Steffie Shields is a regular contributor to Lincolnshire Life magazine, with papers published: 'Mr Brown Engineer', Garden History Journal (2006), and 'The Profusion nof Water,' The Arcadian Journal 65/66 (2009). She has recently edited her father Buzzer Hadingham's 'Diary 1939' published on Blurb.

Following the 1987 hurricane Steffie began to research the work of landscape gardener Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. She has visited over 180 attributed sites with 5,000 plus photographs on file. She aims to publish an illustrated book 'Capability Brown and the Gift of Landscape' to convey Brown's legacy to a wider audience.