Book offers and Growing Green International
All back issues of the magazine of the Vegan Organic Network are now available online for free, in order to help people who are learning to grow their own food. They are available here. My article about No Dig Gardening is in issue 43 and about Wildlife Gardening in...
Sad Sprout Story
Brussels Sprouts are one of my most favourite vegetables. It is a happy day when the first sprouts are ready to pick, I even like to eat them for breakfast! Every year I grow several varieties to extend the sprout harvesting season – but sadly this year, it...
How to make a veganic no dig garden
How to grow using no dig methods veganically, also known as “stock free”, without animal manures or other animal derived inputs. There’s a bit of a myth that you *have* to include animal manures in composts in order to grow good vegetables. I hear...
What to sow now for winter and spring harvests
Now is the ideal time to sow many different kinds of vegetables and herbs, for cropping through the winter and into next spring, and beyond! September …. so much to harvest and preserve: ripening fruit, squashes, courgettes are still cropping even though looking...
No dig abundance in July
Hasn’t the month passed quickly? I can hardly believe that it is August on Thursday. Today I’ve been enjoying more of an indoor kind of day, catching up with things at my desk and general chores, because it has – finally, oh joy! – been...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:
