Growing Self-Sufficiency is a practical and inspirational guide
for both the beginner and the experienced gardener. It explains
how you can enjoy the satisfaction and pride of providing food for
yourself and your family, whether you have just a small balcony or
back yard, a large garden, or a homestead or smallholding.
Learn how to:
Enjoy fresh and tasty vegetables in season
Grow delicious fruit for eating all year round
Produce your own chicken, eggs and lamb, guaranteed free
from harmful chemicals and additives
Preserve your produce - from freezing and drying to making
jams, chutneys and pickles
Make your own drinks: juices, cordials, cider, wine and liqueurs
Grow medicinal herbs and make your own herbal remedies
Provide more food from your plot than you ever thought possible!
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. It all started with a few beans in a concrete handkerchief of city garden in London, but an allotment, job change, house move and several rented fields later, it's probably true to say the 'hobby' is well out of hand. 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.
Title: Growing Self-Sufficiency: How You Can Take Control of Your Food Supply
Author: Sally Nex
ISBN: 9780857843173
Binding:
Publisher: Green Books
Publication Date: 2017-09-07
Number of Pages: 240
Weight: 0.8167 kg
These pages are rich in personal experience and enthusiasm
-- Guy Barter, RHS Chief Horticulturist * The Garden *
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!
-- Bridget Blair, BBC journalist and broadcaster
Producing your own food is empowering, and Growing Self-Sufficiency sums up the notion of 'practical self-sufficiency' and the independence it provides.
-- Paul Melnyczuk, Editor, Home Farmer magazine
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.
-- Lia Leendertz, award-winning garden and food writer for The Guardian
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.
-- Anne-Marie Owens, head gardener at the world-famous Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons
