Organic Gardening Course 3rd October 2026

Grow Year Round No Dig Gardening Day Course

with Stephanie Hafferty

Saturday 3rd October 2026 from 11 – 4pm

 

Discover how to grow a productive garden, with harvests year round, on this organic gardening course in October, at my homestead in beautiful Ceredigion.

Learn how to create an abundant, wildlife friendly and climate resilient edible garden whatever your space, using different resources and my time saving, practical and affordable tips and techniques, based on decades of growing food.

So that everyone can relax, enjoy the day and ask all the questions they wish, I keep the group numbers for each course a small, friendly size. 

There’s still plenty to do in the garden in October, including last sowings of the year, and preparing the plot for the winter months. It’s a busy harvesting and storing time too.  We’ll look at planning the 2027 growing year and gardening jobs for late autumn and winter. 

Make a weekend of it and learn what to do with summer and autumn harvests on the Homesteading Stills course, 4th October 2026.

We don’t know what the weather will have in store for us, so I’ll demonstrate different ways to be prepared for different growing conditions, including easy homemade crop protection and indoor growing.

Learn different ways of creating a regenerative no dig garden. We’ll explore all of the Homestead, including the productive polytunnels, greenhouse, water harvesting systems, experimental mulch beds, perennial veg, fruit bushes and trees, annual veg beds and a lot more.

The whole homestead garden, on a hillside, was created by just one person (me!)

The day includes:

• • How to create a no dig garden, easily and affordably

• • How to create a healthy soil ecosystem

• • Different mulches and cover crops, including using green manures

• • Many kinds of compost and their applications

• • Composting techniques for every size of garden

• • Homemade plant and soil feeds

• • Water harvesting and saving

• • Propagation and sowing – including frugal off-grid solutions

• • Keeping plants healthy

• • Crop protection

• • Discouraging unwanted visitors (aka “pests”)

• • Growing undercover – greenhouses, polytunnels, cloches, homemade techniques

• • Maximise growing space with companion planting, interplanting and multi sowing

• • Resilient ways to garden in a changing climate

• • Wildlife gardening, and how working with wildlife increases yields, protects crops and enhances plant health
  • Seed saving
  • Real life solutions for what to do if you’re going on holiday/ working away/ can’t get to your plot for a while
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  • Practical hands on activities according to the time of year
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  • How to grow fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers to create your own “larder in the garden”
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  • As well as being an experienced grower, I specialise in what to do with what you have grown, and will share thrifty tips to increase your self sufficiency – and save money too.

Depending on the weather and time of year, there may be practical activities too. The day course starts at 11 (arrive after 10:30) and ends around 4pm. 

I am running many different courses at the homestead during 2026 – full details are here.
There are vouchers available too here. 

Day course prices

Cost for the day including beverages is £95. Please bring a packed lunch and any snacks you wish to have. Full information here.

Please choose the “voucher/course” option for the drop down menu when booking your place. If you’re buying books at the same time, please choose the relevant postage costs instead for those.

Location and other information

The course takes place entirely outside in the garden and some of the garden buildings including the polytunnel and outdoor kitchen (an open fronted barn).

Situated an easy 10 minute drive from Lampeter, Ceredigion, full details of location are provided when you book.

Please read the Terms and Conditions, including the cancellation policy, before booking. Thank you!

There are plenty of places to stay in the area, ranging from stunning glamping sites, to gorgeous seaside hotels. There’s a list of suggested places to visit here.

The courses are not suitable for children or dogs, except assistance dogs on leads.

Accessibility

The gardens are accessed via a short flight of steps from the lane. Some of the gardens are fairly flat, but the orchard is sloped. It is not a very steep incline but is on a hill. Please contact me for more information and to discuss your needs.

 

Bespoke courses and workshops

If you’d like to book a bespoke day course for your group, please contact me.