Use It Up-uary
You’ve heard of Dry January and Veganuary – we’re doing Use It Up-uary. Use It Up-uary Instead of taking things up, or giving them up, we’re doing “Use It Up-uary”. This extends through January and February for us, but you can do it at any time. A...
The Climate Change Resilient Vegetable Garden book review
The Climate Change Resilient Vegetable Garden: How to Grow Food in a Changing Climate by Kim Stoddart 2025 has been an ‘interesting’ year, weather wise, here in the UK. Heavy rains caused severe flooding, much of the country experienced drought with hosepipe...
Book Review – A Wilder Way by Poppy Okotcha
A Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Us by Poppy Okotcha Illustrated by Frances Whitfield This beautiful, inspiring book is a personal memoir of a year in a Devonshire garden. A Wilder Way is a seasonal gardening manual, a homegrown recipe book and a joyful...
December newsy update
I thought it was about time to write a newsy update from the homestead. Yesterday I wrote a “what’s been happening in the garden” December blog which you can read here. Today’s blog is all about “what’s been happening here, other...
December update from my Welsh homestead
A December update from my Welsh homestead – what’s been happening in the garden, and plans for the wintertime! There’s a newsy “what’s been happening other than gardening” update here. “Oh the weather outside is...
Book Review – GROWING by Ramona Jones
Growing by Ramona Jones – A year of living and nurturing with the seasons Many readers will know Ramona from her gorgeous, uplifting social media, including her instagram account @Monalogue which has over 1 million followers. I started following Ramona a few...
Grow a healthy garden this autumn
Grow a healthy garden by shopping wisely for trees, seeds and plants, to protect our environment. For gardeners, autumn is a time of gathering in the abundance of summer months, storing and preserving this bounty for the winter to come. I’m busy with the last sowings...
My friend Sara Venn
My wonderful friend Sara Venn sadly died on Saturday 21st June, after a long illness with cancer. She was well known, loved and respected in the world of gardening and horticulture as an activist, especially for her work promoting community gardening at Edible...
Growing Year Round Day Course at the Hafod Estate
Learn how to grow your own food year round on this day course at the beautiful Hafod Estate in Ceredigion, on August 3rd 2025. 10am to 4pm August is a key time for sowing many food crops which will provide harvests throughout the winter and into the following spring....Stephanie Hafferty
photo by Jason Ingram
Welcome to my blog. I’m Stephanie, follow my journey as I create my homestead in rural Wales on around half an acre. Here I grow year round, and teach gardening, homesteading and food courses.
An experienced kitchen gardener, homesteader and plant-based chef, I’ve been growing my own food for decades to feed my family. I am an award winning garden and food writer, write for many publications and am currently working on my third book.
From the garden to the kitchen, explore the categories below to follow the rhythms of life on the homestead.
Publications I write for include:
