Living the Good Life in the City: A Journey to Self-Sufficiency

Sara Ward has created an urban smallholding, Hen Corner, in her Victorian terraced house in London. She believes it is possible to combine the benefits of urban living with the qualities of country living, such as spending time with nature, producing and making our own food, sustainability, and community. Living the Good Life in the City is packed with recipes, stories, tips, and tricks for baking bread, making jam, pasta, sausages, and cheese, keeping bees and livestock, preserving, foraging, harvesting, and celebrating with food.

Format: Hardback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 06 July 2023
Publisher: Pimpernel Press Ltd

Sara Ward has transformed her Victorian terraced house in London into an urban smallholding, Hen Corner. Sara passionately believes that it is possible to combine the benefits of urban living with some of the qualities associated with the country living dream: spending time with nature, producing and making our own food, sustainability, and community, and living the good life in the city. In Living the Good Life in the City, she shares some of the ways she and her family have brought city and country together and shows that you, too, can make a difference to how you live and the food you eat.

Divided into sections covering Make, Grow, Preserve, Keep, and Celebrate, Living the Good Life in the City is packed full of recipes, stories, tips, and tricks, including baking bread, making your own jam, pasta, sausages, and cheese, keeping bees and livestock, preserving, foraging, harvesting, and celebrating with food.

Make explores our power and responsibilities as consumers and encourages us to start making food from scratch. In Grow, Sara shares her experience of how to grow your own ingredients for the family table, while Preserve is how to process your harvest to enjoy it all year round. In Keep, Sara explores options for keeping chickens, bees, and larger livestock, sharing the joys and responsibilities that come with that. Celebrate is about marking the highlights of the year with delicious recipes for family and friends. Finally, Inform brings together Saras best resources to inspire the reader to bring ideas into fruition.

Weight: 676g
Dimension: 176 x 238 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781914902956