Home Grown
Welcome to Home Grown, a programme designed to enable everyone to benefit from gardening and being active outdoors, no matter your age or experience, to grow in any space however large or small!
We launched Home Grown in 2022 as an online course that was designed to support people with busy lives. since then, nearly 4000 people have joined us to grow their own fruits and vegetables at home!
Learning how to grow your own fruit and vegetables is not only a valuable life skill but incredibly beneficial to physical health and well-being. People across our communities are facing rising living costs – food poverty is on the increase and there is an urgent need to respond to the climate crisis.
The aim of Home Grown is to give you the confidence and knowledge to grow fruits and vegetables at home and to use these ingredients to make delicious, healthy food. Below is a list of gardening activities to help you start your very own growing.
- What you need to get started
- Sowing seeds
- Types of soil/compost
- Preparing your soil
- Transplanting seedlings
- Pests in the garden
- Companion planting
- Maintaining your growing space
- Healthy recipes
- Recycling and composting
- Collecting and storing seeds
- Harvesting your produce
Further Resources
We’ve put together some more resources to make your life easier. You can find all the ‘how to’s…’ featured in the seasonal gardening activities in one place, a whole page full of nutritious, easy and budget friendly recipes courtesy of Mitch Lane, and also some nature based craft activities you can do with your family in an outside space if you are feeling creative!
How to…
Want to know how to transfer a seedling? make compost? attract pollinators Here is a collection of all of our ‘how to’s’
Recipes
Simple, budget friendly and healthy recipe ideas you can make with some of the products you have grown!
Feeling creative?
Activities you can do with your family if you are feeling creative around food growing, nature and the outdoors