill Herb Garden
A windowsill herb garden makes fresh flavor convenient throughout the winter; it’s also a good option year round for apartment or condo dwellers.
Growing Lettuce in an Indoor Winter Garden
Try your hand at growing lettuce indoors! Eat fresh salad greens year round by adopting the idea of growing an inside garden. Perfect for city folks!
50+ Winter Gardening Projects to Tackle in the Off Season
Winter gardening tips: Cold weather garden projects to tackle during the off-season. These are almost as good as digging in the dirt!
Cooperative Extension: Expert Help, (Mostly) No Charge
The cooperative extension system, affiliated with universities across the USA, are a great source of expert information for gardeners, canners, and cooks.
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 my latest project, Attainable Sustainable Pantry (National Geographic Books).
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.
