Category: Sustainable Growing Courses

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, […]

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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 […]

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Garden Visit

The site at Ayton gives us a chance to build a forest garden from scratch. Today we all got the chance to see Britain’s oldest intentional forest garden! The garden has been built over the last 25 years by trainer Graham Bell and his wife Nancy at their home in […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Changing the world a day at a time – Day One!

The tagline for Graham Bell’s website is “Changing the world one day at a time” and we are delighted to have Graham taking our first ever training day. And it is absolutely fantastic to have a group of such lively, enthusiastic, bright-minded folk sharing day one of the journey with […]

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