Building the Climate Action Garden

We use a lot of Climate Friendly practises around the Grow West Fife community garden, but it's not always easy to know where to start at home.

Climate Action Fife has produced a Climate Friendly Gardens guide which aims to support you to grow sustainably and reduce carbon when gardening. It highlights ten ways you can make your garden more sustainable and ready to face a changing climate. As part of the Climate Action Garden network, we are building a Climate Friendly demonstration kitchen garden and documenting the steps we take.

Check out our progress below and keep an eye on our Facebook page if you'd like to join in.

Introduction

Welcome to the Grow West Fife Climate Action kitchen garden!

Ok, so it's not a kitchen garden yet but take a look at what we are planning over the next few months.

Covering the ground

This week we have been preparing the plot for our build. We've been removing plants and laying cardboard to help suppress weed growth.

Climate Action Fife: Tip 9 (Keeping soil healthy)

Building the foundations

In this video we look at low carbon options for laying the foundations of our garden. This includes a solid base for our shed, paths between our growing spaces and the growing spaces themselves.

Climate Action Fife: Tip 10 (Low carbon materials)

We build a shed!

We challenged ourselves to build a shed out of reclaimed materials and for less than £50. We succeeded!

Climate Action Fife: Tip 6 (Reduce, reuse, recycle)