I was convicted that if I was to truly be self sufficient I needed to be able to save my own seeds and not rely on seed companies for the core to our subsistence, there is no point having the knowledge of growing food if I cannot access seed.

Making the decision to step out of the city and purchase a piece of land is an exciting one. My husband and I looked for many years while we were in the season of renovations just to get an idea of what was out there, and we saw plenty of properties that weren’t right for us, not just in terms of wish lists but in location, aspect and infrastructure too.

Growing in suburbia was a fantastic test run for me, I got to learn the basics, I got to learn the rhythms of the seasons and I got to fail.