The happiness I feel everytime you release a new video is astounding. I started vegetable and flower gardening using no dig with whatever materials I have available during the and I'm so happy I did. I have a small rental space in London and get better results each year, thank you for your work and teaching. I'm so glad to have a garden full of flowers, veg, birds and insects.

Thank you Charles. You continue to inspire - here's to the next 10 years!

I've been following since near the beginning, your story has been a continuing inspiration over the years. Thank you for bringing us along on the journey!

THERE IS SOMETHING VERY PRIMACULTURALLY PLEASING ABOUT MAKING HOMEMADE COMPOST !!!! THE SMELL, THE SCIENCE, THE LITTLE VOICE IN THE BACK OF YOUR BRAIN THAT SAYS “HEY…DON’T WORRY. EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT BECAUSE WE WON’T GO HUNGRY” !!!!!!!

Thank you Charles for this look back into the beginnings of Homeacre, and a dip into your vision. I will always be profoundly grateful to you for spreading the word of No Dig throughout the planet. I only wished I had found you sooner as I spent my life up until my retirement 8 years ago as a solo working gardening Mum following a double dig crop rotation practice. Because of this I was never able to grow what I could have with No Dig. But now I'm on track and feel the need to pay it forward here in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Again, thank you!!!

SIR CHARLES’ COMPOST MANGER BRINGS THE THREE WISE INGREDIENTS TOGETHER!!!!!! BROWN, GREEN, AND ANIMAL DUNG!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations on your many successes in the last 10 years at Homeacres. And thank you for sharing your vision and all your No Dig knowledge with so many. What a wonderful legacy! 💚

Cheers for the first ten years of Homeacres, Charles. You have really made it into an amazing place, and created more than just a garden. You have created a worldwide community, together with your family. Thank you for everything!

As a norwegian, my love for timber houses will probably never fade. But i must say, those stone houses the brits are known for are equally beautiful as well. Look at the rolling hills and stone dwellings scattered around. 15:50

I loved watching this video Charles. I admire your openness in talking about how much the property cost when you bought it and also the extra land. You’ve come such a long way and inspired so many millions of people including myself. It was absolutely lovely to listen to the story of this beautiful little house with its land, how are you developed it, and also the history before you had it thank you for sharing this with us

Made me smile to hear how you talk about your piece of heaven. When we bought our house and land the estate agent started trying to show us around the house "That needs a bit of love", and soon realised all he needed to talk about was sunlight and chickens.

Oh Charles, thanks for sharing your special story. I watched totally and felt your enthusiasm as you worked through your step-by-step plans. I love how your plans weren't written in stone. 👍And I hope your No-dig method keeps covering more and small and not so small gardens👩‍🌾👍 Take care My Friend 🌿💚🌿

Always a pleasure tuning in, Charles.

Thank you for the 10 year update, Charles. Like many others, you continue to be an inspiration, and in my 66 years, I have tried many garden methods, including a backbreaking method called 'double-digging'! No-dig works so well and I love to see the soil improve each year...Thank you!

LETS HOPE THAT ANOTHER TEN YEARS WILL BRING A HUGE SPREAD OF NO DIG ALL ACROSS THIS GLOBE!!!!!! ROCK ON AND HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY HOMEACRES !!!!!!!!

Really inspiring story Charles. Always learn alot from your methods. Thank You.

Married to France and with no any knowledge of farming; you are the spoiling I found for my vegetable gardening work. I am a Taiwanese lives now in Charente Maritime. The No Dig is still my goal to reach. Watching this video is a such pleasant experience to see the transformation and part by part slowly finished. Thank you very very much. So much knowledge to share with us each time. Thank you; Charles.

Been watching for a few years now. Interesting how it all started.

SIR CHARLES APPARENTLY HAD NO IDEA THAT HIS COMPOST HEAPS WOULD MORPH INTO A LARGE MULTI-BAY, COVERED MANGER-LIKE STRUCTURE CAPABLE OF IMMACULATE COMPOSTING !!!!!!!!

