by Stephanie Hafferty | Dec 19, 2025 | Blog, Book Reviews, Reviews
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...
by Stephanie Hafferty | Dec 7, 2025 | Blog, Book Reviews, Reviews
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...
by Stephanie Hafferty | Dec 6, 2025 | Blog, Homesteading, Winter
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...
by Stephanie Hafferty | Dec 5, 2025 | Blog, Homesteading, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, Permaculture, Winter
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...
by Stephanie Hafferty | Nov 7, 2025 | Blog, Book Reviews
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...
by Stephanie Hafferty | Sep 18, 2025 | Blog
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...