Growing market gardens on other people’s properties | Urban farming | Gardening Australia

Farm it Forward transforms unused spaces into productive market gardens. Subscribe to channel: Subscribe to newsletter: Gardeners all know people with energy to grow food but have no garden - while elsewhere, there are those with more land than they can manage. Costa visits a group in the Blue Mountains that is bringing together landowners and young gardeners so they can work together. The social enterprise employs young people to farm on unused land. The project, called Farm it Forward, was set up by Manu Prigioni, whose garden has featured on Gardening Australia before. The landowners receive a weekly box of vegetables as ‘rent’, with the rest of the food sold through a local co-operative. “We aim to reconnect people,” Manu says. One of the landowners is retired nurse, Sylvia May, who has lived on the block for 40 years. She cleared an overgrown tennis court on the land with the hope of one day growing vegies, and now the