“The Good Life, Warts and All!” This was how one reviewer summed up this book when it was first published back in 1989. The authors were overjoyed by this, as it was exactly what they had aimed for when writing Running your own Smallholding. To produce a guide which stripped away some of the overly romantic ideas which had become associated with the idea of Smallholding in particular, and the self sufficiency movement in general, during the nineteen seventies and eighties. Running your own smallholding is now twenty one years old and many changes in our way of life have occurred during that time. However as this book deals with the general mindset required to survive and succeed as a smallholder it is still as relevant today as it was then. Some of the examples given may seem "old fashioned", but even in these we can see how the life of a smallholder has already changed, and is still changing, enabling us to make plans for the future. Testimony to this is that the authors are still living and working on the land which they bought in the nineteen eighties. Contents include chapters on: Reasons to become a Smallholder, planning and financing your smallholding, choosing your smallholding, selecting your projects, getting started, administration, marketing, safety and more.