Growing high calorie vegetables & starchy staple crops in your garden reduces dependency on the supermarket. Plus, garden fresh veggies are delicious!
VEGGIE GARDEN
Growing Peas in the Backyard Garden
Growing peas in your home garden is an easy-to-grow project that is well worth the planting. Peas are a delicious part of a homegrown diet!
Chop and Drop Mulch: 12 Plants to Grow for Green Mulch
Even small garden plots can benefit from embracing simple permaculture methods like the chop and drop method of mulching. Learn how to make mulch by *growing it!
Growing Radishes for a Quick and Easy Harvest
Planting and growing radishes in your home garden is a quick, accessible, and delicious endeavor that is fun for the whole family!
12+ of the Fastest Growing Crops for Your Vegetable Garden
These vegetable crops are fast to mature. This means that even if you’re starting late, you can still harvest a crop this year.
Growing Chicken Feed in a Chicken Garden: High Quality, Low Cost Feed
DIY chicken feed is as easy as growing a chicken garden full of foods that will nourish your flock for less. Growing chicken feed cuts feed costs, too.
Growing Spinach for a Cool Season Harvest
A garden to table harvest is yours when you learn how to grow spinach! Start growing spinach early in the spring or plant it as a fall crop.
Instant Pot Seed Germination – A Seed Starting Shortcut!
Germination of seeds like tomatoes and peppers requires very warm temperatures. Using an Instant Pot for germinating seeds makes it EASY!
Growing Parsley for Flavor & Presentation
Growing parsley indoors or out, in pots or in the ground, means you’ll have fresh garnish & flavor on hand. It repels garden pests, too!
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.
