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!

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

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

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

11 ай бұрын

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

3 ай бұрын

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.

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

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.

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 😆👍

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

Thanks for teaching us about air pruning. Great concept.

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

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

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

@anasazirose

9 ай бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@dovh49

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

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

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

Looks super-tidy, very nice 👏🏻👏🏻

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.

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.

The tilt shift drone footage is really cool

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

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

Great work! 👍😊 Thanks for sharing Richard! 🙏

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.

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 :) :)

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

Amazing! Great job!

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

Great Project! Thanks for posting

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

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.

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

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

I love everything about this

Super interesting! Thanks for sharing 💚

Thank you. Blessings.

Very cool system! Thanks for the video!

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!

Brilliant idea making a form!!

Respect from Africa 🇿🇦

Thank you for your videos and information

Simply amazing.

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.

thank you so much as always 🙏

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!

Fantastic, thank you!

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

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

Great project.

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

Brilliant !!!! Thank you

Great video! Thank you!

Great work

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

Thanks a lot for this video and time. Interested in understanding on the cost of creating this no-till bed.

First rate. Thank you.

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

Thank you informative.

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

❤️ I wish I could be there 🙏

GREAT INFO...

Good video

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

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

Så vackert!

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

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

Hope to se the result after this dry summer :)

Great Content. Thanks ; )

Bravo

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

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

Charles Dowding would be proud!

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

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!

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

Richard, I love this concept. We are implementing this in our gardens. My question is what do you do with the beds in the winter and then to prepare for spring? Thanks

@VanillaAttila

2 жыл бұрын

Cover them with non woven landscape cloth

@VanillaAttila

2 жыл бұрын

Or plant winter rye ?

@DB-pm2vy

11 ай бұрын

Plant field beans, kale and spinach. Beds should never be empty. Protection may be necessary but the soil will benefit from being used.

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.

You said 80 beds but I counted 4 rows of 19 = 76. Someone's been gypped! 🤣

Fantastic, thank you for the brilliant job you're doing. ... I just do not like cardboard, as it may have lots of bad stuff in it. I was looking for an alternative material for quite a long time now and finaly decided to give the mulchpaper of magaverde a try. I don't know, if it will really work, but it's worth a try (it's only 40m² beds in total) ... maybe, this helps others, that are looking for an alternative as well.

@porkchopexpress6969

11 ай бұрын

How did it work?

@Dutlerveili

11 ай бұрын

@@porkchopexpress6969 could have been better, but because I first removed the top 5cm with the spade and combined it with a thick layer of compost, it worked ok.

Ugh, now I want to rent one of those.

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 ! :)

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.

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.

Perfect! Just what I was wishing for

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 ❤️

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?

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

time moves slow in the background can't not hear a masterpiece like that 8:05

6:01 what a great piece of machinery. What is it and is it available in the States?

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?

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

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

Why did you add soil on top?

where do you get the woodchips?

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

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

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 KZread, 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

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

Richard I would love your feedback on my beds. I know you are super busy. its ridgedale inspired+ 😁🌱💚🙏✨