Connecting Food with Eaters

Food System
Written By Steven Biggs
Dushan Batrovic, an avid backyard food gardener who created an app that connects excess harvest to a good home

Dushan Batrovic, an avid backyard food gardener who created an app that connects excess harvest to a good home

Backyard food gardener Dushan Batrovic tells us about his journey into food gardening.

After growing up in a family that gardened, Dushan took a break from gardening. But when he started gardening again, the taste of fresh garden produce made him an advocate for backyard growing.

Dushan gardens in two raised beds, along with a garden on his shed roof. As he was making the shed, he thought, “Since I’m creating a roof here I might as well add a bit of real estate to my growing.”

“Since I’m creating a roof here I might as well add a bit of real estate to my growing.”

Dushan Batrovic’s backyard

Dushan Batrovic’s backyard

Connecting Backyard Growers with Eaters

Working in the tech industry, and seeing how he and other neighbours could harvest more of their favourite crops than they could use, he wondered about ways to share around excess harvests.

Dushan created an app called SeedVoyage, which helps gardeners who have excess produce connect with eaters.

“I Saw the supply and demand mismatch.”

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Steven Biggs

Recognized by Garden Making Magazine as one of the "green gang" of Canadians making a difference in horticulture, Steven Biggs is a horticulturist, former college instructor, and award-winning broadcaster and author. His passion is helping home gardeners grow food in creative and attractive ways.


He’s the author of eight gardening books, including the Canadian bestseller No Guff Vegetable Gardening. His articles have appeared in Canada’s Local Gardener, Mother Earth News, Fine Gardening, Garden Making, Country Guide, Edible Toronto, and other magazines.


Along with over 30 years working in the horticultural sector and a horticultural-science major at the University of Guelph, Steven’s experience includes hands-on projects in his own garden including wicking beds, driveway strawbale gardens, and a rooftop tomato plantation—to the ongoing amusement of neighbours.


When not in the garden, you might catch him recording his award-winning Food Garden Life podcast or canoeing in Algonquin Park.

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