Plant flowers for bees and other pollinators to increase your harvest. These perennial flowers that attract bees are pretty and draw pollinators to gardens.
Beneficial Insects
Growing Buckwheat: 9 Reasons You Need it in Your Garden
Growing buckwheat: It’s surprisingly good at creating lots of unexpected benefits in a vegetable garden. PLUS, it’s super easy to grow.
Bee Species: Native Mason Bees for Pollination
While honey bees are familiar to most of us, there are many other bee species that are great pollinators. Mason bees have a lot of characteristics that make them great garden pollinators. Here’s what you need to know about their habits and how to encourage them at your place.
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.
