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What to sow now for winter and spring harvests

by Stephanie Hafferty | Sep 11, 2019 | Autumn, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, No Hungry Gap, Permaculture, Polytunnel

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...

How to sow no dig parsnips, carrots and other root veg

by Stephanie Hafferty | Apr 2, 2019 | Allotment, Blog, Mulching, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, No Hungry Gap, Organic, Permaculture, Preparing The Soil, Spring

It’s spring and I am thinking of winter vegetables! Root vegetables are surprisingly easy to grow using no dig methods. Yesterday I sowed parsnips, carrots, radish, Hamburg parsley and scorzonera into a recently applied mulch of compost on top of my heavy clay...

Back home

by Stephanie Hafferty | Feb 19, 2019 | Blog, Gardening, Kitchen garden, No Dig Home, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Spring, Winter

I had a great time on holidays, but it’s nice being home again too, especially now that spring is in the air! I flew back from Thailand on January 24th. Coming into London at 6am, this was the view from my window – can you see Tower Bridge? Good to see my...

How to make nasturtium salt & other nasturtium recipes

by Stephanie Hafferty | Oct 22, 2018 | Blog, No Dig Home, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, Recipes, Seasonal Cooking, The Creative Kitchen

In my garden a bright jungle of colourful nasturtiums are rejoicing in the surprisingly warm sunshine-y October weather. After a summer of taking their prolific spiciness for granted, I’m keen to preserve what I can before the weather turns colder…....

On this harvest moon…

by Stephanie Hafferty | Sep 27, 2018 | Autumn, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, Mulching, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, No Hungry Gap, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, potions, Preparing The Soil, Preserving, The Creative Kitchen, Winter

This week began with the Autumn Equinox, the festival of Mabon, which starts on September 21st although the actual time of the equinox was Sunday 23rd at around 2am (in the UK). Day and night are of equal length once more, before the nights get longer and the days...

September sowing, sweetcorn harvests and recipes

by Stephanie Hafferty | Sep 14, 2018 | Autumn, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, No Hungry Gap, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Recipes, Seasonal Cooking, Summer, The Creative Kitchen

As summer mellows into autumn, the allotment and garden is full of ripening vegetables and fruit. Mornings are much colder now, it’s something of a shock after our much hotter than usual summer: we started picking salad at Homeacres this morning at 6:30 (the day...

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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.