Category: Ayton Community Garden

With special thanks to the Mrs Lathe and the students at Eyemouth High School who cut bundles of willow for us, we now have a lovely willow windbreak. The wind can be really fierce on this very exposed site so the willow will serve to disrupt the wind flow and […]

A short interview with Karen Birch from Abundant Borders, about Ayton Community Garden. Produced in support of Good Food Nation.

The first Monday of each month we have a Volunteering Afternoon at the Community Garden in Ayton. It is a chance for the course participants to meet up and for us all to pitch in with some of the bigger jobs, like building compost heaps. But this Monday was not […]

Rain cut short the volunteer afternoon today but not before Shane and Karen, the raised-bed-masters, created shuttering to mark paths. This way we can tell which bits of grass are path and should be strimmed and which bits of grass will be cleared and mulched for planting.  

Despite the rain, what a great afternoon at Ayton Community Garden. There is so much growing there now! Amazing! And we were really pleased to be able to help put up composting areas. We had a visit from Mrs Lathe and can look forward to working even more closely with […]

From the first day we put a spade in the soil 5 months have passed. There has been lots of hard work from all of the volunteers but at last we have some food to show for it! A very fine crop of Scottish potatoes. And we are living up […]

The Community Forest Garden is really taking shape. Our second monthly volunteering afternoon allowed us all to see how the garden is coming along and to lend a hand with general maintenance and advice. There are field beans, soft fruit, shrubs, bushes, trees herbs, flowers and vegetables. Not bad for […]

Today was the first of our once a month, informal volunteer afternoons at Ayton. Thanks to everyone who came along and shared their expertise, enthusiasm and experience. Upcoming dates for the diary are June 5th, July 3rd then August 7th from 1pm to whenever – depending on the weather :0).  […]

In permaculture, reuse and recycle isn’t just about rinsing out rinsing out containers and breaking down boxes. Nature recycles naturally,  leaves fall to the ground, decompose and provide mulch and nutrients to help the next generation of trees to grow; worms eat through decaying matter and transform it into compost […]

A quick trip to Ayton today to see how the Community Gardeners are getting along. It was very windy and quite cold but there is some blossom hanging on in there! And the cowslips are cheering the plot up now end! The seeds are starting to show, with early signs […]