Grow Your Own
Oct 2nd, 2007 by Andrea | Print This Page
Grow Your Own is a monthly food blogging event that celebrates the foods we grow or raise ourselves and the dishes we make using our homegrown products.
The rules are simple:
- Make a dish that uses at least one item from your very own garden or farm and post about it. You can use something that was gifted to you, but the giver must have personally grown or raised the item.
- Anything edible that you have grown or raised qualifies, including fruits, vegetables, herbs, sprouts, edible flowers, nuts, grains, legumes, dairy products, eggs, livestock, and anything else I might have forgotten. Produce from both indoor and outdoor gardens are welcome! Different regions will have different things available, so feel free to feature things unique to your area. (Rambutan trees, anyone?) We are all about celebrating variety!
- Please make sure your dish is posted during the month of the event because we like to celebrate seasonal items. One post per blog, please.
- As a courtesy, please include a link to this announcement in your blog post, and then update later with a link to the round-up.
- If you want to include one of the Grow Your Own badges in your post, feel free to grab one from below. (Please upload to your own server/image repository.) NEW! Logos professionally designed by Jeff Meyers!
To include your post in the round-up, send an email to 
(please note the special email address) by the 28th of each month with the following information:
- Subject line: Grow Your Own #10
- Your name and location (country, state if applicable)
- Your blog URL
- Permalink to your post
- 200×200 pixel photo of your dish (As long as the photo is no larger than 200 pixels in either direction, it will work.)
For an event like this I think it’s useful and interesting to see what is fresh and available from different regions at different times of the year, so please make sure you include the location information when you submit your entry.
We have our own Flickr photo group, so if you would like to share your photos, please let me know in an email and I’ll send you an invitation. To join the Flickr group, you must have participated in Grow Your Own with at least one post. Also, I created the following Technorati tags for the event, so if you want your posts to be found then include these in your meta data: GYO, Grow Your Own.
I will post a round-up of all our dishes on or around the 1st day of each month. Questions? Please ask in the comments!
LIST OF ROUND-UPS
August 2007, #1
September 2007, #2
October 2007, #3
November 2007, #4
December 2007, #5
January 2008, #6
February 2008, #7
March 2008, #8
April 2008, #9
BADGES (200 pixels wide)
SMALLER BADGES (good for sidebars, 150 pixels wide)
Love your site and am glad I came by. Will try and post something on GYO…
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*excited excited* Can’t wait to start posting on GYO too
Passionate Baker & Chrissy, glad you stopped by and are interested in participating in the event!
I love the idea. Though sadly I’m a lazy… so I don’t think I’ll be posting… Though maybe I can create a fungus dish?
Hi Andrea,
I just started to sprout my entry today. Can I submit my post on the 30th in the evening ? If you re in the US, it ll reach you in the late morning then
Hi Andrea, i emailed you with my post, can tou let me know if u got it?
Hi, am enjoying this idea of yours for Grow Your Own. Keep it up and happy holidays!
Gay
Great! Just in time, I have made something last weekend, I used the grown herbs in our tiny garden.. I haven’t posted it yet, but I will do it later. I’m thrilled to join GYO for the first time since I’m back to blogging… been in hiatus for say.. a year or so.. he he.. Cheers! Got nice blog in here. I’ll link you to mine.
i love homegrown vegies and i’ll send you the post later. glad to find you.
Grace & Arfi, so glad you can join us!
Gay, I’m glad you enjoy the event! I have a lot of fun with it, too.
Andrea, when can I send the entry? Can’t find your email address. Sorry, if I missed it somewhere. I’ve posted it at http://homemades.blogspot.com/2008/01/grow-your-own-garlic-and-courgette.html
Hi Arfi! The email address is posted in the GYO info above. Your dish looks delicious!
Hi Andrea,
This sounds like a great event. I am preparing mind and shall submit it soon.
Hi Andrea,
I’m so glad I found your site! Can’t wait to explore–and I’m looking forward to the GYO. Kind of tough to come up with something homegrown here on the East Coast in February, but we’ll see!
Best,
Sandy
http://www.LocalFoodBlog.com
Ivy, glad you can join in!
Sandy, thanks! I know I’m looking forward to warmer weather so I can start my garden.
Love this event! I have only one thing growing in my terrace… garlics! They are just starting to show up. I’ll post something with them when they get a bit bigger.
Hi! We’re so happy we found your site! We absolutely love this event and want to participate! Our garden is our inspiration and feeding ground. We’ve made two dishes this week using our garden delights and would love to share these with your event! We tried e-mailing you, but somehow it doesn’t work. Could you let us know how submit our recipes ?
Nuria, that’s great! Can’t wait to see what you do with the garlic.
White on Rice Couple, welcome to Grow Your Own! I sent you an email response.
Hi Andrea,
How fun to find your site! I’m an avid food grower/food eater, and look forward to posting on GYO, as soon as I figure out the technical details of how to do that….Thanks so much for a wonderful forum!
Vera
Hey Andrea, love your blog and this is such a cool idea. I’d like to feature it on my blog too if that’s OK - it’s really in line with what I’m doing (I’m trying to eat seasonally for a year - doing pretty good so far, and managing to grow at least a little of my own food too. It’s at http://www.theyearofeatingseasonally.wordpress.com if you’re interested).
Keep up the good work, I’ll look forward to seeing who wins this month’s competition!
Sally
Hi Sally! Yes, feel free to promote Grow Your Own. The badges are available for anyone to use, whether it’s in a post or a sidebar or whatever. Thanks for joining in!
Oh, and this is not a competition, just an opportunity for us to share what we’re growing and raising and making with it!
Hi there Andrea,
I just signed up for the flickr pool and am getting all excited about Grow Your Own. We live in SW Florida and have a city lot that is covered in veggie gardens and fruit trees. We eat from our land at least once a week.
I’d love to share pictures of some of our goodies!
Thanks!
Beth
It’s us again. Now it’s time for us to participate. Geez, we’ve been so torn between recipes. Is it one recipe submission per blog? We can’t decide which dish to submit for the month. Help !! Maybe that’s why we didn’t send anything in for February 2007.
Glad you can join in this month! I also have trouble choosing just one post each time. You can put links in your post to other things you made that month that fit the theme so your readers can find those easily, though in your case I think that would be all of your posts!
Love to swap ideas and feature you on Grow Your Own (GYO)!
Anne from http://www.MyUrbanFarm.com
Love this idea! And I hope that some of our community garden and containers will allow us to participate (think green thoughts)!
I am going to start a small garden in my back yard this year, so I will make sure to check back when it starts producing. Great event!
Hi there, I would be interested in participating in the GYO. I live in Canada but keep a fair weather veg & herb garden and grow herbs indoors as well. This year I am going to attempt preserving so will hopefully have homegrown dried, frozen & jarred items to play with in the cold seasons. However, I am not a blogger. Is it possible for non-bloggers to join in the fun? And if so, how?