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This video offers a fresh approach to self-sufficiency in the modern world! The good news is that you do not need a farm to become self-sufficient! I also share the 3rd and final (and most underrated) skill that ensures success.
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The Self-Sufficiency Garden book launches tomorrow!!! 🌿 If you haven't yet, get yourself a copy here https://geni.us/SelfSufficiencyGarden 😊Also – Sam and I are doing a live chat here on YouTube at 1pm tomorrow so come say hello!
Brilliant news on the book.
Amazon emailed me today to say the pre order will be despatched tomorrow 🎉
The videos are super helpful too😊
Thanks
You're absolutely banging out exceptional content over the last few months.
I'm totally stoked for your new book, I think you're really hitting the nail on the head with this one.
I am so excited to get my hands on that book. I am exactly ready to hear and use what is in that book. I in fact started my self sufficiency journey with rosemary. I felt so good about never having to go to the store for rosemary when I needed it, that I started to think that I could be self-sufficient in so many herbs, and so I began growing other herbs. Then I decided that I’m always buying onions, garlic, and lettuce, so maybe I could start being self-sufficient in those. Last summer I planted lettuces and was successful and was able to harvest them. Then I found your channel, So that led me to plant garlic last fall and I just planted onion seeds. Your videos are so in line with what I want to do and now your book is so in line with what I crave. Thank you thank you thank you! How exciting for everybody involved!
So excited to get the book.
This is exactly how I garden. I rejoice when I succeed in another produce that I don't have to buy from a supermarket for a whole year. I learnt how to eat seasonally and how to preserve in many ways. It's liberating!
I find wandering around the fresh veg aisles in the supermarkets a double edged sword, it's lovely thinking about the money that I have managed to save but also horrified at the prices most people have to endure.
The book seems to tie it all into a neat package. I’m down. Are you two life partners too? Not judging just curious.
With that book you will make many people happy 🤗👍
Can’t wait for my book to arrive tomorrow 😊
I would love to see how chickens in the garden extend the reach of self sufficiency at home.
I've just ordered my copy on Amazon and it arrives tomorrow – can't wait! I've not started sowing seeds due to the cold weather of late. Hope the temperatures start rising here in Kent, UK.
This is like my sewing!
First I made all my girl's short pants. Then I made a few dresses. I replaced her outgrown shirts. I realized she was wearing handmade clothes every time she went to play outside! I made myself some shirts and shorts, and made her more sweaters and long pants. Slowly, bit by bit, I've replaced our whole wardrobe until we're wearing 100% handmade.
I'm glad to hear it's similar for gardening, as I know I can work into it.
I'm rather disappointed in you for writing a book. You're a YouTuber so quit acting like an author. Books are dead. We lost a whole year of your garden because of this huge mistake. I now personally think you're a joke. You've lost my following 👎
I was utterly cuffed that me pre order book arrived this morning!!! Book to read and a whole day of sunshine in Wales!!! Fantastic, spring has begun xxx
Thanks to one of our biggest book stores in Austria, I have already received my copy of your book today and I want to congratulate you on this beauty! 🙌🏻 Thank you for creating it. I‘m excited to dive into all the knowledge, visuals as well as the recipes and to have this book be my guide for a better growing season ahead ☺️🙏🏻
So sad I have to wait till mid May here in the US for the new book.
So . . . . I'm starting with the Veg in One Bed this year and work on infrastructure for next year.
I still have to wait until May! But I saw the book recommended by David the Good so i pre-ordered mine a while back.
I guess I'll take up my time ordering seeds while I wait. That's a hobby on it's own 😂
I can't wait to get my book in Colorado. We moved last year from our home where I had built a beautiful permaculture landscape and garden over 10 years. Our new plot is larger but has terrible clay soil. I'll be using this year to install a greenhouse, build hotbeds, compost bins, and raised beds and fill them all with organic matter to decompose into compost. I've made so many screenshots from your videos to plan the layout of my kitchen garden and have enjoyed binge watching your videos. Thank you for your wonderful work.
