Making a successful Market Garden

Course tutors

Ashley Wheeler
Ashley runs Trill Farm Garden with his partner Kate. They specialise in growing salads to sell to restaurants around Lyme Regis. Ashley is a founding member of Landworkers' Alliance.

Charles Dowding
Charles Dowding, runs a quarter acre, super intensive no dig garden in Somerset, selling salad bags and veg to local restaurants and shops. He writes and teaches extensively on growing vegetables, and on his speciality of no dig.

Ruth Hancock
​​Ruth bought a field in 2006 and has made a successful market garden there, selling vegetables through a box scheme. Ruth has been involved in various forms of farming, growing, land work, and other ecological projects since coming to live in Devon thirty years ago. She completed a National Diploma in Agriculture at Bicton College, but the organic growing is mainly self taught, by scaling up from domestic production. She is currently a member of The Land Workers Alliance Coordinating group, and has a particular interest in food sovereignty, and finding ways of making things a little bit easier for new entrants to agroecological farming, and growing.