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Kale – Root to Shoot: leaves, flowers, sprouts and more!

by Stephanie Hafferty | Apr 5, 2019 | Allotment, Autumn, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, No Hungry Gap, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Recipes, Seasonal Cooking, Spring, Summer, The Creative Kitchen, Winter

Kale, a nutrient dense vegetable high in vitamins, is well known for its many health benefits. Easy to grow and winter hardy in the UK, it’s a fantastic plant for the hungry home gardener. Kale’s delicious leaves make a tasty addition to all kinds of meals...

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...

Weeding for the Queen… and other gardening news!

by Stephanie Hafferty | Mar 29, 2019 | Blog, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Preparing The Soil, Spring, The Creative Kitchen

The Queen visited “my” work kitchen garden yesterday, so I spent time on Wednesday making sure it was all weeded and spruced up. Ok, so perhaps the purpose of her visit to Bruton wasn’t to gaze upon my herbs and veggies but it’s not...

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...

New Year news!

by Stephanie Hafferty | Jan 15, 2019 | Allotment, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, No Dig Gardening, Permaculture, The Creative Kitchen

New allotment plans, magazine articles, writing a new book and other plans for 2019. Happy (belated) New Year! I’m writing this in my “office” in Dad’s lush tropical gardens, next to the rice fields in a small village in Doi Saket, Chiang Mai. It’s a beautiful place...

November in my No Dig Garden

by Stephanie Hafferty | Nov 17, 2018 | Allotment, Autumn, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, No Dig Gardening, No Hungry Gap, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Preparing The Soil, The Creative Kitchen

It has been a busy time since my last blog post and how the garden has changed! The weather has been typically British, from unseasonably warm to icy cold (for Somerset) and back again. Mornings are misty, deciduous trees almost entirely without leaves now and...

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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.