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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[@HuwRichards]

This is last video of the winter permaculture mini-series where we visit Glasbren Market Garden. What an amazing place this is! If you want to find out more about Glasbren here is a short-film on my other channel 'Regenerative Films': kzbin.info/www/bejne/qabTdoqeeqd9jrc 🌱

[@luanllluan]

You have become a great filmmaker, your sense of style and cinematography is awesome! Hope to see more from this side of yours!

[@rominaadimari8723]

Please!!! Spanish subtitles!!! Miro sus vídeos y me encantan, puedo seguir los bastante pero mi inglés no es muy bueno y estaría genial que pudieran poner subtítulos en Español!!!! Thank you!!!!

[@nolslifegren]

How much profit do they make ?

[@biancadelien6617]

Great video, thank you! How do they keep the rainwater in the tanks from going bad in the heat of the summer? (Algea?)

[@reginaldanglin4264]

Totally understand and agree with you 💯

[@alexdetrojan4534]

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

[@teresagreen81]

Makes me think different about how to handle the new property we are on.

[@Maerque]

That would be the dream..so many problems would be solved

[@brucedownunda7054]

Paradise ?

[@varrantgreen4259]

Now imagine how with just a little bit of rain harvesting land forming. You can do this pretty much anywhere even as low as 2 inches of rain on average a year. No one would ever go hungry and land that is completely useless is prosperous and giving so much back for the effort we put into it. (I want to know more about the terraces and what's the maximum steepness and still have an insanely productive garden)

[@Happy-lk9yr]

Let's do IT!!!!!!!alltogether

[@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."

[@dayafeickert6752]

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

[@HuwRichards]

Awh thanks so much for this kind comment and I wish you so well with your projects

[@robertoneill3124]

Trying to get a group together to do this in Wales... Anyone want to get involved?

[@geethascharlu5622]

Am also by Feb 2023

[@TheGggnome]

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

[@tweetiethebird]

Brilliant outlook

[@pablopastor508]

Until he said climate change....I'm out

[@CorwynGC]

@@pablopastor508 Truth hurts?

[@Stef.with.an.F]

Well dry spell and drought is not exactly the same thing - A dry spell is defined as a period of 15 or more consecutive days with less then 1 mm of rainfall on each; and drought is a period of 15 or more consecutive days with less than 0.2 mm on each

[@fionaanderson5796]

@@Stef.with.an.F as an Australian I am laughing soooo hard at that definition. (And I live in the cooler, moister SE, less than 100km from the coast, where we get both frontal and orthographic rainfall [about 600-700mm per year], not in the dry inland.) Your definition of drought is my definition of a wet summer. While they are unusual, we do get summers where there is ZERO rain from late November til some time in March.

[@ahermitslife3684]

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

[@HuwRichards]

Awh thank you! Hoping to do the same again next year.

[@StephenSmith-ge1qf]

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?

[@NJ-xp4eb]

Did you try grapes vines around the previous conifer area? Just interested as I am planning to plant on similar soil.

[@yukey2587]

Permaculture is a design science applied to your needs. You can be alone. You can be a hippy-dippy solstice worshipper. You can be a family with a huge family. You can run a profitable business. You can be a prepper setting yourself up for the apocalypse. Permaculture had no spiritual or political agenda.

[@zillie8167]

I know what you mean about working alone - have you seen this video? It certainly made me feel more at ease with the way I am... kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIDXqoCclJaontE

[@davidgladman6809]

Fabulous. What a great guy. Excellent what they are doing. 👍👍👍

[@annakozlowski1774]

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

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you so much for watching Anna!

[@lydia9900]

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

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you so much! Hope to do the same again next year!

[@credenza1]

I love the names. They are like something out of Tolkien.

[@TeacherMom80]

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. 💕🙏🦋

[@user-dn7vb8nc9b]

I would like to point out that I heard a lot of wise words in this video. There are no limits to human knowledge and the desire to be in harmony with nature and oneself. Thanks for shearing it.

