About the Author

Dick and James Strawbridge are a father-son team that runs Newhouse Farm, a three-acre smallholding in Cornwall, England. The BBC's It's Not Easy Being Green documented the Strawbridge family's move from a comfortable home in the Midlands to Newhouse Farm. Dick is an engineer, an inventor, a sustainability expert, and a TV presenter. He is a regular host of C4's Scrapheap Challenge, contributes frequently to Coast on the BBC, and finished in second place on the BBC's Celebrity Masterchef. He is the author of It's Not Easy Being Green. James is a chef, a sustainable living expert, and the cofounder of Posh Pasty Company. Together with his father, he hosts ITV1's The Hungry Sailors and Saturday Farm. They are the coauthors of Practical Self-Sufficiency.