Home-Educating Garden Duo, Mum & Autistic Son: Katrina And Clayton Based In Scotland. Follow Along As We Build A Food Forest From Lawn Using Permaculture Principles—Sharing Repurposing, Propagation & Soil Tips & Guides To Everything We Plant.
Katrina & Clayton and family live in East Ayrshire and share their daily life in the garden on instagram. They practice permaculture principles in the garden, reducing & repurposing waste whenever they can. Katrina shows how home educating in nature has helped Clayton thrive.
Clayton Completed The 2 Grow and Learn Courses with the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society. He is Autistic, Non Verbal & has been Home Educated since 2018. Katrina & Peter hold their PDC & PDC PRO Permaculture Design Course from Oregon State University
Introducing: Season To Grow – Printable Worksheets
Created by Katrina, a home educating mum with nearly a decade of experience creating learning resources for her son Clayton, Season To Grow brings together seasonal printable worksheets, activities and games designed with real family life in mind.
From fine motor skills and writing practice to counting, colouring and seasonal discovery, our no prep, download and print resources help make learning feel a little more manageable, meaningful and fun.
Whether you’re a parent, home educator, carer or teacher, we’re here to help you spend less time preparing and more time learning together.
Helping busy families grow curious, confident children, one Season at a time.
Our Winter Printable Activity Bundle brings together no prep printable activities, fine motor skills practice and seasonal learning from December to February, with both full colour and low ink, low visual clutter versions included.
Building A Food Forest in Scotland. Where We Started In 2019. From a full grass lawn to a starting a food forest and fruit orchard, a raised bed area for annual veg and a kitchen courtyard for daily herbs and salads. Follow along with us on our journey.
Guides to the Fruits, Herbs & Edible Flowers We Grow: Cultivation, Care & Harvesting All About Series: Growing, Sowing, Caring For ComfreyWritten For Caledonian Horticulture We have a guest blog series at Caledonian Horticulture talking about what we grow in our garden in Scotland, UK which if UK had zones it would be in Zone 8b. In this series of blogs we…
Guides to the Fruits, Herbs & Edible Flowers We Grow: Cultivation, Care & Harvesting All About Series: Growing, Sowing, Caring For BlackcurrantsWritten For Caledonian Horticulture We have a guest blog series at Caledonian Horticulture talking about what we grow in our garden in Scotland, UK which if UK had zones it would be in Zone 8b. In this series of blogs we…
Guides to the Fruits, Herbs & Edible Flowers We Grow: Cultivation, Care & Harvesting All About Series: Growing, Sowing, Caring For CalendulaWritten For Caledonian Horticulture We have a guest blog series at Caledonian Horticulture talking about what we grow in our garden in Scotland, UK which if UK had zones it would be in Zone 8b. In this series of blogs we…
Guides to the Fruits, Herbs & Edible Flowers We Grow: Cultivation, Care & Harvesting All About Series: Growing, Sowing, Caring For WhitecurrantsWritten For Caledonian Horticulture We have a guest blog series at Caledonian Horticulture talking about what we grow in our garden in Scotland, UK which if UK had zones it would be in Zone 8b. In this series of blogs we…
10 Crops You Should Never Pull Out Of The Ground (And Why) At the end of a growing season it is tempting to pull everything out. The beds look tidier. The old plants are gone and you have a clean space ready for the next crop. But in a permaculture garden, an empty bed is…
Guides to the Fruits, Herbs & Edible Flowers We Grow: Cultivation, Care & Harvesting All About Series: Growing, Sowing, Caring For SorrelWritten For Caledonian Horticulture We have a guest blog series at Caledonian Horticulture talking about what we grow in our garden in Scotland, UK which if UK had zones it would be in Zone 8b. In this series of blogs we…
Guides to the Fruits, Herbs & Edible Flowers We Grow: Cultivation, Care & Harvesting All About Series: Growing, Sowing, Caring For DillWritten For Caledonian Horticulture We have a guest blog series at Caledonian Horticulture talking about what we grow in our garden in Scotland, UK which if UK had zones it would be in Zone 8b. In this series of blogs we…
What to Plant in Scotland Each Month: Veg, Fruits, Herbs & Edible Flowers. Planting in August August can feel like the beginning of the end of the growing season, but in a Scottish garden there is still plenty to sow, plant and grow. The days are beginning to shorten, yet the soil is warm and…
Guides to the Fruits, Herbs & Edible Flowers We Grow: Cultivation, Care & Harvesting All About Series: Growing, Sowing, Caring For Plum TreesWritten For Caledonian Horticulture We have a guest blog series at Caledonian Horticulture talking about what we grow in our garden in Scotland, UK which if UK had zones it would be in Zone 8b. In this series of blogs…