It's funny because I learned about the regenerative farming and no-dig approach from Hacker News out of all places. A couple years ago there was a thread about soil quality and someone mentioned Richard Perkins, who runs a regenerative agriculture farm in Sweden. He also had a Youtube channel which I checked out. 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. Down the rabbit hole here we go.
I was sceptical at first - it sounds too good to be true and runs against the conventional wisdom I followed. But I started experimenting with a few vegetable patches and I was happy with the results. Then I expanded over time, still amazed with the outcomes.
It's more of a hobby operation, so I'm not worried about optimizing yields. To me the biggest factor is that gardening became super enjoyable. I guess it's because efforts-to-results ratio got so much better. I got many compliments from strangers about my garden (including incredibly oversized pumpkins), which made me proud.
Not sure how it fits into a hacker's ethos, but there you have it.
