If you’re looking for help getting dinner on the table, growing some of your own food no matter where you live, delving into home safe food preservation, or adding a small animal (or ten!) to your little farmstead, you’ve come to the right place.
What You’ll Find at Attainable Sustainable
Let’s start in the garden. You’ll find a looong list of all of my gardening information here, but if you’re trying to figure out where to start, these are some of my readers’ favorite posts.
- Make a worm composter for less than $5
- How to harvest basil so it lasts all season long
- Start a nectarine tree from seed
- Embrace perennial crops and harvest for years
- How to add edible plants to your landscaping
Once you’ve started harvesting food from the back (or front!) yard, you might find yourself with a happy surplus. There are numerous methods for extending the shelf life of fresh produce, from fermentation and dehydrating to home canning. Check out these much-loved recipes to get started.
- Caramelized onion jam with balsamic
- Quick pickled radishes
- Our favorite canned salsa recipe
- Chewy dried bananas
- Fermented cauliflower
Pantry essentials are the focus of my latest book, and I have plenty of recipes here on the site, too! So many of your supermarket favorites can be made at home, generating less plastic waste and – in most cases – cutting your grocery budget.
- 60-Second mayonnaise
- Homemade marshmallow fluff
- Spicy gourmet mustard (SO easy!)
- DIY ricotta cheese
- French onion dip
Want to add hardcover resources to your bookshelves? My books are available wherever books are sold. You can find more information about each of them here.
