Self-Reliance: Crafts & How-To

Achieve your back-to-the-land dreams without breaking the bank

The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the only book that teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony with the land harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops and keeping livestock, preserving foodstuffs, making beer and wine, basketry, carpentry, weaving, and much more.

What you need to know to protect yourself and your family.

When economic conditions are tough, we all need to watch our spending. John Harrison's simple, tried and tested methods will help you to enjoy a better standard of living while saving money and helping the environment.

Food recalls, dubious health claims, scary and shocking ingredients in health and beauty products. Our increasingly industrialized supply system is becoming more difficult to navigate, more frightening, and more frustrating, leaving us feeling stuck choosing in many cases between the lesser of several evils.

The concept of providing for yourself and your family isn't new. Traditional, agrarian societies had a much higher level of independence than we do today, although the work was backbreaking and the lifestyle spartan.