WEED FREE MARKET GARDENING (Our no dig approach)
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Richard Perkins is a globally recognised leader in the field of Regenerative Agriculture and is the owner of Europe’s foremost example, Ridgedale Farm, Sweden. He is the author of the widely acclaimed manual Regenerative Agriculture, regarded as one of the most comprehensive books in the literature, as well as Ridgedale Farm Builds.
His approach to no-dig market gardening and pastured poultry, as well as his integration of Holistic Management, Keyline Design and Farm-Scale Permaculture in profitable small-scale farming has influenced a whole new generation of farmers across the globe. Garnering more than 15 million views on his blog, and teaching thousands globally through his live training at the farm and online, Richard continues to inspire farmers all over the globe with his pragmatic no-nonsense approach to profitable system design.
I had not heard of no dig gardens until this week. I’m 60 years old. What you say makes so much sense. I’m setting my garden up as a no dig garden this years. Thank you young man. This is very exciting to me.
How did it go?
Yeah. How did it go?
Permaculture
@@przybyla420 I worry for her with Covid and everything God knows if she ever got to start her No Dig.
@walt czarman I don't see why not
As someone who worked hard for a degree in biology... Bravo! You hit the nail on the head. Especially when discussing life, death, and intention. You have a wonderful mind.
"We try to keep alive things wanting to die and kill things that are trying to live." Very profound observation Richard. Great video as always.
Why do you pinch the tops of the tomatoes and when do you do it
@@piotree53 In the autumn it becomes too dark and cold for the tomatoes, it is better to top the plants so the energy goes to the tomatoes that can mature.
Totally agree. We have the weirdest relationship with life and death and so many never want to talk about it even when there is a need.
OMG! So scary, as i read this comment Richard said it in the video...
ILL GUARUNTEE HE DIDNT COME UP WITH THAT ON HIS OWN
THAT WAS FORCE FED TO HIM BY SOME LIBERAL ARTS TEACHER HI ON POT
Small decentralized farming will keep us all alive when the global financial system collapses. Our local grocery store now has a section for local organic produce so that's all we buy. Nice work.
How do you figure that, think outside the box for once in your life!
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I've noticed this year vegetables in your usual chain stores are shit, where as stores that are nearby and provide local small farm produce is much better quality.. I just hope the smaller farmers ar being properly compensated.
Gold Hunter most of those grocery stores are only saying the produce in those sections is from local farms but in reality it’s the same stuff in the other produce section but at twice the cost! The local grocery stores in my area do the same thing but won’t buy produce from the local farmers and we have a relative that works there and they have disclosed what they actually do and they are lying to everyone and raking in your money and everyone is falling for it!!
The only place you can get local organic produce and know that it truly is local organic produce is by driving straight to the farm and deal with the farmer directly. If you don’t do that then you deserve the pesticide ridden junk from Mexico, sorry.
@@holynickskates They are not, but they enjoy what they do and live a meaningful life. How many humans can say that nowadays?
This has to be one of the most enlightened farmers that I've ever encountered. His philosophy on life, disease and our desire to offset natures order instead of harnessing it is astounding in its simplicity.
and yet his intro has plucking dead chickens and animal agriculture. Is that the grand plan? we are above all other animals and their pain and fear?
@@cristinad5398 Is that really all you gleaned from this video?
@@cristinad5398 they sustainably raise animals too
@@cristinad5398 what a moronic thing to say after watching one of the most sensible videos on you tube
@@cristinad5398 Yes, we are above the animals! If you do not understand that, I and the rest of the world pitties you!
I get it when he says he and his wife are always disappointed when eating out. You can't get the same quality and freshness of your home farm produce. Very inspirational video.
Same here. I've almost quit eating out in restaurants entirely, because it just gets more disappointing in comparison. It can't compare.
