Last year, my mum and I managed to successfully start a small vegetable patch in the garden. We had courgettes, tomatoes, beans and they all tasted fabulous, 1000 times better than that which you buy in the supermarkets.
Its fair to say that this effort had a lot to do with the BBC Two series broadcast last year called Edible Garden, where Alys Fowler (you can read about it and watch clips here) creates a vegetable garden in her small London garden. She also forages in the wild but this is something that I haven't quite mustered up the courage to undertake yet for fear or picking something poisonous. I love the idea of the Good Life, being self sufficient, living off the land and supporting local environments rather than global corporations.
We are expanding the vegetable bed this year, and it seems like other people are following suit. Whilst reading this months copy of Elle Decoration I saw 3 rooftops in London which had been adapted into roof gardens. Homegrown is having a revolution.
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