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Stephanie Hafferty

Stephanie Hafferty

Gardener

Aug 31, 2026

BearHOST
8:00
Can you tell us about that?
8:04
Yeah.
8:05
So it's basically a book...
8:08
And showing people how to grow their own food on many different scales.
8:12
So I've grown, I've been growing in one way or another for nearly 40 years.
8:18
So whether that's, you know, a few pots of tomatoes to half an acre like I have here.
8:25
So it's how to grow your own food.

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BearHOST
54:22
It's a backup plan.
20:40
So how do you legislate for that?
20:43
So recently I did a little reel for Instagram about the black fly on one of my broad beans and how delighted I was to see it.
20:55
And there are many reasons why I was delighted to see it.
20:59
only affecting one broad bean plant.
21:01
The rest of them were fine.
21:03
And I sat there looking at it for about, it actually made me stop.
21:06
I was really busy and it made me stop and look and just look at that whole bed of broad beans.
22:44
Yeah.
speaker_0HOST
6:36
Th- that's my ideal." What advice would you give them?
6:41
Um, it takes a lot of time.
6:42
It's very time-consuming, and so I would think about how much time you have around all your other commitments.
6:50
Um, I'm fortunate in that this is also my work.
6:54
I'm a garden writer, so I do this to...
6:58
It, it's what I use in my books and my, um, articles that I write, so it's part of my work.
7:06
Whereas I think if you're going into it thinking, "I can do this on a Saturday afternoon," it's gonna...
speaker_0HOST
11:12
Yeah

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