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    • No dig year one at Four Acre Farm  

Her partner is Mitch McCullough @MitchGrows. He interviewed me for a no dig FAQs video in September 2022    • No-Dig Gardening FAQs Answered: Charl...  
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
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