BBC Gardener’s World Magazine Social Media Reels
BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine: Garden inspiration and advice from the UK’s No.1 gardening magazine and website
Clayton and I have been busy showing you what we get up to across our garden including activities, harvesting, reusing and adaptable techniques we use. Look out for more to come across the Summer of 2024 too.
PART 1 of 4 of our Mini Series
May 2024
Katrina and Clayton from @buildingafoodforest_scotland recycle and reuse items from around their home to plant their seedlings in.
Watch for their top tips on how to prevent mould in your toilet roll tubes when planting your seedlings – and look out for part 2 next week, when they share what they use to make mini greenhouses from items around their home.
PART 2 of 4 of our Mini Series
May 2024
Katrina and Clayton from @buildingafoodforest_scotland recycle and reuse items from around their home to make mini greenhouses – a great way to reuse single-use plastic and stop it going to waste. Once your seedlings have sprouted, you can remove the covers to improve air flow.
Look out for part three in the series next week!
PART 3 of 4 of our Mini Series
May 2024
Using items from around the house to build a trellis for extra vertical growing space.
Katrina & Clayton from @buildingafoodforest_scotland are out in their garden today showing how they repurpose items they already have to make extra growing space in their narrow raised beds.
PART 4 of 4 of our Mini Series
May 2024
Katrina and Clayton from @buildingafoodforest_scotland are back, showing what adaptable techniques they use in their garden to make tasks easier and accessible for Clayton to do, from sowing, to transplanting to watering.
Listen In And Learn More About Us
Would you like to hear more about us, where we started and what we get up to you can listen into our guest podcast that we have done
GillHB & Friends: Chatting About Family Life with 3 Children- Clayton Has Non Verbal Autism and Sensory Processing Needs and How We Got To Where We Are Now
Scotland Grows Show: Practising Permaculture Principles with Katrina Gelderbloem
Katrina & Clayton live with their family in East Ayrshire in Scotland and share their daily life in the garden on instagram @buildingfoodforest_scotland. 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 in 2022. This year he will be completing Level 2 Nurture Course. Clayton is 16, Autistic, Non Verbal & has been Home Educated for the last 6yrs. Both Katrina and husband Peter have studied the Permaculture Design Course PDC and PDC Pro over the last 5yrs, developing their garden from grass to an ongoing food forest.
They have featured on BBC Beechgrove Gardens, Instagram’s Gardeners World Magazine and write for Scotland Grows Magazine. Katrina has a series of children’s story books out following the life of Clayton in the garden. Available at Amazon
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Author of the new children’s book series: Clayton’s Garden Journey: A Story of Autism and Gardening and Sowing, Growing, Weather and Seasons Weekly Gardening Record Book available on Amazon
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