Many results to report about our Home Grown Vegetable stand and competition at the 2011 Ballarat Agricultural Show. (Sorry for the delay - sometimes life just gets in the way of web site updates!)

Congratulations to Jane, Geoff, Mick, Sheilagh and Jill and the wonderful helpers from BREAZE, Ballarat Permaculture Guild, Ballarat Community Garden and Friends of Royal Park/Bunninyong Community Garden for the great display.

Our stand won First Prize in the Large Indoor Display category, and Phil and Pam Allen won First Prize in the 4th year of the Ballarat Region Best Organic Home Grown Vegetable Competition!

2011 - Ballarat Region Best Organic Home Grown Vegetable Competition

BREAZErs love local food. To promote the joy of gardening and eating your own home grown goodies, BREAZE are again sponsoring the Ballarat Region Best Home Grown Organic Vegetable Competition on 11th November 2011.

To enter, you need to submit a creatively arranged collection of freshly picked, home grown vegetables. So it is time to plan what you can enter in November, and take some photos of the vegetables growing in your garden.

Veggie growing - Everything old is new again!

Come down and see the great local food display we will have in the Main Pavilion, including activities and information from:

• BREAZE Local Food Group
• The Smart Living Centre
• Refit N' Save
• Ballarat Community Garden
• Buninyong Community Garden
• Ballarat Permaculture Guild

Our third year encouraging Ballarat and environs to take pride in the growing, at home, of wonderful organic vegetables!  BREAZE volunteer, Melissa Pirie has produced another sucessful display of local organic vegetable growing, carrying on the foundation work of Michele Harvie. (Big thanks to Melissa!)

This is the second year that Wendouree Primary School Kitchen Garden has won our competition.  Read more to find out who came second and third! Not to mention the Highly Commended!

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!