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Skills-based preparedness, country living, gear reviews, and community encouragement with personal voice and livestream formats.
12 videos in Food & Water
Honey Oatmeal Bread
Six-minute walkthrough of making bread by stretching all-purpose flour with rolled oats and local honey.
Cyber Attacks on the Food Supply: Why Food Preservation Skills Matter
Nine-minute exploration of cyber-attack risks to food systems and why home food preservation is a foundational preparedness skill.
Compact Survival Fishing Kit
11-minute walkthrough of a minimalist fishing kit: hooks, line, sinkers, spools, and rigging methods for catching food with minimal gear.
Rye Bread: Milling and Baking
Eight-minute walkthrough: mill rye flour from grain, mix and shape a rye-bread loaf, bake in a Dutch oven. Recipe and technique for making bread from scratch-ground flour.
Getting Water Out of a River
Six-minute walkthrough on safely collecting drinking water from a river using pack-carried gear and filtration.
Fermenting Hot Peppers
Seven-minute walkthrough on fermenting fresh hot peppers to make homemade hot sauce—a shelf-stable preservation method for summer abundance.
Prepping Alternate Grains: Winter Rye
Six-minute demonstration of growing and processing winter rye as a calorie-dense grain addition to long-term food storage.
Preserving Pears in Heavy Syrup
Five-minute walkthrough on water-bath canning pears in heavy syrup, a long-term food storage method for home gardeners and foragers.
Dad's Potato Crate
Four-minute walkthrough of building wooden crates from pallets and slats for winter vegetable storage.
Water & Cooking Gear: Woodsman's Pack Series Part 2
Seven-minute walkthrough selecting water filtration and cooking gear for a backcountry woodsman's pack, including the Grayl filter system.
Mom's Tomato Marmalade (Jelly)
Six-minute walkthrough on making tomato jelly from garden surplus: peeling, cooking down, adding citrus and pectin, and hot-water-bath canning for long-term storage.
Bulk Food Store Prices
Twelve-minute walkthrough of current pricing at a Mennonite bulk food supplier, tracking food costs and availability for storage planning.