About Easy Growing

Easy growing came into being to help people find ways to incorporate food growing into their already busy lives.

Having had lots of discussions with people who said they wanted to have a vegetable garden (but were convinced they couldn’t grow their own food), and also having experienced my own challenges, I decided to start thinking outside the square to find solutions.

Easy Growing is the result of many years of learning, much trial and error and many, many harvests of delicious, fresh, home grown fruit and vegetables from lots or beautiful, productive backyard veggie gardens.

Learning that ‘the perfect’ gardening method changes depending who you talk to, was my biggest lesson. The discovery that ‘one size does not fit all’ formed the basis for Easy Growing.

There are numerous methods and systems to help grow your own food but what works in one situation, quite often doesn’t in another. Locations are different, resources are different and people’s needs are different.

Finding solutions that allow people to fit growing their own food into their lives (rather than changing their lives in order to grow their own food), needs to take in to account their own unique situation.

Easy Growing is about making it as easy as possible for you to grow your own food.

Tina Bolto

Educator, food garden consultant, Founder of 'Easy Growing'

I’m not a professional gardener, but my garden is beautiful.
I don’t have green thumbs, but my plants flourish.
I don’t have much spare time, but I have a productive food garden.

I have a family, a fulltime career, in my spare time I dance and I have moved house almost 30 times. I am also a passionate and successful food gardener.

My interest in gardening started over twenty years ago through wanting better, fresher food options for my children. I started learning and practicing methods and systems for growing food and before long I was hooked.

I have been a paramedic for over twenty years (receiving the Australian National Medal for Service in 2013). I have also owner built two houses, with a third currently in progress and, having moved many times, I have had many gardens. I have tried lots of gardening methods, made lots of mistakes and I have learned so very much.

Now I want to share my learnings to help others experience the pleasures of growing their own food.