Locals sometimes ask us about our produce, and the organic status of the items available. We've been asked "how do you know it's organic though?", or "what about people using chemicals and sprays?", to that we can refer them to the implementation of our Growers' Charter which can be found over on our website, link HERE. To become a Grower or Producer for Grow Lightly, a Growers' Charter must be signed and followed. All growers of fresh produce for Grow Lightly are committed t

Grow Lightly has long been known to support the use of sustainable packaging in our processes, which for us means finding alternatives to using single use plastics whenever possible. We pack our orders in cardboard boxes and paper or re-useable bags, these can be returned to Grow Lightly for re-use, just tear off your order label. Order labels are printed on paper, which can be recycled or added to your worm farm or compost bin. Many of our orders contain bunches of small pr

The BCSGFSA has four projects currently being developed, rolled out and underway and one of which being "The Mobile Grocer" , project managed by Grow Lightly and the Food System Alliance team. VicHealth awarded the Alliance grant funding to undertake the four proposed projects over a 3 year period. The second hand electric van was gifted for this project by a generous donor. The "Mobile Grocer" is an electric van that will be utilised to take locally grown Certified Organ

The Bass Coast South Gippsland Food System Alliance attended the Bass Coast Sustainability Festival hosted by Bass Coast Shire Council  last weekend, to showcase the "Mobile Grocer" electric van and continue the launch of the #SoilYourUndies  project for our Healthy Soils Healthy People initiative. Thank you to everyone who attended and for those not able to attend on the day we hope you enjoy this recap as a way of promoting inclusivity in capturing the event. check out the

Korumburra recently hosted the annual Garlic Festival once again and with the last of the warm summer weather, visitors enjoyed all that was on offer for the festival, some brave enough to try popsicle ice creams flavoured with black garlic, either loving or loathing the taste. A highlight of the festival was a presentation at "The Garlic University" by Vele Civijovski from Garlic Kingdom which is located in the Cooma area of NSW with his presentation called " A starters gu

If you're interested in growing great fruit and veggies then you should be interested in growing healthy soil too! To find out the composition of your soil, a simple Soil Jar Test is a great way to learn what percentages of materials make up your soil, what the composition of these is referred to and how to then improve your soil or at least work with what you have in the meantime. Give it a go and let us know in the comments what kind of soil you have!

One of the exhibitors attending the Foster Agricultural Show was the local Nyora seed company Atlantic Seeds. If you're keen to grow... and grow... and grow, then you might be interested in checking out their website HERE.

Grow Lightly attended the Foster Agricultural Show with partners of the Bass Coast Food System Alliance on 28th February 2026. The BCSGFSA team held a stall along the "Beeline", a free family friendly showbag treasure hunt. The event was the launch date of the Healthy Soil, Healthy People's citizen scientist project called "Soil Your Undies" and kits with instructions were made available to those who attended and wanted to learn about soil health and perform the experiment in

Soil your undies! CottonInfo's soil health initiative has a video over on YouTube to explain the project and how you can test your soil. Click the LINK HERE to be re-directed to the video.

Launching the BCSGFSA  Healthy Soil, Healthy People, citizen science project “Soil your undies”. The Bass Coast South Gippsland Food System Alliance (BCSGFSA) team launched a citizen science project called “Soil your undies”  at the Foster show on the 28th March 2026.  The experiment will help to test how active and healthy your soil is, and work on how to improve it, if your results show that it is inactive and needs some work to help feed those wriggly worms and organisms. 

Hiding below the Marigold at the top with the yellow highly scented flowers, the plant at the bottom of this image is a Portulaca variety called Common Purselane. Some might automatically dart their gloved hand or trowel towards it to pull it out like an unwanted weed, but stop before it's too late, you'll want to keep this one. Purselane is a highly nutritious, annual weed, it's drought- tolerant, has thick green leaves with reddish stems and small yellow flowers. High in Om

Growing your own heirloom tomatoes is one of the most pleasurable things about growing your own food. The taste is better than anything you could buy from a big supermarket, not to mention the lack of food miles from your backyard to your kitchen. But lurking along side the threat of not enough or too much rain each summer is the threat of the creatures small and medium who love your toms as much as you do. Organic gardening means we don't reach for the synthetic sprays and d

During the BCSGFSA lunch event at the Korumburra Community Hub on the 18th Feb 2026, Serenity Hill suggested a book titled "The Carbon Farming Solution" by Author Eric Toensmeier, a Yale University lecturer, a Senior Fellow with Project Drawdown and an international trainer. With extensive knowledge about useful perennial plants and their roles in agroforestry systems he cultivates around 300 species in his urban garden. The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perenn

Lunch with Serenity Hill. Healthy Landscapes, Healthy Communities- BCSG Food System Alliance event on 18th February 2026. Held at the Korumburra Community Hub, the BCSGFSA team met with Serenity Hill and welcomed attendees to share a healthy fresh lunch and conversation about local food systems. James Duffield, the Project Coordinator for the Food Alliance asked Serenity a number of questions on the subject. Serenity gave thoughtful answers with her years of knowledge and exp

Grower tour at Julie's property in Dumbalk. Sun, 29 Mar, 1pm - 3pm AEDT TICKETS: $15 each  (+GST + booking fee) Julie moved to her property in late 2020 and has transformed the garden from being overgrown and let go, with basically nothing left but agapanthus, into a thriving productive food garden.   Julie is one of the fantastic local producers who supply the Grow Lightly weekly online store and the monthly farmers market with fresh local produce, seeds and seedlings. This

BCSGFSA can GUARANTEE they will buy your local produce* even if you only have one or two cauliflowers or a bunch of silverbeet, lemons or herbs. Regular, seasonal or casual producers are welcome too. * A "GROWERS CHARTER" is required to be signed by all producers to show the commitment to producing food of high nutritional value without recourse to synthetic fertilisers, herbicides or pesticides. Our MOBILE GROCER has some capacity for produce collection from growers, so if t

Bass Coast- South Gippsland Food System Alliance (BCSGFSA) Forward motion for our region’s food system, Mohya Davies has been appointed Chair of the BCSGFSA and James Duffield has joined the team as the Project Coordinator. BCSGFSA projects are underway, funded by the grant awarded from VicHealth’s Local Partnerships for Food First. With a focus on creating a food system that is healthy, equitable and sustainable, and which prioritises community wellbeing as a collaborative m

Grant secured from VicHealth for the BCSGFSA Bass Coast- South Gippsland Food System Alliance  Grow Lightly are one of the partners involved with the ‘ Bass Coast- South Gippsland Food System Alliance’, which have secured a Government grant from VicHealth's Local Partnerships for Food First program. BCSGFSA is a collaborative movement, uniting growers, producers, volunteers and consumers to build a transformative local food economy from the ground up. The Food Alliance belie