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 has been growing organic food in raised beds for the last 17 years and recently launched Abundance Academy, providing online courses on improving garden productivity. Huw’s YouTube channel has over 600,000 subscribers – the most popular videos have more than 4 million views. Huw has written three books with DK, Veg in One Bed (2019), Grow Food for Free (2020), The Vegetable Grower’s Handbook (2022).
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Sam Cooper trained as a professional chef but has since left the kitchens for the garden, now working full-time with Huw Richards as a co-director for Regenerative Media (Huw’s umbrella company for all his work). Since then, his fascination with seasonal and homegrown produce has grown along with his Instagram following @chef.sam.black, which has amassed 500K followers and where he posts delicious ferment recipes using homegrown produce. Sam is also a photographer, ceramicist, and illustrator.
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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.
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Huw Richards has been growing organic food in raised beds for the last 17 years and recently launched Abundance Academy, providing online courses on improving garden productivity. Huw’s YouTube channel has over 600,000 subscribers – the most popular videos have more than 4 million views. Huw has written three books with DK, Veg in One Bed (2019), Grow Food for Free (2020), The Vegetable Grower’s Handbook (2022).
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Sam Cooper trained as a professional chef but has since left the kitchens for the garden, now working full-time with Huw Richards as a co-director for Regenerative Media (Huw’s umbrella company for all his work). Since then, his fascination with seasonal and homegrown produce has grown along with his Instagram following @chef.sam.black, which has amassed 500K followers and where he posts delicious ferment recipes using homegrown produce. Sam is also a photographer, ceramicist, and illustrator.
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