https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/a23ffc08-21d9-4176-a67a-c5010b265631 Four Acres Farm with Kate Forrester and her business partner Molly Taylor. They grow and sell no dig vegetables, encourage masses of wildlife and love to share the farm with children and grown-ups. Enjoy the beauty, a wonderful feel-good story. Find out more on Four Acre Farm's website https://www.four-acre.farm/ Kate worked at Homeacres 2019-21, after leaving her career as a chef in London. We see how her new farm looks, and Edward was filming with a broken wrist! The first video was August 2022 https://youtu.be/QP4pT2JTK6E Her partner is Mitch McCullough @MitchGrows. He interviewed me for a no dig FAQs video in September 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcl_n8Xg684 Mitch is writing a book about seeds and vegetable provenance, from different parts of the world. With descriptions of their flavours. 00:00 Introduction - with Kate 01:04 Volunteers – building a community, selling, and keeping it local 01:58 No dig, lack of weeds, and contrast with surrounding landscape 03:03 A focus on growing greens 03:40 The climate, and spinach success during freezing weather in 2023 04:41 The compost structure, and plans for a wormery 05:37 Compost and soil 06:30 Harvesting - time taken 06:51 Propagation 07:17 Tomatoes in the polytunnel, and mulching 07:53 Polytunnels - size/price comparison 08:47 Growing and selling tomatoes 09:58 Kale under fleece against flea beetle (rape fields nearby), and watering 11:01 Mitch Grows - some projects, including old varieties of squash 11:40 The orchard 12:39 Plans for kids’ veg garden and more beds for herbs 13:13 Wildflowers, and wild carrot 13:43 Goldfinches and barn owls 14:18 More beds planned to be close to outdoor kitchen, and plans for ‘harvest and cook’ days 15:06 Celtic calendar celebrations 15:32 Progress since previous year and more on plans for the future 17:45 Introducing Molly 18:55 Bird hide 19:18 Moth trap nights 19:47 Dead hedge, the benefits 20:08 Transforming the land from empty field 20:36 Wildflowers and grasses, the benefits 21:12 Rewinding area, and gorse 23:02 Hazel coppice to encourage hazel door mice 24:06 Outro Filmed by Edward Dowding at Four Acre Farm, 20th August 2023 https://edowdingfilms.onfabrik.com/portfolio See my latest book No Dig for growing details https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product/no-dig/ You can join this channel by paying a monthly fee, to support our work with helping gardeners grow better, and to receive monthly videos made only for members: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB1J6siDdmhwah7q0O2WJBg/join #growyourownfood #nodig #marketgarden #marketgardening #healthyfood Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:49:01 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://stream.echo6.co https://stream.echo6.co/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/a23ffc08-21d9-4176-a67a-c5010b265631 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://stream.echo6.co/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.