Thank you Charles for your message. You have a little slice of heaven here on earth.

Long live, your getting old, thank you for the knowledge that you give

We garden in rocky soil. One advantage of "No Dig" is that rather than "digging down" into rocks, you "build-up" the soil, and avoid fighting with endless rocks.

I've been waiting for this video for a long time, thank you.Fantastic to see your journey and its accomplishments. I'm looking forward to hearing about energies from the soil. My biggest pleasure this month has been showing my mum of 76 years old the no dig method with her new vegetable patch.She has more time for the thermos, now she's not turning the soil! All thanks to you.Thankyou very much.

I loved seeing this look back! Thank you!

It's a pleasure to hear more backstory on Homeacres and your work with it. Quite the journey so far and looking forward to more, Charles. Thank you so much.

A living paradise. Charles you are the man to follow. Congratulations.

It's always a pleasure when a new video is up! Thank you Charles and here's to the next 10 years! 🥂

always interesting watching a garden evolve over time.

This was such a wonderful overview of your time at Homeacres. It’s so interesting to hear the story of how it was once a market garden, and how it has returned to its original size with your purchase of the adjoining land. I think some deep intuition must have made you decide not to proceed with the purchase of the other property because as a result, Homeacres has become an inspiration for so many people around the world.

Cheers to 10 years!

What a beautiful Homeacres life story you shared with us 🥰 Love this video a lot, it touched my heart, especially at the end of the video! You are a bright and good person. You shine the light! 😊 Long live Charles Dowding and his teaching! 🙌🌞🎉

I am from Poland. Thank you, that you share knowledge.

Absolutely splendid ❤

Beautiful. Just shows one man can change the world for the better

Having just bought rural land with a ruined building in Catalonia, it's really nice to see that you started out with less perfection :D

Congratulations, Charles! Let there be more Homeacres around the world for the next 10 years 🥂

I was all smiles watching this. Homeacres is a gorgeous property and I truly enjoy your videos. I'm a no dig convert! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and you beautiful gardens.

Thanks for being a beacon of tranquillity on KZfaq. You've inspired our own fruitful journey into no dig and continue to give us more beautiful reasons to continue.

This is what makes the internet so powerful. Good people spreading good information for everyone to use. Thanks Charles.

Thank you Charles for humbly and graciously sharing your journey of discovery. Very encouraging to see what has been achieved in 10 years. Isn't nature awesome !!

Congratulations on 10 years. Mine is only 2 years and trying not to spend so much, each year gets better. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Who can say now that the vegetable garden is not a long-term activity! good evening from the dordogne in france

Love this bloke and his videos Just wish I had a place even a half the size - now a house with land is prohibitively expensive for most now

ooo very beautiful square, very beautiful garden.

I am so glad you made this! I've always wanted to see the story behind it all, really enjoyed it, thanks, Clive.

I echo all the other comments. You are an inspiration to all of us. Thank you and your team for the excellent work. Your books and calendar compliment nicely with your videos. Thank you.

So grateful to you, Charles…. Sharing your knowledge so willingly. 🙏

So grateful to you for your advice on bindweed. The half plot allotment we took on just over a year ago (we’re also in Somerset not too far away so similar conditions) was packed with bindweed & had been really neglected & we did find that quite a lot still came through even with no dig beds but we persevered, didn’t dig or use chemicals as suggested often to us when we took it on, just kept pulling it out as it grew, & now the places we have the most trouble with it are where it comes across from other plots or neglected areas, we have also composted what we pull. We get so many compliments on our plot which is lovely but I always feel a little guilty as it is all down to no dig & in large part to you & Huw Richards who I started watching first, & feel like we don’t put in as much hard work as people assume we do as it’s so much simpler this way! Though if you have any advice for cabbage whitefly I’d be grateful as the allotment site is full of them; we cover crops but there are so many they always seem to find their way in anyhow! Lovely video, thank you 😊

Thank you. I love watching your videos and learning from you.

Thanks, teacher. no dig is the best.

Good to see the bees!

