Who are we?

We are a grass roots movement. Our aim is to provide reliable edible gardening advice to everyone and especially to those who have busy lives and young families but still want to grow their own food.

Growing your own food is not always as easy as it looks on TV or in glossy magazines. For many years we gardened, diligently buying potting mix and planting European annuals like large tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli, cabbage and lettuce. While we had some successes, lettuce often wilted, and large tomatoes were plagued with pests. The effort and expense involved kept us buying from the local grocery store. This all changed when we discovered edible perennial plants.

Together with Rotary and Food Plant Solutions we have now tested hundreds of species of edible plants in our experimental food forest in the Western suburbs of Brisbane. The result is an edible foodscape full of the hardiest, most nutritious, and delicious plants for Western Brisbane.

We want to share our experience to help everyone successfully grow, at least some, of their own food. It doesn’t matter whether you have acreage or simply a balcony, we have distilled our collective garden knowledge down to the simplest, most reliable edible gardening techniques for Brisbane.

Everything we do is run by volunteers. We provide community education and work with schools and community gardens, providing plants and advice for edible gardening success.  For more information or to get in touch please contact Ketah at brisbaneediblegardening@brisbaneediblegardening

Disclaimer: The information provided by Brisbane Edible Gardening is for information only. Before you eat any plant confirm the identification and use with a nursery or other qualified person. Many plants are similar in appearance and some may be potentially harmful.

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