Elderberry benefits: These berries fight colds, flu, and bacterial infections. Make this elderberry gummies recipe for your family’s health.
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DIY Dryer Sheets from Old T-Shirts
These DIY dryer sheets are easy to make, reduce your family’s exposure to toxic chemicals, and save you money.
Homemade Desiccant Packs You Can Make at Home for Food Storage
Buying food in bulk is a great way to save money. These homemade desiccant packs are a great way to preserve the quality of that investment.
How to Make Reusable Beeswax Wraps at Home for Less than Store Bought
Aiming to reduce your kitchen waste? Or even working on a zero waste kitchen? Make your own beeswax wraps to replace cling wrap and plastic bread bags!
Homemade Sunscreen for Fun in the Sun!
This non-toxic homemade sunscreen is easy to make and feels so much better going on than over the counter commercial sunscreens. It’s nourishing, too!
How to Build a Bamboo Trellis for your Garden
Where bamboo is plentiful, it’s an excellent building material and resource for gardeners. This bamboo trellis building method is a bit different!
Make linen bread bags in just 15 minutes – no more moldy bread!
Wondering how to keep homemade bread fresh? Here’s how to store homemade bread in DIY linen bread bags so it lasts longer. Here’s how to make a bag from thrifted linen in 15 minutes!
Skip the Plastic! How to Make Drawstring Bags for Buying Produce
You won’t need those flimsy, single-use plastic produce bags from the supermarket when you make some of your own. This is an easy sewing project for beginners, and a useful one, too!
Shop Greener with these Small Cloth Bags for Bulk Spices
Make these DIY small cloth bags & eliminate single-use plastic bags when buying spices & tea in bulk. Reusable bags means less single-use plastic waste!
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.
