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How to Add a Recipe

Sharing Community Garden Recipes

Are you a member of a community garden and interested in your garden having a profile on this website to contribute recipes?

First, create an account. Choose a username that could identify your community garden.

Once you log in with your username and password, you can click on the Add Recipe button to open the page with the recipe form.

On this form, add:

  • recipe name
  • choose from a dropdown menu the type of category for your recipe eg. soup
  • choose the type of cuisine eg Asian
  • then choose your community garden, if you don’t find your community garden in the list we can add it to the list once you upload your recipe
  • then add a recipe description and upload an image — the best image size is 900px by 500px
  • then add timing and portion size
  • next add ingredients, if you have say a Cake and a Topping
    • use the ‘Ingredient Title’ to add Cake with its ingredients then
    • ‘Add New Ingredient Title’ to add the Topping and its ingredients
  • add each recipe direction one by one
  • if you have completed all that you need to add click on ‘Submit Recipe’ button.

You will then be directed to your ‘Dashboard’ where you can find your recipes and edit or delete if you need to.

Recipe Favourites

If you find a recipe on the website that you like, you can click on the like ‘heart icon’ and the recipe will show up in your dashboard under your favourites.

Account Details

Here, you can add your community garden’s social media links for people to connect with your garden. Upload your gardens logo in the ‘Profile Image’ area and clicking on ‘Choose File’.

You can update your account details at any time.

That’s it, all done. Looking forward to seeing your community garden recipes up on the website.