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....
How to support small businesses for free
How to support small businesses for free – and also some ways to support small businesses for a little money. It is important to support small businesses – we need them! The ever increasing cost of living if affecting most of us these days. It is a...Stephanie Hafferty
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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:
