Robin Harford has been exploring preparedness, privacy and self-reliance for more than thirty years. In the 1990s he founded Megastep International and published the International Underground Directory, covering personal privacy, preparedness and alternative ways of living outside conventional systems. Described at the time as ‘the world’s most dangerous book’, its success took him into full-time independent publishing in 1994.

He later became one of Britain’s most experienced wild food educators. Over several decades he has researched, taught and written about wild edible plants, as well as travelling through India and Southeast Asia, spending time with forest-dwelling communities in remote regions where the presence of government and formal policing was minimal or absent. There he learned about ways of living in which food, medicine, practical knowledge and mutual reliance remained rooted in the surrounding land. He has since taught thousands of people to identify and use wild plants, and his foraging books have sold more than 65,000 copies.

His work today brings these experiences together through a long-standing interest in practical resilience, personal sovereignty, the natural world and self-reliance.