Growing vertically is a great way to make the most of a small garden space. Learn to build an inexpensive garden trellis with these DIY trellis ideas.
Metal arch and trellises in a garden at the Smithsonian.
SMALL SPACE GARDENS
Growing Strawberries in Your Home Garden
Strawberry plants are perennial, and can thrive in your garden for years! Consider growing strawberries for the oh so delicious fruit!
How to Grow Lettuce in Your Home Garden
Growing lettuce at home means fresh salads at your fingertips! It’s a perfect option for urban gardeners; it does really well in containers.
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.
Growing Blueberries in Containers for Summertime Sweets
Growing blueberries in containers is a great way to produce fruit right in your own backyard. Even apartment dwellers can harvest fruit from the balcony!
Fig Tree Care and How to Grow a Fig Tree in a Pot
What you need to know about planting figs, fig tree care, & growing an indoor fig tree. The pretty tropical foliage & sweet harvest make them hard to beat.
Urban Fruit Trees: Creating an Edible Landscape for a Small Scale Harvest
Planting fruit trees in backyard (or front yard!) spaces provides an abundant harvest for years to come.
Get Fresh: Growing Microgreens Indoors for Year-Round Salads
Discover the best microgreens to grow as well as how to grow microgreens indoors with this handy guide to growing wintertime salads.
Growing Popcorn Microgreens for Snacking & Salads
Popcorn shoots — or microgreens — have a delicate sweet flavor. Grow them on a windowsill for fresh greens year round.
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.
