SURVIVING IN THE EIGHTIES

Self-sufficiency in the city and in the country

by Michael Boddy and Richard Beckett, illustrated by Janet Dawson Boddy

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Used softcover book in good condition. Minor cover creasing, no writing, marks, tears, loose or missing pages, first published 1980 and reprinted several times. 196 pages.

If you're living in the city and would like your garden, however tiny, to give you fresh and inexpensive fruit and vegetables, or if you're moving to the country and would like to run a small productive farm, Surviving in the Eighties is indispensible.

Many of us want to achieve some small degree of self-sufficiency, if only to provide a pleasant alternative to expensive processed food. But how do we go about it? In this practical, beautifully illustrated book, Richard Beckett shows that you can achieve a degree of self-sufficiency whilst living in the city. Even one tomato plant growing in an inner suburb is better than nothing and, with a little thought and ingenuity, it is possible to do much more. And if you're about to move to the country, Michael Boddy provides the basic information needed to run a small rural property.

The two authors have drawn on many years of practical experiences and, helped by the informative and charming drawings by Janet Dawson Boddy, Surviving in the Eighties will help to turn dreams into reality.

As relevant today in the early 21st Century as when it was first published in 1980.

About the authors

Richard Beckett (1936 - 1987) was an Australian author and journalist. He was a founding staffer (Assistant Editor) of Nation Review, an irreverent and ground-breaking Sunday newspaper, nick-named 'The Ferret', launched in 1970 by Gordon Barton. Beckett was its irascible and entertaining food columnist for eight years, using the pseudonym Sam Orr. He wrote several books on food and wine, alternative life-style, and Australian history. Richard Beckett died at his home at Molong, New South Wales, in 1987.

Michael Boddy (1934 - 2014) worked in theatre, television, radio and film as a writer, actor and director. He was a food columnist on Sydney's Sunday Telegraph newspaper for four years as well as contributing to the Bulletin and Earth Garden and writing extensively for theatre and television. A bio-dynamic farmer for many years, he also wrote about farming, horticulture, natural history, food, consumer affairs and scientific matters.

Janet Dawson (born 1935) is an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1973 with a portrait of Michael Boddy. She studied at the Gallery School in Melbourne from 1952 to 1956. She was then awarded a Travelling Scholarship to London and went with another scholarship to Italy, later to Paris, returning to Australia in 1961. She exhibited at an exhibition of contemporary Australian painting in Los Angeles and San Francisco in 1966. She moved to Binalong in 1974. She received an Australia Council Visual Arts and Crafts Board grant in 1985

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Surviving in the Eighties - Michael Boddy and Richard Beckett