dowding

You'd have to denude ten acres of forest to make enough compost to Dowding one acre of field.

In Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type, Canadian typographer Geoffrey Dowding explains as follows.

Charles Dowding is a market Gardner, not a farmer, but he has done it on a scale of a few acres.

Those systems have shown remarkable performance when operated by humans, e.g., the Dowding System [0].

The pilot then said 'Do you know who you are speaking to?' When Dowding replied 'No' he said 'Thank God for that' and hung up.

The Big Wing which is usually considered [1] to have been a worse strategy than the more dynamic, targeted and integrated Dowding System [2] with which it competed.

Then I found out about Charles Dowding from Britain who popularizes no-dig approach (don't use a spade or a fork to turn the soil, but plant directly in a thick layer of compost), also on a Youtube channel.

We're finding great satisfaction and success with it, and a lot of excellent information from Charles Dowding [1] — with lots of really detailed text and videos of how he manages his organic farm, showing those key details that are so often assumed or glossed over.

Sometimes called no-dig by Charles Dowding or “deep compost mulch system” but folks in the USA, that doesn’t scale well.

When the pilot said 'no' the person at the end said 'Air Chief Marshal Dowding'.

I’m leaning towards no-dig (Dowding) but it will take a lot of experimentation to see what really works best.

I’m designing an open source farming robot (Acorn by Twisted Fields) and I’m looking at doing Charles Dowding’s no-dig farming method.