Product Description
John & Sally Seymour inspired thousands to make more responsible, enriching, and eco-friendly choices with their advice on living sustainably. Self-Sufficiency .first published in 1973, and heere is a Book Club society edition from 974, offers step-by-step instructions on eharnessing solar powverything from chopping trees to growing your own vegetables and 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.
While we aren't all be able to move to the countryside, we can appreciate the importance of Seymour's message, as he shows us the value of living within our means and making the most of what we have to hand using skills that have been handed down through generations.
This book was the result of the authors having lived in rural Wales for 18 years, and putting what is in the book into practice. They were early adopters of living ' off the soil', using traditional techniques.
Hardcover, small format in dustjacket, the dustjacket is rubbed and worn at the edges, and has a closed tear on the front cover. Faber UK.
Internally , MODERATE TO HEAVY AGE SPOTTING, bumping to corners. 250 pages, with illustrations.
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