by Stephanie Hafferty | Nov 17, 2018 | Allotment, Autumn, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, No Dig Gardening, No Hungry Gap, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Preparing The Soil, The Creative Kitchen
It has been a busy time since my last blog post and how the garden has changed! The weather has been typically British, from unseasonably warm to icy cold (for Somerset) and back again. Mornings are misty, deciduous trees almost entirely without leaves now and...
by Stephanie Hafferty | Oct 22, 2018 | Blog, No Dig Home, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, Recipes, Seasonal Cooking, The Creative Kitchen
In my garden a bright jungle of colourful nasturtiums are rejoicing in the surprisingly warm sunshine-y October weather. Â After a summer of taking their prolific spiciness for granted, I’m keen to preserve what I can before the weather turns colder…....
by Stephanie Hafferty | Sep 27, 2018 | Autumn, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, Mulching, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, No Hungry Gap, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, potions, Preparing The Soil, Preserving, The Creative Kitchen, Winter
This week began with the Autumn Equinox, the festival of Mabon, which starts on September 21st although the actual time of the equinox was Sunday 23rd at around 2am (in the UK). Day and night are of equal length once more, before the nights get longer and the days...
by Stephanie Hafferty | Sep 14, 2018 | Autumn, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, No Hungry Gap, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Recipes, Seasonal Cooking, Summer, The Creative Kitchen
As summer mellows into autumn, the allotment and garden is full of ripening vegetables and fruit. Mornings are much colder now, it’s something of a shock after our much hotter than usual summer: we started picking salad at Homeacres this morning at 6:30 (the day...
by Stephanie Hafferty | Jul 3, 2018 | Blog, Homesteading, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, Recipes, Seasonal Cooking, Summer, The Creative Kitchen
The vegetable gardens are filling up with gorgeous summer abundance, almost every day it seems we are welcoming back another seasonal delight. Yesterday I made supper for over 50 people using delicious freshly harvested vegetables, fruit and herbs grown by Charles at...