@Rustic Spirits Homestead
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Off-grid homesteading with focus on food security, self-sufficiency, and household preparedness systems.
All 16 videos
Food Costs Are Out of Control — Grow These 5 Crops to Build Your Buffer
Five high-storage crops (tomatoes, pumpkin, corn, beans, sweet potatoes) with hands-on seed-saving and preservation methods for dry-climate growing.
Pressure Canning for Beginners: Overcoming Fear and Starting Your First Batch
Thirty-four-minute walkthrough of pressure canning basics: water-bath vs pressure methods, altitude adjustments, equipment choice, and a full demonstration preserving chicken stock for off-grid food storage.
Growing All Our Own Food: Garden Foundation Systems
26-minute walkthrough of permaculture-on-contour, compost rebuilds, biochar production, orchard guilds, and hugelkultur variants for maximizing food production in dry climates.
Are Backyard Chickens Worth It? It's More Than a Money Question
Twenty minutes on the real five-year costs and payoff of raising backyard chickens for eggs and meat, including hidden expenses and why fresh home-raised birds differ from supermarket poultry.
We Asked a Permaculture Expert What We Got Wrong
Permaculture expert audits a dry-climate homestead garden, teaching contour planting, swales, composting fixes, and perennial food production for water-scarce land.
Dairy On A Small Homestead: Our Mini Goat Experiment
Eighteen-minute walkthrough of setting up dairy goats on a small homestead: breed selection, infrastructure, shelter, feeding systems, and why goats fill a food-security gap where cows aren't feasible.
10 Homestead Priorities for Rising Food Costs in Australia
Ten-point breakdown of food security strategies: staples, storage, equipment, butchering, seeds, local sourcing, livestock, and dietary shifts for household resilience.
Spring Review: Winter Accomplishments on Our Off-Grid Homestead
Year-in-review walkthrough of food production, preservation, and off-grid systems: chicken tractors, water management, gardens, greenhouse, bulk pantry, and first-time pork processing.
We Moved Off-Grid With Kids: The Honest Reality
Five-person family walks through their off-grid transition: what changed (location, schooling, work), impacts on friendships and education, and whether they'd do it again.
We found the cheapest state to go off-grid, here's what it actually costs you
Three-year off-grid homesteaders break down the real trade-offs of off-grid living: convenience, health, freedom, and finances — plus which Australian state works out cheapest.
Can't do what you want on your own land? Which Australian state says you can
Comparison of off-grid and self-sufficiency regulations across all eight Australian states, covering power, water, waste, food, building, and home education.
Going Off-Grid in Australia: The Rules That Catch You Out
Legal boundaries for off-grid water collection, food production, and power generation in Australia — what's permitted and where regulations tighten.
6 Months Building Real Resilience: Our Scorecard
Off-grid homestead self-audit across water, energy, food, land, skills, community, and emergency systems — what's working, what's exposed, and one actionable step per layer.
Live Q&A: Australian Homesteading with Rustic Spirits Homestead
Two-hour live Q&A on off-grid homesteading: food processing, water sourcing, seasonal gardening, livestock, bushfire preparedness, and building independent living systems.
2.5 Years in a Tiny Home: The Honest Truth
Two and a half years into full-time off-grid container-home living in rural Australia: what actually works, what surprised them, and whether small-space self-sufficiency is sustainable.
Adding Seed Saving and Soil Blocking to Your Food Security System
Seed saving and soil blocking techniques to build a self-renewing food garden that reduces dependence on purchased seedlings and annual seed purchases.