Anyone Can Grow

11/09/2020

ICYMI...

For those getting ready for their post-monsoon garden planting, it may be useful to go through our Anyone Can Grow 5-part webinar series from earlier this year (April 2020).

It covers all the basics of growing fruits, vegetables and herbs organically, with tips, Q&As and more...

Happy kitchen gardening... 🙂

Organic Kitchen Gardening for Beginners (in India) — This playlist covers almost everything you need to know about growing vegetables, herbs and fru...

29/05/2020

For those who were unable to join yesterday's Composting 101 session by Poonam Kasturi of Daily Dump, you can catch up with this recording from the livestream on YouTube.

Also, look out for the online Session #2 of this Composting Made Easy series, NEXT WEEK. This session will be focused on composting at a larger/collective scale by housing societies, offices, etc...

- When? On Thursday, June 4th from 4.20 PM to 6:00 PM

In the meantime, get your compost going 🙂

Composting Made Easy – Redefining waste — Transforming kitchen scraps into rich compost

29/05/2020

For those who were unable to join yesterday's Composting 101 session by Poonam Kasturi of Daily Dump, you can catch up with this recording from the livestream on YouTube.

Also, look out for the online Session #2 of this Composting Made Easy series, NEXT WEEK. This session will be focused on composting at a larger/collective scale by housing societies, offices, etc...

- When? On Thursday, June 4th from 4.20 PM to 6:00 PM

In the meantime, get you compost going 🙂

Composting Made Easy – Redefining waste — Transforming kitchen scraps into rich compost

22/05/2020

For those of you who missed out on our 5-part Webinar series Anyone Can Grow from a few weeks ago, you can now access all 5 videos via this playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUEbTrDihZ7NzA_SOMdaznAWKNMSA17YB

Happy Gardening 🙂

Organic Kitchen Gardening for Beginners (in India) — This playlist covers almost everything you need to know about growing vegetables, herbs and fru...

06/05/2020

The FINAL session of our Anyone Can Grow series (phew!) comes up tomorrow, May 7th from 4:20 PM to 6:15 PM.

Session #5 is a discussion on Harvesting of your vegetables, Succession planting and Growing Fruits in Pots

You can join the live stream (tomorrow) at...
https://youtu.be/CQHqJmhZBDY

Kitchen garden problems? Join the Telegram group
https://t.me/anyonecangrow

30/04/2020

Hi! Here's the YouTube Livestream link for our online kitchen gardening session this evening.

Its Session #4 of our 5-part series, which focuses on plant health and organic solutions for pest and disease.

Do join, you can ask us anything when it comes to and

HasGeek

28/04/2020

A reminder about our session coming THIS Thursday, Part #4 of our Series.

Join us online, for this FREE session.

Session #4: Caring for your kitchen garden + managing pests and disease organically.

Who should participate: anyone who is interested in growing food at home.

Date: Thursday, 30th April
Time: 4:20 PM to 6:00 PM
Format: Presentation by resource persons followed by AMA
Participation: This event is free to attend. RSVP to participate. Attendees from previous event needn’t RSVP again.

Anyone Can Grow – Events and community for growing food at home

19/04/2020

Coming next Thursday, Part #3 of our Series, which covers different aspects of the cycle of growing food at home.
Join us online, for this FREE session.

Session 3: Transplanting your seedlings into containers. How much to grow, and of what? Planting multiple plants in a pot.
In the previous session, we covered how to start up your nurseries with seeds (review the last session here). We now proceed to the next stage — which is transplanting your seedlings into containers.
During the session we’ll cover the following:
1. Transplanting your seedlings into their growing containers
2. How much to grow, and of which vegetables/herbs?
3. Checking on our vegetable seedlings (after 14 days)
4. Planting multiple food plants in a single pot
5. How to grow your own micro-greens
Date: Thursday, 23 April
Time: 4:20 PM to 6:00 PM
Format: Presentation by resource persons followed by AMA
Participation: This event is free to attend. RSVP to participate. Attendees from previous event needn’t RSVP again.
Who should participate: anyone who is interested in growing food at home.
Participation: This event is free to attend. RSVP to participate. Attendees from previous event needn’t RSVP again.
Signup/RSVP at https://hasgeek.com/kilter/anyone-can-grow-series/

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Anyone can grow – Events and community for growing food at home

19/04/2020

Try your hand at kitchen or community gardens, or use windowsills for the unparalleled joy of using fresh produce

Try your hand at kitchen or community gardens, or use windowsills for the unparalleled joy of using fresh produce

18/04/2020

If you've been struggling with getting your vegetables seeds to germinate, we've got some pointers for you.

Nurseries are the best way to germinate your seeds, whether they are sown in nurseries or directly into garden beds or pots. They require less effort, water, space, soil etc and produce great results...

Happy Gardening!!

**Some detailed (printable) notes on germinating vegetable seeds...
https://theseedstore.in/blogs/the-kitchen-garden/29913347-the-basics-of-germinating-vegetable-seeds

18/04/2020

"The pandemic is forcing people to think hard—and to feel deeply—about their connection to food. There’s nothing like the sight of stripped grocery store shelves to focus people’s attention on where their food comes from.

This explosion of interest in food production can help create a new cultural landscape for long-term community and ecological resilience once the pandemic has passed. And it couldn’t have come soon enough."

https://civileats.com/2020/04/15/the-rebirth-of-urban-ag-is-a-coronavirus-silver-lining/

A journalist and urban farmer sees the explosive growth in backyard food production as one of the pandemic's unexpected harvests.