Emanuela's Tips for Cooking and Preserving Home Grown Produce

Join Darebin's local legends Luigi and Emanuela as they regale you with food preserving knowledge and stories from what they've grown in their abundant Mediterranean inspired garden.

Features include intensively cultivated vegetable beds, a home built hothouse, food preserving area and backyard pizza oven.

The Backyard Harvest Festival is opening home food gardens for tours and workshops get you inspired to grow your own fresh healthy food. This includes include sessions on keeping backyard chooks and quails, organic pest and disease management, composting, aquaponics, and fruit tree pruning techniques – as well as guided tours of some of Darebin’s most abundant private food gardens and community gardens.