Growing Food at Home

Growing your own food is a great way to be sure of where your food comes from, is a great way to education our children where food comes from and to appreciate the effort it takes to keep our growing population fed.

But where can you go to learn more about how to make the best of your patch of dirt in the big city?

Organisations like City Food Growers, a subscription based service provides its members with localised information for growing food using organic and biodynamic methods. They also offer gardening workshops, over the phone advice and a forum for any questions or useful tips one may have.

If you need a bit of a helping hand to get started, you can contact Very Edible Gardens, in Victoria or Productive Gardens in Queensland, who provide raised vegetable garden beds, vertical gardens and all the accessories you'll need to get your fruit and vegetable garden going. They also both ship to anywhere in Australia. It is so easy to grow your own food, why not just start with a small garden bed or patch and when you taste how great a freshly picked tomato or orange can be, you may even get hooked.

Books worth reading if you are looking for some guidance on what to plant and how to look after them, then check out Lyn Bagnell's Easy Organic and Moon Planting, Discovering Vegetables, Herbs and Spices by Susanna Lyle, Fabulous Food from Every Small Gardens by Mary Horsfall, Vege Patch by Alan Buckingham, Grow Your Own Food and Grow it, Cook it. These are good reference books on establishing and maintaining a food garden at home.

Warren Piers book How to Store Your Garden Produce is a good guide that will help you learn how to store and preserve any excess food for the future.

If you have your own veggie garden and are enjoying the produce, let us know your story...