The Grow Inspired Academy
Learn how to grow your own nourishing food at home
Want to grow your own nourishing food?
Gardening can be overwhelming, with thousands of products & conflicting opinions. When you put in the time, money and effort, but still watch your plants struggle... there’s nothing more frustrating!
Grow Inspired takes our decades of experience and expertise to show you the easiest way to garden with incredible results, so you can grow your own nourishing and delicious organic food at home.
What will I get as a member?
Designed and taught by leading garden expert, Claire Mummery, our membership site and community offers support and no-nonsense instructions. Grow Inspired will teach you step-by-step on how to grow your own organic food and start to compost.
With easy guidance delivered in quarterly bundles, simply follow our Success Path to get maximum results and enjoyment. Even better, the course is designed for minimal gardening equipment, products or investment – and no more than one hour per week of your time to get the results you want.
But hurry, as membership is only open for a limited time. We only open our doors for an exclusive intake just twice a year so we can spend our time and focus on supporting you as you progress through your garden Success Path.
When we next open our doors, the price increases immediately, but your price will always remain locked in at our best value ever, so join today.
Introducing your coach
Expert gardening coach
Claire Mummery
The Grow Inspired Academy is designed and taught by leading garden expert, Claire Mummery, who is one of New Zealand’s foremost pioneers in regenerative living, organic garden development and growing nutrient-rich food.
Claire has been teaching for 10 years, and her extensive experience in organic gardening and composting now spans three decades.
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The Grow Inspired Academy Success Path
Your journey to becoming an expert gardener and composter at home
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Quarterly bundles packed with easy steps to complete in your garden, tailored to suit all garden spaces – from window sills to acres of land
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All topics covered - from how to prepare your garden beds, how to grow, harvest and prune, soil regeneration, growing with the moon, pests and disease, composting and much, much more
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Access to our community area and regular live Q&A sessions with expert, Claire Mummery provide consistent support and guidance throughout your journey
FAQ
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What is the Grow Inspired Academy?
An exclusive membership site for you to learn how to grow food successfully at home and compost to make your own soil, using your kitchen scraps. Our online membership empowers you to upskill yourself from wherever you are to be able to grow your own food and reduce your organic waste for a low monthly cost. It offers complete flexibility so you can cancel anytime.
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How do you teach the course?
The course is accessed online in a dedicated, easy-to-follow learning platform. Members will have access to content bundles released quarterly, so you can follow along at your own pace. Content includes step-by-step video and audio guides, downloads and printables, an exclusive and supportive community of fellow inspired gardeners packed with advice, regular live Q&A sessions with Claire Mummery, surprise bonus content and exclusive discounts to Grow Inspired products and packages.
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What topics will you cover?
Learn holistically about all aspects of gardening, with regular content on growing in the phases of the moon; organic pest and disease management and composting. You will also learn how to prepare your garden beds; sow from seed; transplant; nurture & harvest a huge variety of plants; & create biodiversity in your growing area with companion planting and beneficial flowers.
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How much time will it take to follow the course?
With easy guidance delivered in quarterly bundles, simply follow our Success Path to get maximum results and enjoyment. Even better, the course is designed for minimal gardening equipment, products or investment – and no more than one hour per week of your time to get the results you want. You can choose to complete tasks each week and follow along, or save up to do them when you have time.
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Do I need to buy special equipment to follow the course? What if I don't have a big garden?
Members will require minimal equipment and the course content will focus on using what you have available at home to grow in, without needing to spend lots of money at the garden centres. The course is designed to save you money by growing your own food from seed! Content is tailored to suit all garden spaces – from window sills to acres of land, so that everyone can learn how to grow food at home.
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Can I join the membership site anytime?
No - We only open our doors for an exclusive intake just twice a year, so that we can spend our time and focus on supporting you as you progress through your garden Success Path. When we next open our doors, the price increases immediately, but the price you sign up for today will always remain locked in at our best value ever, so join now.
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How much does it cost to join and are there contracts involved?
We are offering our great value price for new members who join us now at NZ$45 per month on a rolling subscription. Your price will never increase. No commitments – you can cancel anytime.
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Can I pay for a year or gift a membership to a loved one?
Yes - we are offering a special bundle. Buy 12 months now and pay for just 10. We also offer gifting options so you can treat the gardener in your life.
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I'm hopeless at gardening - is this course for me?
With step-by-step courses, you can learn in a structured and supported way to get maximum results. Our community area is a place where members support one another and share their success stories. Regular live Q&A sessions with founder and expert, Claire Mummery provide consistent support and guidance throughout your journey.
What our past students say...
Testimonials from Claire's students
Taken my skills to the next level!
The Grow Inspired Academy is so good! Claire is a great teacher who explains things really well for all types of learners.
The different mediums used in the course (videos, audio clips, PDFs, quizzes with detailed feedback) are all really useful. The video clips are a favourite because you see Claire in the garden, demonstrating and talking you through a lesson, and it's great to be able to re-watch if you want to. The course starts with foundational knowledge and grows from there, however, I jumped straight into areas of interest and this also worked well. The materials are professionally presented and easy to navigate.
