Self-Sufficient Life 4E

The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the only book that teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony with the land. Embrace off-grid green living and imagine a more sustainable future with the original guide to self-sufficiency. This book offers step-by-step instructions to harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops, keeping livestock and chickens, canning and preserving food, brewing beer and making wine, basketry, carpentry, weaving, and much more. 

The 2003 fourth edition includes 150 new full-color illustrations and a special section in which John Seymour, the father of the back to basics movement, explains the philosophy of self-sufficiency and its power to transform lives and create communities. More relevant than ever in our high-tech world, The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the ultimate practical guide for realists and dreamers alike.

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. 

376 pages
Hardcover
English

John Seymour was a pioneer of the self-sufficiency movement, and worked as a writer, broadcaster, and activist in support of it. For much of his life he was a smallholder in Wales. He was the author of numerous books, including The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It, The Concise Guide to Self-Sufficiency, and The New Self-Sufficient Gardener. He died in 2004.