Embrace off-grid green living with the bestselling classic guide to a
more sustainable way of life from the father of self-sufficiency.
For over 40 years, John Seymour has inspired thousands to make more
responsible, enriching, and eco-friendly choices with his advice on
living sustainably.
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The Self-Sufficient Life & How To Live It* offers step-by-step
instructions on everything from chopping trees to harnessing solar
power; from growing fruit and vegetables, and preserving and pickling
your harvest, to baking bread, brewing beer, and making cheese. Seymour
shows you how to live off the land, running your own smallholding or
homestead, keeping chickens, and raising livestock.
Featured in pages of this off-grid guide, you will find:
- Detailed advice for achieving a self-sufficient lifestyle no matter
your outdoor space, including guides for getting the most from urban
gardens, allotments, and larger holdings.
- Encyclopaedic knowledge on cultivating fruits and vegetables, rearing
and preparing livestock, foraging, brewing, and home crafts like
woodwork and pottery.
- Beautiful illustrated galleries of fruit and vegetables to inspire
growers.
- Charming original hand-drawn illustrations accompany step-by-step
guides to dozens of home crafts and self-sufficiency skills, including
storing crops, saddling horses, butchering a pig, making wine, and
making a footstool.
- A new foreword from a high-profile current follower and advocate of
his message.
In a world of mass production, intensive farming, and food miles,
Seymour's words offer an alternative: a celebration of the joy of
investing time, labor, and love into the things we need. While we can't
all be able to move to the countryside, we can appreciate the need to
eat food that has been grown ethically or create things we can cherish,
using skills that have been handed down through generations. With
refreshed, retro-style illustrations and timeless advice reviewed to
reflect the latest organic gardening guidelines, this new edition of
Seymour's classic title is a balm for anyone who has ever sought solace
away from the madness of modern life.
