URBAN GROWTH
Gillian’s vegie garden is just 15m2 of a quarter-acre block in the Geelong suburb of Belmont, but you could say farming is in her blood.
She can’t remember when she started gardening — possibly at seven or eight years old. She grew vegetables all the way through high school and on her rental property in Melbourne. Even when living in Tokyo, she grew green capsicums very successfully in a 1m2 garden.
“It’s embedded in our culture to grow vegetables,” Gillian says. She comes from a farming background in Minyip in the northern Wimmera, a very large semiarid region east of the South Australian border, famous for its grain production.
Her family still owns the farm, which her grandfather
