Here’s my top advice from over the years when it comes to self-sufficiency, and by the end of this video you will be filled with ideas, tips and mindsets needed to get ahead and start growing as much of your own food as possible and depend less on the global food system.
0:00 Garden Planning 101
11:23 No-nonsense Guide
21:48 Self-sufficiency Strategy
30:26 Compost Self-Sufficiency
42:55 Tubers for Self-Sufficiency
53:25 9 Crops for Self-Sufficiency
1:08:51 Most Useful Weed
1:18:12 The 1% Rule
1:23:22 Underrated Crops
1:32:53 Survival Crops
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I LOVE these compilations. I watch them as I work out (for an hour at a time) on the exercise bike and they get me pumped up to go out and garden. Thank you!
I think the slugs in my garden eat 16 portions of beetroot most weeks 😂.
I need some advise here…
I have an excessive amount of pine shavings from my chicken coop's deep bedding this winter. It isn't broken down.
Last autumn I put similar in a garden bed I hope to use in future and had success with cover crops, but I'm currently unsure it's deep enough to grow crops in.
Now it's a LOT of pine shavings mixed with the chicken waste. I don't have enough compost bins for it, and moving it several times seems counterproductive.
Can I use this for a hotbox?
Can I just put it in a garden bed and grow cover crops for a couple of years?
I think it has to be unbalanced, but the cover crops grew.
Can I successfully just slow compost in place?
I also have rabbits, but i don't mind adding there bedding directly to the garden.
HUW, if I were to buy your BOOK which retailer give you the most money?
«How to grow food» came at just the right time for getting 2026 off to a good start in my garden. Have started cooking some of the recipes. Great ideas! Thank you for inspirational input!
keep it simplier; grow as much as u can and give the excess away
Can you link the book?
Thank you! Sehr hilfreich!
Received my book on the 18th Florida, USA. ❤❤ Can't wait to try the recipes. Is Sam coming out with a fermentation cook book in August?
Hi Huw, I live in North Wales Rhyl, I'm wondering which part of Wales you live in ,as I thinking about your weather conditions?
I've only got a small garden, and mostly grow in Builders tubs, I have a small greenhouse 3×6, for tomatoes and red peppers.
I don't have a space for a compost bin, so I shave the skins of vegetables and then put them on my soil, and cover them with a little soil and the worms do the rest. I also and used tea leaves and crushed egg shells.
I'm enjoying your channel, I'm a bit long in the tooth now, 74, I've been gardening since I was about 4 years old, with my Dear Gran. And I am still learning,
I've got lots of fruit trees in in 100lt Builders tubs, on small rooting stock. Plums, apple gooseberry blackcurrant, blackberries. Rhubarb. I had bad green fly on my Plums last year, I kept soaping them off,almost everyday.
I've germated so far this year, Tomatoes, peppers, beetroot spring onions, Broad beans and peas.
Got other things I'm waiting for to come through, parsnips, and leeks. My leeks were disappointing last year. Hope they're going to do better this time.
I've just ordered your Book, and will enjoy the read.
Thank you, Great video, and channel 🎉 Sandra
Re: Kohlrabi: makes a lovely Sauerkraut. which keeps, in the fridge at least, and makes everything you put it on cause macrobiotics types to wet themselves. I'll grant salt is hard to be self-sufficient in, but as a relatively cheap input that outputs funky tasting things that are (allegedly) really good for you, hey, I can take that.
Thank you ❤
Just ordered the book..
You da man Huw
Loving the new book! It was delivered on my birthday, so Happy Birthday to me lol
If you know/is able how to save seed, then you are self-sufficent. If you need to buy from the webb /catalogs/markets you are not self-sufficent.
Huw, with that rain, it sounds like you are in western WA. 😂