Category: Ayton Community Garden

Building sustainability

The vision of Abundant Borders is to build small scale food forest gardens across The Scottish Borders in order that everyone can have access to fresh, healthy, locally sourced fruit and vegetables. It has always been central to our vision that we work very closely with communities. All of the […]

Fruit trees and a herb spiral …

… the forest garden at Ayton takes shape.4 They say that Rome wasn’t built in a day – and neither is a Forest Garden. But it is also true that many hands make light work and with such a great team on the job the garden is really starting to […]

Planning the Forest Garden

We’ve been on site for a couple of months now and, in line with permaculture principles, the longer the period you can simply observe the land before altering it, the better. This gives a chance see how the land changes with the seasons. While we have done some basic designing, […]

Putting the plans into action!

The point of a plan is to organise future action. So now is the time for action. Planting espaliered apple tress next to the shed makes best use of a blank space. Making use of telegraph poles which had been abandoned on the plot to mark the boundary. Using cardboard […]

The on site storage finally arrives

Well lookee here…! This might just look like a shed, which indeed it is. But it is also another huge step in the Abundant Borders project. After all the turf lifting, digging, levelling, sand spreading, more levelling, flagstone laying, shivering and general hard work we finally have on site storage. […]

The first of our garden visits

The day started off in typically Scotland-in-February fashion, driech! It looked like we might me in the classroom for the day but then the sun came out ….. which allowed this to happen. Everybody literally mucking in! and getting the turf removed from the plot. There is nothing quite like […]

More progress …..

Well, we almost have the base for the shed! Karen and Annie spent this morning digging, raking, spreading sand, levelling and laying flags so that the shed can go up later this week. And as you can see great progress has been made and the whole site is starting to […]

It’s been a long time coming…

.. but today was the first day on site! The first job was to remove the turf from the are where the shed will sit so that a base can be laid. You can see the slabs and the bag of sand in the foreground. Though this being a […]