Grow Your Own

Grow Your Own – How To Be An Urban Farmer is an accessible and inspiring book full of clever solutions to help maximize even the tiniest urban growing space, sustainably.

Angus Stewart and Simon Leake, leading experts in horticulture and soil science, share skills and practical advice and scientific knowledge to help get the best from your edible garden.

Whether you are growing herbs in a window box or harvesting carrots from a community garden, this book will teach you how to identify suitable crops and the nutrients they need to thrive, set up healthy soil, and create many styles of productive garden beds. Propagation, drainage and composting are well covered, as are tackling pests and diseases, establishing worm farms, and keeping chickens and bees.

No matter the space, there’s room to grow!

Grow Your Own – How To Be An Urban Farmer won a Laurel for best gardening book at the Horticultural Media Association of Australia in 2020.