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!
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. 🙂
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
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.
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 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.
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 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 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!
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.
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 :) :)
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.
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
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!
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!
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
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.
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 ! :)
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 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.
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 TH-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
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.
Excuse me if I may I would like to ask a question. The tool that you use to make that trench, that flow channel, where is it located? Does anyone know what it's called and what it is? I could use it very much. Thank you and good farmer year to all and sundry
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 ❤️
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
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
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.
My best guess...10m x 0.75m x 10cm =0.75m3 per bed times 80 beds is 60m3 say 50/50 soil compost is 30m3 of each. He mentions 6 bags of compost per bed, where I am they typically come in 50L bags, so 300L or 0.3m3 so a little shy of half a single bed volume. Between beds is (approx by eye) 0.25m so 1/3 of beds, so 20m3 plus the pathways, say 1m x 130m x 10cm =13m3, grand total 33m3
"Optimizing" - this made me smile, because its so Richard! ❤
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!
I’d LOVE to have the budget and Perfect land to follow this process. Farming this way looks so luxurious. A pleasure to watch.🙏💕🇦🇺
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. 🙂
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.
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
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.
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.
good to know. i'd love to find a channel that goes into no-dig in more arid environments.
@@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.
Thanks for teaching us about air pruning. Great concept.
So smart using a bed template. Really like the efficiency of this approach!
Love the eye for clean and beautiful look with sharp edges. Makes it look a lot more appealing and advertise able!
This is an amazing way of doing no dig. I am really digging it👏
That little piece of machinery is amazing !!!
This whole video is so satisfying, it’s a dream for me :)
WOW! That's amazing to get all that in in a matter of days... Fantastic!
Lovely people - lovely job done - love you all - live well
Amazing! You made it so simple to prep!!! That would save a lot of time! LOVE to see real work in ACTION! 👍👍👍
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.
Eighty beds in two days! Amazing! No dig rocks :)
With 4 men, heavy equipment and delivered materials, all goes quick.
Love your method of making a frame for the formation of your beds!!
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 😆👍
Very very nice. Would love to see future updates and how this is maintaining.
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!
Looks super-tidy, very nice 👏🏻👏🏻
Im impressed with your patience in teaching others the nodig method,Richard,I like your videos
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.
Swedish
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.
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.
That loader is awesome, would love to have one. We have skid steers mainly in the US and this seems better
I love this method ,I am going to use it ,from South Africa.
The tilt shift drone footage is really cool
I love to follow your work but this was about as fascinating as any.
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 :) :)
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 a lot for this video and time. Interested in understanding on the cost of creating this no-till bed.
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.
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
Cover them with non woven landscape cloth
Or plant winter rye ?
Plant field beans, kale and spinach. Beds should never be empty. Protection may be necessary but the soil will benefit from being used.
Did he say compost on the bottom level and soil on top?
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!
I wonder how it is coping with the extreme summer heat this year.
The Final Countdown playing in the background. "I see you're a man of culture as well." +1 like from me
Brilliant idea making a form!!
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?
Depending on crop wanted . This be great for some . And it have to stick to this area for lettuce etc for years to come .
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!
Great job, Richard! Could you tell us, please, where do you get that immense quantity of woodchips from?
I use a wood chipper and dead trees
That's amazing! How long will these pass between beds last? How do you maintain the passes?
I love everything about this
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
You can’t beat an avant techno, great machines.
Amazing! Great job!
This was really great and insightful, thank you 🌻
How many yards of compost and woodchips were used to make this beautiful garden?
Great if you can source the compost and woodchip.........
Thank you for your great video. I shall be following your other ones that’s for sure.
where do you get the woodchips?
Good video... but if you have your farm I the tropic zona that sistem don't work...
i made yesterday no dig bed for potatoes with Avant too :D best greetings from Czech republic.
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
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.
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 ! :)
Is there anywhere i can see what this place looks like now? And some pros and cons?
Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
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.
How did it work?
@@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.
Great video! Thank you!
how would you do this on a very hard and pure clay surface? thank you for your amazing wisdom kind sir.
How long before you can start planting deep rooted plants like tomato plants. Need to get throught the cardboard.
Hi Richard, I wanted to ask you the weight of the corrugated cardboard you put under the beds.
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 TH-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
Why did you add soil on top?
so does the cardboard keep the grass out and also let the roots of the veggies enter the soil throught the cardboard?
What is the size of one bed, please, and how much compost is needed for it? Thank you.
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 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.
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?
What is the quality of the cardboard used in grams per m2 and it’s thickness in mm?
How long would we have to wait before transplanting
Great Project! Thanks for posting
Excuse me if I may I would like to ask a question. The tool that you use to make that trench, that flow channel, where is it located? Does anyone know what it's called and what it is? I could use it very much. Thank you and good farmer year to all and sundry
How do you manage birds scratching for worms and messing everything up!?
❤️ I wish I could be there 🙏
Where did you get the soil portion of the project? Trying to figure out how we would get ‘weed free soil’. Thank you!
this weed free soil got me confused
Buy it from your local gravel/compost/sand/soil dealer. In bulk/truckload or in bags; I don't think there is much of a market for weedy soil.
Any aggregate merchant sells sterile top soil.
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 ❤️
Great project.
Very nice, would saw dust work instead of wood chips for the walkway?
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
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
Brilliant! Those rolls of cardboard, where to buy for OK money? (Sweden based)
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.
interesting way of growing, wont the cardboard inhibit the roots growing down into the soil below?
Also my question.. is 10cm really deep enough for most plants to root successfully?
@@meghanconnolly9956 no it's not enough
The cardboard will soften with moisture, roots just push through. Worms love cardboard.
How wide are the pathways?
They look 12” with a a cross section of 3’ paths. Am I correct?
Isnt the cardboard going to get wet and decompose anyway?
Super interesting! Thanks for sharing 💚
Great work! 👍😊
Thanks for sharing Richard! 🙏
Looks great. How much compost, soil and woodchip did you use to make these beds?
good question, seconded. looks like he did a fabulously accurate job of calculating quantities!
My best guess...10m x 0.75m x 10cm =0.75m3 per bed times 80 beds is 60m3 say 50/50 soil compost is 30m3 of each. He mentions 6 bags of compost per bed, where I am they typically come in 50L bags, so 300L or 0.3m3 so a little shy of half a single bed volume.
Between beds is (approx by eye) 0.25m so 1/3 of beds, so 20m3 plus the pathways, say 1m x 130m x 10cm =13m3, grand total 33m3
@@paul42592 Thanks
@@paul42592 Good estimate, but it looks like less than half is compost; I'd say 1/3 at most.
Simply amazing.
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 ?!?
Beautiful work!! Love it!!I will do the same but with a small vegie garden bed4the frame..😁lifechanging video! Cheers from Australia!
Why not bisturb the 2 inches the area for the beds?
What spec is that cardboard? I tried with builders paper and quack grass grew right through.
6:01 what a great piece of machinery. What is it and is it available in the States?
So the beds are 75 cm width and the length that suits your garder?
Are the frames 10 meters long in total? So if the bed is 30 meters long, do you have it at 10 meters to make it a multiple of 30 meters?