Sally Seymour obituary

<p>My mother, Sally Seymour, who has died aged 92, was the most resourceful, talented, determined, hard-working woman I have met. She was the inspiration for my father John Seymour’s writing, and together they encouraged thousands of people to live a more sustainable, land-based existence. Their first book on the subject of self-reliance, The Fat of the Land, a story of their life at the Broom, a smallholding near Orford in Suffolk, written by John and illustrated by Sally, was published in 1961, and has been in print ever since.</p><p>In 1964 our family moved from Suffolk to a farm near Newport in Pembrokeshire where, together, they wrote Self-Sufficiency, which later became the bestseller The Complete Book of Self-sufficiency. With Sally’s tireless input, and my father’s compelling writing, they managed to resonate with generations of diggers and dreamers. Many people came to our farm and went away with the knowledge that a simpler life, using organic principles and traditional methods, away from the rush towards industrialisation and alienation from the natural world, could be happily achieved.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/09/sally-seymour-obituary">Continue reading...</a>