Growing Self-Sufficiency: How to enjoy the satisfaction and fulfilment of producing your own fruit, vegetables, eggs and meat

Everyday steps everyone can take to experience the satisfaction and fulfilment of providing for yourself. Growing Self-Sufficiency is a practical and inspirational guide for both the beginner and the experienced gardener. It explains how you can provide food for yourself and your family, whether you have just a small balcony or backyard, a large garden, or a homestead or smallholding. This brilliant guide shows you how to grow and enjoy fresh and tasty vegetables and fruit, as well as how to produce your own chicken, eggs and lamb, guaranteed free from harmful chemicals and additives. It also contains helpful tips on how to preserve your produce – from freezing and drying to making jams, chutneys and pickles. There are also recipes for making juices, cordials, cider, wine and liqueurs, and how to grow medicinal herbs and make your own herbal remedies Provide more food from your plot than you ever thought possible, and become more self-sufficient with this beautiful book.

Table of Contents:
Introduction PART ONE: Sowing the seed Chapter 1: Grow the easy hits Chapter 2: Start a three-pot veg plot Chapter 3: Make a herb garden Chapter 4: Plant a mini orchard Chapter 5: Eat with the seasons Chapter 6: The good growing guide PART TWO: Digging deeper Chapter 7: Find more space Chapter 8: Save your own seed Chapter 9: Preserve your produce Chapter 10: Grow your own drinks Chapter 11: The backyard medicine cabinet Chapter 12: The home-grown garden shed Chapter 13: Supply your own eggs and meat Resources Index

About the Author :
Sally Nex has been feeding her family with home-grown fruit, vegetables and preserves for the last 20 years or so, as well as eggs from a motley gaggle of hens and more recently, lamb from her small flock of rare-breed sheep. In 2006 she left 15 years as a journalist on BBC radio, television and World Service to devote her time to horticulture. She is qualified in horticulture to RHS Level 3, and has a planting design diploma from Capel Manor College. Sally now writes, teaches and gives talks about veg growing and self-sufficiency all over the country and is a regular writer and columnist for BBC Gardeners' World Magazine, the RHS journal The Garden, Grow Your Own, and The Guardian.

Review :
These pages are rich in personal experience and enthusiasm Growing Self Sufficiency by Sally Nex is an ideal present for anyone thinking about growing their own fruit and vegetables... Sally is enthusiastic and motivating through each chapter, and she knows what she's talking about, moving on from a tiny handkerchief London garden to keeping chickens and sheep and acres of land. An enjoyable read, and I've picked up some useful tips. This book could be the springboard for someone to dive into a life of self sufficiency! Producing your own food is empowering, and Growing Self-Sufficiency sums up the notion of ‘practical self-sufficiency’ and the independence it provides. There can be no better person than Sally Nex to help growers take the next step towards self-sufficiency … She writes with a clarity, enthusiasm and humour that pulls the reader along with her. If you weren’t thinking of upping your vegetable-growing game before picking up this book, you soon will be. For anyone with an interest in gardening and self-sufficiency wanting to make the first step. Easy to read, the book is full of practical information.