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Hi, my name is Anna, I live in East Dulwich and I am studying for my MA in Communication Design. I am working on a project which is all about growing your own food. As a graphic designer I am trying to find out how I can encourage more young families to grow some food at home, through creating a series of leaflets or perhaps a beginner?s pack, even some games and activities that could involve the whole family. By filling in this survey you will help me find out what I could be designing that will correspond to people?s needs/wants. Please only fill in if you have kids. http://plumbelly.co.uk/surveys/index.php?sid=82648&newtest=Y&lang=en Thank you for helping

actually, it won't put the entire link, so here it is in two sections http://tinyurl.com /growing-your-own

Fantastic, just emailed Monica! Thanks for that! I've also now made an online survey, for anyone adding to the thread, it would be great if you could fill it in (basically questions from above, but in 7 very quick and easy click button answer way) http://tinyurl.com/growing-your-own thanks again to everyone!

Oh, I don't think i've seen that, what's the title of that thread?

Thanks so much for giving me some feedback! Thanks also to Yak, perhaps I can PM you and ask you some more about food up front, something I had looked already, but not in enough detail... Hopefully some more people will come across this thread and let me know their experiences! Thanks again.

Hello everyone. A quick introduction: I am starting on a project (as part of doing a MA at university) on growing one's own fruit and veg. Or rather, how people can be encouraged to grow their own food. The background to this is that food is getting more expensive, is increasingly imported (from as far as Guatemala, India and Thailand for items such as aspargus, sugar pea snaps and even leeks) which increases not only our carbon footprint but also means that often items are not quite ripe/ready yet. We also seem to eat out of season, and on top of that waste hundreds of pounds every year by throwing food away that's been left to go off because we bought too much. So, as a starting point for this project I am looking for people who either are happy to answer the questions at the end of this post for me (they can PM them back to me or just add them to the thread) or perhaps volunteers who may over the course of the next few months be willing to fill in questionnaires/give feedback every now and again on the things i will be producing in order to get people to grow some food at home (whether it's in a window box or in a corner of their garden). It would be great to get a discussion started, or some feedback. Have you ever thought about growing food at home? What would get you started to grow your own? What's holding you back? Why would or wouldn't it work for you to grow some food at home? What's your experience if you are growing food at home? What got you started? What general implications do you feel growing food holds/would hold for you? If you have young kids, would you try and explain food to them by growing some (or have already done so)? Thanks for having a read through this. And even more thanks to those giving me constructive feedback. Anna