Barbara Salsbury

Barbara Salsbury
Best-selling author Barbara Salsbury, a nationally recognized personal preparedness expert, is one of America's leading authorities on self-reliance. Photo by MarDel

About Barbara


Best-selling author Barbara Salsbury, a nationally recognized personal preparedness expert, is one of America’s leading authorities on self-reliance.  For more than twenty-five years, she has been teaching, researching, and developing practical preparedness solutions based on experience and in-depth research.
She has been an emergency preparedness consultant for several cities, including San Francisco.  Currently she is a personal preparedness consultant for the city of Sandy, Utah.
Barbara is the author of two national newsletters and the producer of three videos.  Her eight books include Preparedness Principles, Just in Case, Just Add Water, Beating the High Cost of Eating, and It’s Time to Plan, Not Panic.
She has lectured extensively and conducted many workshops and seminars for civic, professional, and church groups, including Education Week at Brigham Young University.  She has had several weekly TV programs on consumer affairs courses and has been a regular on a national cable television program as a consumer specialist. She is a veteran of the national television and radio talk show circuit.
Barbara is active in church and community.  She and her husband, Larry, live in Sandy, Utah.  They have two children and seven grandchildren.