This year I converted my garden to no till and a few raised beds. I'm 68 and have moved 12 tons of compost, wood mulch, and manure all by hand shoveling. It's looking fabulous but still have more to do. Incorporating vertical growing and companion planting. Your market garden is a master piece! Your gardening philosophy is what I am trying to accomplish. I have been tilling for years. NO MORE TILLING. I HAVE UNLIMITED FREE MULCH, LEAF COMPOST, AND HORSE MANURE.
JUST HAVE TO DO A LOT OF SHOVELING! Really enjoyed your vision and video 👍.
Witness 144 , I converted to no till 5 years ago , never looked back.
Is there a good video on how to get started?
@@thelister4910 I have watched several different videos on no till Gardening most impressive was BACK TO EDEN GARDEN there are several other videos also. To get started just figure on lots of material. I used approximately 45 cubic yards that equals about 90 tons of compost, manu, and wood mulch. This covered 3,200 sf of garden. I used a ratio of 60 percent leaf Compost to 40 percent horse manure in rows 24" wide about 48" apart 8" deep. Between the rows was 100 percent wood Mulch about 24" wide 8" deep. We're harvesting every day now and I have had a bumper crop on everything so far with very few weeds. Our garden includes arched cattle panels for tomatoes cucumbers and beans. Also 4 large raised beds. We have harvested 350 onions 140 lb potatoes, 125 quarts of green beans, over 500 cucumbers, 40 quarts of tomatoes, and still Canning more, 200 lb of zucchini, 40 lb of carrots, 30 pints of beets, yet to harvest about 60 winter squash and about 150 lb of sweet potatoes. Our first sweet corn crop yeilded 275 ears the second one is about ready to pick. A separate garden tilled plot.
It's been a great success with the new NO TILL GARDEN. It took me about 2 months to hand shovel the new garden. I would do it again.but glad I don't have to. I will be amending the soil each year with worm castings, and Compost and wood mulch. Good luck 👍 and happy Gardening
@@witness1449 Thanks for that info, but that's a LOT more compost than I thought. I'm hoping maybe I can just do one or two 50 ft raised beds first to see how it goes.
@Jeffrey Tham Following up on the new NO TILL GARDEN.
What a unbelievable year. We're not done yet but this is some of our harvest. 340 onions over 500 cucumbers, canned 45 quarts of pickles, 120 qts green beans, 36 qts of potatoes and 70 lbs for winter, about 200 summer squash and 50 winter squash canned tomatoes, sauce, juice, salsa, 150 total 36 pints of picked beets, 275 ears of sweet corn, picking 200 more in 2 days. The corn was a separate garden. Now picking our fall green beans, probably another 50 quarts. Still have to harvest our bumper crop of sweet potatoes. Estimating about 200 lbs based on my test digs.
Not bad for a new 3200 sf garden.
My carrots were my only failure. 300 carrots with no flavor. Gonna have to work on that for next year.
Happy Gardening Jeffrey
I came for the farming tips, but stayed for the philosophy.
Me too
I came for the FREE WEED but then I realised I just read it wrong.
@@Galv140577 LOL
Start it now or never
Right? I was like, damn....
“Not a good day to be a lettuce”....
loved that!
Richard you are the by far the most articulate person who explains no dig on you tube that i've seen so far, cheers for video, awesome farm btw :)
I have a 10M x 10M in my yard I have grown for 2 years and from the start my motivating focus was my extreme dislike of weeding. I moved into a 6 year old home with a back yard that the previous owner had allowed to become extremely weedy which I decided to turn into garden. Knowing full well the weeds would sprout back up if I tilled it, I covered the prospective garden with heavy cardboard overplayed thickly with dead leaves. In Spring I had a layer of fresh compost to plant in. To avoid weeds invading, I covered planted areas with paper that is just heavy enough to survive the summer; thereby avoiding tilling and allowing weeds a foothold. In the meantime, I composted everything I could get my hands on and began raising compost worms in bins by feeding them household food waste. I applied a layer of compost and vermicompost mix and it's coming along quite well in its second season. So I discovered the benefits of no- till almost accidentally through my dislike of weeding and I just feel better and better about it as I listen to everything Richard has to say.
