Polytunnel Archives - Stephanie Hafferty

Midsummer update from my homestead

by Stephanie Hafferty | Jun 28, 2024 | Ael Y Bryn, Blog, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, No Dig Gardening, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Resilient Gardening, Summer, Sustainable Gardening

It has been some time since I have posted a blog update from my homestead. Looking out of the window at grey skies it is hard to believe that July is just around the corner. 2024 so far has certainly been a very strange growing year, weather-wise. A cool wet year so...

An autumnal update from my no dig garden

by Stephanie Hafferty | Nov 5, 2022 | Ael Y Bryn, Autumn, Blog, Courses, Events, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, Mulching, No Dig Gardening, No Hungry Gap, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Preparing The Soil, Preserving, What To Sow Now, Winter

Things are slowing down in the garden here at Ael Y Bryn, and the landscape view from my desk window is very autumnal. It’s pouring down. I’m waiting for the rain to stop so that I can harvest some greens, leeks and herbs to go with our dinner this evening...

Lughnasadh harvests and what to sow now

by Stephanie Hafferty | Aug 1, 2021 | Ael Y Bryn, Blog, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Summer

Happy Lughnasadh! Also known as the feast of Lammas (“loaf mass”) August 1st has been celebrated for centuries as the time of the first grain harvest. There would be great celebrations with fairs, feasting and bonfires. It is high summer, but in the...

What to sow in February

by Stephanie Hafferty | Feb 14, 2021 | Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, No Dig Gardening, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Spring

Every year I look forward to Valentine’s Day – not for romantic reasons but for leafy ones! Because this is an excellent time to start your sowings for the year. Here in Somerset the sun rose today at around 7:25 and will set at around 17:25, ten hours of...

What to sow now – September

by Stephanie Hafferty | Sep 7, 2020 | Allotment, Autumn, Blog, Gardening, Polytunnel

There is still sow much that you can sow for cropping over winter and into the spring, for delicious harvests grown undercover and outside. September is like a second spring, a busy sowing and planting month, but unlike actual spring every day is shorter, there is...

Earth Day

by Stephanie Hafferty | Apr 23, 2020 | Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Spring

Yesterday was Earth Day 2020, a time for thinking about nature and our planet. No dig gardening is an earth inspired way of growing which protects the soil, soil life and environment. There’s been a phenomenal increase in interest in no dig gardening, which is...

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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.