What is Zero Waste Homestead All About?

Lauren teaching at a local native plant seed saving workshop.

Zero Waste Homestead was created in 2018 as a passion project to teach and inspire others to green their homes and their gardens. With a focus on organic gardening, pollinators, wildlife habitat creation, self-sufficient food gardening, small space gardening, homesteading, DIY and sustainability, the Zero Waste Homestead blog is packed full of tutorials and how-tos that will teach backyard gardeners and beginning homesteaders how to live more sustainably and self-sufficiently in alignment with the natural world.

Aside from the blog, Zero Waste Homestead also teaches gardening and homesteading classes online and in-person throughout the state of Maine!


Who’s Behind Zero Waste Homestead?

Representing native bees at a pollinator parade!

Hi my name is Lauren Landers and I’m the writer and creator behind Zero Waste Homestead!

My first garden inspired me with a passion for pollinators and plants that just won’t quit… and so I started ZWH to catalog my homesteading and gardening journey! Aside from my years of hands-on gardening experience, I am an active Master Gardener volunteer and a full-time gardening writer too.

I hope you enjoy the ZWH blog, but if you’d like to read more about gardening, you can also find my writing on various websites, including Better Homes & Gardens and Reader’s Digest.