Stephanie Hafferty

The Productive Garden

An Essential Guide Toward Self-Sufficiency

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Grow your own food and make your own household essentials in this self-sufficiency bible. Written by No Dig guru Stephanie Hafferty, and photographed by Jason Ingram.    Self-sufficiency needn’t be something you dream of as you shuffle down the supermarket aisles. It’s far easier than you think to grow your own, save money, reduce your consumption, increase your resilience, and care for the planet – all from your own back yard. Stephanie Hafferty does it every day. From her No Dig garden, she grows the food she needs to eat and the plants she needs to help her produce everyday household essentials. With more than 30 years of experience, she knows how to make a harvest stretch further, and how to feed the earth so that it can give back, year after year. In The Productive Garden, Stephanie introduces you to everything you need to grow abundant and useful crops, and teaches you what to do with them.  Part One: In the Garden * Planning a self-sufficient garden * Effective techniques for making compost, storing water, protecting crops, and improving your soil * Working with nature to increase biodiversity and control 'pests' * Creating a planting plan unique to your space * Sowing and propagating Part Two: Seasonal Produce *  A complete guide to Stephanie's tried-and-tested plants and unique varieties, covering vegetables, fruit, herbs, and flowers Part Three: In the House * Recipes for a homegrown larder – including preserves, oils, ferments, vinegars, cordials, and more * Chemical-free cleaners – including fragrances, soaps, and food wraps * Using produce to improve wellbeing – such as making body care products and herbal remedies * Garden crafts – including preserved flowers and flower-pounding techniques As a leading No Dig expert, Stephanie can show you sustainable methods of cultivating a generous and abundant garden, bringing together affordable homesteading with the reality of modern life. Whether you want to start small, have already embarked on a journey to self-sufficiency, or are looking for a complete lifestyle change, this will become your go-to book and essential guide. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Frances Lincoln
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 201mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781805703242
• ISBN-10: 1805703242
• Artikelnr.: 74918986

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Hafferty is an award-winning garden writer, organic gardener, designer, food writer and educator, who has been growing her own food for more than 30 years. As well as growing abundant gardens on a shoestring budget for her family, Stephanie has worked as a kitchen and market gardener for restaurants and clients such as Sir Cameron Mackintosh and Hauser & Wirth Somerset. Stephanie teaches gardening, homesteading and cooking around the world, including at major RHS shows, Kew Gardens and BBC Gardeners’ World Live, and writes widely for magazines such as Kitchen Garden, BBC Gardeners’ World, Bloom and Amateur Gardening. Stephanie is co-author of No Dig Organic Home & Garden (2017) and author of The Creative Kitchen (2018).