BREAZE

2009 Organic Home-Grown Vegetable Competition

Michele Harvie and the Local Food Group team have put together a wonderful display about backyard gardening with a lot of cheap and easy ideas to get you growing your own at home!

Local experienced vegetable gardeners John Ditchburn and Rod May judged the fourteen fantastic entries - well done everyone.

Congratulations to Kate and Phil Morrison of Lake Gardens.  What a wonderful assortment of fresh, home grown produce from a suburban back yard. 

See the photos of the Morrison's productive garden for inspiration to get growing for the 2010 competition!

Three major prizes and three Highly Commended entries were awarded, with these top six getting a book about growing vegetables from the Diggers Club.  All entries received a Diggers packet of seed as a 'thank you' for entering.

• First Prize went to Kate and Phil Morrison of Lake Gardens
• Second Prize to the O'Sullival Family of Lal Lal
• Third Prize to the Clarke/Duggan Family of Buninyong

Highly Commended

• Delecombe Primary School
• Barrett Family (Ballarat Community Garden)
• Paul Briody - Ballarat

This display will be on at the Ballarat Agricultural Show from Friday the 13th until Sunday the 15th of November 2009.

Explanitory signs make the display 'stand alone' but it was much improved by the addition of a volunteer to explain bits and encourage people to take some of the many information brouchures available, or get on board with one of our local community gardens to learn or to share growing experience!

A BIG thank you to the small band of people who were able to give their time and experience to this project.

Please support the businesses that support us!

Formosa Nursary - donated $50 gift voucher, and lent 2 fruit trees for the display

Tankster - lent a tank for the display

Diggers Club - donated seeds, six books on growing heirloom vegetables.

Next year

Would you like to be involved in organising the BREAZE Local Food Group's display at the 2010 Ballarat Show?

We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to get involved with this very successful BREAZE project!

Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to express you interest - Chis Pollock, BREAZE Volunteer Coordinator.