RHS No Dig Allotment Demonstration Garden
As well as giving talks, the speakers will be on the garden to chat with visitors and answer questions (see each speaker for the days they are attending). We would also like to thank Jan Wilmot, Ron Heath and Sacha Brown who will also be helping on the garden.
Sara Venn

Becky Searle

Adam Jones

Adam Jones is a Welsh gardener, presenter, author and trainer from Carmarthenshire with over 20 years’ experience in gardening.
From a very young age Adam has developed the urge and drive to learn and grow more vegetables, fruits and flowers. Adam and his with Sara bought their first home 5 years ago with the aim to set up their own productive no-dig and nature friendly garden. It is their personal aim to try to live as self-sufficiently as possible whilst respecting and protecting nature.
In 2020 they established their own business focussing on working with grow your own projects across Wales namely the National Botanic Garden and Food Sense Wales. Adam has a monthly radio slot on national Welsh language radio and a fortnightly slot on Welsh language day time TV sharing hints and tips and all things gardening.
Adam will be sharing how no-dig transformed his approach to sustainable living focussing on increasing crop yields whilst at the same time sacrificing areas of cultivation to increase the biodiversity of his garden.
Having dug the garden, not once but three times annually with his grandfather for the best part of 20 years Adam will share how he completely overhauled his approach to grow your own. We will be exploring the relationship between plant and soil health and a healthy resilient ecosystem in the vegetable garden.
Instagram and Twitter: @adamynyrardd
https://www.youtube.com/c/adamynyrardd
Richard Chivers

Cherry Taylor
On site on Tuesday and Wednesday
Cherry is passionate about biodiversity, organic gardening and growing things. She shares this knowledge through teaching home gardeners no dig and organic growing methods, as well as helping 5 other admin on Steph Hafferty’s Facebook group, No Dig Gardening – Undug, which currently has over 27,000 global members. Cherry runs online and face to face courses and awards complimentary places on them to schools and community gardens! She is also co-founder of VegOut (a small market garden selling posh salad bags locally!) and opens her Welsh garden for various charities, including the National Garden Scheme, serving as an Assistant County Organizer for the Gwent region. Follow her on Instagram @cherrysnodigveg or Facebook @oldllangattockfarm
About Cherry’s Talk:
Cherry will tell us about how she took on a 1.5 acre blank canvas less than 6 years ago and created a wildlife-rich, no dig, organic, flower and veg garden. Much is said about veg gardening and no dig, but Cherry’s talk will focus on her flower garden and how it was created using a myriad of no dig techniques, and how it is currently maintained. No dig enabled her to open it for the National Garden Scheme within just 4 years.
Stephanie Hafferty

On site every day
One of the of the designers and the driving force behind the RHS No Dig Allotment Demonstration Garden, Steph kept the show on the road through all manner of set backs and complications
With 13 years experience as a no dig gardener, and growing her own for over three decades, she is the author of two books (another one pub. in 2022) and writes about and teaches about all aspects of no dig homesteading – taking no dig gardening beyond the kitchen garden! Having raised three children on her own on a low income, Stephanie shows how to grow fabulous food frugally.
Stephanie moved to Wales three months ago and is setting up a no dig garden there using less compost, and is working on new work projects including launching online courses in September 2021.
Full Bio is here
Links to my social media are at the bottom of the page!
I founded the FB group No Dig Gardening – Undug with over 27,000 members
Charles Dowding
On site every day except Thursday
One of the designers of the garden, Charles has brought the enjoyment of no dig to a worldwide audience and his methods are used by huge numbers of gardeners, who rejoice in the simplicity, and time saved. He has written ten books with two more coming, and offers online courses in no dig and growing vegetables, through his website https://charlesdowding.co.uk
Charles has an excellent You Tube channel with 467000 subscribers, and his Instagram Account has over 275,000 followers.