[@MinxInSinx]

Permaculture - Let's dig in 👨‍🌾❤🤤

[@swash333]

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

[@cristinabolba5079]

I also apreciate the sense of unity with the other farmers and cooperation vs. the agressive competition that is rooted in society.

[@wilsonator2008]

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.

[@suecondon1685]

Beautiful, absolutely love this, respect for our Earth.

[@joshsimpson10]

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

[@RubDev]

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

[@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.

[@amybailey7331]

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.

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you very much Amy, really pleased you enjoyed it and you're absolutely right😊

[@SadieScarlett]

Loving these videos Huw. Big fan of your cinematography, understated yet so picturesque!

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you so much Sadie

[@foziahramli3001]

Being connected with soil ,air and nature surrounding you can be therapeutic as well....and you tend to appreciate your food even more and being grateful at the same time....

[@IngeniousDimensions369]

Love the “Choose Love” shirt.💯💯

[@carolineholland4178]

This is so beautiful it has brought tears to my eyes. I so needed to surrender and have a good cry. I has reminded me how grateful I am to have a beautiful allotment and I get that emotional connection with the earth and nature and the sense of community. Thank you.

[@falkasete]

Absolutely lovely place

[@madhouse8301]

Great idea having a network of seed banks!

[@HuwRichards]

Yeah I hope this will inspire more communities to consider this :)

[@bearmugs1408]

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!!

[@felineth56]

Great philosophy of life!...What a beautiful exemple!

[@etiennelouw9244]

Great garden, I started my garden in 2021, but we have kikuyu grass in Cape Town, South Africa and it is a tough grass that spreads fast so I have had to dig it out and make my veggie beds with concrete slabs and large cement bricks to keep it out. I even sifted the soil to remove the grass. Hard work and good exercise as I am 67 years old, my harvest for a starter garden has been good and I had a cherry tomato plant that grew over 1,8m high and I picked over a 100 tomatoes off it. I even planted 6 trees (Avo from a pip, Moringa from seed, Guava, Mulberry, Lemon and Fig from cuttings) and am expanding the beds to make larger crop.

[@youthsava]

When you take care of the nature, nature takes care of you😊

[@HuwRichards]

Precisely👌

[@mariannemoroney2922]

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

[@ioanarom1970]

thank you for the beautiful and insightful summary of how you grow food.

[@danielarichter2453]

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

[@czmiccommando537]

These gardener profile videos are top notch Huw! The videography and editing are well done.

[@ExploreProTech]

Growing food in this way is life, it's abundance, it's space to breathe. It's rejuvenating the whole local community and giving people something to believe in again. It's hope for a better future and the reason for getting up in the morning. That's why I love agri-preneurs. One entrepreneur to the world is like a well-spring to this garden. Amazing work - keep it up guys! You're saving the global economy - one small garden at a time!

[@alexandreverhoef7420]

One of your best videos. A lot of us can relate to gardening on a small scale. I can’t say I watched them all but I’ve watched a few. Well done. Very inspiring. Keep up the good work.

[@UnTangledTV]

Love the philosophy of sharing that you follow.

[@Happy-lk9yr]

Thanks you for giving a voice to these wonderful people....this kind of people are thé true Guardians of humanity....Nature doesn't need us....but WE depend on her wellbeing for our survival...these people are showing thé Way.....WE need thousands of small Farms Like These....to Stop thé massive destruction caused By intensive and monoculture Farming..... Blessing ngs🌳💝☀️🐦🎶🌻🐝🌱💚

[@holly.grows.wilder]

love seeing stories of food grown in wales in areas that "only grass and sheep grow" !

[@dirtpatcheaven]

Great videos you are putting out. Have you heard of Jack First? He is in Wales (if I remember right). He grows all year round in hotbeds. Would love to see a video from his new place. He is using seaweed as a composting agent.

[@ArtByEmilyHare]

Ooh , what is a hotbed?

[@bodgerliz5138]

@@ArtByEmilyHare Have a look at his book "Hot Beds: How to grow early crops using and age-old technique.

