@Self Sufficient Homesteading & Gardening
— · 12 videos curated
Homesteading, food preservation, gardening, water management, and self-sufficiency skills for household resilience.
All 12 videos
Milk Kefir Grows So Much Slower in Winter
One-minute observation on how seasonal temperature drops affect milk kefir fermentation rates and what that means for year-round food preservation.
Why Soaking Our Legumes Is Important
How soaking legumes reduces antinutrients and improves digestibility, making them safer and more nutritious for food storage and daily meals.
How we raise broilers naturally | No hormones, no antibiotics
Twelve-minute walkthrough of a homestead broiler-chicken system: feeding, housing, daily management, and lessons from three trial iterations toward sustainable meat production.
Wild Edible Series - Blackjack
53-second identification and foraging guide to blackjack, a wild edible plant for food self-sufficiency.
Wild Edible Series - Shepherd's Purse
37-second identification and basic information about shepherd's purse, a common wild edible plant for foraging and food security.
Making Cream Cheese
Eight-minute walkthrough of cream cheese production from basic ingredients, a foundational dairy preservation skill for self-sufficient food storage.
Free Food! Identifying Swine Cress and What You Can Use It For
Identifying swine cress in the wild and practical culinary and preservation uses for this common edible plant.
A Salad Made From Weeds
Two-minute walkthrough of identifying and harvesting common edible wild greens for a foraged salad.
Identifying Plantain
One-and-a-half minute guide to identifying plantain in the wild, covering key visual markers for confident foraging.
Moving 90 Litres of Water, No Sweat: Off-Grid Living Needs a Hippo Roller
Demonstration of the Hippo Roller water-transport solution for off-grid homesteading: how to move large volumes of water efficiently without mechanical power.
From Chaos Garden to Productive Garden in a Few Small Intentional Actions
Quick walkthrough of practical steps to transform an overgrown garden into a productive growing space.
Yogurt Maker for the Win: Experimenting with Propagating Fig Cuttings
Repurposing a yogurt maker as a propagation chamber to grow fig cuttings—a practical skills demo on food production and equipment versatility.