Colourful summer collection design with sun and flowers.

About

Grow your own summer feast with our Summer Collection, featuring three seasonal heirloom varieties selected by Paul West – black cherry tomatoes, cocozelle zucchini, and a fragrant basil.

You’ll learn to grow alongside three incredible growers and educators Mel Logozzo (@rewildingsuburbia), Connie Cao (@connieandluna) and Paul West (@_paul_west_).

We’ll guide you every step of the way from patch-to-plate and be standing by to provide support, and help you overcome any problems in your patch.

The Summer Collection is suitable for growing in your backyard or in pots or containers on a balcony or courtyard.

Let’s grow together!

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Illustration of heirloom black cherry tomatoes on vine.

Heirloom cocozelle zucchini illustration with Paul West.

Illustration of heirloom basil plant for Grow It Local.

Featured educators. Learn to grow with…

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Connie Cao
Connie Cao (@connieandluna) is a urban permaculture gardener, homesteader, photographer and digital content creator. In her backyard, she grows a garden full of veggies, fruits, berries, cut flowers and beneficial plants. She believes that any-sized space can become a garden and encourages everyone to embrace the imperfect perfection of nature. She focuses on small-space friendly plants and loves to create productive, beautiful and sustainable gardens.

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Mel Logozzo

Mel Logozzo (@rewildingsuburbia) had dreams of a food forest when she moved into her current home but now she has a mini wildlife forest. Her aim was to create a place of high biodiversity with something in flower all year round, to benefit both the wider community and her own garden.

Since she started monitoring the wildlife in her garden she has spotted hundreds of species, including resin bees that nest in holes in timber, leafcutter bees that line their nests with carefully clipped circles of pear leaf, blue-banded bees that pollinate tomatoes and eggplants in her vegie patch, cuckoo bees that lay eggs in the blue-banded bee nests, masked bees and a lot of ground-nesting bees.

This ecosystem means she has fewer pests and better crops in return.

Man in garden with dog and squash plant.

Paul West
Paul West (@_paul_west_) is a trained chef, a passionate gardener, farmer and cofounder of Grow It Local. Paul hosted four seasons of River Cottage Australia (Foxtel and SBS), is the author of The River Cottage Australia Cookbook, The Edible Garden and Homegrown

Paul lives with his family, a whole raft of plants and animals, and of course, Digger, on the Far South Coast of NSW

Join Paul at the Live Member Q&A he hosts each month and have your growing questions answered on the spot. Paul also hosts the monthly live’ learn to grow’ workshops.

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Get support and over any problems in your patch
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