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Making a no dig bed on frozen grassy ground

by Stephanie Hafferty | Dec 15, 2017 | Blog, Homesteading, Mulching, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, Organic, Permaculture, Preparing The Soil, Winter

In the bleak mid-winter, frost made the earth stand hard as iron, water like a stone. No problem for no dig gardeners – we decided to make another bed at Homeacres! (We didn’t get the snow mentioned in Christina Rossetti’s poem here in Somerset, just...

Top 10 FAQ – How to start your No Dig Garden

by Stephanie Hafferty | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog, Gardening, Mulching, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Preparing The Soil

We are often asked to start no dig gardens and so the admin team of our Facebook group and I have come up with the Top Ten Most Frequently Asked Questions. If we haven’t covered your questions, please ask them in the comments here (or on the Facebook group if...

No Dig Allotment November Update

by Stephanie Hafferty | Nov 22, 2017 | Allotment, Autumn, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, Mulching, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, Organic, Permaculture

My allotment has been quite neglected recently. All of my travels (Yorkshire for a wedding, then Thailand and Laos, with a work trip to Ireland just 2 days after returning), my work and autumnal weather suddenly arriving after a mild sunny spell – quite a shock...

Time to plant

by Stephanie Hafferty | Oct 8, 2017 | Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, Mulching, No Dig Gardening, No Hungry Gap, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Preparing The Soil, Winter

This is the sixth in my series of blog posts, explaining how to grow vegetables and herbs which can be sown now to see you through the winter and spring – no hungry gap in 2018! I have added the category No Hungry Gap, so you can find all of the blogs easily using the...

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...

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.