We gardened before we’d heard of John Seymour but once we had got hold of a few of his books our gardening really took off. He  had small-holdings and lived a relatively self sufficient life with his family in Suffolk and then Wales for many years.   In Wales he even created a school in the arts of self sufficiency.  His books share some of his huge wealth of knowledge, personally gained and researched – he remained clued up on the cutting edge of self sustainability thinking. Most importantly though he was an excellent teacher.  I wish we’d had the chance […]