Our Passion is Edible Gardening
Welcome! We’re Steve and Emma—and our passion is edible gardening and the outdoors.
Welcome to Food Garden Life!
We’re Steve and Emma, a father-daughter duo. Our passion is helping people grow food at home. With our experience in the horticultural industry—and our passion for home growing—we have lots of tips and ideas to help you harvest lots at home.
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Articles on Growing Figs in Cold Climates
The Food Garden Life Show
A Show for Home Food Gardeners
Want to grow your own food? We help gardeners grow great food—on balconies, in backyards, and beyond. Get top tips for exotic crops. Find out how to harvest more fruit, vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers. And learn how to garden in a way that suits your situation.
“You two are inspiring! Please keep up the amazing work. Your podcast is a joy to listen to.”
“This father-daughter combo combines interesting guests along with a passion for all things gardening. Definitely one of my favorite ways to spend some quality time.”
“I’ve been listening to your podcast for the past year and I’m so in love with it.”
Gardening Courses
I’m Steven Biggs, horticulturist, journalist, host of the award-winning Food Garden Life Show, and former horticulture instructor at George Brown College and Durham College in Canada.
There’s no big production company behind our courses. It’s me and some hand-picked horticultural colleagues—top experts in the area of food gardening.
We’re all passionate about plain-English, practical gardening classes that help people have fun, be creative, and successfully grow food at home.
Join us as we make the world a better place, one garden at a time. Gardens are a powerful way to nourish family, friendships, community, and a healthy lifestyle.
Steve
Live Online Gardening Events
Camps (Take a Deep Dive!)
Individual Online Gardening Talks
Get a Burst of Inspiration!
Food Garden Gang Monthly Meet-ups
Want Ongoing Food Gardening Guidance and Inspiration?
Self-Paced Online Gardening Courses
Online Gardening Courses to Fit Your Schedule. Start any time.
“Another great experience! You did an outstanding job with content and information, slides and pictures, and your enthusiasm.”
“This course gave so many ideas on what is possible. Steve made gardening look easy.”
“That was fun and so well done!”
“I loved this course. The content was thorough, useful, practical and with multiple excellent photos to clarify. It was well organized, well presented and presented by Steven Biggs who has an unbridled enthusiasm and positive energy on all things FIGS. There was lots of opportunity to ask questions at any moment in the course. Today, the day after the course, I have unpacked my two figs, buried under the snow, and, finding them alive and well, have brought them into our lean-to greenhouse for an early growing season (March 20) with 4 cm of snow expected otherwise outside today.
The course offers a huge amount of great growing advice and then offers even more in terms of online references, watering techniques and further fig related internet sites. A friend of my wife’s told her yesterday that you could never get a fig to grow to ripeness in Ottawa. I have every intention to prove her wrong and to add to my little fig collection when the temperature allows.
Wonderful course. Cannot recommend it highly enough if you are even thinking of growing figs. Even if you are not, I’ll bet you change your mind and are hooked! Did I say that I loved this course? Go for it. Thank you Steven”