CHARLES DOWDING & RICHARD PERKINS TALK NO DIG 

Isn't it a sign of the time's that people now have a list of favorite farmers..

Yes. thought the same. :)

Agree! Nice flow and respect between them.

Two of my favs as well. Throw Curtis Stone in and it would be el primo.

Tons of background noise makes it even harder to understand their accent.

boxesfarm Ditto!

Hear, hear!

I would add the RED Gardens youtuber for his serious, data-driven experiments.

Great accurate analogy. So true!

That sounds interesting, how are your seasons considering the position and climate? Do you grow all year round?

@@HladniSjeverniVjetar Ideally I should grow all year round, but I need sufficient water to irrigate during the dry season that runs January through March

@@susangichuhi I'm on the South of Europe so i can understand it partially, our summers are also pretty dry and hot. It doesn't pay off to grow anything under such heat.

Susan Gichuhi definitely a place that needs permaculture understanding. I always wonder about Africa, why doesn’t the UN build a nuclear power plant and desalinate water and pipe it in to the interior. Instead of humanitarian efforts that just pad a few peoples pockets.

TheAxisOne I’m in northern Texas and have the same climate and soil conditions. Great for making cement. 😆

Wow, Charles is A veteran!

He has his own youtube channel. Lots of great videos.

Where have you been

Hello from Corvallis. If I were you I’d dig out the clay (unless it’s silt) and get loam or some river sand to mix with leaf compost (since you live in Portland), then mulch heavily with leaves in any empty beds every fall (slugs/snails could be an issue with mulch around crops). Then rake off leaves in spring and plant (damn slugs eat seedlings in mulch, especially warm cloudy days in spring).

Put heavy card board on over winter. Like appliance boxes. Worms will break it down over winter

przybyla420 My moms lives in Sheridan Ore. she has clay. I live in Gig Harbor Washington. I have clay. Clay has tons of nutrients. You just have to unlock it. Heavy compost over heavy cardboard. Keeps the weeds down. Keels you’re soak missy and by summer you will have great soil

If stuff grow well in your soil, it has already passed the test. :)

Charles is *amazing*

He's the O.G!

Charles is certainly one of my favourite permaculture RU-vidrs, but you should also check out Dutch Farmer Moreno. He lives in eastern France and he has been putting out some really great videos on RU-vid too. He's a mine of information and his videos are really well explained.

He is a legend

Richard's method is not true no dig though.

Yeah well, "no dig" is not the end all be all of farming for a living. There's also the "living" part. Sometimes principles conflict in life, and then, if you understand the underlying principles well enough, you can decide which ones to apply and which one not to apply in any given situation. In this case, Richard explained on the channel that tomatoes are not a cash crop for him. So he's using that tunnel primarily for producing eggs and compost. Because that way, he makes money. And he does it using permaculture principles, including the no dig method. He doesn't dig up the garden that's producing his cash crop, it's no dig, with compost on top. And yes, that means the tomatoes are not produced in a no dig system, and are therefor not going to do as well. But that doesn't really matter to the viability of his business.

@@deinse82 It doesn't really matter to split hairs... tamato tomato. If tomatoes were truly a waste lost leader... they wouldn't have spent a massive amount of time stringing them all up. Richard knows the soil is crap and he is making excuses for it before a man that saw right through him. It was obvious. He'd be better off planting Comfrey to break the soil up to 10' deep if the tomatoes are a waste product. He's got to be getting enough to cover the time and wages to string up the tomatoes!

@@rjaquaponics9266 It's not a waste product, idiot. It's just not a cash crop. The purpose of a business isn't to "get enough to pay the wages". It's to make enough money to afford a middle or upper class lifestyle. The tomato plants are productive, and pay for the growing costs, but they're not a cash crop because he's in Northern Sweden, and growing in an unheated greenhouse. So the tomatoes only produce at the height of tomato season, no matter what he does. What they don't do, is earn him a middle class lifestyle in Sweden, or even pay for the greenhouse. That's why the greenhouse is shared between tomatoes in the summer and hens in the winter. It's the only way to make that greenhouse profitable...but it's not ideal, because you can't do no dig. The chicken waste has to be dug up every spring, composted, and then some of it put back in (while the rest goes on the no dig gardens as mulch). You have two options, when doing permaculture and putting it on youtube: 1. compromise, have a profitable farm, and ignore the zealots who get upset in the comment section...Richard said many times that, if he wasn't trying to run a business, he wouldn't even have chickens, greenhouses, or a market garden. He'd be growing geese, rabbits, and planting nut trees on pasture. But you can't make money that way. So he'll only do that when he has enough money saved up to retire. 2. Be idealistic, don't have a profitable business, and instead make money by preaching to the faithful about how important it is to be a zealot...all while being very vague about your business model, never letting the rubes know that your income comes from them, not from paying customers who buy your produce. Richard doesn't want to do that, because you don't convince smart, capable people to become farmers that way. They see through it. You can only be a leader to smart people if you lead by example: that means having a profitable, transparent business first, and only then becoming a leader for others. If you want to be a zealot, fine, be one. This is my last reply to you.( Wouldn't even have engaged you if I wasn't bored off my ass because there's nothing to do during the weekend in the city: everything's closed over Covid. ) You found a modern religion, and go around attacking people who treat your religion the way any religion should be treated: as a guide, to be understood and followed only when it makes sense, not a set of absolute rules to be followed mindlessly. P.S. I seriously doubt Charles Dowding is interested in being your high priest, by the way. He made a face about the system because he didn't fully understand it. If you don't know the numbers (which are all available, Richard is 100% transparent about his business), it doesn't make sense. Not Charles' fault, there just wasn't enough time to fully explain everything that goes on with a complex business. But he is obviously fine with people making compromises to make the business actually work...that's why he's on this farm, promoting it.

@@deinse82 "It's not a waste product, idiot. It's just not a cash crop." You are a very rude person who can't stand anyone having an opinion. Do you have a Hillary Clinton bumper sticker? Nice start to an otherwise stupid argument. My impressions of this video's conversation are correct and you are just trying to define/fight over terms you define. Your concepts of everything is to fit between specific deliminations which you deem correct or important and/or acceptable. In other words, you are very narrow minded and want to control everyone's every thought. Richard lures people to his videos talking about growing vegetables and then he show 10 minutes of butchering chickens. He has said he does this specifically to upset vegans. This man is not right in the head. I would trust and invest in Charles long-term proven practices before listening/learning from Perkins who only farms 4 months of the year. He has a very unique farm and not much of the recommendations he makes actually works outside his tightly manipulated Northern corner of nature. Growing tomatoes on hard pack is simply stupid! Richard is constantly fighting with nature instead of allowing nature to do the heavy lifting. That's my opinion and you can fuk off if you don't agree and/or want to fight some more. You can continue to "school" me, but I wasn't born yesterday so it would be best for you to shut F Up, before you make a complete fool of yourself! Do you really think people care what you think?

Only way to make it no dig is to stop using it as a chicken house in the winter. Since chickens dig. A lot.

Antibiotics require stable temperature (which a living body generally maintains on its own-hence why they're stored and transported refrigerated outside of bodies) and dark storage. So the minute its on your soil the ambient temperature and more importantly uv light will be degrading it instantly. Another thing to remember is, plants absorb nutrients as solubilised ions in water. i.e. they won't be absorbing complex large molecules like antibiotics from soil water.

Checking which weeds grow on your land is a soil test.

Hey great point! Well if your soils good. 😂

Harmen Boomsma LoL

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