Connecting up with the community of members has been fun and learning from a master gardener is fantastic.
Claire is generous with her knowledge and is passionate about organic principles and food resilience. I highly recommend The Grow Inspired Academy for anyone wanting to grow a healthy garden, it's really taken my gardening knowledge and skills to the next level.
Pearls of garden wisdom
“Claire and Grow Inspired is a platform for rich learning, radical connection with our land and activated social change. I recently attended a composting workshop with Claire at the Waiheke Sustainability Centre and walked away a more empowered human, armed with pearls of garden wisdom that are almost inaccessible these days.
The workshop allowed me to realise my green thumb potential and network with other like-minded people in our tight-knit community here on the island.
In this way, Claire is a woman who embodies her mission: she inspires you to grow food with wholehearted intention and love.”
A great teacher!
"Claire is a great teacher – she puts everything in a clear, easy to understand way and follows it up by getting you to do practical examples. All I can say is WOW – she is amazing, never was there a question in the large class she couldn’t answer and not just from a theoretical point of view. Claire eats, sleeps, drinks and breathes Organic gardening and has tried it all!"
Confidence to try new things
"Since meeting Claire, her passion, wisdom and expertise has not only inspired me in my garden but also given me confidence to try new things, and feel good about the progress I am making. Claire is always there to answer any questions and goes out of her way to help whenever and where ever she can. Her enthusiasm overflows and shows in everything she does."
Her enthusiasm is infectious!
“Before I met Claire I was totally intimidated by my garden. I never knew what to plant or how to take care of it. Claire has given me the confidence to get in there and just do it! She is an amazing gardener and a wonderful teacher. Her patience and generosity seem to know no bounds and her enthusiasm is infectious.”
Totally inspired to get composting & gardening
“Claire’s teaching style and experience is so engaging, whatever level you are at. Everyone goes home beaming with new ideas and totally inspired to get composting and gardening. Claire passion is infectious!”
DON'T PANIC - IT'S ORGANIC!
"For an absolute beginner interested in growing veggies and composting, it's important to do it right the first time, and so I attended a “Grow Inspired” course with Claire. Our whole group got totally inspired!
Claire introduced us in a fun way to germinating seeds and naturally growing produce, using organic composting and pest control. She is very knowledgeable and helpful, even after our course finished.
I started as a total beginner, and within 4 weeks I’ve become a founding member at the Grow Inspired Academy. Three cheers for Claire!"
Gave me such inspiration to grow
"From the moment I sat down in the first lesson in Claire Mummery’s GROW YOUR OWN FOOD four week course, it was very obvious to me that Claire was hugely knowledgable about organic gardening. She so generously shared information and gave me such inspiration to grow nutrient-dense vegetables from soil well prepared from natural sources. We went home each week with seeds to plant and little plants to nurture. The lessons were structured but furnished with so many extra tips - all of them profoundly useful. Claire thank you so much for enriching my ability to grow. I learnt so much."
Fun, informative and inspiring!
"Claire’s ‘Grow Your Own Food’ course was fun, informative and inspiring. The depth and detail of Claire’s knowledge is amazing – you can ask her any gardening-related question and she’ll have an answer for you. We learnt all sorts of useful information about growing food, how to deal with pests, how to make your watering go further (very helpful on Waiheke!), companion planting and the difference between the needs of summer and winter plants. Claire is an entertaining teacher, and the progress made by our class over four weeks, both in class and at home in our gardens, was staggering. She’s also infinitely helpful and so willing to share her knowledge. If there was a follow-up course, I’d be joining immediately!"
Passion by the bucketload
"An inspirational teacher has passion by the bucketload, a depth of knowledge at their fingertips, instills that all mistakes are learning, and has the ability to connect authentically with their students... That's Claire! I learnt more about growing food well in the 8 hours I spent with her than in the last 40 odd years of my life. And the information comes tried and tested! I come away feeling that I too can grow good food in a way that is beneficial to my family and, importantly, our world. Thanks Claire, your passion is contagious, I've caught the bug!"
Incredible benefits to join as a Member now - hurry!
Sign up and receive a fantastic price with exclusive one-time-offer benefits!
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The best monthly membership price we have on offer! Lock in your membership at just $45 per month FOREVER! Prices will increase the very next time we open our doors
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Enjoy 10% discount on all products bought from Grow Inspired for the LIFETIME of your membership (excludes Urban Composter products)
Sign up for a year's membership today for the BEST VALUE EVER OFFERED
Purchase an annual membership at $450 and lock in our fantastic Member price for the lifetime of your membership, PLUS:
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Enjoy two months' membership for FREE - buy 12 months, pay for 10 months!
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Enjoy 15% discount on all products bought from Grow Inspired during your annual membership (excludes Urban Composter products)
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