About us:

A social enterprise to increase food security in urban spaces ....

Todays complex systems of living have turned out not to be as healthy for people or the natural world. Few people understand or are involved in the decisions that created them.

I wanted to address some of the problems of our current food system, by giving ordinary people ways to participate in urban food growing. And hopefully these ideas will go some way to achieve a healthier planet.

Healthy plants – Healthy people

Growbags Canada, endeavours to get people to grow locally, eat better, foster food security and reduce transportation impacts.

Near-term goals:

- to distribute growbags widely
- incorporate local generated composts to shorten the loop
- in other words, recycle vegetable waste (in cities this must be substantial) into rich composts for reuse

Future goals:

Profits will be used to seed launch similar enterprises (bag making, filling and distribution) and spawn new ventures in food growing across India and Asia. These enterprises could be run poor but entrepreneurial people who are keen to do something worthwhile and perhaps grow food and herbs for themselves or resale to neighbours, local restaurants, etc. The entrepreneurs could develop the bags further encourage gardening in places where one wouldn’t expect to grow anything like vertical walls.

Simpler, lower cost and less stylish bags, sold to the poor would prevent them from using contaminated containers and soils, treated wood and other materials that might harm the vegetables being grown and the consumers. Growbags retain much more moisture, conserve scarce water and require less labour.

Please support our endeavors by signing-up with us, if you're interested in obtaining growbags for a reasonable cost. This isnt a mechanism to get your email address, its a simple way to determine the interest level of the growbags concept to determine viability as an enterprise. My goals aren't just to make it easier for you to eat better but to help others too.

- Bob Andrews.