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  • @victoriaman117
    @victoriaman117 2 роки тому +65

    Everyday videos like these from innovative farmers are going to help launch the localized farm movement we need around the world. Thank you for putting this into the universe!

  • @micam.1136
    @micam.1136 Місяць тому

    "Optimizing" - this made me smile, because its so Richard! ❤

  • @elwood212
    @elwood212 11 місяців тому +4

    I’d LOVE to have the budget and Perfect land to follow this process. Farming this way looks so luxurious. A pleasure to watch.🙏💕🇦🇺

    • @Mooncricketstinks
      @Mooncricketstinks 10 місяців тому +1

      You don't need to go out the gate like this. I recommend starting with just one bed, it's very cheap to fund, and easy to manage. Work that bed for a season and the profits buy your a 2nd bed. Keep doing this and you'll only have to pay for one bed out of your pocket. Plus you'll gain experience easily, and be able to correct mistakes cheap and easy. It's heartbreaking when you realize you made very expensive mistakes.
      You can do this! Remember, buy just 1 bed. Let the profits fund the rest. 🙂

    • @ashleycampbell8767
      @ashleycampbell8767 2 місяці тому +1

      I know, I’m in the Ozarks and my land is hard and full of rocks. I can’t imagine just sticking a shovel in the raw ground lol.

  • @irishcottagerenovation9900
    @irishcottagerenovation9900 2 роки тому +34

    Absolutely brilliant, instantly prepared beds on a large scale. Doing something similar on a small scale so thank you for sharing. I believe your doing a course in Southern Ireland soon which is where I have just moved to so hopefully will get see more hands on. Thanks

  • @helenlatimer9230
    @helenlatimer9230 Рік тому +1

    Much easier than digging. Love no dig that’s how I garden now especially as I have a disability. Thank you and thanks to Charles Dowding the knowledge of no dig.

  • @permieforlife
    @permieforlife 2 роки тому +11

    I live in a semi arid, hot-dry-windy summer area. We get 22 +/- centimeters of rain, usually Oct to April, then nothing for summer. I lay down deep mulch around all the plants in March or April to retain as much winter moisture that I can - wood chip in the orchards, straw in the veg beds. I even have straw mulch in the decorative pots I have. Evaporation has decreased dramatically. I have drip irrigation that I run when the soil is dry at about 3 inches down, and deep water less frequently because my soil is now retaining more moisture. I don't have a market garden, but perhaps this will work for them for those months when water is scarce. Also, the farm looks lovely. Hope we can see an update later in the season.

    • @nickfosterxx
      @nickfosterxx 2 роки тому +3

      good to know. i'd love to find a channel that goes into no-dig in more arid environments.

    • @dovh49
      @dovh49 2 роки тому

      @@nickfosterxx Look up Ruth Stout gardening and Core gardening. She would do 8 inches of hay for her garden and after a 2 or 3 years there is so much moisture and nutrients that you don't need to fertilize or add any amendments. I think she would add one amendment when she planted, I forget what it was though.

  • @BernardMcCarty
    @BernardMcCarty Рік тому +4

    Eighty beds in two days! Amazing! No dig rocks :)

    • @anasazirose
      @anasazirose 8 місяців тому

      With 4 men, heavy equipment and delivered materials, all goes quick.

  • @tbmike23
    @tbmike23 Рік тому

    The Final Countdown playing in the background. "I see you're a man of culture as well." +1 like from me

  • @LarisSurvival
    @LarisSurvival 2 місяці тому +1

    Great video! Thank you!

  • @ADAWC
    @ADAWC 7 місяців тому

    Amazing! You made it so simple to prep!!! That would save a lot of time! LOVE to see real work in ACTION! 👍👍👍

  • @michaelheins9808
    @michaelheins9808 10 місяців тому +1

    So smart using a bed template. Really like the efficiency of this approach!