[@ArtByEmilyHare]

@@bodgerliz5138 thank you!

[@shannonpitt8281]

Thank you for this series you’re doing. They are fascinating.

[@HuwRichards]

My pleasure Shannon! Hope to do the same again next winter :D

[@mijenoutromp2209]

Gardening is my therapy. Glad to see so many others nurturing their greens

[@mmarrotte101]

Huw, this series has been incredible. You guys do such good and crucial work - thank you for taking the time to produce such helpful and inspiring stories!

[@lulugr7184]

you are the heroes saving our world❤

[@Kkffoo]

Fascinating, and a beautiful place.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Beautiful garden. We need more of this in the world. Small local farms supporting 20-100 families all extremely local. This is how we pull KMs off the transportation/agriculture network.

[@DonostiGros]

Love it. Best 12minutes 58seconds spent in a long time.

[@lisathiedeman4487]

What a beautiful group of people! The food grown here must be full of love 🥰

[@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!!!

[@seamusdebuitleir20]

Warm greetings from Ireland.tanx for video 🤝🙏🏻

[@cobococreek1224]

Hmmm, just about as close to ideal as I can imagine, great inspiration!

[@jenniesallotmentgarden2900]

Thanks for sharing the story of this wonderful place. I'm enjoying seeing some sunshine in the middle of a cold winter 😊

[@LaVikinga108]

What a beautiful, inspiring video! Thank you!

[@Shambala_G]

Work how you want with what tools and method give you the most joy.... this guy understands that when you truly care, with love as your primary intention, work ceases to be a 'job' and joy, inspiration, meaning and beauty unfold before your very eyes. The words 'job' and 'hard work' are deeply imbedded in our consciousness... like an irritating splinter that, with a little care and effort, can be gently squeezed out 🌻

[@singlemomlivinginthemounta7177]

This is beth from Philippines.i love farming.since I was born in this world farm is the work of my parents.now it's my work to survive too.very good to eat your own vegetable.this vedio is amazing.

[@sarahjohnston1576]

I am loving this series featuring other gardeners. It’s inspiring, educational, and hopeful.

[@yolandaanderson8556]

I watched both videos. Such an inspiration! With a tear in my eye, inspiration. ♥️

[@c.oreilly1387]

Extraordinarily inspiring. Thanks for posting.

[@folamiharris1250]

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

[@MorningsattheAllotment]

Glasbren is amazing. Thanks for making another film about them. I‘m currently collecting final ideas for my 2021 garden :)

[@debkincaid2891]

Amazing. Thanks for bringing this to us.

[@grahamgirard7846]

Lovely video, fantastic people, and a beautiful garden! Thanks for sharing

[@Jade-yq1et]

What a great way to start the morning 🙂

[@organicgardenerke906]

Look s so relaxing, so green too

[@Constantinului]

Wonderful work, brother Abel and brother Steffan ! You are an inspiration. Thank you 🙏

[@pablocosta0000]

Wow so perfect place!!

[@yellowbird5411]

Because I live on what is basically sand as I am very near the beach in Florida, I have found that fruit trees are a better way for me to have fresh food. I have planted a lot from seed, but also have bought from nurseries. Fruit trees take up little space, providing shade for other plants at the base. In the summer, this is invaluable. Trees don't need constant watering once established, and as my water bill is over $80 a month as it is, this saves me money. Fruit trees in general do not have the pest problem ground crops seem to have. Experiments with vertical gardening produce the same effect a tree does. Additionally, pets do not violate trees the way they do a freshly dug garden, there is no weeding to speak of, no ground preparation year after year, mulching and in-place composting is easy, and some trees grow at a fantastic rate. Some trees also provide greens, such as the moringa, and a sweet potato like fruit called a mamey. I planted one mamey seed after trying it for the first time, and it shot up like a rocket. My mulberry tree is 14' in just the second year from a 3 foot tall sapling, and it's making fruit already. Even with a garden, fruit trees are incredible - just plant those seeds!

