This is my idea of HEAVEN ! Charles, I LOVE all your videos, especially love this one . I have worked as a grower, seller, nutrition educator - and EATER! of locally grown vegetables for 20 years - and most people do not realize all the intricate details involved in getting a harvest ready for market. They just pick up their box of pretty vegetables and drive away! Thank you! I love your ideas on creating a beautiful, bountiful harvest with less weeding and NO back-breaking digging and tilling - been there, done that! A harvest like this is incredibly satisfying and enjoyable work. I am not afraid of a bit of WORK. but working WITH nature instead of against her is so much more intelligent ! Thank you, Charles and your team! I look forward to more gardening in 2021.

the amount of work that goes into a simple bag of salad leaves humbles me.. the timing of the growing, the picking of each individual leaf, the washing, the packing and the delivery. thank you for the insight

One of your better videos yet! Fantastically filmed n done. Thank you for highlighting a consumer issue, not buying perfectly fine but misshapened veggies. I would be guilty of it I think, will try to keep that in mind next time I’m picking my greens at the shops.

Listening to the crunching and clicking sounds when harvesting is extremely satisfying.

Edward and Charles make a great team!! Thanks Edward for such beautiful videos.

Thank you so much for this video Charles, It is nice to see a bigger picture at a profitable farm. Truly inspiring!

I'm watching this as the coronavirus panic peaks, and I can't thank you enough for its anti-anxiety effect.

Every video inspires me to nurture my small garden from the soil to plant 😍🌼 Thank you for every minute of you and your team Charles 🌱

The thought of a lot of those veg "not selling at the market" just kills me. All perfectly great produce with much better flavor than the crud from mass growing but because it isn't perfectly straight means some people would turn their nose up at it, so sad to think!!! I love my crooked carrots lol

This video is basically garden ASMR 😍 I love it 🥰

Beautiful garden I am a trauma physician and I watch your video clips on my breaks at work. it’s calm and relieving in a stressful job like this. Outside work I spend most my time in my garden like you do. You are inspirational, I pray to god to give you strength and energy to keep up the good work.

When Charles mentioned his local 'Spar', I thought he meant Spa. I was envisioning some high end organic super posho beauty treatment and wellness centre plating up organic carbon negative veg for £25 a plate. Was both a bit surprised and releaved to see the Spar and to know we're operating in the real world still...

I will now forever think of “No Diggity” as a tribute to no-dig

What a beautifully made video! Wonderful fluid storytelling, gorgeously shot and edited, and the sound quality is marvellous. And the farm! The farm is an inspiration. Thank you both, father and son, for this lovely experience.

I had closed down my veg garden after a few years of draught and water restrictions here in South Africa,but today, I have harvested the first salad leaves from my very tiny veggie patch,what a wonderful taste. There is nothing as good as fresh veg,I love watching your enterprise ,Charles, you are a very industrious man. Well done to you and your keen helpers.Regards from Capetown

This video just makes you want to grow food! Love the sound effects. Here in the eastern US, you can sign up for a home-delivered box of "misfits", not quite perfectly formed vegetables and fruits. You choose the mix, it's organic and not too pricey.

For those outside of Europe wondering about the "Spa", Charles is talking about. Spar is a supermarket/minimarket chain found in most european countries.

If Edward stitched these videos together into a 2 hour movie and sell it as a download in the shop I'd love it! January to December in the garden. I'd watch it over and over.

Charles 'no diggety' Dowding

just watched twice.. then i come back again later... harvest videos really makes me feel good.. thank you. just love this ...

Memories are made by simple things. I will never forget the taste of my first home grown organic cucumber. Charles' story of the shop is proof the people are sick to death of dutch mass grown "vegtables".

Honestly, if I ever get to England you are first on my list for a visit Charles. That opening scene with the sunrise...sigh.

I can taste the freshness, lovely to see all this. We're all far too used to seeing "perfect" vegetables, it's time we caught ourselves on. Nature isn't perfect. People should think of the flavour and colours and freshness before the shape and length. Well done, Charles and team 😍

As I reach a 'certain age', I have been thinking more and more about retiring from my tech job to do small-scale farming. While I have enjoyed learning about the no-dig method, this video in particular has really made me think my dream could be a reality. Thank you so much, Charles, for the generosity and thoughtfulness that you bring to education on nuturing not just the plants and soil, but the gardener as well.

Amazing I did wonder how you were selling your produce - Alas I was a bit sad when it finished could have watched another hour. Many thanks

Enjoyed seeing the amount of work that it takes to harvest, clean and package vegetables. We forget how much care is put into organic grown harvesting compared to large commercial mechanized producers.

