Grow, cook, eat your own food says the man behind the Grow It Yourself movement

It all started with a bulb of garlic. Michael Kelly, the man who would go on to set up the Grow It Yourself (GIY) movement, had his Road to Damascus moment in a supermarket a little more than a decade ago when he noticed that the garlic on the shelf had come all the way from China.

It wasn’t so much the 8,000-plus air kilometres that made him stop him to think, but the label that read: “Fresh from China”.

“It just made no sense whatsoever,” he tells Feelgood.