The Self-Sufficiency Garden: Feed Your Family and Save Money

Huw Richards, Sam Cooper

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Book cover for The Self-Sufficiency Garden: Feed Your Family and Save Money

The Self-Sufficiency Garden: Feed Your Family and Save Money

The Self-Sufficiency Garden: Feed Your Family and Save Money

Huw Richards, Sam Cooper

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Eat homegrown food all year round and save money on your weekly shop by following a simple plan for self-sufficiency.

Huw Richards and Sam Cooper have spent the past two years planning and trialing their self-sufficiency garden in a 10x13m plot, and now they've worked out the perfect formula. Grow six portions of nutritious veg a day per person following their month-by-month growing plan, which is realistic and flexible with cost, space, and time in mind. Follow this carefully curated year-round growing plan to yield six portions of veg per person per day, plus batching and preserving recipes!

Whether you are looking for cost-effective ways to put food on the table and feed your family, a fan of Huw's YouTube videos and would like to try out the recipes for yourself or a gardener who would like some guidance on how to grow your own food, this book will be great for you.

With this gardening book, you will be able to:

-Learn about Huw's self-sufficiency ethos, goals, and approaches to growing food
-Create your garden and learn how to build all the growing spaces you will need, such as hotbeds and polytunnels
-Follow month-by-month planting plans with guidance on key tasks throughout the year and different seasons
-Perfect your growing skills with sowing, weeding, watering, and composting.
-Discover useful kitchen tips for meal prep, storage, and preserving ideas along with base recipes so you can make the most of your crops.
-Find recipes for delicious dishes including soup, curry, tray bakes and salads + dressings

Follow Huw Richards and SamCooper's tried-and-tested methods and save money while enjoying homegrown food all year. If you are interested in learning more or want more books by Huw Richards, check out these titles: Veg in One Bed, Grow Food For Free, and The Vegetable Grower's Handbook.

About the Author

Huw Richards documents his garden on YouTube--his most popular videos have more than 4 million--and is co-director of Regenerative Media. He has written three books with DK: Veg in One Bed (2019), Grow Food For Free (2020), and The Vegetable Grower's Handbook (2022).

Sam Cooper is a chef, photographer, and co-director for Regenerative Media. He creates courses for Abundance Academy and writes recipes for The Farmer & Chef blog. The Nature of Food (2022) is his first book.

Publishing Information

Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pub date: 2024-05-14
Length: 224 pages

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