Matt and Lentil Purbrick are the dynamic couple behind Grown & Gathered. On their farm in Tabilk, an hour and a half north of Melbourne, they grow vegetables and flowers in abundance, which they sell and trade in Melbourne. Over the past few years, they’ve gathered a cult following!

This month, Matt and Lentil celebrate the release of their first book, also called Grown & Gathered! It’s a truly gorgeous tome, beautifully photographed and designed, and dense with really useful information about growing vegetables, foraging for things like mushrooms, native greens and wild fruits, and raising animals.

TODAY Matt and Lentil share with us an excerpt from the book, covering the fundamentals of building a productive garden.

Some people are just born plant people. Jac Semmler, Ornamental Category Manager at The Digger’s Club is one of them! After spending years experimenting in the gardens of various rental homes, Jac finally has a place to really let her plant-freak flag fly: in the garden of her own home in Frankston, where the outside space is almost as big as the house itself! It’s the perfect place for experimentation.

Georgina Reid of The Planthunter chats with Jac about her ‘botanical laboratory’: getting it wrong, getting it right, and embracing the art of the process.