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

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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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The pond is a new addition to the homestead and already attracting a lot of wildlife to the garden. Find out how the pond will help rewild this garden, help me grow even more food and why I planted so many potatoes! Thank you to Charlie Parry of Regenerative Media who filmed and edited this video. I've been growing no dig for over 14 years and give talks and workshops about no dig gardening, sustainable growing and homesteading across the UK. More info here: https://nodighome.com/events/ My website: https://nodighome.com Follow my new garden on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephanieha... Regular blog updates: https://nodighome.com/blog-posts/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Steph_Hafferty My books: https://nodighome.com/store/ No Dig Organic Home and Garden (co-authored with Charles Dowding) winner Garden Media Guild Awards Practical Gardening Book of the Year, over 30,000 copies sold The Creative Kitchen plant based recipes using seasonal ingredients you can (almost!) entirely grow in your garden/allotment
See what's growing in my back yard garden in early June. This is one of the two main growing areas here in my Half Acre Homestead in rural west Wales (the other area is the orchard through a small gate at the back of this garden). This productive garden was weedy grass in March 2021. All of the beds were made using no dig permaculture methods: card on top of the weedy lawn and 5cm of peat free compost. Thank you to Charlie Parry of Regenerative Media who filmed and edited this video. I give talks and workshops about no dig gardening, sustainable growing and homesteading across the UK. More info here: https://nodighome.com/events/ My website: https://nodighome.com Follow my new garden on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephaniehafferty/ Regular blog updates: https://nodighome.com/blog-posts/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Steph_Hafferty My books: https://nodighome.com/store/ No Dig Organic Home and Garden (co-authored with Charles Dowding) winner Garden Media Guild Awards Practical Gardening Book of the Year The Creative Kitchen plant based recipes using seasonal ingredients you can (almost!) entirely grow in your garden/allotment
See how I am using second hand black plastic to clear a weedy area in my garden, which has a lot of creeping buttercup in it. To make the most of the space, I'm growing potatoes under the polythene using just a small amount of compost - this will clean the soil of weeds and grow a tasty harvest of potatoes. This plastic had been used to protect a delivery from rain, so I saved it (it's best to avoid buying new plastic, as much as you can). Later in the summer when I harvest the potatoes the plastic will be dried off, stored and reused another time. I grow a lot of potatoes, using different no dig techniques and will share how in other videos. Apologies for the sound quality. I had lost my microphone (now found thankfully) and had to use the one on my phone. Looking on the bright side, it does mean that the sounds of the creatures which live on this Welsh hillside also feature in the video (and the sound of rain falling....!) I give talks and workshops about no dig gardening, sustainable growing and homesteading across the UK. More info here: https://nodighome.com/events/ My website: https://nodighome.com Follow my new garden on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephaniehafferty/ Regular blog updates: https://nodighome.com/blog-posts/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Steph_Hafferty 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/
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What I Do

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

My no dig kitchen is full of inspiration. Look up a range of plot to plate recipes here on the website and try them for yourself!

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

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