10 Years No Dig at Homeacres

Showing the changes that have happened since I arrived here autumn 2012, without a masterplan. It was "space out of doors" with almost no garden, a small house which appealed to nobody, and good soil.

I thought to make a teaching garden, developed another market garden, and created a base for educating through social media.

Every year the expanding garden, the trials, and the new structures have created a more beautiful place, with great opportunities to learn, inspire and share.
Plus you see parts of Homeacres that we don't often show, and some of my no dig market gardening in the 1980s.

Filmed and edited October 2022 by Edward Dowding my son, winner of Paul Mellon Foundation award 2022 https://edowdingfilms.onfabrik.com

00:00 Introduction
01:38 How I found Homeacres
02:39 How the conservatory happened and was built
03:19 No dig HQ
03:55 My background, from a farming family, becoming a gardener
04.42 Sharing the knowledge
05:14 The first two beds serve as template for the garden - no masterplan!
06:10 Homeacres market garden 1960s, perimeter trees
06:59 Letting in the wind
07:30 Making compost, my learning and sharing
08:13 Confusion of information about how to make, buy and use compost
09:40 How the main compost making structure evolved, started with two pallets
11:32 Creating smaller structures for making compost
12:25 The cabin, why it's here and the inside
13:58 Running out of space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW2aVZkjJa0
14:48 A new opportunity
15:54 What to do with the new land?
16:14 Mulching bindweed and a New Area playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bej8vpTm1c4&list=PL7WDfop74y-k1a3lMA0ooD5m8bhiKu5sR
16:47 New shed, pond and bees
18:00 What next? Spreading no dig knowledge and the links to human health

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Music by Jacqui Vincent on Bandcamp, from her song Homeacres. https://jacquivincent.bandcamp.com/track/homeacres

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Видео 10 Years No Dig at Homeacres канала Charles Dowding