Some of you might remember a blog we did around Australia Day titled ‘Our House: Celebrating ‘HomeGrown’ A Gardening Program for Community Housing Residents’. It’s about the HomeGrown community program Vegepod has set up with the help of Southern Cross University and the Federal Government. The aim of HomeGrown is to assist social housing groups...

We we're going through Vegepod blog ideas when we realised - we've never done a blog explaining the benefits of the Vegepod garden cover.    This may seem old hat to some of our long time Podders but for newbies to the Podding world, this blog explains the function and benefits of the cover and will hopefully help you understand and use your Pod...

We’ve mentioned square foot gardening before on the Vegepod blog. It’s a genius idea invented by Mel Bartholomew that helps reduce tilling and ‘space-waste’ while you plan out your raised garden bed. In this blog, we’ll go over how you can plan out a square foot garden (SFG) in the Vegepod (for small, medium or large pods) and we’ll give some ‘A...

The Easter long weekend is coming up! (Sunday 21st.) That means one of two things. If you’re a parent/grandparent you have kids everywhere. If you’re kid-free, you’ve got some nice you-time to consider. Either way, if you’re wondering what to do this Easter here are four DIY ideas to consider (aside from eating large amounts of chocolate, of cou...

We’ve received some cracking reviews lately on our customer service and wanted to do a shout out to everyone who reviews us and to our staff for making Vegepod a service-first company! Since the beginning, owners Matt, Paul and Simon all agreed that good old fashioned customer service was a top priority no matter how Vegepod evolved. Now, we hav...

We don’t want to jinx it but the good news just keeps rolling in for 2019!  As of this year, we’ve set up three new Vegepod locations with a fourth one on the way. This will take Vegepod up to ten locations around the world in the last four years! Here’s a bit about our set up at the new Vegepod locations. Vegepod Canada Firstly, you may be thin...

It was a warm October morning when the dynamic Australian Simon Holloway burst through our classroom doors to gift our school garden with a Vegepod. He happened to be in Atlantic City, NJ for a Green Industry event, and a mutual connection of ours, Kate, was determined the two of us would meet. Kate and I had been corresponding for a while on In...

In the spirit of togetherness, belonging, and community for all Australians this Australia Day, we thought we’d shine a spotlight on one of our most rewarding programs yet - 'HomeGrown'. HomeGrown is a gardening program we developed in partnership with Southern Cross University and the Federal Government. Also assisting HomeGrown in its early in...

We’ve started off 2019 with a bang! We’re extremely proud and happy to announce that we’ve won the USA Golden Shovel Award for Outstanding Garden Product! Here’s the post: Earning the USA Golden Shovel Award is a big achievement, as the award itself is run by GardeningProductsReview.com (GPR). GPR is an independent, unbiased review site that r...