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Sep 20, 2024 | 
nodighome.com | Stephanie Hafferty
Find out more about growing perennial veg and other perennial edibles on this short day course at the homestead. I am looking forward to hosting this event on October 12th 2024 – looking at the many benefits of growing perennial veg and other edibles. Part of a series of events organised in Wales by the Hope Garden. The event is free to attend. It is located in a village close to Lampeter in Ceredigion, and places are limited, so please make sure you’re able to get there before booking.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Martin Crawford |Vera Greutink |Paul Alfrey |Stephanie Hafferty
Maddy Harland, PM‘s editor, gives a tour of her small, no dig garden, on a woodland edge. Filmed in August, Maddy explains how her raised veggies beds produce a modest amount of food for most of the year plus culinary herbs and apples and gooseberries. There are plenty of flowers mixed in with the veg, so much so that there are very few pests.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
nodighome.com | Stephanie Hafferty
This month I will be giving workshops, talks and demos at RHS Wisley, Harrogate Flower Show, the Permaculture Festival and running courses at my homestead. I hope you can join me at one or more of these events. RHS Wisley Flower ShowI’m looking forward to returning to RHS Wisley Flower Show on Saturday September 7th to give two talks in the Hilltop Live Lecture Theatre: Sustainable edible gardening – how to grow your own food year round, affordably. Catch me at 1pm and 3pm.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
nodighome.com | Stephanie Hafferty
Here at my small homestead in rural Wales, August has been a rather lovely month. We’ve had sunshine, warmth and showers, resulting in abundant growth of the veggies and also, unfortunately, the brambles that are on a takeover mission…..!Today the morning is grey, wet and windy, perfect for getting those indoor jobs done, the ones that I put off when the sun shines, and for polytunnel gardening. I love the sunshine.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
nodighome.com | Stephanie Hafferty
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
nodighome.com | Stephanie Hafferty
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 farHere on my hillside in Ceredigion, the rain started falling in mid-July last year and barely stopped until May. Temperatures are mostly much lower than usual, especially at night.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Vera Greutink |Lorenzo Costa |Julie Bruton-Seal |Stephanie Hafferty
Many years ago we bought a large zinc tub at a flea market. When my kids were young, I would put it in the garden, fill it with water and let them splash to their hearts’ delight. But when they outgrew this kind of entertainment, I started using the tub for growing edibles. Every year I came up with a different planting, creating a new miniature garden – one year I grew a succession of salads, another year a colourful mix of edible flowers.
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
kitchengarden.co.uk | Stephanie Hafferty
Stephanie Hafferty offers some money-saving ideas to keep seedlings warm and make sure they have adequate light. Seeds need warmth and light in order to germinate and thrive. British weather is remarkably changeable in the spring. One day we can be gardening in shorts and a T-shirt, the next huddling indoors with a mug of soup, watching hail sprinkling the garden with a layer of ice. For much of the UK, the last frost dates are well into May, which can make sowing and growing from seed a challenge.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Alan Carter |Anne Stobart |Stephanie Hafferty |Vera Greutink
Pippa Chapman, garden designer and author of The Plant Lover’s Backyard Forest Garden, talks about her most favourite combinations of plants for perennial food gardens, large or small, that are both beautiful and tasty. She offers ideas for ground covers, shrubs, nitrogen fixers, pollinators, flowering edible bulbs … Pippa also encourages us to plant for the pure joy of plants, their beauty and scents, and for year-round interest for both humans and to provide food for insects and birds.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Anne Stobart |Stephanie Hafferty |Liz Zorab |Glennie Kindred
Organic gardener and homesteader, Liz Zorab chats to Permaculture magazine’s editor Maddy Harland, about what it is to be a seasonal gardener and shares some of her tips for winter gardening. Liz’s gardening cycle starts in the autumn, rather than the spring, and she uses the shorter days to dream and imagine the following year’s garden and any new projects. Liz shares how following the rhythms of Nature has improved her health and made gardening more enjoyable.
