The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency
Reference DIY & How-To Environmentalism Self-Sufficiency Sustainable Living Organic Gardening Permaculture Homesteading
The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency (2019 hardcover, 408 pp.) is the fully updated bible that has taught three generations how to live off the land without giving up modern comfort. John Seymour’s classic manual now pairs timeless wisdom—rotating crops, keeping bees, brewing cider, building a compost toilet—with today’s climate-smart varieties, solar kits, and legal guidelines, all laid out in step-by-step photos and color diagrams. Whether you have a balcony in the city or forty acres in the country, the book shows exactly how much space, time, and money each skill requires, so you can start small with a herb spiral and scale up to a full closed-loop homestead.
What makes this 2019 edition special is the heavy-duty hardback binding and 1,000+ illustrations that stay open flat on the potting bench. Buyers searching for “last gardening book I’ll ever need,” “homesteading reference hardcover,” or “illustrated guide to growing own food” consistently rank this volume #1 because every page is a quick-scan visual tutorial: how to graft tomatoes for blight resistance, how to rotate chickens behind sheep to cut feed costs 30 %, or how to lay a hedge the way the Brits have for a thousand years. The index is exhaustive, so you can jump straight to “fixing sour cheese” or “calculating rainwater catchment” without scrolling.
This particular copy is a clean, non-smoking copy with only a light bump to the upper page corners—cosmetic, not structural—making it the affordable way to own the sturdiest edition without paying full retail. For anyone who wants a single, reliable, search-engine-optimized reference that replaces a shelf of modern how-to books, The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency in hardcover is the smartest long-term investment you can slip into your gardening tote.
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