Food Gardening and Edible Landscaping
We Help You Grow
Not a lot of space? Short on time? Growing season not long enough?
We get it.
We’ll help you with crops, techniques, and practical tips. So you can make the most of your garden space, whether it’s big or small.
Start with our free guide, 20 Food Garden Hacks.
Welcome! We’re Steve and Emma. We’ve put together our horticulture industry experience and contacts to help you grow food at home.
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The Food Garden Life Show
Award-Winning Podcast for Home Food Gardeners
Want to grow your own food? We help gardeners grow great food—on balconies, in backyards, and beyond. Get top tips for exotic crops. Find out how to harvest more fruit, vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers. And learn how to garden in a way that suits your situation.
“You two are inspiring! Please keep up the amazing work. Your podcast is a joy to listen to.”
“I’ve been listening to your podcast for the past year and I’m so in love with it.”
“This father-daughter combo combines interesting guests along with a passion for all things gardening. Definitely one of my favorite ways to spend some quality time.”
Food Gardening Courses
I’m Steven Biggs, horticulturist, journalist, host of the award-winning Food Garden Life Show, and former horticulture instructor at George Brown College and Durham College in Canada.
There’s no big production company behind our courses. It’s me and some hand-picked horticultural colleagues—top experts in the area of food gardening.
We’re all passionate about plain-English, practical gardening classes that help people have fun, be creative, and successfully grow food at home.
Join us as we make the world a better place, one garden at a time. Gardens are a powerful way to nourish family, friendships, community, and a healthy lifestyle.
Steve
“Another great experience! You did an outstanding job with content and information, slides and pictures, and your enthusiasm.”
“This course gave so many ideas on what is possible. Steve made gardening look easy.”
“I loved this course. The content was thorough, useful, practical and with multiple excellent photos to clarify. It was well organized, well presented and presented by Steven Biggs who has an unbridled enthusiasm and positive energy on all things FIGS. There was lots of opportunity to ask questions at any moment in the course. Today, the day after the course, I have unpacked my two figs, buried under the snow, and, finding them alive and well, have brought them into our lean-to greenhouse for an early growing season (March 20) with 4 cm of snow expected otherwise outside today.
The course offers a huge amount of great growing advice and then offers even more in terms of online references, watering techniques and further fig related internet sites. A friend of my wife’s told her yesterday that you could never get a fig to grow to ripeness in Ottawa. I have every intention to prove her wrong and to add to my little fig collection when the temperature allows.
Wonderful course. Cannot recommend it highly enough if you are even thinking of growing figs. Even if you are not, I’ll bet you change your mind and are hooked! Did I say that I loved this course? Go for it. Thank you Steven”