Hello, today I'm celebrating. It's the
release of Grow Food For Free by Huw Richards.
This is his second book and I'm
really delighted for him.
I'm Liz Zorab and this is Byther Farm.
Many of you may know, Huw and I have
become good friends over the last couple
of years. But that as may be, I thought I'd have a really good look at this book and see
just how useful it is.
This book feels like Huw has really come into his own.
It's full of very lovely, full-color
photographs demonstrating what he's
talking about.
It starts, quite sensibly, with a look at
how to set up your growing space and how to do that for zero cost,
using all sorts of materials that are sourced for
free and he tells you how to source them.
Things like using recycled materials,
anything from cardboard boxes to tires,
pallet wood, pallet collars, all sorts of
things, and Huw suggests how to build some
raised beds and how to create new
growing spaces in your garden.
And he looks at some growing methods and
explains his approach using permaculture.
The book has a section on growing
perennials and on annuals, explains how
to get seeds for free and also how to
propagate some of those perennial plants too.
There's explanations of how to
make compost bins and how to make
compost and also how to use other plants
around your garden to create feed for your soil
And the part that I like the most is at
the back of the book and it's Huw's
journal, where he's actually gone through
a whole year of growing food for free
and he journals week by week entries,
explaining what's going on in his garden
and what he's done to keep that free
food going for a whole year.
The book is available today,
that's the 27th of February in the UK
and I think the American version is
available from next week, from the 2nd of March.
There's a link in the information
below if you want to order this, but it's
also available, as they used to say, in
all good book shops.
