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Thai influenced golden raw summer vegetable salad

by Stephanie Hafferty | Aug 18, 2017 | Blog, Homesteading, No Dig Home, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, Organic, Recipes, Seasonal Cooking, Summer

This gorgeous bright seasonal salad is almost a meal in itself and can easily be adapted to include other summer vegetables in your garden (and winter root veg later in the year). It is a zingy, delicious, colourful way to use up gluts. I’m enjoying trying out...

Seasonal summer frugal feasting

by Stephanie Hafferty | Aug 1, 2017 | Blog, Homesteading, No Dig Home, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, Recipes, Seasonal Cooking, Summer

Regular readers of my blog will know that one of passions, and fortunately work, is harvesting seasonal homegrown vegetables, fruit and herbs and delicious food. For our no dig gardening day course at Homeacres on Saturday, I made lunch for 17 (including Charles and...

Why grow No Dig?

by Stephanie Hafferty | May 28, 2017 | Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, Organic, Permaculture, Preparing The Soil

My first real introduction to no dig gardening was when I started working in the market garden at Lower Farm nine years or so ago. I had heard of the no dig method and borrowed the book Organic Gardening, the Natural No Dig Way from the library but didn’t see it...

Clearing and planting

by Stephanie Hafferty | May 13, 2017 | Allotment, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, Mulching, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Preparing The Soil, Spring, Summer

I’ve mostly been concentrating on my at home garden, so it was a real pleasure to be able to spend some time at my allotment, getting ready for everything that will be planted there over the next week or so. I’d let the brassicas go to flower for the...

May – I need more hours in the day!

by Stephanie Hafferty | May 9, 2017 | Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Spring

The temperature has fallen (again!) and the wind can be so cold, but things are hotting up in my no dig greenhouse and polytunnel. Germination is so rapid it feels as though seeds are popping almost as soon as I plant them, thanks to the heat mats and heated...

Exciting times!

by Stephanie Hafferty | Apr 29, 2017 | Allotment, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, Mulching, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, potions, Preparing The Soil, Preserving, Recipes, Seasonal Cooking

Friday 21st April was uniquely special: our book arrived at the publishers. Life has been so busy since that it has taken a week to be able to find the time write this post 🙂 Our publishers, Permanent Press, released gorgeous photos on social media of our book. It was...

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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.