Good for you. It sounds like you're having a lot of fun. I have had to grow in pots too many trees at my house so I don't get a lot of weeds, but I helped my sister in law with her garden. So much work the old fashioned way, constant weed pulling, or watering. I hate those weeds also!! Started to research the different methods last year and my sister in law is giving me space to grow at her house. She will love this process so much healthier and less work. This channel pops up and I see what's possible for me on a very small scale, so exciting, can't wait to get my hands dirty. LOL, now if it would only stop raining.
I must compliment you on the neatest , healthy, and most organized gardens! So many articles/gardens I see on this subject are so messy. Thank you!
In the abundance of the garden, he spots a weed the size of a quarter! This man is a wizard!
THAT is a real farmer. Not these Ag Crooks that the U.S. food supply is full of, who claim they can't do their "work" without illegal foreigners. And he's a scientist, too. And philosopher.
I'm in love and jealous of this garden😍 Clean, productive, and delicious looking!! 👀👀😍👍
This is one of the cleanest gardens i have ever seen !
no, it's covered in plastic microfibers from those sheets he uses
disgusting!
You tube working its magic allowing us to discover people like this. Nice one Richard.
I have an allotment here in the south of England and watching your video has inspired me to ditch traditional methods and focus on no dig.
Richard, you are one intelligent fella. You sir could run a country.
One of the most beautiful and organized farming I have ever seen. Great job!
Richard. Could you talk more about your garden crew management? What works what doesn't, how you coordinate and compensate your team? Thank you for sharing your knowledge, passion, and farm life.
Do you utilize swales and key line water retention?
I absolutely love my no dig garden. My partner is old school and completely poo pooed it, so when he went away for the weekend i purchased extra compost and laid all my cardbord and compost when he was away. Result= ive weeded twice, high yield peas , beans and tomatoes. Just fab.
THIS IS REALLY STRAIGHT FORWARD, WE ARE WITH YOU ,WE CAN'T EAT OUT EITHER AS EVERYTHING AT HOME IS SUPERIOR QUALITY. THANK YOU.
I've been no-till since I first heard about it many years ago. Your explanation of why to go no-till is the best I've heard yet! Thank you.
Tried in US same thing that you do. I was mechanical engineer so it was my hobby. At the beginning I used Roundup( Glyphosate) & within few years garden turned to dead field. No life in the soil, only moss, nothing wanted to grow, even weeds. I found that no till, wood chips , compost & walkway lined with cardboard boxes, newspaers, cartos cover weeds. Same results that You have. Good luck to You Man.
If you ever have to kill a bunch (cluster) of weeds. Mix salt and vinegar together and pour onto weeds. They'll completely die off in a day or two
RoundUp is a carcinogen. Nobody should ever, ever use it, even on a grass lawn. It gets tracked into the house by kids, breathed, and the pets eat it. Just quit buying the poison, people.
I'm glad to have found your channel, you are inspirational!
TOTALLY TOTALLY agree on your assessment of making everything look fresh and clean as a marketing piece and the over use of using plastic. Image is everything.
A good way to keep your garden tools clean and rust free, is to build a wooden box wide enough for your tools metal parts to fit inside. Fill the wooden box with sand, and pour your used engine oil and mix it into the sand. When you are finished with your tool, jab it into to oily sand and it will clean and lubricate the tool to prevent rust.
Make it all toxic too
simply the best regenerative TH-cam channel around. everything always looks immaculate. great reward for your efforts.
I just subscribed and have fallen in love with your work.
I am from India and hope to emulate this project as a Social exercise out here.
FREE WEED is great !!! LOL. Cheers
I am in Northern Germany. Our soil is sand. The apple trees were not doing well, when rain came it just rolled off the soil and took top soil with it. My neighbor has tons of old straw he was going to discard in his forest, so I asked him if I could have it and since then I have covered everything with a thick layer of straw. I am not a market garden but have 12 raised beds and live off the veggies I grow. the improvement in the soil is dramatic. I add a fresh layer every fall. Although I do have some weeds, there are very few. Of course, all my neighbors smiled kindly and thought I was nuts. Now the temperatures have risen dramaticall, nobody laughs any more! My shoes remain clean, the soil under the straw is alive with earth worms, I have tons of apples and veggies, even in this incredible heat. The straw soaks up the rain. The disadvantage: slugs hide under the straw and all raised beds have to be protected by wire against voles.
Market garden is looking amazing!!! Cant wait to start.
My mind broke when I saw the flower cluster from those tomatoes! Well done.
Yea me also wow
Your farm is so beautiful the picture in my mind all the time as an achievement I'd like to have for my small farm. The information is always so appreciated!
Rich so impressed by your beautiful garden farm, am from Nigeria but living in the beautiful Caribbean island of Jamaica and been trying my hands on little yard gardening and your view to farming has really set me thinking 😅😀🤣😂
I like how you don't need to wash salad greens. That's pure natural goodness.
Amazing tomatoes in the tunnel! Great video overall. I am in Texas, horticultural zone 8a. Happy
gardening!
Amazing to see how your place has come along. Exemplary work.
You have discovered for yourself the wonderful homi. I wouldn’t trade mine for all the other garden tools that I have! The best kept secret garden tool.
Nice one Richard, you're an inspiration.
Watching the govt response to covid made me want to start gardening a good family friend (detail oriented engineer) suggested this natural approach with compost and organic mulch matter. Gone natural as I could and so far less complaints than most people I hear from. You sound the most like my friend so I hope it goes as well as I think. Just now feeling better about it.
Great looking farm! Thanks for showing how it's done.
Amazing work, everything looks very nice and it's very cool to see the evolution of the project! Congratulations!
My mom has been using woodchips for years and is having wonderful results.
She is a lifelong gardener and I have seen the tremendous impact that this natural barrier has on reducing 'weeds'.
I live in the centre of Manchester(UK) and I too spend a good time digging up young tree seeds...every year lol
It's so refreshing to watch your videos. I love it!
Richard, I am so glad I stumbled upon your Chanel. Ive been tilling oh for probably 25 years, stuck in the same pattern. I used your no till approach this year and my garden looks great and produced better than ever. I used to hoe the paths to get rid of the weeds. No more hoeing. Yay. I have that much more time focusing on my produce instead of weeds. Thank you for sharing your philosophy, knowledge, passion and educating me. I love your market garden. Probably the most beautiful and most organized farm I've ever seen. Would love to find a farm like that in the eastern US. Well done. You should be very proud.
Love the flower beds. Can not wait to see those boquets.
First time listening, makes total sense to me, can’t stand using any pesticides. Only one person Kansas explains no till gardening. ❤
I can testify that no-dig really does prevent perennial weeds - but you may need to give it some time :-)
I am so grateful to you Richard for motivating us to keep going when we mentioned to you at your course in Stockholm last year that we were spending 80% of our time weeding our newly laid no dig beds. We had laid them directly on a field of couch grass in the Spring just before planting. In hindsite we should have done it in the Autumn and probably tilled the ground first. However, last September we put a new layer of cardboard and 5 cm compost on the beds and covered them with thick black plastic. We also dug a trench round the growing area and lined it with plastic to stop new couch grass re-entering from the surrounding field. We have not had a single strand of couch grass in the beds this year! And we have a lot of funghal growth which I believe is a good sign. Now we only have to remove the odd annual weed. This year I bought a tilther from you but only use it to break up the lumps in newly laid compost. It saves a lot of work - highly recommended!
First time seeing you. Beautiful farm!
Great philosophy about farming! Thanks for educating me about small farming and sharing your video experiences with the no dig system!
Thank you Richard, I am excited to do this with our medicinal/aromatic crops here in Quebec.
When you spoke about disease taking people that are not robust enough as a mere way of recycling organic matter and nutrients back into the soil, that was disappointing in a way as it is not observing the healing and defensive allies we have in plants as a way to ward off pre-mature death and suffering. Be careful in holding the raw force of natures cycles against the human capacity to heal and make wise choices. The whole exists as an expression of unity between self and community, not only to serve the soil. Best.
