Grow Your Own Food

No experience is needed — Claire teaches complete beginners from the very first seed, explaining details like how deep to sow, how firmly to press compost and why labelling matters. She retrained from a career in television and openly shares the mistakes and challenges she's faced, so you learn what really works rather than an idealised version. If you already grow some food, you'll still pick up refinements like multi-sowing, successional sowing and avoiding leggy seedlings.

Yes — Claire spent most of her growing career producing food in small city spaces and is passionate about container growing. She shows you how to raise seedlings on a kitchen table or windowsill, why you should rotate trays so plants don't become leggy, and how to choose dwarf tomato and short carrot varieties that thrive in pots. All you really need is a sunny spot, plus regular watering and an organic seaweed feed every 10 to 14 days for container crops.

Claire walks you through her essential toolkit: seed modules, a trowel, secateurs, a watering can with a rose, peat-free seed and potting compost, labels and, of course, seeds. She's clear about what's genuinely necessary versus nice to have, explaining that a propagator, grow light, harvest knife or dibber are optional extras. She also shows how to reuse toilet roll tubes for peas and beans, punnets to hold them upright and cut-up yoghurt pots as free plant labels.

Claire grows entirely organically and peat-free, teaching you to work with natural processes and build a balanced ecosystem rather than trying to control your plot. She combines hands-on demonstrations filmed in her East Sussex garden with a real understanding of small-space and city growing, plus a focus on unusual, beautiful varieties like purple kohlrabi and purple-podded beans you'll rarely find in shops. It's a warm, personal approach that treats a vegetable patch as being every bit as gorgeous as an ornamental garden.

All of our courses are online, meaning that you are able to watch them whenever and wherever suits you best. There is no beginning or finish date and they’re completely self-paced so that you can stop, start and pause each lesson to fit around your own schedule. You can begin watching a course as soon as you purchase it – simply login to your Create Academy account whenever you have a quiet moment to yourself.

Yes! You can rewatch each lesson as many times as you’d like. If you have purchased an individual course, you will have lifetime access to it, so you’ll be able to rewatch and dip in and out of each lesson forever - perfect if you have a busy schedule! If you purchased an annual subscription, you can enjoy full access to all of our lessons until you choose to cancel.

If you have purchased an individual course, you will have life time access.

An annual subscription gives you access to all courses for 12 months from the date of purchase, including those released during that period. Our subscriptions are set to automatically renew after 12 months so you have the benefit of uninterrupted access! If you choose to cancel, you will no longer have access to the platform.

Below each video lesson you’ll find the link to download the corresponding workbook pages. If you’d like to download the whole workbook at once, simply navigate to the very first lesson in the course and click 'Download Workbook'.

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Yes – all our courses are available internationally. Please note, all our courses are taught in English.