Good stuff, Huw
I love how accessible you make this. Waiting on my delivery of your book! Amazon says it’s dispatched! Yaaaaay
4:00 Too add: Herbs are expensive to buy! So just by growing your own herbs you save quite a bit of money. (Though in my area tymne is easier to grow then rosemary)
I am anxious about the arrival of you book. I ordered it several months ago. I grow most all my veggies already and herbs and even go foraging for edible wild foods and medicinal plants. Also have elderberry and blueberry and a couple cherry bushes. Even so, there is still lots to learn and that is where you come in. I love your gardening style and that you stay organic.
Hi Huw and Sam! Not really a commenter…but as a 30 something that has been growing for 2 years, I realise the more and more I speak to my friends, they cannot understand why I grow as they do not know how to actually cook!
I think you're really bridging a gap here for my generation, and I can't wait to get my copy of the book!! I've been learning how to cook, pickle, store over the last few years, but I'm sure you'll save me years of randomly trying things out! Thank you!!
When can I order this, I live in Australia.
Got my copy of your book today my wife was laughing I was so excited lol
We moved into our house over 20 years ago, the only plant that has survived our invasion is the mint bush that just keeps comming back year after year.
Why do leeks always taste like wet paper?
I love this approach! When I heard "self sufficient" I always thought I'd never be able to get that far, but I've already been self sufficient in so many specific crops. That makes me feel so much better about it! Thanks!
A great video and a really good preview for your much awaited book. I really lke the phased approach to self suffiency. One minor general comment I am still confused beteween compost and feed as in mushroom compost or manure etc. Maybe I am missing something very basic but would welcome an explaination from the expert.
I'm getting my book only in the first week of June 😭 preordered in Dec to EU country 💔 I guess I'll have to just keep salivating over these subtle adds haha
Can’t wait for the book!
Love this, I love to cook and grow vegetables it’s a perfect match, I definitely feel it hold people back if they don’t know how to use the produce they make.
I've pre-ordered the book here on Amazon in Belgium, any idea on the delivery dates at all as you only mention UK and US for dates… Cheers Huw!
This is so spot on! Knowing how to cook your veggies is just as important as knowing how to grow them. I have to admit that I do sometimes grow something, harvest it, and… now what? Don't know how to cook it. Luckily there's the internet for some guidance (and my dad)
Huw is the modern day Monty Don. As good as any gardener in this niche in the UK/Ireland and beyond. Congrats. As a creator, a lot of hard work is paying off for you.
Book arriving tomorrow, really looking forward to this one Huw 👍👍 Looking forward to applying this to our plot here in (not so sunny) Kent this year.
Book is preordered and im ready to learn the art of succession planting!!! Loving the content atm. Adapting your cooking to use different things. All my career as a chef i have been taught to pick an ingredient and make it sing! Wild garlic, asparagus and purple sprouting brocoli are some of my favourites to cook with! I always want to grow the things which u cant get in the shops!!! Love a tray of roasted rainbow carrots or a salad of baby vegetables with homemade salad cream!!!
Love what you are speaking about- crop self-sufficiency is what I've come to. Twenty years ago I grew a lot more but with age and the plot of land I have, no longer dry beans etc. HOWEVER, kale, garlic (don't eat onions), leeks and salad greens I've reached" crop self-sufficiency" . For leaf/salad greens, in the winter I grow pea shoots and sprouts all year so have greens all year. For the coldest months there is no kale outside so each year I try to save a bit more to freeze. In the warm months I have greens in the gardens. Garlic for sure, and leeks. No hoop tunnel….yet…it's the cost and an extra pair of hands that's still the hurdle.
My target is (still) potatoes and carrots…..each year I hope 🙂
Already pre-ordered your book brother! Looking forward to it.
I pre-ordered your book here in the US. Can't wait! 🙂
Hi pal you need to speech about more about preserving your vegetables and fermenting how best to freezing to to extend your self-sufficiency