by Stephanie Hafferty | Nov 23, 2018 | Allotment, Blog, Kitchen garden, Recipes, Seasonal Cooking, The Creative Kitchen, Winter
This gorgeous, vegetable-filled salad is ideal for winter meals, a great way of using leftover vegetables from a roast dinner – just like “bubble and squeak”. A tasty way to make the most of a Thanksgiving, Christmas or other roast dinner leftovers!...
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. Â After a summer of taking their prolific spiciness for granted, I’m keen to preserve what I can before the weather turns colder…....
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...
by Stephanie Hafferty | Jul 24, 2018 | Blog, Recipes, Seasonal Cooking
It’s that time of year again, the days of delighting in the first few courgettes have transformed into a bewilderment of abundance. As fast as I pick them, more are growing – it’s wonderful. Courgettes are finding their way into as many meals as possible. I’m...
by Stephanie Hafferty | Jul 3, 2018 | Blog, Homesteading, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, Recipes, Seasonal Cooking, Summer, The Creative Kitchen
The vegetable gardens are filling up with gorgeous summer abundance, almost every day it seems we are welcoming back another seasonal delight. Yesterday I made supper for over 50 people using delicious freshly harvested vegetables, fruit and herbs grown by Charles at...
by Stephanie Hafferty | May 24, 2018 | Allotment, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, Mulching, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, No Hungry Gap, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Preparing The Soil, Recipes, Seasonal Cooking
May is always a busy month for gardeners and it feels even more so this year here – is that the same for you? After such a long, slow cool spring, all at once the sun has remembered to shine, the temperatures have soared and everything is putting on fantastic...