— THE TEAM
Who writes here.
The publication is not a one-person project. We deliberately bring in named contributors with hands-on experience in their pillars, because authority on self-reliance is built by people who've done the thing.
The Editorial Desk
Founder · Editor
The publication's founder spent two years doing urban counterinsurgency work — what we used to call COIN ops — for the South African military, and was a founder member of the SA Bodyguards Association. He homesteads off-grid on nine hectares in rural South Africa.
The decision to keep the founder's name and face off the public site is deliberate, for operational and security reasons. The credentials carry the weight; the byline reads "the Editorial Desk."
Coming soon
Our staff writer joins the publication this quarter, and our homesteading editor — twenty-plus years on a working smallholding — joins shortly after. Both will appear here under their own names.