The Self-Sufficiency Garden: Feed Your Family and Save Money

Eat homegrown food all year round and save money on your weekly shop by following a simple plan for self-sufficiency.

Huw Richards and Sam Cooper have spent the past two years planning and trialing their very own self-sufficiency garden in a 10x12.5m plot and now they’ve worked out the perfect formula. Grow five portions of nutritious veg a day for four people following their month-by-month growing plan, which is realistic and flexible with cost, space, and time in mind.

- Learn about Huw and Sam’s self-sufficiency ethos, goals and approaches
- Create your garden and learn how to build all the growing spaces you will need, such as hot beds and polytunnels
- Follow month-by-month planting plans with guidance on key tasks throughout the year
- Discover useful kitchen tips meal prep, storage, and preserving ideas along with base recipes so you can make the most of your crops

Follow Huw and Sam’s tried-and-tested methods and save money while enjoying homegrown food all year.

Huw Richards documents his garden on YouTube--his most popular videos have more than 4 million--and is co-director of Regenerative Media. He has written three books with DK: Veg in One Bed (2019), Grow Food For Free (2020), and The Vegetable Grower’s Handbook (2022).

Sam Cooper is a chef, photographer, and co-director for Regenerative Media. He creates courses for Abundance Academy and writes recipes for The Farmer & Chef blog. The Nature of Food (2022) is his first book.