Growing Made Simple

05/09/2024

Thank you Echo News! Loved the podcast. 💚

Moreton Bay Farm Trail on this Saturday. Are you coming? 🌸🌱🙌

10/08/2024

I’m excited to be part of Eco Fest - I’ll be giving a free short talk about what to plant in your veggie patch over summer. 🪴🌱

Get ready to sprout some green wisdom at the new Eco Hub talk series coming to this year's Eco Fest! 🌎🌿

Join our line-up of eco pros as they spill the dirt on the top veggies you should plant ahead of summer with Growing Made Simple, composting methods for everyone with Kate Wall, Gardening Coach, and how to create a backyard haven for native bees with Dr Kit Prendergast! 🐝🌳

Plus don't miss Swallowtail Nursery talk on the benefits of gardening for all abilities followed by special up-close experience with Bugs Ed's live insects. 👒🐞

Register your attendance on the event page 👉 https://ow.ly/1JJM50SSCWm

10/05/2024

08/05/2024

So much beauty and joy for me in this little snapshot. I’m at Green Thumb Farm this morning running a homeschool group, and i feel so alive. 🧑‍🌾

The kids cut the banana leaves and wove a mat to sit on for morning tea.

We planted a lemongrass hugelkultur bed that we started last week, checked on our snow peas, and will pot up a few cosmos growing wild for them to take home.

Working in a food garden grows hope. 💚

06/05/2024

I’m spending a delightful morning harvesting compost and adding it to my kitchen garden beds ready to plant more greens for my morning smoothies!

So many worms - it makes my heart sing 💚

05/05/2024

I just harvested my biggest red papaya ever!

Chopping and dropping mulch now to say thank you!

27/03/2024

I’ll be at Green Thumb Farm this Saturday! Want to come along too? 🌸🌿🌸

7am - 8am we will harvest for Farm Gate!
9am - 10am Farm Gate is on!

2204 Mt Samson Rd, Samford Valley

18/03/2024

Someone once told me that done is better than perfect. I took it to heart. 💚

This weekend was the launch of the Moreton Bay Farm Trail which is first step in what I hope will grow to be a wonderful opportunity to celebrate our local farms, and make it easier for the rest of us to find them and buy more from local farmers! ✨✨✨

I'm having a big rest day today in bed - it has been a wild and crazy few months. I'm tired, but happy. It is an interesting combination of emotions.

*** farm gate prize winners announced below ***

Thank you for the amazing community support behind the first ever Moreton Bay Farm Trail!!! ✨ ✨ ✨

🌿 👩‍🌾 A big shout out to the 11 inspiring Farm Hosts who opened their gates over the weekend!

🌼 And another round of applause for the 20-30 other local Farmers, vendors, and local community groups who were part of the Mini Markets hosted at 6 of the Farms!

As you can imagine, as the organising crew we learnt so much along the way and we have lots of ideas already to ways to get better and better! 💚

We would love to bring more locally grown food! More delicious lunch options! More of our local farmers involved - ranging from the boutique to the big!

We have received lots of messages about running one in Winter and Spring too! Would you be keen if we organised it??? Let us know below 👇👇👇

And now to to the winners of the FARM GATE PRIZES!

✨Curlew Ridge Flower Farm 2 nights accommodation worth $300 >>> Robert R.

✨Leesa's Little Farm $20 dragonfruit voucher >>> Lauren 0 & Olivia D & Bill B.

✨Five x Five Experiment $70 flower voucher >>> Nikki K.

✨Regenerative Training Centre biochar buckets >>>Kayleen W. &
Shirley M.

✨Green Thumb Farm $50 workshop vouchers >>>Peter Y. & Sarah P. & Bronte B.

✨$35 Produce Box from Mini Farm Project >>> Belinda W.

✨Books donated by Farmlerly >>> Gwyneth N.

Congratulations to all our lucky winners! (we have notified all the winners via email yesterday)

There is still time to give your feedback and be in the draw to win free tickets to the next trail. If you haven't completed our visitor survey yet - here it is - https://forms.gle/grfDxGLJPbSK7knG7

Thank you again for supporting our locally grown initiative,

Susanne, Cherie and Jacky 💚💚💚

17/02/2024

This photo was taken just before my hat fell apart! 😳 I’m having a lot of fun planning the Moreton Bay Farm Trail.

Do you have your tickets yet? 😊 I promise it will be a fun weekend! (And I will give you the inside scoop - we will be giving away lucky farm gate prizes - but you need a ticket!)

Supporting local farmers isn't just about food; it's about cultivating a thriving community. Hands up if you agree! ☝️🙋

Meet Sarah Heath from Basilea Living Herbs - and Susanne Engelhard from Growing Made Simple . Both ladies loving life at at the Farm!

17/02/2024

I was at Green Thumb Farm farm this morning at our community farm session when my lovely friend Cherie dropped in with her boys.

I gave them the job of picking cucumbers and this was the result. 😂

Don’t you just love it when nature grows something completely weird like this cucumber!

Growing your own food is just so much more fun than buying it. Full stop. 💚

17/02/2024

Have a listen to Costa’s speech! Did he make that up on the spot? It’s was beautiful. 💚

07/02/2024

Big week at Green Thumb Farm - Alice from LOOP Growers dropped in for a visit to chat nursery, - Ellie brought Bandit (in the picture) to say hi, Carol popped by who was soon joined by Irene and the planted the spring onions, and of course Ian - well he was there of course working on his paving installation piece.

We admired the blackboard that John Salmond made for us so we can write out notices, and then as I sipped my coffee not too far away I could hear Nick and Liam from The Mini Farm Project coming up with big ideas.

Growing Food makes for a good life. ###

15/01/2024

I’m having a glorious day scoping out the farms for the upcoming inaugural Moreton Bay Farm trail!
🐝🌳🪴

Website & page launching soon - I’ll keep you posted so you can experience the feeling of being surrounded by a field of flowers like this.



Tell me, if we set up a DIY pick your own bunch at a farm like this would you come along?

Send me your ideas! Let’s make it happen.

12/01/2024

Beautiful morning at Green Thumb Farm !

1/2 tray of Lebanese cucumbers + biochar.