One thing I love about the 'No Dig' method that you teach Charles, is that it has the potential to enable folks to enjoy gardening and growing their own produce who otherwise might not be able to, if they are not physically capable of the heavy digging that is traditionally involved.

🎉Brilliant🎉

Thank you so much for sharing your homestead! Super inspiring!

We are in the process of buying a one acre property with a home. I am going to start a no dig garden, just need to design the lady out, thanks Charles for your instruction.

Thank you Sir! You are such a blessing! :)

Such a joy to see, thank you. Back in the mid nineties I found a booklet in a second hand book shop on a "no dig" system, I was a mature student at the time and was inspired, I even got an allotment and planned to grow and learn as you have. Well, nearly 30 years on and life never went the way I'd planned. I still don't have a garden or allotment either, I have the yearning to garden but its not really likely in the near future not even on a small scale. I have your latest book and I enjoy your videos very much, its tinged with a little sadness for me as its kind of the way I would of liked to have progressed in life myself but it is a consolation of sorts. I wish you all the very best for the future and hope to continue to enjoy your videos , keep up the good work my friend !!!!

Having just started my allotment this year this give me alot of inspiration

Charles - my experience over 7 to 8 yrs is that making good compost is the biggest value-add you can make to no-dig gardening. That's probably why it's so popular. No dig alone makes some improvement, but the real transformation is putting high quality compost on top.

Congratulations on 10 years and good luck on the next 10! I am ready to expand my no-dig garden again this year. Just need to build a bigger fence as the neighborhood deer, rabbits, woodchucks, and birds come to snack.

Wow amazing to see how it used to be and how far u have come, hopefully next year we can see the pond full again.

You really must be proud of what you accomplished so far Charles. Congratulation.

Absolutely gutted the pond hasn't worked out. I'm sure you'll find a solution and have it full again soon. Good luck.

Such a pleasure to watch and hear more of the unfolding of Homeacres, your gentleness and connection is always so inspiring, We were gripped throughout the whole of your story telling. We always enjoy your content and have learnt so much from you over the years - Thank you for all that you share and for being such an amazing human!

You inspire us a lot, thank you 👍

I live in a 1st floor flat in Croydon but I've managed to fit a compost bin, worm farm, water butt and plenty of veggies on my balcony. Hopefully should be totally self-sufficient in a year or so!

Charles, I've been following you since about 2018 and have learned so much. I have expanded my garden as well as my knowledge by watching you and adapting your methods to my climate. You are truly an inspiration. Thank you.

Every morning the garden calls to me. There is such a communication between people and living things. Every day I am amazed by the joys and challenged by the new problems that have popped up. The garden and I depend on each other to thrive and produce a better life than we could ever know that we would have! I really think a lot of the mental challenges that this modern world creates could be eliminated if we all spent part of our day nurturing a few living and breathing things.

Congrats on 10 years of Homeacres, nice to see those old photos of what once was there.....another market garden of all things. I'm sure your hard work and the fact it was once a productive garden must bring you great joy......cheers and may 2023 be even more prosperous.

Very interesting to see and hear the overview. Thank you.

I am pleasantly surprised at how much of the journey I have followed you on. My thanks for giving me a positive new perspective and practical steps to having a healthier garden!

Thanks for the history Charles. Very interesting.

Another generous gift, sharing your journey and knowledge. Priceless. Thank you Charles. Blessings from Oregon.