  • @rnupnorthbrrrsm6123
    @rnupnorthbrrrsm6123 2 роки тому +4

    That little piece of machinery is amazing !!!
    This whole video is so satisfying, it’s a dream for me :)

  • @KerryG-SA
    @KerryG-SA 2 роки тому +6

    Thanks for teaching us about air pruning. Great concept.

  • @fiendeng
    @fiendeng 2 роки тому +18

    This was excellent information and a fantastic project to watch!
    The real testament to this way of growing, is that a brand new just built today farm looks just like Richard's four or more years later 😆👍

  • @mikeybyrne5806
    @mikeybyrne5806 10 місяців тому +1

    Pretty much the exact same method I use as well.
    I use a wooden template for the beds, a bucket for the woodchip etc.
    just don’t use machinery because I’m doing it on allotment plots and not small farms.
    It’s time consuming and expensive at the beginning but you save so much time with regards to weeding that it makes it worthwhile a hundred times over.
    Not to mention anything you grow will grow really well.

  • @razor_beamz
    @razor_beamz Рік тому +1

    Love the eye for clean and beautiful look with sharp edges. Makes it look a lot more appealing and advertise able!

  • @DanielOlivierArgyle
    @DanielOlivierArgyle 2 роки тому +1

    The tilt shift drone footage is really cool

  • @jagsmith252
    @jagsmith252 2 роки тому +8

    This is an amazing way of doing no dig. I am really digging it👏

  • @Gene-kl1br
    @Gene-kl1br 4 місяці тому

    Depending on crop wanted . This be great for some . And it have to stick to this area for lettuce etc for years to come .

  • @carolewarner101
    @carolewarner101 2 роки тому +4

    WOW! That's amazing to get all that in in a matter of days... Fantastic!

  • @dougreynolds2813
    @dougreynolds2813 Рік тому +2

    that was sweet to watch, we'll be building our beds much like that, only with recycled boxes; your beds looked terrific, the wood frame is not something i've been doing but i sure see the benefit. i'm making a frame, i think i'll make the beds 20 ft long; start making that standard on our small farm. thanks for the instruction and the insiration.

  • @pereinarolsson3928
    @pereinarolsson3928 Рік тому

    Lovely people - lovely job done - love you all - live well

  • @FinnBearOfficial
    @FinnBearOfficial 2 роки тому

    All right Richard. Bought the book. Now hurry up and send it so I can present it in our weekly chat on youtube. I'll be the talk of the town

  • @courtneyheron1561
    @courtneyheron1561 2 роки тому

    Great work! 👍😊
    Thanks for sharing Richard! 🙏

  • @songweaver6076
    @songweaver6076 2 роки тому

    Great Project! Thanks for posting

  • @foreversettled9144
    @foreversettled9144 2 роки тому

    Thank you. Blessings.

  • @riverunner9978
    @riverunner9978 2 роки тому +2

    Amazing! Great job!

  • @karltraunmuller7048
    @karltraunmuller7048 2 роки тому +4

    Looks super-tidy, very nice 👏🏻👏🏻

  • @kileymcnamee4979
    @kileymcnamee4979 8 місяців тому

    Brilliant idea making a form!!

  • @browntownorganics2172
    @browntownorganics2172 2 роки тому

    Very cool system! Thanks for the video!

  • @detyelram2819
    @detyelram2819 Рік тому

    I love everything about this

  • @chrisgait5533
    @chrisgait5533 2 роки тому +2

    Inspirational! If I were 25 years younger..
    I built my raised beds in the polytunnel because it's on rock, we left the end of the frame open so we could wheelbarrow straight in and dump. When we were near the end we closed up the frame and shovelled the final few barrow loads.
    Thanks for yet again another amazing video.

  • @lindaferguson593
    @lindaferguson593 Рік тому +2

    Love your method of making a frame for the formation of your beds!!