One of your best videos to jump start the market garden.
Thank you for sharing You have a beautiful farm. I hope to see more videos of your farm in the future.
Wow! Just found your channel / website today and feel like I've struck gold (information wise that is). I have done the no till garden method just in a city backyard before and it works beautifully. Going to try it again now that we are in the country. Love your use of peat.
Всегда знал, что огород может быть красивым, а работа в нём приятной. Теперь ещё и увидел) супер ферма! Привет из России.
Thank you for one of the most inspirational videos I’ve ever watched. I love your thoughts and philosophy!
Thank you so much for a beautiful and informative tour!
One of your most useful overview videos, Richard. Thank you.
Thank you for a great video, my family enjoyed it, and we shared it with many of our friends
im going to be doing this for my hobby farm!! Thank you
Excellent video, very impressive-you're living the dream... Great job!
One of the Best Videos yet on this channel! Very well done and great information. Thank You!
Yes, I would like to hear more about this system.
I wish this was something my family knew years ago when they'd till up a big garden and made us kids slave away at pulling weeds and watering every single day in 100 degree heat. I hated gardening when I was younger because of that, but now I love to garden because now I know how to do it right using wood chips and cardboard mulch and composting to place. I'll even compost vegetable scraps, lawn clippings and tree leaves directly in a foot paths that later gets raked up onto the garden beds at the beginning of each season instead of having a separate compost heap that needs turned. Saves so much time and energy, plus I imagine every time it rains all those liquid nutrients are already in the garden where I want them to be creating as little waste as possible.
I've even made compost living in the city for our potted plants on a very small scale just using an old cement bag and "kicking" it to mix the kitchen scraps and newspaper shreds. It worked really well lol.
Your farm is incredible! I love your videos and the knowledge you share is easy to understand. Thanks for the fantastic job!
Great Aerial shots ...lovely farm.
This is so incredible, cant wait to watch more, i love what you're doing. Hello from Australia!
Love the aerial view. Very well organized.
Excellent explanations...
Looking forward very much to purchasing your book Richard.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge,experience,& perspectives.💚
Absolutely Amazing!
I live in Cape Town, South Africa and we have Kikuyu grass, this grass is tough and it will grow through everything. I am forced to dig it out and sift the soil to get rid of it. I then use concrete slabs and large cement bricks to form a barrier so I can grow my veggies. Not easy, but it is good exercise as I am 67.
This is the best definition of weeds I have ever heard. This is my first time visiting your channel. I am so so impressed.
I love the flow, and harmony, connected with the land. I need to improve my garden practices. Thanks for the video, one of the most admired garden I've seen.
Beautiful. I like it.
From Kefamenanu-Timor Island-Indonesia.
I really appreciate your knowledge on no dig gardens... I use it here in Texas and I'm still learning but enjoy this method of gardening instead of conventional gardening... thank you
Magnificently beautiful garden! And you are a pleasure listen to/watch-you stay on track without rambling or carrying on about nonsense. This was also very nicely edited to just contain the important & useful bits. Fantastic! Thank you!!!
Just found this..I really like the way you talk through and honesty and appreciation..
I wished I lived near you, I could learn so much, WOW beautiful. this is the way farming should be like. awesome!
This was most informative, Simple as common knowledge!
Absolutely wonderful video as always. You keep me looking toward the future, this season has brought me down to a low due to poor management decisions on my part. But I can see where I have done wrong, and none of my problems are unsolvable with the information you give me. Thank you so much for all of your hard work, and smart work more importantly. Take care and best wishes to you, your family, and team.
My wife and I are so grateful to have found you and your channel! Thank you for sharing your farm wisdom and experience. We will eventually take your courses, when we find some land. Does your training information cover the best crops to start with and general basic for getting a new garden started?
