About an English middle aged couple's move to partial self sufficiency. The site has lots of information about self sufficiency like: bee keeping, home cooking and special recipes, gardening, preserving food through jams and pickling, and equipment. They also run competitions, do book reviews, regularly update their site and provide feedback to comments. A great self sufficient read and resource.

Presented by Nadia Petrova (who lives in Bulgaria) the site has a strong focus on recipes for healthy eating mainly with raw ingredients. However, she also covers lifestyle, healthy living/eating for you and your child, exercise, and offers private coaching in these areas. This website design is quite striking with a very neat and polished presentation. The photography is a terrific artistic mix of shots, which include close-ups and décor.

An Australian information site where the writer is passionate about preserving the environment. Some content topics are: survival skills, bush tucker, some permaculture/gardening hints, book and video reviews, native animals info, and political opinion. The political opinion primarily focuses on an expectation the world is heading towards a financial crash and impresses the point of doom when this eventually happens and we should prepare.

An Australian based forum focused site, which has several areas for members to post articles and interact with others. They have a dedicated blog area and also a community section showing articles, events, and even videos. The site has a large collection and variety of data about all sorts of sustainable living techniques, gardening, and more with a simple navigation style to access all avenues from the home page.

This colourful “online magazine” with front lady Patti Moreno (Aka GardenGirlTv on YouTube) is a USA based site with plenty of information and videos galore about self sufficient living. I suppose the gist of the site is you don't need to be on a farm to practice self sufficiency and that's very true. It's an entertaining click through a wealth of media and great photography with information written by a large team of regular contributors.

This is a local site (Brisbane Australia) obviously focusing on local food production, although much of the information can be used universally and membership is open world-wide. The site is forum based with a mini-blog and offers a wide variety of tips, tricks, advice, and information (including videos) on food growing, preserving, seed swapping, and general self sufficiency.

A self sufficiency site covering typical topics like poultry, farm animals, gardening, recipes, and saving money tips. However that's not all, the writer/s (seemingly anon) delve into some other very interesting and, at times, controversial topics like: home medicine, DIY skills, solar uses, and animal welfare.

A rather new site by Mark Daymond who's the author of A Smallholders Diary (his other site) at www.smallholdersdiary.com so not a lot of articles and information as yet but the site shows potential – definitely one I've bookmarked to watch. His new site as I understand it will trend towards specific information articles rather than “what I did today,” and will cover many aspects of self sufficiency.

A Wordpress site conceived in 2011 about a Brisbane based gardener (subtropical climate) who recently moved home and is in the process of re-building her food garden. The blog documents landscaping, food growing, seed saving, and many other hints for any gardener to take heed of no matter what climate. Have a browse and enjoy the easy read.

Written by Tanja this blog is about the paleo diet (paleo is short for paleolithic or second part of the stone age) and tells about how her health problems were cured by eating the paleo way, which basically means eating unrefined foods and no dairy. However, the blog isn't just a diary at all, more so, an excellent mix of high quality articles and images about cooking, recipes, fitness, and lifestyle.

Pat Gardiner is the author of this neatly arranged blog. The segmented design of the posts make the webpages look a bit like reading a news paper (or notice board might be a closer description); however, I don't mean it in a detracting way – quite the contrary. His activism on the cruelty of large scale pig farming is what he is famous for but this blog is no fight just methodical writings on many aspects of self sufficiency. The articles are concisely written and very informative; I've certainly enjoyed browsing this site and I will continue to do so.

My Veggie Garden is a Blogspot blog written by taxi driver Stewart as he documents his backyard gardening exploits. Stewart has a great sense of humour and he communicates this well through his posts. At the same time, his posts are informative with hints and tips about growing food, tools he uses, and techniques to use for good gardening results. A good fun read.

This is a permaculture site - {believes in a holistic natural way of food growing, gardening, and living with minimal intervention and an emphasis on facilitating an ecosystem rather than use chemical control or over structured farming techniques) - that's my definition} the author is a mysterious writer who seems to prefer being another anon, although, some guest posts from readers are named. She (I gathered she's a woman) has a pleasant writing style and the (non-dated) articles based on tropical food gardening are very informative. Worth a look.

Based in the UK this quaint site with it's unobtrusive home page could be easily gleamed across by the “self sufficient surfer” and that would be a great shame because Self Sufficient UK really has a lot to offer! Dig down through the links and you'll find well created purposeful articles from growing food to foraging and hunting for it. Their preserving and recipe posts have helped me and although the content is thin in areas (who's site isn't) it's current and maintained. I like it.

If your mainly just into chickens or you really want to learn more about them, it's hard to go past this forum site. Backyard Chickens started in 1999 as a small blog with a message board; now, it's one of the most active forum sites in the world. Based out of San Francisco this forum has thousands of posts daily and you are sure to find the chicken answers you seek. Membership is not essential to browse the site (although most of the worlds chicken owners are members...it seems) and there are other resource options besides the forum to take a look at. Impressive.

If you appreciate hard work and people who pay close attention to detail then you'll love this website. The Micro Gardener written by Anne is all about food gardening, healthy eating, and lifestyle. Anne's “about me” is an interesting read in itself telling of her childhood growing up in a food gardening household then moving away from food growing as a young adult only to return to gardening later when she had her own family. She also is a cancer survivor and attributes this experience as one of her reasons for returning to healthy home grown food. Well qualified and a talented writer with easy to follow articles and great images; you must check her site out.

A Gardening and food site - the main theme of Gutoso at the moment is their 100 recipes that everyone must try. And, it is certainly interesting to browse through with each recipe having the potential to take you surfing all over the internet as these guys have obviously researched and found recipe variations for each of the 100 and included the links to sites they recommend. Not just about food either Gustoso clearly supports activism and select causes with media and writing. Also, many links to different products and sources are displayed as are many mini product and plant review posts. This site is actually quite busy with “green tips” and eco-friendly substitutions for common household and personal products. Definitely check it out.

Earthwise Harmony is a unique environmental/self sufficiency site with a striking backdrop of blue ocean island views, which immediately gives the website's theme away (just in case the name didn't already). The home page has at least 20 large category buttons (each with an image) for easy site navigation to professionally published lifestyle resource areas and articles such as: Gardens & land, Food, Health, Energy, and Earthwise kids. However the creators of Earthwise Harmony, Anthea and Carl Hudson, have opened the site to more than articles and have included other areas to explore like: People and communities, Earthwise connect, Special places, and a Calendar. These extra categories are designed to pull and link common groups of people and organisations together all under one “directory” for the convenience of us all. A clever concept, a well designed site, with a resource library growing each day, Earthwise Harmony is a must to bookmark for those who want to learn more about self sufficiency and/or who cares about the global ecosystem in which we live.