  • @anabellepine9910
    @anabellepine9910 2 роки тому

    Super interesting! Thanks for sharing 💚

  • @vanessapalmer9714
    @vanessapalmer9714 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for your great video. I shall be following your other ones that’s for sure.

  • @melanieallen3655
    @melanieallen3655 2 роки тому

    Beautiful work!! Love it!!I will do the same but with a small vegie garden bed4the frame..😁lifechanging video! Cheers from Australia!

  • @davidfoster-smith211
    @davidfoster-smith211 2 роки тому

    Great project.

  • @trabzor
    @trabzor 2 роки тому +12

    Hi ! Love workflow and optimizing movements, I'd really love dedicated videos on this! On harvesting different vegetables for example would be top notch :)
    Great video as usual, Im so looking forward to set up my farm like that :) :)

  • @Fishn69
    @Fishn69 8 місяців тому

    Thanks Richard love you’re videos. This year I grew my largest onions with this method. My other beds couldn’t even compete they just were hard to keep wet.

  • @fouroakfarm
    @fouroakfarm 2 роки тому +4

    That loader is awesome, would love to have one. We have skid steers mainly in the US and this seems better

  • @williamreeder3660
    @williamreeder3660 2 роки тому

    Thank you for your videos and information

  • @rodneydlamini7364
    @rodneydlamini7364 Рік тому

    Im impressed with your patience in teaching others the nodig method,Richard,I like your videos

  • @oby-1607
    @oby-1607 Рік тому +2

    Very very nice. Would love to see future updates and how this is maintaining.

  • @petersterling5334
    @petersterling5334 Рік тому

    This is Fantastic to Watch all the Beds being Created quite quickly really by a Very Motivated team being advised by One of the Top experts in the World! Great Work!

  • @valeriehorner5854
    @valeriehorner5854 2 роки тому

    This is such a great video that I can use to show people how simple it is to start a garden. Thank you. What a beautiful Scottish farm too.

  • @dwighthires3163
    @dwighthires3163 2 роки тому +4

    I love to follow your work but this was about as fascinating as any.

  • @johnnydale6515
    @johnnydale6515 2 роки тому

    Great work

  • @growingwithfungi
    @growingwithfungi 2 роки тому

    thank you so much as always 🙏

  • @jeshurunfarm
    @jeshurunfarm 2 роки тому

    Respect from Africa 🇿🇦

  • @ashleysumner5803
    @ashleysumner5803 2 роки тому

    Fantastic, thank you!

  • @jamesrichey
    @jamesrichey Рік тому

    Simply amazing.

  • @kenrehill8775
    @kenrehill8775 2 роки тому

    You can’t beat an avant techno, great machines.

  • @louisecamm9058
    @louisecamm9058 2 роки тому

    Brilliant !!!! Thank you

  • @hannaparker5434
    @hannaparker5434 Рік тому

    I wish you were near miltonkeynes as would love your advice and help to start a garden! Finding suitable ways to grow from my powerchair is a nightmare!

  • @jacobbrizammito7187
    @jacobbrizammito7187 Рік тому

    For the love of pete. 1/3 the soil volume was relocated moved in from a peat bog.

  • @hallyaponno9698
    @hallyaponno9698 2 роки тому

    ❤️ I wish I could be there 🙏

  • @sarkamarova6195
    @sarkamarova6195 2 роки тому

    i made yesterday no dig bed for potatoes with Avant too :D best greetings from Czech republic.

  • @waterdogherbfarm2652
    @waterdogherbfarm2652 2 роки тому +1

    how would you do this on a very hard and pure clay surface? thank you for your amazing wisdom kind sir.

  • @valeriehasler3699
    @valeriehasler3699 2 роки тому +2

    Thanks for sharing - inspiring! Have you considered peer free soil (lower environmental impact)? Would you recommend soil testing prior to starting in order to calculate how much/what kind of compost is appropriate? Looking forward to following the project

  • @promagick
    @promagick Рік тому +3

    That's amazing! How long will these pass between beds last? How do you maintain the passes?

