Growing Self-Sufficiency ─ Realize Your Dream and Enjoy Producing Your Own Fruit, Vegetables, Eggs and Meat

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.