https://www.homestead.org/gardening/ruth-stout-no-dig-duchess/ Learn Homesteading Skills Online Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:18:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://www.homestead.org/gardening/ruth-stout-no-dig-duchess/#comment-122120 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:10:49 +0000 https://www.homestead.org/2017/02/10/ruth-stout-the-no-dig-duchess/#comment-122120 Big fan of both Stout and Fukuoka! I’ve evolved, mostly intuitively, into a mostly mulch gardener myself, using mainly grass clippings and some straw. For those interested in an additional twist in the “less work” methods of growing food, I highly recommend Charles Dowding’s explanations and explorations of the No-Dig method. His You-Tube channel is excellent, as are his books. My biggest takeaway from all of the above, apart from the pleasure of finding less strenuous ways to get excellent results, is how very, very destructive of the soils microbial life it is to dig, turn, and plow the soil.

]]> https://www.homestead.org/gardening/ruth-stout-no-dig-duchess/#comment-115204 Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:08:25 +0000 https://www.homestead.org/2017/02/10/ruth-stout-the-no-dig-duchess/#comment-115204 Lovely article. I have had Ruth’s “Gardening without Work” on my bookshelf for years and it has inspired many a happy argument with my husband of over our 50 years of marriage. Though we never fight over money or the in-laws we often divide our garden into HIS and HERS sections. The question I have is: What happened to Ruth’s garden? Was it preserved? Is it still going?
Thank you, Dora Bilton, dora@columbiawireless.ca

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