  • @georgebalaur
    @georgebalaur 2 роки тому +3

    Great job, Richard! Could you tell us, please, where do you get that immense quantity of woodchips from?

  • @gm2407
    @gm2407 Рік тому +1

    I wonder how it is coping with the extreme summer heat this year.

  • @mdouble100
    @mdouble100 5 місяців тому

    Thanks for sharing this. This is a very interesting method and has many possible applications. It should work nice here in Ontario Canada where we're in zone 4-5

  • @richstone2627
    @richstone2627 2 роки тому

    First rate. Thank you.

  • @Cjames86
    @Cjames86 2 роки тому

    Good video

  • @MrDregNET
    @MrDregNET Рік тому

    Hope to se the result after this dry summer :)

  • @kenyonbissett3512
    @kenyonbissett3512 Рік тому

    It’s great to see a different approach to the same product. From here on out, they will need to use wheel barrows. But if I remember correctly, next year is just a top dressing of compost. And by next year they will have mucho worms working everything for free.
    Best wishes to a successful growing year!

  • @Redhackle
    @Redhackle 2 роки тому

    Thank you informative.

  • @izharharoon1423
    @izharharoon1423 2 роки тому

    GREAT INFO...

  • @everglowab
    @everglowab Рік тому +2

    Super interesting! Do they have a yt-channel of their own? It would be interesting to follow their journey 😊 Thanks for a great video!

  • @hammock753
    @hammock753 Рік тому

    Charles Dowding would be proud!

  • @callyscraftycorner2463
    @callyscraftycorner2463 2 роки тому

    Very nice, would saw dust work instead of wood chips for the walkway?

  • @timmcintyre3066
    @timmcintyre3066 11 місяців тому

    As well as the cost of compost theres the woodchip too. Clean chip mulch retails for at lease $75/cube in Oz. And if you make your own compost and do your mulch then you'd better start adding in the cost of your labour.

  • @paulmarcellus8409
    @paulmarcellus8409 Місяць тому

    Did you, at an earlier time, establish your raised beds by using an 18” bucket/excavator to create the isles. The excavated soils on top of the adjacent bed and the band of wood chips placed in your shallow ditch.
    Someone used such a system and put it on UA-cam, but I now cannot find it! Lament. Might it have been you, prior to establishing surface beds as this video shows? Can you or anyone reading this help in answering this query. Thanks

  • @nicohelpdesk435
    @nicohelpdesk435 2 роки тому

    Hi. Thank you very much for this video.
    I may have failed it in the vid, but I'm curious about the surface / price / number of person / hours done to prepare the 80 beds?
    Thanks ! :)

  • @MaxIQ77
    @MaxIQ77 10 місяців тому

    Bravo

  • @keidiparts
    @keidiparts Рік тому

    Så vackert!

  • @PaulLadendorf
    @PaulLadendorf 2 роки тому +1

    What do you do if your new beds have been tilled but you want to do no till? Seems like covering with tarp and letting the weed seeds germinate and die would be the best bet. Any insights are appreciated.

  • @petesmit33
    @petesmit33 6 місяців тому

    Great if you can source the compost and woodchip.........

  • @gallegoferro1
    @gallegoferro1 Рік тому

    Hello Everybody,
    hello Richard
    Your work is amazing.
    I have been working with your system for 3 years already. Working with mini orchards for restaurants.
    Now i would like to create a bigger orchard
    I would like to simplify the preparation of the beds
    My idea is to make a big bed ( a big blanket) of 15 cm of compost with a tractor. And make it without wood chips paths.
    I believe that you can still walk in the compost. And I believe preparation can be much more easy and quick.
    When the compost start to be more humid, then I can add some wood chips if I need it, but weeds will be all above the big blanket.
    I have never tried, but I would like to try.
    Have you ever tried?
    Thanks in advance,
    Lucas

