Now in its second revised and updated edition, Low-Cost Living, will help you to enjoy a better standard of living while saving money and helping the environment. Using the author's simple, tried-and-tested methods you can reasonably reduce your energy bills and transport costs. Become more self-sufficient, too, by growing your own fruit and vegetables, raising chickens, keeping bees, making butter, cheese and bread, and much more...

Learn how to:

· harvest food for free and avoid waste

· play the supermarkets at their own game and get the best deals

· recycle, re-use, make do and mend

· make the most of solar and wind power and find out if they're right for you.

With Low-Cost Living, you will actually learn to live better, while spending less, and enjoy life even more in the process.

John Harrison lives with his wife Val in a small cottage on a hillside in North Wales. They have a busy but contented life, growing much of their own food in the garden. They enjoy their own home-made bread often with home-made butter and jam. They keep poultry who provide them with fresh eggs and meat.

John's passion is growing fruit and vegetables, Val's is cooking and preserving which means they complement each other's strengths.

In these times of austerity, they enjoy a great quality of life and a good standard of living, without spending money they don't have. Both learned their life lessons from parents and grandparents who lived through the real austerity and shortages of the war.

Both enjoy writing, they have had eight books published, and run two popular web sites and