What a wonderful story of the history of Home Acres! I’ve watched all your videos now, and it was so neat to see & hear in one concise video, what you’d started with and how it grew little by little. The idea to start small & have an overall vision of what you want and let it gradually grow and change as you go is so encouraging! Especially for those of us with small property. It gives hope for being able to manage and grow till I find the limit of what I’m able to manage by myself. I convinced my husband to watch a few of your videos with me a year ago. When he saw how beautiful, clean and weed free your were, he agreed to let me try no-dig again. I didn’t have enough compost so I found a friend with safe horse manure to apply over the beds. I put about an inch, since it had been a couple of years since it was tilled up. More would have been better, but in spite of that, I was able to overall keep up with weeding for the first time ever! My husband was pleased with how nice the garden looked! We started out with a rainy beginning, so when the rain stopped, I didn’t water as soon as I should have. But overall, I got a decent harvest. One accidental experiment was my French beans: half were growing well and were a nice deep green and large plants. The other half were small, struggling & light color- almost yellowish. For a few weeks I racked my brain as to why one half was so different when I’d applied the same manure to all. Then after a month it hit me! The good beans were planted where I’d applied my homemade compost LAST YEAR! (I was able to revive the spindly beans by watering in some fish emulsion fertilizer & watering more). So now I know even more how important the composting is! I did bag my grass this year from your recommendation, as well as keep a bucket out there to put weeds in, for adding to my compost. This year, with all the extra supplies & gathering some from a local restaurant a few times & coffee grounds from coffee shops, I had enough compost to put a thin layer on 2/3 of my garden last week! If I can even do that amount every year and rotate where it goes, I look forward to seeing improvement each year! I’ve been using your garden diary & look forward to comparing my notes from this year to next year! Thank you for all your instructions! You are an inspiration!

Really enjoyed this video. Thank you, Charles! xx

Thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge and wisdom. I have been so inspired by your beautiful gardens and I am about to start my own no dig kitchen garden. I especially appreciate your teaching style. You are a joy to listen to!

Fabulous recap of your journey.

Would love to see you use the new land to experiment with a bit of forest/wood or agroforestry.

Hi Charles loved your video! thank you for sharing your story lv Irene 😘 xx

I am sooo so happy that u had the will to start making videos. And sharing your journey with us Charles. It in an absolute pleasure to tune in to the channel, time and time again to see what interesting and lovely you got going on. It's a true blessing!❤😊

A great story Charles. Hope you have many more years of great gardening and Inspiring us all.

Thanks Charles!

Thanks Charles for all your inspiring work

Thank you Charles. 👍👍👍👍

Well, you saved my bacon when I bought a plot of land in Wales that was heavy, soggy clay.......NO DIG! And a vision of naturally recycling practically everything...especially the grass, into the compost and being, frankly, laid back about gardening in general. I now build up and not down! My first year has brought a harvest from which to continually build on. So, thank you, Charles for sharing your vision with me and giving me mine.

You are an inspiration Charles, I have one lettuce plant in my conservatory, every time I crop I think of homeacres. 😅 lol. Best wishes from Brizzle.

Thank you Charles. What an impressive development. Your NoDig gardening method is the best example of growing healthy food together with nature.

Love the story. Well done and you can see and hear your passion for Homeacres. Well done. Inspirational.

Thanks charles for the learning video's. I started my own garden, and now my compost heap is my best friend 🙂

I've been watching every video since you first began, often more than once, and I loved learning so much about your discovery and purchase of Homeacres at last.

Since discovering you and your work my gardening confidence, enjoyment, and results have increased beyond belief. Thank you for sharing your all you do

Oh my god... 10 years... Congratulations for all dedication...

You have done amazingly with what you’ve done with homeacers 😇👏👏👏😂👍

The price of that new acreage made my jaw drop. That's 50,000 US dollars! That would buy about 15 acres in my local area (rural southern US). Thirty years ago you could have bought almost 50 acres with it. Land is really considered valuable in England.

What a fantastic video! Been following you for a little over 4 years now, Charles. Great work, I hope to visit Homeacres in 2023.

I like the sound of Gardening Witch magazine! (9:20)

You seem cool as heck. I would love to spend an afternoon helping you in the garden. I'm looking to buy a house and I feel the same way as you did, I almost care more about the property than I do about the house. The house is just the thing I have to buy to get to the lifestyle I want to have.

The pleasure is all ours Charles😊

What an amazing video, I really enjoyed it, so interesting to hear about the journey of Homeacres.

So nice to see how the 10 years have evolved. You should be very proud that your no Dig message has gain such attention. Congratulations