The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency: The classic guide for realists and dreamers

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Yet, with love and determination, this odd couple manage to pull off a full-service CSA that includes, meat, milk, grains, and all the vegetables needed to feed local families for a whole year.

It was however surrounded by agricultural land, and the life led by those on the land and in small boats laid a foundation for his later vision of a simple cottage economy with farming and fishing providing the essentials of life. John Seymour (12 June 1914 – 14 September 2004) was a British author and pioneer in the self-sufficiency movement.The author travels to a variety of communities, some small, some larger, and investigates how the people are tackling their ambition for self-sufficiency in numerous different ways. Considering the book was written 50 years ago, it is surprisingly aware of the downfalls of modern society, capitalism, and industrial farming.

Their story, from Kristin’s wry perspective, makes for a dramatic and memorable memoir that proves the adage whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Almost everyone wants a more abundant, more forgiving garden with less work, and this book tells you how to do it by working with nature and not against it. I don’t want to give anything away, but this is a great story about growing food in unconventional ways and building community by going bananas. He was pretty skeptical about modern agriculture and had quite a few strong opinions about how we should provision ourselves. You will also get great recipes for meals involving a smoky hot sauce and crusty sourdough baguette bread.Angier’s legacy lives on in more than 35 books on how to survive in the wild and how to be a minimalist off grid. After service in the King's African Rifles in the war, he travelled widely, lived on a fishing boat, wrote, broadcast, and studied the way of lite of rural people.

There is a part in every one of us that wants to be a home farmer: a part that yearns to get back to the earth and to revel in the healthy experiences of growing rearing and making. John was as much at home in the humblest house on a hillside, as in the manor house of landed gentry.

A different set of drawings by Cindy because a better printing method allowed more detail; same contents. Since he first wrote the first version of this book back in 1975 he thinks there is a far more urgent reason for it. I found this book to have a lot more information about homegrown food and what to do to preserve it or use it in other ways (teas, wines, cordials, etc). Probably this is only due to me being content-facts-numbers thirsty and if it was like that it would probably bore other people.