No Dig Gardening – The Sustainable(ish) Online Festival 2020 – A Festival of Sustainable Living
The Sustainable(ish) Online Festival 2020 was an online celebration of all things Sustainable(ish) held during May 2020.
The festival was host to 40 talks providing a source of inspiration for anyone wanting to try and live a more sustainable life and reduce their impact on the planet, and it was bloody brilliant to see so much enthusiasm for all things Sustainable(ish) and the wonderful community that came together in a virtual campsite to support each other and take action for the health of the planet.
Stephanie Hafferty joined us for a brilliant session on No Dig Gardening.
She is a leading authority on no dig gardening, a garden and food writer, edible garden consultant, has worked as a no dig kitchen gardener for eleven years and grown on allotments for over 30 years. She has created kitchen gardens on private estates, including running a no dig kitchen garden for Sir Cameron Macintosh, and for restaurants, currently for Roth Bar and Grill at Hauser and Wirth Somerset. This year Stephanie is co-designing a show garden for the RHS at the Hampton Court Flower Show.
She specialises in growing in domestic spaces, teaching and writing about how to grow food year round, whatever your plot size. Stephanie is passionate about promoting affordable healthy food for all, how to grow it and then what to do with it, having raised three children mostly as a single mum. She develops and shares plant based recipes based almost entirely on food that can be grown at an allotment, and also uses plants to make body products, household cleaners, preserves, alcohol: “small scale homesteading”.
Stephanie lives in a very ordinary semi-detached ex council house where she grows food at a nearby allotment, in her front garden, back garden, on windowsills and any space she can find.
Stephanie writes a blog, for various publications including a regular feature for Kitchen Garden magazine and has written three books:
- No Dig Organic Home and Garden (with Charles Dowding) 2017:
- The Creative Kitchen 2018
- and is currently writing No Dig Year Round Harvests: How to grow food all year in your garden, allotment or homestead February 2021
You can find out more at at Stephanie's website No Dig Home.
- Check out the rest of the talks here.
- If you're inspired to take action from any of the talks, there's a festival 'pledge wall' here - come and add yours!
- And if you've enjoyed the talks and want to donate the cost of a cuppa to say thank you and help fund the work here at Sustainable(ish), please do head over to the festival ko-fi cart here.
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