Stephanie Hafferty

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Learn how to grow a productive garden, harvesting year round, and the skills to preserve your produce on my gardening and homesteading skills courses in 2026🌱

🏡 Classes are held at my homestead in Wales, and also via webinars online.

First dates are online now 🔗 in comments

Delighted to discover that my You Tube channel now has over 10,000 subscribers!

It's a rather homespun channel, no fancy filming or team editing it for me, but I am glad so many people like it.

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After a 6 month break, I've posted 2 new videos on my You Tube channel. There'll be more gardening & homesteading content on the channel from now on.

This one explains why I took a break

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& this is an update from the garden

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Thanks Stuart

Thank you Niki

The November issue of Kitchen Garden Magazine is in the shops now - and look who is on the cover!

What a lovely surprise.

I’m one of five fabulous finalists. Congratulations to them too 👏
@mike_thegardener
@lucychamberlaingardens
@anneswithinbank
& Val Bourne.

So excited - I’ve been shortlisted for Practical Journalist of the Year, at the prestigious Garden Media Guild Awards 2025 🤩
Results on November 21st!

I’m a regular monthly feature writer for Kitchen Garden Magazine & Amateur Gardening Magazine, and write freelance for Gardeners’ World Mag & more.

Stephanie Hafferty | Tickets Oxford Organic gardening and homesteading expert Stephanie Hafferty is an expert edible gardener, homesteader, garden designer, consultant, speaker and award winn

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Delighted to have been invited to speak at Trinity College Oxford on May 26th 2026, as part of their Gardens Season.

Do come along!

Link for tickets in comments.

What to sow in October 🌱

A list of some of the edibles you can sow now, undercover in polytunnels etc & also outside.

Outdoor sowings will benefit from crop protection if the weather is cold, stormy, very wet

Thank you

🍂 Homestead harvests - late September 🥙

Some of the fruit, veg & herbs growing here on my plot on a hill in west Wales. Some outside, others such as the watermelon and aubergines in polytunnels. Sloes foraged down my lane.

Food for dinners this week & preserving for meals throughout the winter
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I'll be talking about no dig gardening and, uniquely for the festival, will be accompanied by my son Ruairi, a mycologist, who can answer specific soil fungi questions.

Next week Ruairi is moving to Scotland, to start a PhD in mycorrhizal fungi and agroforestry 🍄‍🟫

Looking forward to attending the All Things Fungi festival this weekend, in Sussex.

I'm thrilled to be part of a superb line up of speakers at the event, including Merlin Sheldrake.

There's also music, art, fungi forays, workshops and much more.

www.allthingsfungi.co.uk

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Plaid Cymru have the same number of MPs as Reform and afaik never get invited onto discussion programmes etc

I don't watch BBC, as don't have live TV.

Dee (@dee_malks) on Threads Thank you @edwardjdavey @libdems for calling out the @bbc for giving Nigel Farage an easy ride and only covering their “tittle tattle”.

I saw a clip Ed Davey commenting on the BBC, to a BBC presenter, about the excessive Farage bias. Hopefully this link works:

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🌿 New on the Dalefoot blog 🌿
The second permaculture ethic: People Care.

From joyful moments of self-care to inspiring ways of supporting our neighbours and communities, I share practical tips and reflections on how we can all live more connected, caring lives.
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Looking forward to hosting workshops here at the homestead in September & October, and travelling to some fantastic shows to give talks and run workshops and demos!

If you are attending BBC Gardeners' World Autumn Fair, All Things Fungi or Harrogate Autumn Flower Show do come and say hello.

Read my seasonal Jobs for the Month in the latest issue of Kitchen Garden Magazine!

In the shops now

My friend Sara Venn - Stephanie Hafferty Remembering my good friend Sara Venn, who sadly died at the summer solstice after a long illness with cancer.

A blog about my friend Sara, who died on June 21st. Some thoughts about her, and our friendship.

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I've seen it used before, but it's still a good idea. My sundew lives in the house where it eats tiny flies.

Breakfast this morning - I fancied a treat and we have so many raspberries just now.

Homemade waffles including our duck eggs, fresh homegrown raspberries and 🍁 maple syrup. Yum.

What do you like to put on waffles?

My son Ruairi (pictured), a mycologist, was part of this exciting study into how air pollution affects life below the soil.

Learn more in the post ⬇️

🧹 Before anyone gets the urge to tell me to ignore the cleaning, honestly it really needs doing. I’m sure those “clean if you must” memes are written by folk who have others doing their chores.

Served with some organic rye sourdough to mop up the juices, it includes tomatoes, onions, garlic, garlic scapes, cumin, smoked paprika, chilli, kale, thyme, oregano, parsley broad beans, sweet potato, olive oil, sea salt and black pepper.

Whilst influenced by shakshuka, this is not an authentic recipe 🍳 I included fridge leftovers into the mix, herbs from the garden & a kale picked this morning.

🍅I used tinned cherry tomatoes. Mine are not ripe yet 🥫Later in the summer I freeze bags of cherry tomatoes, which are ideal for this dish.

Having realised that the pixies do not come at night to do the housework, and with a long list of writing and editing work to do today as well as the chores, I decided to make a hearty breakfast.

🥚The ducks are laying with enthusiasm so this was made with recycled slugs!!🦆

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