Amazing No Dig Market Garden Using Terraced Beds | Growing Vegetables, Flowers & Herbs for 50 Homes

In this last video of the winter permaculture mini-series, we visit the inspiring no dig market garden Glasbren, located in Carmarthenshire Wales. Abel Oakenshade and Steffan Lemke-Elms have transformed a steep, poor-quality piece of marginal land into an abundant & thriving 1 acre market garden, inspired by permaculture principles and regenerative growing. This is one of the best examples of no dig gardening I've seen, and as home growers and vegetable gardeners we can take inspiration from places like these and apply them to our own food growing projects. Find out more about Glasbren:

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[alexdetrojan]

Brilliant. Imagine what the world would look like if everyone did this.

[dayafeickert]

This is literally what I’m hoping to do in our family life. What a beautiful piece of paradise. So inspiring. Huw these videos help us so much

[ohio_gardener]

Love that philosophy - "Things are going to go well, and they are going to go not so well...and, you just have to adapt."

[StephenSmith-geqf]

Wonderful place this, very inspiring. I'm working on a terraced mountainside on very acid sand soil, where once there was a conifer plantation. I have vegetable beds, fruit trees, wild areas managed as meadow with 2 annual cuts, compost piles and manure piles . I have used immense quantities of manure, compost and wood ash to increase the soil pH to the point where I can now grow a wide range of crops. Apples, plums, cherries do well, as do strawberries. Huge blueberry crops, too. I have made 10, 000 litres of water storage with gravity feed drip watering systems. I now feed two of us entirely and make a lot of preserves for the whole year. Any excess I give away. Trouble with me is that I'm such a loner that I really can't be around a lot of people and I certainly can't work in a group so I do all this myself. Maybe there should be a specialist branch of permaculture for total introverts?

[ahermitslife]

I love your choices of other gardeners to spotlight. Very thoughtful and grounded.

[TeacherMom]

I love all that you said. You put words to thoughts & feelings that I've had for years. My husband & I ran a small farm school for children for about 8 years, which followed a similar concept. It was a remarkable experience. I look forward to continuing this project in a different sort of way now that our children are older & am happy to have found this video. I need to learn more about biodiversity to attract pollinators & improve the health of our soil. Keep doing what you do! It's a beautiful thing. Your words echoed the feelings of my heart. God bless you & yours always. 💕🙏🦋

[annakozlowski]

Humbling and Precious expression of Loving God's creation💞Thank You🌹

[TheGggnome]

Respect to this man for referring to it as a "Dry Spell" and not a "Drought"

[wilsonator]

I’ve been trying to adapt my garden to start growing more food in it whilst also using fewer fertilisers. This year, I’m planning on growing peas, potatoes, courgettes, coriander, tomatoes and chillies in the garden using containers and soil from my compost bin and basically doing it like an experiment to see what works best for these plants in the garden space available.

[suecondon]

Beautiful, absolutely love this, respect for our Earth.

[amybailey]

Thank you for another beautiful short film. It is so inspiring to see what people can achieve when we work with nature and each other.

[swash]

Luv this! And love what you do Huw. Good to see you promote others and encouraging us all to be more self sustainable.

[lydia]

I’m loving this permaculture mini series 🥰 so inspiring. Thank you

[mariannemoroney]

Just so thankful fir your videos and your love in action. Thank you

[joshsimpson]

You REALLY gotta love what you do to hand water everything. I market farmed on 10, 000sqft high intensity and it took around 1 hour to 1 hour 15 almost every day during summer just to water everything.

But hey if you dig it I dig it for you

[danielarichter]

Really amazing. I wished I could work in such a project some day and wish for them to never run out of water and power💪🏼. God bless

[RubDev]

I've watched the whole series, what an inspiration! Thanks so much for making this. Huge fan.

[hughdman]

Oh my brother, you inspire me. While we here have intermittent rain, we now have regular flooding. I will "borrow" from you to make my own garden better. Thanks you for inspiration!!!

[bearmugs]

I am really inspired to live this way, one day. Your videos are a really eye opener, into seeing how people can live off the land. In such a simple and natural way. Great job!!

[BrimwoodFarm]

Very inspiring and totally beautiful. Really love their philosophy and they've answered so many issues that many of us market gardeners and farmers face.