Learn to grow food in harmony with nature
I can teach you how to create a beautiful and productive vegetable garden alongside your busy life.
Hello and welcome! Here at Happy Smallholding we have created a thriving homestead, abundant with food and wildlife. Situated in Somerset, our smallholding provides us with the vast majority of our food, all organically grown in harmony with nature. We grow fruit & vegetables and keep chickens, ducks & bees. We have a passion for projects, and have built the vegetable garden ourselves over the past couple of years. We’ve also created ornamental gardens and enclosures for our animals.
Learn to grow food online course
Learn to grow food - eBook and planting plans
Looking for a guide to help keep you on track with your veg growing goals? My eBook & planting plans contain all the information you need to plan and grow over 40 different vegetables and herbs from seed. This is the ultimate toolkit to keep you organised & help you to grow food efficiently and effectively! Planning the veg patch has never been so easy!
Courses at Happy Smallholding
I offer two courses here on the smallholding. The first is “Learn to Grow Food” which is my signature in-depth full day course on setting up a vegetable garden & growing fruit and veg. The second is “An introduction to setting up a smallholding” which is an afternoon course where I will take you through all the steps we have taken to set up our space, including building our animal houses, setting up our vegetable garden & looking after our animals.
Testimonials
I love these materials! I started with the ebook and planting plan, bought in the dead of winter to satiate my desire to get growing again. Everything is very clearly laid out. The planting plan is colourful and has been incredibly helpful for planning my garden and allotment. Then along came the video course which once again was full of great ideas, tips and recommendations. Beautifully shot, short (great for my goldfish-like attention span) and guest-starring a very good boy. Definitely value for money, 10/10 recommend.
Fiona Belfast, Ireland
We had a truly wonderful day at The Happy Smallholding. Jess was a fantastic host—knowledgeable, friendly, and passionate about what she does. The course was informative, helpful, and delivered in a relaxed, fun atmosphere that made learning feel easy and enjoyable. The smallholding itself is beautifully structured, with a great layout and a real sense of care for the animals, who were an absolute delight to be around. Lunch was delicious and a lovely addition to the day. We left feeling inspired and more confident—highly recommend to anyone interested in smallholding life
Becky, Gloucestershire
In August my husband and I spent the day with Jess and a group of fellow awesome gardening enthusiasts at the Happy Small Holding ‘Learn to Grow your own food’ course. What Jess has created in such a short space of time is truly inspiring. Not only does Jess share her journey so openly throughout the day, but gives you such practical guidance on how you can create something specific to you and your own growing needs. High lights of the day for us were Jess’s wisdom, seeing the insta famous duck house in real life, meeting lovely people….and the beetroot hummus! We have continued to follow Jess’s journey - we have lots to do to be able to reach the level of self sufficiency that we hope for but the course was so valuable to helping us on our way!
Natalie & Adam Buckland, Hertfordshire
