Grow Your Own Vegetables
Grow Your Own Vegetables is for home gardeners. Grow your own food from balcony to backyard.
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How this community works
- Pricing
- Free to join
- Size
- 432 membersBigger than 45% of the hobbies & crafts communities indexed here.
- Platform
- Skool
- Category
- Hobbies & Crafts
- Last verified
- 23 October 2026
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About Grow Your Own Vegetables
Grow Your Own Vegetables is for home gardeners. Grow your own food from balcony to backyard.
Why you should join: Weekly gardening tips, seasonal planting guidance, simple systems and answers to your real questions, whether you are just starting or improving your harvest. Free to join.
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The one-liner
A free community helping home gardeners grow their own vegetables without overwhelm.
What they actually sell
GrowYourOwnVegetables (Free), run by Peter Wydooghe, lives on Skool. Its public pitch: "From balcony to backyard, discover how simple it is to grow food." It is free to join. Peter offers weekly gardening tips, seasonal planting guidance, answers to real questions and simple systems that make gardening feel easier, from a balcony to a backyard. Fun challenges keep members growing alongside each other. Inside sit 12 courses and a dense module library.
Who pays and why
Home gardeners, from balcony growers to backyards, who want to grow food without overwhelm. The frustration is guesswork, failed crops and not knowing what to plant when. They join for weekly gardening tips, seasonal planting guidance and answers to real questions.
Where the members come from
The Skool lander and Peter Wydooghe's own teaching appear to be the main acquisition path. Public social links are thin on the about page, so growth reads as community-led rather than a giant media brand. Exact follower counts stay off the about page.
What's holding it back
Everything is free and there is no visible paid step, so the room depends on the host's goodwill to keep going.
Steal this
Tie content to the season, so there is always a timely reason to come back.
Would this work in another niche?
Yes for other seasonal hobbies such as beekeeping or foraging. Weak for topics with no calendar rhythm.
Written 23 October 2026
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