Charles Dowding

Charles Dowding grew up on a dairy farm in Somerset. After graduating from Cambridge he worked for a hotel in the Inner Hebrides before starting to grow organic vegetables commercially on the family farm in the early 1980s. In 1990 he left behind what was by then a large market garden to live in France and Zambia. Returning to Somerset in the mid 1990s, he established a bed and breakfast and vegetable growing business at Lower Farm in Shepton Montague. Charles's salad bags are now the main output from his two-acre garden of permanent raised beds and fruit trees. Charles also runs his vegetable-growing courses at Lower Farm and lectures and writes books on his unique growing techniques.

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