[@safusp]

What an amazing story!! Thanks Huw for sharing this and I'd love to visit their farm one day

[@constantinaolstedt]

So much inspiration!🤗

[@farahdibastephanus8584]

This is so soooooooo magically amazing! Thank you for sharing this amazing story.

[@TheHollabbeyHomestead]

So beautiful!!!!! No dig is the way to go

[@nimue325]

My visit to Wales was in the middle of the “dry spell” a couple of summers ago and definitely not what I had packed for! 😂 Now back home in the northeast US and gardening on land that was a sand and gravel pit b/c the glaciers pushed debris along their path until stopping in my back yard. Marginal hillside, indeed. Thanks for the good ideas from a landscape I’ll never forget.

[@billytingen3567]

I really, really enjoyed everything about this video. It was probably the best video that explains the deep yearning in many of us to dig our toes into the soil, close our eyes and breathe deeply and use our hands to plant something that will live to make us live and we ultimately continue the circle. Awesome video. thanks for sharing this with us.

[@jennywilliams9594]

I'm learning so much from your videos. Thank you!

[@debbietampasheher3682]

Thank you so much for sharing their story! Cheers from the southern US

[@c3plus192]

Alabama

[@jillianmiller9191]

Firstly Huw...I enjoy your Chanel and garden immensely, and the last five episodes highlighting other gardeners permaculture and sustainable gardens were beautifully produced,edited and filmed. Well done you!

[@Waynes_Travels]

Fantastic! Really inspiring

[@jordsmak282]

Great example of good lifestyle and food production. Inspiring. Thanks for sharing!

[@LifeonPigRow]

Really enjoyed this. Gave me ideas for my new vegetable garden.

[@rominaadimari8723]

woauuuuu me encanta!!!!gracias por compartir e inspirar

[@ninad5692]

Very inspiring, what a beautiful place 👍

[@jimmyjohnny3779]

Lovely

[@janabarnes9910]

So inspiring!!! Thank you!!!

[@FunnySurpriseToys]

Hello my friend! Beautiful! Have a nice weekend! 👍

[@bluebellwildflowermeadowan9780]

Oh WOW! Love this sooo much! Biodiversity yeah! I really must visit these guys when everything's safe again! They're only up the road from us. Our new place is Llanpumsaint. Thanks for always providing quality content Huw 👌

[@Ataume]

Very inspiring!

[@palmer3977]

Fantastic.

[@TSis76]

Love this!!

[@melindaedgington9925]

Another video well done. Thank you.

[@sufficientlivingsamsonmoor4322]

what great guys

[@Donneczka1]

Totally awesome! Well done!

[@muzzandy]

Really informative and engaging. Thanks for sharing

[@melbury7374]

looks like a really nice, hard working way of life. would love to do something like that all day

[@oksanabotsman6893]

It seems like you have a very wonderful beautiful mind and soul and all of the people who works with you same is to you guys are hard-working people I like what you are doing and I like what you saying about and of course we need more people like you guys . Spreading a good words teaching and learning from everybody learning how to love the land and the food thank you for that stay healthy be happy peace

[@YooperCountry]

Love your shirt. Thanks for a great video. Love hearing other peoples stories. We are just getting set up for our first season and are seeking as much knowledge as possible.

[@lavieestduresansconfiture4939]

Thanks for the video Huw! And what a wonderful and peaceful place. I`m looking out of the window, snow and sun, and want to start right now in a new garden season. Your videos are helping to lift the patience.

[@HuwRichards]

You are most welcome Emilia. It'll be spring time before you know it!

[@chariestthomas2078]

Wow.... awesome....I wish ....got garden like that.

[@quake8292]

I think I just figured out what to do with the sloped property handed over to me. Terraced permaculture garden it is! Thanks very much for sharing this video.

[@mourlyvold7655]

Handed over to you? I'm jealous! (and happy for ya). What direction is your land sloping?

[@robertoneill3124]

Trying to get a group together to do this in Wales... Anyone want to get involved?

[@user-nt2tl7xv8g]

This was beautiful and uplifting. Keep up the great work :)