Beautiful video. I so appreciate watching vids of gardeners harvest their veg. We began watching them in early spring prepare the beds, choose their seeds, potting on, transplanting and sowing and garden tours. So many channels think it is more important to have their talking face close up in the screen when we would rather see actual harvests of their gardens (especially partial to potato harvests). This vid was so well done, I have watched it 3 times so far. Bravo Charles and great editing as well!

Picking of vegetables are very nice its sounds fresh and the birds chirps are loud thank you for sharing this

harvesting is the pay-back for all the work that went before, but it's a lot of work in itself, and you can't disappoint your customers. Timing is everything; this is the first video I see of harvesting and preparing the produce for market, and it was fascinating to watch.

Sustainable, productive and rewarding sums up my thoughts about this video. Such a confluence of colors and flavors heading out the door, it’s extremely satisfying to see and I’m sure even more so to experience. The comradery between you and your team is palpable. Great wishes and onwards, Mr. Dowding!

"just about worth it" . I definitely relate with that :) Surely no one gets into this to strike it rich, only worth doing it if one has a passion for it and finds value outside financial gain

I loved the "behind the scenes" look into your gardening operation. A great change of pace!

Hello, from Washington State. I absolutely love your garden and videos. Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to share so much of your knowledge.

Inspirational, I dream of the day when i have a harvest so beautiful. Love your videos.

Love this style of video. More please

nice to see how you pick and prepare your produce ready for selling

Always a privilege to watch your videos.

Watching you before heading to the farm for some harvesting. Your farm and channel are so inspiring! Nicely done!! 🙏😊

Most enjoyable to watch. Thank you! Good to see you using cardboard boxes for the shops rather than plastic 👍

I love your normal videos full of tips- just like your book and diary, but this video was a really enjoyable, relaxing watch and very insightful to the amount of work put it on a daily basis. We started an allotment early this year and have used your No Dig approach and other seasoned allotment holders have been commenting on the yields, health and fullness of our plot. A couple have even said they 'might try it next year'. Learning so much from you with each new video. Thanks for all the inspiration.

I find that unusual blends or slights variations in shape lends a more "home grown" look to veg. People associate that with higher quality since it doesn't look factory farmed

Continued good health to you Charles, you feed our minds and souls with your inspiration. It’s about time people started to value food and the effort it takes to grow good stuff. You never fail to encourage us to grow super produce! Very enjoyable video, showing us behind the scenes on your harvest days was very interesting.

Love it Charles , great to see this side of all that you do, more power to your elbow, well the back and the knees to ! :)

Looks soooo good. A lot of hard work and you put your heart n soul into it. wish I lived near, I'd be buying for sure. 💞

What a wonderful insight & beautifully shot. Thanks for sharing.

Pure joy. What a beautiful video, gentle guitar, soundscape and editing. I can already tell that it will be one of those that I watch time and again. This minimal fuss, observational vlog style really works well Charles. 11/10.

Good morning greetings from Long Beach, California 😊 Thanks so much for sharing the entire process of farm to market! Terrific video & interesting to see how much work & commitment goes into it all! ❤ ya Charles Dowding!

Insane amount of labour and skill but one can see you have equal amount of passion and get rewards out of it and it is magical to watch. Feeling so relaxed and positive and grateful every time I watch a new upload. Many thanks and sending you lots of love from Latvia ❤

Charles this video is Brilliant !!! well done Edward- It was so interesting to see the other side of the harvest & what actually happens. I wish I could grow abundance like you but my backyard vege garden supplies us & my neighbors so I am happy. Cheers Denise - Australia

No diggity, no doubt! Lol I loved that part! Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do! Much love and support from Oklahoma! 💚

I love this! Fresh basil in salads is most delicious! Paired with homegrown tomatoes...nothing like it! Your bolted onions even look beautiful. Makes me jealous. Thank you for sharing this wonderful video.

Thank you soo much for putting the names of everything crop you grow on the screen. I LOVE it. Plz continue to do so as it’s so much easier to go back and get the name if we want to try it! The best...your garden gets better & better (not that it wasn’t lol). Thanks so much for sharing!

No diggity No dought baby You are an excellent teacher and farmer. Cheers from Michigan, USA

Thank you, Charles for sharing with us! So relaxing, peaceful and educational all at the same time.

I had a coffee and watched this on my porch. So relaxing to watch, and listen to you and your crew work!

Its so fun just hanging out in the garden with Charles and crew...nice music too, so restful.

Nice harvest from different type of crops or vegetables. 😍😊

I harvest lettuce, spinach and arugla the same way in my simple garden. It enables them to bolt later rendering gangs of seeds for friends and neighbors.

