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Organic no dig garden & kitchen, plant-based cook, award winning author, small scale homesteader and mum of three.

Steph was visited by BBC Gardeners’ World for their Winter Special in December 2022. You can watch it again online here.

“Well that’s inspiring.
I think everybody, even if we’ve grown vegetables all our lives, can learn something from that.“

says presenter Monty Don

No Dig Gardening

Instead of turning the soil, I spread an annual mulch of compost. This layer is incorporated into the soil by the diverse organisms living below. Their actions of eating and excreting improves the soil’s structure and fertility, making it excellent for growing food and other crops.

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I am delighted to share that I will be featured on BBC Gardeners' World Winter Special on BBC2 on Friday December 23rd at 9pm, with a masterclass in growing your own food year round, on a budget. After the broadcast the programme will be available on iPlayer. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gdp7 For those of you with no access to television, it is on You Tube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjtJlkH7PBE Hello - My name is Stephanie and I am a homesteader, experienced no dig kitchen gardener and garden and food writer, teaching how to grow food year round and what you can do with it when it has grown! I have been growing my own veg for over 30 years from pots in a tiny courtyard in Yorkshire to just under 1/2 acre in Wales, and using no dig methods for over 14 years. I’ve created and run no dig gardens for private estates, restaurants and other public venues, and worked in market gardens for over 14 years. In 2021 I project managed and designed the RHS No Dig Allotment Demonstration Garden at RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival. **New for 2023** Grow Your Own Year Round courses here at my half acre homestead in rural Wales:https://nodighome.com/talks-workshops/grow-year-round-no-dig-gardening-courses/ My books: No Dig Organic Home and Garden (co-authored with Charles) winner Garden Media Guild Awards Practical Gardening Book of the Year https://nodighome.com/my-books-and-writing/no-dig-organic-home-and-garden/ The Creative Kitchen plant based recipes using seasonal ingredients you can (almost!) entirely grow in your garden/allotment https://nodighome.com/my-books-and-writing/the-creative-kitchen/ My website: https://nodighome.com Regular blogs: https://nodighome.com/blog-posts/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephaniehafferty/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Steph_HaffertyMy Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Undug #nodig #backyardhomestead #permaculture #selfsufficiency #growfood #homesteading
From weedy lawn to productive homestead, using no dig permaculture methods. Filmed on October 9th 2022, this video shows the transformation of my garden from monoculture to abundant polyculture in just eighteen months. Pour yourself a cup of something delicious and discover Ael Y Bryn, my half acre homestead, situated on a hillside in Ceredigion, Wales. *New for 2023* Grow Year Round No Dig Gardening Courses here - find out more: https://nodighome.com/talks-workshops/grow-year-round-no-dig-gardening-courses/ The garden is being created on a tight budget, around full time work, mostly using stuff I brought with me from my previous home, or things found locally, with some exceptions - The polytunnel and fruit cage frame was #gifted from First Tunnels https://www.firsttunnels.co.uk I bought the wire mesh from a local farming supplies store The full height brassica cage was #gifted from Gardening Naturally https://www.gardening-naturally.com I am a homesteader, and experienced no dig kitchen gardener and garden and food writer, teaching how to grow food year round and what you can do with it when it has grown! I have been growing my own veg for over 30 years from pots in a tiny courtyard in Yorkshire to just under 1/2 acre in Wales, and using no dig methods for over 14 years. I’ve created and run no dig gardens for private estates, restaurants and other public venues, and worked in market gardens for over 14 years. In 2021 I project managed and designed the RHS No Dig Allotment Demonstration Garden at RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival. My books: No Dig Organic Home and Garden (co-authored with Charles Dowding) winner Garden Media Guild Awards Practical Gardening Book of the Year https://nodighome.com/product-category/books/ The Creative Kitchen plant based recipes using seasonal ingredients you can (almost!) entirely grow in your garden/allotment https://nodighome.com/product-category/books/ My website: https://nodighome.com Regular blogs: https://nodighome.com/blog-posts/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephanieha... Twitter: https://twitter.com/Steph_Hafferty #nodig #backyardhomestead #permaculture #selfsufficiency #growfood #homesteading
I've been harvesting two unusual root crops in my cold, frosty garden here at my half acre homestead. These unusual perennial root vegetables are a great addition to the edible garden, and so easy to grow, store and regrow again next year. Ideal for a perennial permaculture garden and sustainable homestead, they add a delicious fresh flavour to winter meals. Crisp, sweet and delicious, oca and yacon do not contain any sugars and are ideal for so many tasty meals. Yacon and oca are ideal veg for the thrifty gardener - once you've started growing them, you'll have them every year - with spares to give to friends. Easy to store to eat , I save the largest oca tubers to plant as next year's harvest (in the spring). Yacon is regrown from the crowns. I show how in this video. I am a homesteader, and experienced no dig kitchen gardener and garden and food writer, teaching how to grow food year round and what you can do with it when it has grown! I have been growing my own veg for over 30 years from pots in a tiny courtyard in Yorkshire to just under 1/2 acre in Wales, and using no dig methods for over 14 years. I’ve created and run no dig gardens for private estates, restaurants and other public venues, and worked in market gardens for over 14 years. In 2021 I project managed and designed the RHS No Dig Allotment Demonstration Garden at RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival. Grow Year Round No Dig Gardening Courses here at my half acre homestead in rural Waleshttps://nodighome.com/talks-workshops/grow-year-round-no-dig-gardening-courses/ My books: No Dig Organic Home and Garden (co-authored with Charles Dowding) winner Garden Media Guild Awards Practical Gardening Book of the Yearhttps://nodighome.com/my-books-and-writing/no-dig-organic-home-and-garden/ The Creative Kitchen plant based recipes using seasonal ingredients you can (almost!) entirely grow in your garden/allotmenthttps://nodighome.com/my-books-and-writing/the-creative-kitchen/ My website: https://nodighome.com Regular blogs: https://nodighome.com/blog-posts/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephaniehafferty/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Steph_Hafferty #nodig #backyardhomestead #permaculture #selfsufficiency #growfood #homesteading
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What I Do

