Stephanie Hafferty Book order (chronological)

Swap your trolley for a trug and embrace modern self-sufficiency by growing your own food and making household essentials. Written by No-Dig expert Stephanie Hafferty and photographed by Jason Ingram, this guide reveals how easy it is to cultivate your own produce, save money, reduce consumption, and care for the planet—all from your backyard. With over 30 years of experience, Hafferty shares her daily practices of growing food and crafting essentials, from cleaning products to hand cream. The book is divided into three parts: Part One focuses on garden planning, effective composting, water storage, crop protection, and soil improvement. It emphasizes working with nature to enhance biodiversity and includes tips on creating a personalized planting plan and seasonal foraging. Part Two offers recipes for a homegrown larder, including preserves and ferments, alongside chemical-free cleaners and garden crafts. It also explores using produce for wellbeing, such as body care products and herbal remedies. Part Three provides a comprehensive guide to Hafferty's favorite plants, covering vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers. As a leading No-Dig authority, Hafferty equips you with sustainable methods for cultivating an abundant garden, making this an essential resource whether you're starting small or seeking a complete lifestyle change.

From the best-selling, award winning author of No Dig Organic Home and Garden, Stephanie Hafferty offers a pathway to low cost, zero waste and as plastic free living as possible.

No dig organic gardening saves time and work. It requires an annual dressing of compost to help accelerate the improvement in soil structure and leads to higher fertility and less weeds. No dig experts, Charles Dowding and Stephanie Hafferty, explain how to set up a no dig garden. They describe how to: Make compost, enrich soil, harvest and prepare food and make natural beauty and clean ing products and garden preparations. These approaches work as well in small spaces as in large gardens. The Authors' combined experience gives you ways of growing, preparing and storing the plants you grow for many uses, including delicious vegetable feasts and many recipes and ideas for increasing self reliance, saving money, living sustainably and enjoying the pleasure of growing your own food, year round. Charles' advice is distilled from 35 years of growing vegetables intensively and efficiently; he is the acknowledged no dig guru and salad expert both in the UK and internationally. Stephanie, a kitchen gardener, grows in her small, productive home garden and allotment, and creates no dig gardens for restaurants and private estates. She presents truly delicious seasonal recipes, made from the vegetables anyone can grow. She also explains how to use common plants you can grow and forage for to make handmade preparation for the home and garden.