Mr Dowding sure has a whole lot of gardening knowledge behind him

Great we need more vegetable producer like you Charles your planting space has expanded and you have helpers too thats great.

Thank you for sharing the "other" side of gardening! Hard work is only worth it if you enjoy what you're doing! :-)

Beautiful! Feeds my soul to watch this on this February winter evening 🌱🌱

Amazing crop of aubergine, fantastic Charles!

I found this totally absorbing from beginning to end, love everything about it. Thank you Charles for such down to earth info.

This is amazing! Love the idea of recyclable packaging

Thanks for the peek into your market enterprise! After seeing the hard work you do, I’ve been inspired to “get to it” in my small family garden. In the end it’s worth it all! You have an amazing garden. 👍😁

Charles, thank you for the enlightenment - much appreciated.

This has been one of my favorites of your videos!

Watching your videos has inspired me. I will probably never garden commercially but I'm sure I can grow enough for my future family and friends to be eating 100% fresh veg out of my own yard year round. And who knows? Maybe there will be a bit for the farmer's market. It helps that my climate is similar to yours. Bless you Charles

It's an amazing job you're doing over there. So inspiring ! Best of luck Mr dowding .

Hello Mr Dowding, I did Enjoyed having a look!! There isn't anything I don't enjoy from Homeacres. It is interesting, enjoyable and even peaceful watching the rest of the process after harvesting. Thank you gentleman, much appreciated. 😉

Inspirador amo horta e esses vídeos me ajudam muito.

This is beautiful! Thank you for sharing what you do and how. I can see the love you put on it. Thanks to the people that help make this come true. 🙏

Greetings Charles! I love gardening and watching things grow, but I'm always super excited to watch the harvest videos of other gardeners here on KZfaq! Watching your videos always lends me inspiration and encouragement to continue gardening here in Hardiness Zone 8b in Tifton, GA. I wish you and yours continued bountiful harvests there in your area my friend!

Kinda relaxing to watch it in my sunday morning ❤

How interesting and lovely to watch, I glean everything I can from your videos and watch them several times. Looking forward to visiting your garden open day in a couple of weeks 😊

lovely vitality when you pick - the sounds of the crunch!

So pleasing to watch!

I can feel the freshness. You handling is perfect to keep it fresh.

Hi Charles 🙋 beautiful video and a bountiful harvest as per normal...love your videos 🥰👌...big hugs 🤗 x

I am impressed by the quality of vegetables. Great work Charles! I started my own garden beds.

i appreciate getting to see the young people who work with you.

The produce is so beautiful. Such an inspiration to watch this harvest. Thank you for sharing.

This was so wonderful to see! Please do more like this!!!

Im a single mum and gardening is my hobby. Thanks for showing great ideas here on your video about harvesting and packing. I'm planning to sell my crops one day. Keep up the good work and please share more video...regards from Cebu, Philippines😊

There are 2 youtube channels that I love most ; Liziqi and you. Both are very good. While some of her video seems impossible to do, your video is calm, relaxing, and very informative.

Hi Charles, great video. I live on a Parkhome site with 36 houses. No shop anymore in the village. I tried to sell my surplus via a donation, but people were not interested. I had a fall out with one of my neighbours for the table I had put against my house. He did not want to look at a cool box. So I give some vegetables away and I preserve a lot by freezing and bottling (according to the American 2 lid system and Mason jars) The taste of home grown vegetables is so much better. Eveline in Southern Scotland.

Oddly satisfying to watch your process. Thank you.

This is one of your best videos Charles. All your videos are great but there is something about this one. Watching how you pick, pack and deliver; the whole story - as a new grower and farmer myself, it is invaluable. I love how you don't use any gimmicks, it's just great food grown well, packaged simply and driven to where it needs to go. Supporting local growers and small-scale farmers is so important and what you and your family/team are doing is just amazing. You've inspired me to take on the challenge of growing food for my local community. If one day my growing space can look even a tenth as good as yours, I'll be happy with that. Thanks for sharing.

I really enjoyed this, especially the harvesting. A pleasant time all around.

What a beautiful, blessed place you have 🙂

Another relaxing video, keep them coming👍

Lovely, thanks for sharing this aspect of your work as well!!

Hi Sir..your garden so awesome very clean....keep up the good work Sir God bless ..

Brilliant thanks! Loved seeing the beautiful children at the end!

That video was both amazing and inspiring. Thank you

fab video - i really appreciate seeing the process and when/how things are picked, its little process stuff like this that encourages me to continue

Thank you for the video! It was very interesting to watch the process.

We'd love more videos on this topic! Fantastic for entrepreneurs that want to create similar service for the community. Thanks Charles

Charles, your videos are entertaining inspiring. Thank you.