Embrace offgrid green living and imagine a more sustainable future with the original guide to selfsufficiency. For over 40 years John Seymour has inspired thousands to make more ecofriendly choices with his advice on living sustainably. The New Complete Book of SelfSufficiency offers stepbystep instructions on everything from chopping trees to harnessing solar power from growing 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 and raising and butchering livestock.In a world of mass production intensive farming and food miles Seymours words offer an alternative a celebration of investing time labour and love into the things we need. While we wont all be able to move to the countryside we can appreciate the need to eat food that has been grown ethically or create things we can cherish using skills that have been handed down through generations. This bestselling classic is a balm for anyone who has ever sought solace away from the madness of modern life.