Building a Food Forest -Scotland
Katrina & Clayton live in East Ayrshire with their family and share their daily life in the garden on instagram. They practice permaculture principles, reducing & repurposing waste whenever they can. Katrina shows how home educating in nature has helped Clayton thrive.
Clayton Completed The Grow and Learn Course with the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society Last Year. This year he started the Level 2 Nurture Course. Clayton is 15, Autistic, Non Verbal & has been Home Educated for the last 5yrs.
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Building A Lawn Edging & Window Style Box With 1 Pallet
REPURPOSING & REUSING What Did We Do? Using 1 pallet we cut up the wood to make several usages, first some lawn edging, I say some because we have a large section to cover and will need maybe 3-4 more pallets to finish this off. Secondly we made a window style box that holds 22…
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Top 3 Things You Could Do To Support Earth Day & National Garden Week This Year?
GARDENING SUPPORTING OUR EARTH Top 3 things you could do this year in your outdoor space No 1. The Soil Enrich your soil by adding nutrients back in. Lay some cardboard on your borders, mulch with leaves and grass cuttings. Work with nature at replenishing not removing. Give Back To The Soil. No 2. The…
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Building A Cold Frame From A Metal Bed, Scrap Wood, Pallets & Shower Curtains
REPURPOSING & REUSING What Did We Do? Built a cold frame from scrap. So this was my Easter break. This project was everything we had collected over the years and 2 clear shower curtains What Did We Use? Old Metal Bed Frame: We’ve had this outside for 3yrs now, we picked them up for free…
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Propagating Cherry Laurel
PROPAGATING CHERRY LAUREL TO GET FREE HEDGING What Did We Do? We had a go at Propagating Cherry Laurel Hedging For FREE last summer because we have such a large space to fill. Over 100meters! We picked Cherry Laurel as it stays green and thick all year round and we need a wind barrier to…
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Reuse & Repurpose
GETTING YOUR SEEDS STARTED WITH ITEMS FROM AROUND YOUR HOME What Did We Do? If you are a beginner to sowing seeds it can all seem a little daunting, when to sow, what seeds to buy, when to plant out and then there is all the equipment you need. Even those that have been gardening…
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Food Forest Area- New Fruit Trees Planted For 2023
LAST OF THE FRUIT TREES GOING INTO THE FOOD FOREST AREA Getting Started We were gratefully gifted our last set of fruit trees for this area from Direct Plants They sent Clayton out 1 Pear – Pyrus Beth Pear 2 Apple -Malus Cox’s Orange Apple 1 Plum – Prunus Victoria Plum We also just planted…
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Temperature Blanket 2023
RECORDING THE WEATHER AS A VISUAL FOR NEXT YEAR Getting Started Temperature Blanket 2023. The idea of a temperature blanket is to crochet (or knit) a number of rows on a blanket each day for a full calendar year. The colors used each day correspond with the temperature outside. I started crocheting last year with…
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-12 Months- 12 Eco Changes- Making An Eco Swap Of Plastic Wrapping Paper
Month 12- December it’s Wrapping Paper Background….. As when I decided to go Vegan back in 2013, I started with the food, gradually as I did the next shop I swapped over the milk and butter and cheese, we obviously stopped eating or buying any meat but finding substitutes didn’t happen over night. My husband…
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-12 Months- 12 Eco Changes- Making An Eco Swap Of Fast Fashion
Month 11- November it’s Fast Fashion Background….. As when I decided to go Vegan back in 2013, I started with the food, gradually as I did the next shop I swapped over the milk and butter and cheese, we obviously stopped eating or buying any meat but finding substitutes didn’t happen over night. My husband…
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