Stephanie Hafferty speaking at RHS Hampton Court

Throughout the year I give talks and workshops about no dig gardening and small scale homesteading with a family to look after.

trug veg harvest October 2022

My no dig kitchen and garden is full of inspiration. Follow me setting up my new homestead in Wales, with down to earth advice and seasonal recipes.

Selected publications

As well as blogging, I have written books about my garden and I regularly contribute to a range of magazines and other publications. Work with me.

Stephanie Hafferty

Homesteader – Writer – Gardener – Consultant

seasonal recipes – public speaker – no dig kitchen – event organiser

What you can expect

After several years, there is a huge amount of information on this website to help support your own no dig, organic adventure.

  • Homesteading
  • Overcoming gardening problems in the real world
  • Natural household
  • Body & garden products
  • Plot to plate recipes

Reviews

Rating: 5 out of 5.

“A must have for all serious veg growers.”

It’s a superb book and their blow by blow account of converting a meadow into a magnificent vegetable plot in around five years, with photographic evidence and detailed tabulated results, is so compelling I have given half my plot over to non-dig this month and already the difference is becoming obvious.

Tyke

Rating: 5 out of 5.

“This is the book on no dig gardening that we have all been waiting for.”

Not only does it have over 200 pages with all the information you were hoping to find, it is also one of the best presented books I have handled in a long time. The writing is clear with no hype or waffle and is laid out beautifully making full use of the photographs to create an easy to follow instruction guide that you will come back to again and again.We are very happy with the box and we value that we can have the standard box or choose our own.

Burra

Rating: 5 out of 5.

“So informative”

The sort of book to refer to throughout the growing season……or to curl up with besides a log fire with a glass of sloe gin as the first snow falls. Charles and Stephanie give clear instructions on how to move towards a low effort, great returns style of gardening. Fantastic illustrations and an enjoyable style of writing.

P. Edwards