Growing lettuce at home means fresh salads at your fingertips! It’s a perfect option for urban gardeners; it does really well in containers.
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How to Plant Tomatoes DEEP for a Bountiful Harvest
Tomatoes are a staple for most gardeners and for the most part, they’re pretty easy to grow. But knowing how to plant tomatoes properly will give them a very solid start.
Growing Currants for a Perennial Harvest
Growing currant bushes is a wonderful way to improve the aesthetics of your yard while growing some delicious fruits at the same time!
A Guide To Safely Using Urine As Fertilizer
Don’t say EW! Using urine as fertilizer is a common sense way to use resources you have on hand. Here’s how human urine can be used in the garden safely.
Growing Goji Berries for Good Health
Growing goji berries is a delicious way to promote good health, add antioxidants and vitamins into your diet, as well as boost immunity!
Growing Kohlrabi in Your Veggie Garden
Learn how to grow kohlrabi from seed or starts. Kohlrabi is a nutritious and delicious brassica. Here is how to grow it, and how to eat it!
How to Make a Worm Bin for Less than $5 – Easy DIY Worm Composter
Build a DIY worm composter in just 30 minutes. Castings from this worm bin are a rich garden amendment that will make your garden grow!
Growing Bean Sprouts at Home for Pennies in Just a Week
Learning how to grow bean sprouts & lentil sprouts at home can save you a bundle — it’s easy! Growing sprouts means fresh produce right in your kitchen!
Growing a Front Yard Vegetable Garden
Planting a front yard full of pretty edibles — annual and perennial vegetables — is a great way to use the most of your space.
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.