  • @SAGFGIMOB
    @SAGFGIMOB Місяць тому

    Richard, amazing work?
    I have a question: how many metric cubics of woodchips and compost was used on this 80 raised beds?
    Thanks in advance

  • @tinaantila1968
    @tinaantila1968 11 місяців тому

    Could you do this with sunflowers?? I started a small sunflower farm, and I hate all the weeding that needs to be done. I absolutely love this video, thank you, from Canada ❤️

  • @sebastianlomonaco6149
    @sebastianlomonaco6149 11 місяців тому

    Nice work. My question for you is...what machinery will you use when its time to top up the soil now that every row is tight together?

  • @lies9259
    @lies9259 2 роки тому

    Hi, thank you for all the info. We are starting a lavender farm in Italy (also olive grove, but that is of course already existing). Do you think this could also be a good method to start our lavender field?

  • @knycol08
    @knycol08 Рік тому +1

    Good video... but if you have your farm I the tropic zona that sistem don't work...

  • @amatonasturzio3806
    @amatonasturzio3806 Рік тому

    How many yards of compost and woodchips were used to make this beautiful garden?

  • @jasonhatfield4747
    @jasonhatfield4747 Рік тому

    I love the simplicity of this method and I have used it for starting beds in our small family garden. But, on a large scale, it is very expensive to source so much compost and soil and hard to find quality stuff. I also don't think such a thin layer of cardboard would be enough to suppress weeds and perennial grasses here.
    I'm starting a 1/4 acre market garden this year and I'm torn between this method and the more traditional method of first tarping, then working the soil with a tiller/broad fork/harrow and adding a thin layer of compost after that. Then going with a no-dig approach after the beds are established by just adding compost each year and minimal surface tilling for bed prep.

  • @danielhayes137
    @danielhayes137 3 місяці тому

    Is there anywhere i can see what this place looks like now? And some pros and cons?

  • @derekk2708
    @derekk2708 Рік тому

    Great Content. Thanks ; )

  • @oldman1111
    @oldman1111 4 місяці тому

    Ugh, now I want to rent one of those.

  • @ElWilkins_
    @ElWilkins_ Рік тому

    How much soil did you use? How much wood chips did you use?

  • @ronholbrow3650
    @ronholbrow3650 2 роки тому

    How high are the frames ? What will be the depth of soil in the frames

  • @tasoskar9693
    @tasoskar9693 2 роки тому

    I want to ask what is the growing soil that you put firs? Is it basically a peat moss mix?
    I am curious because I have some fears of using compost in hot and dry Greek weather. Because compost can be hydrophobic really fast hear

  • @Roman-rz3qj
    @Roman-rz3qj 2 роки тому

    I still think aeration is important before adding compost/amendments. That tractor is compacting the soil.

  • @carolinavazquez1292
    @carolinavazquez1292 Рік тому +1

    How long is each section? And down here in south mississippi USA should I build the beds up higher cause when it rain it rains?

  • @tihomirmezlichev5734
    @tihomirmezlichev5734 Рік тому

    I just made my first beds now . Do i need to cover them with plastic to protect them from the snow and the heavy rain in the winter ?!?

  • @buenhabito961
    @buenhabito961 2 роки тому

    2 Problems I found in paralell S 56° (Buenos Aires) 1 is de Cynodon dactilon grass is too srtong rixome and go true de cardboard in a feuw days. 2 are ants in wood chips... they love it and seatle down under itś... bouth are hard to deal, with out poisons

  • @Kamurirubey13
    @Kamurirubey13 9 місяців тому

    How long would we have to wait before transplanting

  • @meem666
    @meem666 10 місяців тому

    What is the size of one bed, please, and how much compost is needed for it? Thank you.

  • @LARUOTABIOdal
    @LARUOTABIOdal 2 місяці тому

    Hi Richard, I wanted to ask you the weight of the corrugated cardboard you put under the beds.