This sweet, tangy tomato chutney recipe is one of my favorite ways to preserve an abundant tomato crop from the vegetable garden.
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Chow Chow Recipe: Green Tomato Relish for the Pantry
This chow chow recipe has a funny name, but it’s a delicious green tomato relish ready for canning. Preserve some for your pantry!
Make This Home Canned Salsa from Garden Fresh Tomatoes and Peppers
This simple salsa recipe is a good “beginner” recipe for home canning. Canning salsa is one of our favorite ways to preserve the summer tomato bounty.
Growing Flavorful Roma Tomatoes for Cooking and Home Canning
Growing Roma tomatoes nets a meatier, less seedy variety of tomato, perfect for cooking up into thick, rich sauces or for dehydrating to stock your pantry.
Growing Tomatoes in Containers to Save Space
Small garden space? Consider growing tomatoes in pots! Heres what you need to know about growing this summertime crop in containers.
The Best Way to Plant Tomatoes for a Bountiful Harvest
Tomatoes are a staple for most gardeners and for the most part, they’re pretty easy to grow. But knowing how to plant tomatoes properly will give them a very solid start.
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.
Upside-Down Tomatoes — Grow Vertically to Save Space!
A hanging tomato planter is easy to make at home. Here’s how to transform a 5-gallon bucket into a DIY upside-down tomato planter for a vertical garden.
Growing a Garden Plot: How Much Should You Plant?
Growing a veggie garden with the intention of feeding your family? You need to know how much to plant. It’s not an exact science, but this will help!
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.
