Katy Willis is the founder of Real Self-Sufficiency and a writer focused on homesteading, gardening, preparedness, frugal living, and practical self-reliance.
She is a lifelong homesteader, master gardener, and permaculture specialist with hands-on experience growing food, preserving harvests, raising backyard livestock, and building a more capable, resilient lifestyle at home. Her work is grounded in real-life practice and a belief that self-sufficiency should feel approachable, useful, and realistic for ordinary people.
Katy writes about growing your own food, keeping chickens and other small livestock, food preservation, from-scratch cooking, household preparedness, and practical DIY. She is especially passionate about helping people waste less, learn useful skills, and feel more confident doing more for themselves.
Her work has appeared on outlets including MSN, AOL, Yahoo, House Digest, Family Handyman, Angi, HomeAdvisor, and Reader’s Digest.
