Attainable Sustainable

Attainable Sustainable by Kris Bordessa

Attainable Sustainable is essentially a guide for living more like people did before the advent of packaged food and the throwaway society we now inhabit. Grow your own food, preserve it, and learn to reuse what you have. Can you sew, knit, or crochet?

If you're interested in dipping your toe into the self-sustainability pool or if you're a newbie ready to fully dive in, this book is a great start! It's jam-packed with ideas on how you can make yourself more self-sustainable.

Eat, Make, Clean, Grow, Farm, Trek - those are broad titles, with each section containing an incredible amount of information, recipes, and how-to guides. This is more like a sustainable encyclopedia; there is so much info in here. It's an amazing resource. This is not a book you'll read all in one sitting and put on a shelf to gather dust. This is a book you'll be referencing regularly.

Not much of a hiker? It's time to get out and enjoy all the beautiful nature around us. Read the trekking section to gain a lot of wisdom, thus hopefully saving you some pain and mistakes.

Ever made a Tuna Can stove? The author shows you how in here. The Climate Zone map at the end is very handy.

The Eat chapter is full of everything from teaching yourself to can to making sourdough breads. Drying herbs, dehydrating foods, pickling, fermenting, making infused oils and vinegars, and not to mention lots of easy but healthy recipes.

This book is full of a long list of ways and recipes to use for natural cleaning house, skin care, hair care, air fresheners, and more. With plastics and trash at an all-time high, I find this chapter so helpful in healthy ways to not only make a healthier home but reduce trash and household waste.

However, many people today are facing issues like how to grow in small spaces or how to grow with limited water. Both of these issues are addressed with helpful tips and DIYs to overcome them. I think that is so helpful for the average person looking to grow more of their own food.

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