Well, we are Lee and Suzanne Read, a married couple in our 40's, from Partington in the North West of England!
When Lee first broached the subject of growing our own, I was immediately enthusiastic, I've always felt like I'd love to go totally self sufficient, even though at that time I hadnt a clue how to grow anything!
We looked online for some help and advice and were fortunate to find the Grow Your Own Magazines forum, the 'Grapevine', where we 'met' lots of friendly and helpful folks who were there to ask questions of and provide encouragement and reassurance!
On contacting the local council we were immediately offered a plot on a local site, Moss View, and on sharing the story of how we turned an untended and weed infested plot into our growing space with others on the grapevine, we found the process helped us to log our progress and acted as a very usable online diary of what we'd done, so we then took the decision to make it into a blog!
This blog is the result, detailing our progress, our successes and failures, a place to pop the piccies of the site and share what we've been up to with friends, family, other growers and anyone who shares an interest with us in GYOing, Beekeeping, organic homegrown veg, living in a sustainable manner and reducing our impact on the world around us!
I hope you enjoy it, find it interesting, perhaps pick up a tip or two, have a laugh, correspond with us via the comments boxes on the blog posts and perhaps even gain some inspiration in what we are doing!
