It is wholly appropriate to refer to John Seymour as the "Father of Self-Sufficiency". His worldwide experience of husbandry and the benefits of rural life is simply unparalleled. In an astonishingly varied and creative life his most influential contribution has been to live teach and promote self-sufficiencty first on five acres of Suffolk then on 62 acres in Pembrokeshire and now in Ireland where his School of Self-Sufficiency attracts new recruits in increasing numbers. Of his countless books The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency has established the widest audience of both realists and dreamers.