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WOW – what incredible comments! I will make every effort to reply over this weekend! So excited to hear all your thoughts and responses!
Huw – I’m really excited about this project, the amendments part especially. I just read an interesting book on this by Nigel Palmer. I hope that you might have some ideas on how the small backyard gardener can create some of these things without upsetting your neighbors (and wife). 🙂
This is so wonderful Huw! Thank you so much for everything you’re doing and sharing it with all of us. I can’t wait to see this project come to life!
Hi, I go raid the forest for free materials.
But my main free and cocal materials are grass and leaves branches and newspaper.
That left for a whole year made my soil black.
From dirt( dead mud) to beautiful black worm infested soil. So don't despise small beginnings.
PS, the worms will come to you. You don't need to buy them
The other you can do is have your neighbors drop off all their food waste grass clippings and fall leaves. You will Sa d them money on garbage pick up and you will have more than enough material.
For everyone building gardens, one huge natural catastrophe and you're up shit creek. Good luck hippies
Sounds like an excellent project! Can't wait to see how this journey changes opinions and practices for all of us! I think I am going to have to really look into my composting. At the moment I only have a bog standard one. I aim to become self sufficient with compost in the next 2 years or so if possible by experimenting with the techniques from this channel.
I am also curious where you got the metal material for the raised beds in the herb garden and if they are cost efficient for a student gardener?
That is just amazing and so exciting. My garden is 4m x 2.5 with an extra bed or 2 out the front and I have a 1/4 of an allotment. I am so excited to follow all your amazing ideas ❤️
Very rarely do I comment – in fact can't remember the last time that I did – but this has made me so happy to watch. The acknowledgement that some who are gardening toward self sufficiently and the homesteading lifestyle have become a little complicit in adding to peoples fears and overwhelm, as some vloggers and bloggers are making it seem like something SO big and expensive, or magic that is only for the few. It seems as soon as the first few tutorials are watched, there is a stream of hard sell for courses that enable watchers to 'join the club', or risk staying on the outside. You and others like Liz Zorab are going to such lengths to make information available to everyone, accessible and not at all scary. You clearly care about the greater impact and about the inequalities that this kind of resilience can help offset. This is so inspiring and helps people like me feel that there is more than one way to do things and that we can do this in ways that feel achievable to us and that more experienced people like you are active in helping us! Btw, a video introducing 'Team Huw' would be really interesting as you often talk about them, but we don't see them. I'm nosy!
This is what interests me in gardening, I’ve always wondered how I’d get by should society collapse. That doesn’t seem as far fetched as it once did. Even discounting that, being able to actually feed my family without the grocery would be great.
4:00 You already get that amendmends are not about feeding the plant but the soil … then why call them plant-feeds at all?
I don't really expect you to improve no-dig much, because even with a team and a few hectares, you are a drop in the ocean of people and spaces practicing (and having practiced in the past) sensible vegetable growing.
What I think you can do, and applaud you for attempting, is spread knowledge about existing and working techniques and principles to more people.
Very cool Huw! Looking forward to seeing more
I love what you're doing Huw, and what you've done in the past. Don't be angry with the cost of living though. It's a problem we've created ourselves, since it's been clear this was going to happen since the 90's. When a source is non-renewable, it means it will run out at some point. And most of us in our lives and in our politics, chose to ignore that simple fact, and continue with a life reliant on these resources (car to work, plane on holiday, everyone their own house, etc.). Now we're presented the bill.
Great channel great guy. We all need victory gardens now. We can all do it
Fantastic!!! Can't wait to see these projects develop and learn more. As a low income family any info on lower cost gardening is more than welcome too 🙂
Wow fantastic project can’t wait
It would take a tractor trailer load of compost for that operation,which most people dont have access to and if they do is quite expensive,so respectfully saying…it aint sustainable…for even a small garden,I tried so I know
This is magnificent. I am looking forward to the availability of low cost/ free gardening techniques for all who are interested in growing healthy food.
I applaud your and I am looking forward to seeing your progress.
In particular, I am interested in seeing your trials related to soil amendments. I am not a huge fan of soil amendments (compost teas, ferments) for healthy home garden soils. Not because I am a purist, but because I haven't found any semblance of a controlled trial that shows they are worth the effort.
I've done my own trials using various combinations or aerobic and aerated garden teas and found there is no noticeable improvement. All I ever add to my garden is compost (as much homemade as I can generate, supplemented by the best quality retail compost I can find).
Good luck in your efforts.
I'm with you Huw. My thinking has ended up right there. I remember as a child during the 70's America had a huge run of inflation. People flocked to the garden and living off the land. Thanks mostly to Rodale, and I'm sure plenty of old timers still alive then who lived before electrification, there were many techniques passed around on how to garden simply and effectively. I know my parents used them, still have copies of the 70's versions of Rodale's Organic Gardening and the old PBS Victory Garden book, which was my first education on that subject.
I've built on that, but really didn't come full circle till you introduced Korean Natural Farming and JADAM principles in one of your videos (Kitchen Garden Ferments I believe) , which really really opened my eyes to how self-sufficient you can actually be start to finish and make things a closed loop. I've been getting there starting my own plants and savings seeds among many things picked up or invented along the way, and I've bought some books including yours and Nigel Palmer's to add to the knowledge base and complete the circle.
On that subject, I see bits and pieces scattered across Youtube, but there is no really comprehensive and fully developed concept (though you are as far ahead on this as anyone) being presented out there on one site that covers the whole garden cycle in detail. From seed starting to growing to soil science to microbes, to tools to fertilizing to preserving the harvest to seed saving to autumn preps for next year, and of course recipes and everything in between, and the various techniques, from a total inexpensive yet self-sufficient angle. I see your vision and it's exactly what is needed. I don't think inflation is going away soon, and it's time for another back-to-the-land movement would be a godsend to people with limited income. With that has been learned from the last bout of inflation, it's even easier than back then to do way more with less.
Am excited to see what your efforts bring out.
Super excited to learn more about these projects. We're just getting started on a backyard garden, so the timing is perfect for us to learn techniques to grow our garden over the next several years. My hope is to eventually produce enough food to help distribute more food into my community. I'm definitely interested in methods that will help produce better soil for more consistent growth in the garden. Very much looking forward to future videos!
This is so awesome! I love the data based approach! ❤️
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Huw you already provide so much free information, your approach produces the most amazing veggies, at the start of this video you showed your purple sprouting broccoli wow this is to dream for mine had little head and small sprouts. I look forward to project leeks. I hope you don’t affect the outcome of your own supplies. Thanks Huw your a beautiful spirit.