Two delicious infused liqueur recipes
Spiced Fruit Liqueur and Ginger and Orange Spiced Gin recipes – for festive cheer, they make delicious homemade gifts. These recipes use kitchen cupboard ingredients so you should be able to find all of the ingredients at home or in your local shops. Both are...
Autumnal update from my no dig garden
 Whoosh! That was October… didn’t that fly by? And here we are in early November, the first frosts making the garden sparkle in early morning sunlight, turning frost tender plants such as nasturtiums to mush. It has been raining an awful lot too! ...
What to sow now – September
There is still sow much that you can sow for cropping over winter and into the spring, for delicious harvests grown undercover and outside. September is like a second spring, a busy sowing and planting month, but unlike actual spring every day is shorter, there is...
Mid-August Sowing and Growing
… and harvesting too! All of the hard work sowing, planting, watering and weeding has paid off and my garden and allotment is glowing with abundant fruit, herbs, flowers and vegetables. I can hardly keep up, what a lovely problem to have! After one of the...
Podcast with Roots and All
Sarah Wilson from award winning Roots and All interviewed me recently for a podcast. Listen to it here: Â Â Growing Food with Stephanie Hafferty It’s also available on iTunes and Android. What We Discuss: Avoiding bolting crops The best way to pick leafy crops to...
Midsummer no dig allotment and garden
It’s early July in my no dig garden, and I am loving the daily fruity harvests of raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, gooseberries and redcurrants. Whitecurrants are almost ready to pick and cherries soon too, protected from birds by enviromesh, pegged...
Website revamp
I am so excited to be working with the fabulous Laura Hadland, revamping my website with a fresh new look. It’s going to take a little while, so there’ll be gradual changes and the odd page missing occasionally, because we are keeping the website live for...
Podcast for Garden Organic
Really happy to be in the June podcast from Garden Organic . I was interviewed during one stormy evening back in February, we had such a fun time. How different the world was then! I hope you enjoy the podcast, the link is here. From Garden Organic’s website:...
What is no dig (no till) gardening?
I have been gardening using no dig methods, or no till as it is also known, for around 12 years. I’ve worked in, created or advised many different kinds of edible growing spaces: market gardens, kitchen gardens on large private estates, pop up gardens for festivals,...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:
