A single mum who once lived off-grid in a caravan with her three children and made £60 a week teaching other mothers how to forage is now earning £120,000 a year as a self-sufficiency guru and sharing her expertise on how to survive an apocalypse. Diana Hamill Page, 50, studied business and criminology at university.
But it was her life skills – honed during a childhood reared by a scientist dad and a grandad who was ex-military, combined with years of parenting while living off-grid – that equipped her with the supreme survival techniques she is now teaching. Currently based in a rented three-bedroom cottage on a two-acre farm near York, North Yorkshire, she teaches 60 people a week how to forage, make toiletries from natural ingredients and how to become fully self-reliant.
Divorcee Diana, who raised her children Maya, 23, Noah, 21, and Matthias, 18, in a caravan for five years, said: “After I had my first child, I was learning a lot about permaculture, which is based on understanding nature, and having kids made me passionate about their future. I wanted to future-proof my kids.