Keep spreading the word, you got a great place there. I switched over in 2018 to no dig and have seen a considerable difference in weeding on older beds and paths but I've been expanding every year and being on the edge of a forest and having to clear trees and brush to make new beds is my downfall to a perfect situation. This year was the last expansion and hope to just concentrate on what I have and maintaining a wide mow strip around my garden instead of always running into new weeds and native plants all the time, they are relentless.
Thank you for this video Richard. I have just found your channel today and found it fascinating. I’ve learnt a lot and very grateful that you’re sharing your knowledge and expertise. Your farm looks incredible, you must be very proud of it
Beautiful, just beautiful gardens. You are an inspiration.
You have run such a productive farm, nice job!
Love your farm. Good information. I agree with your view of nature. Mother nature is the greatest serial killer in history. All life on earth depends on other life forms dying. The great cycle of life and death is ever present in nature. Farmers seem to recognize this more than other people less in tune with the land. Learning to work with nature is a lot easier than trying to fight against it.
Yeah, modern day farming techniques is all about man vs nature and conquering the land, doing it man's way, using big heavy machinery and not trying to simulate and work with nature
I would love to do it that way, but it sure seems like a daunting task to get that much compost to get started that big.
One Step at a time, as time passes you will get a grip of it... I'm sure Richard also started small until He got to the level he's on today
@@raydee5865 Thanks Ray! I am just so gung-ho, I want it yesterday! LOL
This is the first video of yours that I have come across and watched but I’ve watch a few more since and I’ll watch more tonight. What an inspiration and honest video. I wish this video had existed 20 years ago and i came across it then... Thanks for sharing your knowledge and time Richard. See you in a comment on another video...
Absolutely wonderful video as always. You keep me looking toward the future, this season has brought me down to a low due to poor management decisions on my part. But I can see where I have done wrong, and none of my problems are unsolvable with the information you give me. Thank you so much for all of your hard work, and smart work more importantly. Takr care and best wishes to you, your family, and team.
Loved the video friend. The symbiotic relationship between nature and ourselves as humans can never be broken. Love the philosophy. Farming and gardening can truly balance one's spirit.
Your garden is seriously impressive
Your garden is beautiful to look at and the vegetable are so clean. Can see the care and love for growing and lovely to eat.Thanks for sharing
Beautiful gardens! I'm looking forward to your book. I am sure it will be the best investment out there. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion - if we all acted like that what a wonderful world.
Your space is clean and beautiful. You are right, there are so many messy, weedy looking farms. I understand the struggle with weeds, but yours is beautiful.
Wow, this video is chock full of valuable information! Deeply appreciate you taking the time in your busy schedule to share and educate at this level, particularly as it brings you no real financial benefit. Your vision of a sustainable future for humans on this ever more fragile planet is so evident by your generosity and commitment to educating and disseminating information about regenerative farming to the world.
I often feel so overwhelmed and even resigned about the direction humanity seems to be taking at this point and the immense damage we've done to our soils, waters & biodiversity. But your videos show just how much a very few people can actually do to make a truly transformative difference. You, your wife and all who have come there to learn and create their own farms are a huge inspiration! By following what you're up to, I've come to realize that resignation is a cop out on my part and have been empowered to take action, so I thank you for that as well. It feels soooooooo much better to be inspired, hopeful and in action than overwhelmed, resigned and making excuses.
And by the way...absolutely GORGEOUS produce! Almost every time I watch one of your videos my mouth starts watering even just looking at the aerial views of the gardens. : ~ D
I'm in Love with this method. I have 6 acres to farm...and I have 2 bags of my favorite Mulch [need much more] and am going to go home (new place- forested/rather a nightmare of untouched forest for 100 years) and lay down a new - no weeding Market Garden. There are 2 sections that are open to sunlight. I will start with those for personal over winter use. Thank you so much for sharing your Garden. 😁❤
Getting ready to start up a market garden here in belgium based on your teachings. Thanks for sharing. Great video! It's very inspiring!
An amazing video! Inspiring Richard. Thank you!
What an utterly gorgeous garden and farm. Congratulations!