With 15 years' experience growing organic, sustainable food in his family's garden, Huw Richards has seen that cost is often a barrier to people growing their own food, so he wants to help everyone grow fruit and veg sustainably and inexpensively. If a refund is payable to you we will process the refund as soon as possible, and, in any case within fourteen (14) days. We will process the refund due to you as soon as possible and, in any case within thirty (30) days of the day we confirm via e-mail that you are entitled to a refund for defective goods. is better when you can give and receive from a wide network of people, strangers and friends alike, who share at least some of your values. Once you’ve found a good site, Huw recommends his favourite low-maintenance, high-yield crops, covering first annuals, then perennials (the key to growing free food, as with minimal effort they can give you harvests year after year).

The only negatives I see to this is that many of his growing tips are contextual to the Welsh climate, so there are some considerations to take if you’re in a different growing zone (or if you want to try something like avocados or corn). When we first started our garden we ended up getting not great soil, but have amended it over time with our own compost, but I think that is one of the most challenging things with getting started. Registered address: Unit 5, Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, LE5 3EF, United kingdom.Grow Food for Free teaches you how to produce no-cost, low-maintenance fruit and veggies — and finding low-cost ways to overcome common gardening worries.

In Huw Richards book he shows that you don't have to invest a lot of money into creating a successful vegetable garden. Some like it wet, some like it dry; some like sun, some like shade -- There's no underlying set of rules, so what you've got to do if you want to garden well is memorize every plant's preferences.

So the tips on greywater use, rainwater collecting, and composting were a bit of a lightbulb moment.