Midsummer update from my homestead
It has been some time since I have posted a blog update from my homestead. Looking out of the window at grey skies it is hard to believe that July is just around the corner. 2024 so far has certainly been a very strange growing year, weather-wise. A cool wet year so...
Happy New Year!
It’s the first day of 2024, a brand new gardening year. I’m starting with a garden update from my Welsh Homestead. One of my biggest wishes for this year in the garden is for better weather! It has been very, very wet and because of this, a lack of...
Grow food year round with no dig gardening
Part one of a series of articles, explaining the joys of this wonderful, planet-friendly way of growing abundant food year round. (The rest of the articles will be published on the blog soon) What is no dig gardening? No Dig gardening is a wonderful way to grow...
An autumnal update from my no dig garden
Things are slowing down in the garden here at Ael Y Bryn, and the landscape view from my desk window is very autumnal. It’s pouring down. I’m waiting for the rain to stop so that I can harvest some greens, leeks and herbs to go with our dinner this evening...
Winter update from my new(ish) no dig garden
This is the first winter that we have spent here in Wales, and we are enjoying learning about the weather on our little piece of Welsh hillside. Everyone told us that it would be wet: it certainly knows how to rain here! Whatever the weather, I’ve been busy...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:
