Published: 17 February 2012
by PAVAN AMARA

SIX Islington teenagers will be starring in their own television programme after finding inspiration in a rubbish skip.

The boys, who are all from estates around Caledonian Road, have been spending their weekends learning to grow fruit and veg in the skips to sell them on to local businesses.

Now the CBBC documentary series My Life will be devoting a Home Grown Boys episode to the teens’ innovative thinking, as it follows them trying to hit a £400 profit target in five days.

The show sees the boys fall short of their target, but still manage to flog plenty of food and homegrown mint tea to nearby restaurants, and receive business advice from a top marketing agency.

Leonie Hutchinson, executive producer of Home Grown Boys, said: “Business and gardening are not the two most exciting words to entice an audience but throw in six young lads from the Cally Road estates and you have ambition, determination and a cheekiness that is infectious.

“If us adults approached business with their humour and ‘don’t care what anyone else thinks’ attitude, the daily commute, grind of the office and pressures of deadlines would be a thing of the past.”

• Home Grown Boys will be shown on Wednesday, February 22, on BBC1, at 4.30pm