The Thousands

The best way to motivate yourself to grow your own fruits and vegetables is to pretend it is contraband. That way, each time you hear a police siren or a chopper flying overhead the adrenaline rush will be enough to get you tilling that soil.

It actually feels somewhat counter-cultural and a little bit mind expanding when you find out via the Digger’s Club website that with only 40 square meters of soil and a couple of hours regular work you can reduce your food costs to $8 per week! Especially when you’ve just spent the same amount on a coffee and a muffin.

But don’t be fooled by the beards, the Digger’s Club are super organised, as evidenced by their seed delivery service and ‘Mini-Plot Planting and Harvest Plan’ which graphically and systematically outlines all you need to know to eat healthily and cut CO2 emissions by up to 30%.

Supplying heirloom vegetables and fruit plants, these “diggers” are fighting a war against what they call the “supermarket fruits of deception”. Subversive but still connected to ideas of resistance and loyalty it’s easy to become a digger and you can start by digging a trench in your own backyard.