@The Homesteading RD
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Homesteading, self-sufficiency, food production, preservation, and off-grid living skills.
All 42 videos
Easy Weeknight Dinner: Cooking From Your Food Stores
33-minute walkthrough cooking ground beef and cabbage skillet with roasted potatoes from shelf-stable ingredients, with cost breakdown and recipe links.
How to Close Down Your Garden for the Season
Fall garden cleanup strategy for northern climates: when and why to remove mulch, pest/disease management, and soil preparation for spring planting.
Fall Harvest Salad and Pumpkin Muffins From Storage | Gluten-Free
Forty-eight minutes cooking through fall harvests and preserved garden stores: salad assembly, homemade pumpkin muffins, and dehydrated seeds from scratch.
Is Your Hen a Good Layer or a Poor Layer?
How to assess laying productivity by observing molt patterns and timing, plus protein-feeding strategies during molting season.
5 Ways to Preserve Apples
Five methods for preserving apples year-round: dehydrating, canning applesauce, freeze-drying, fermenting into vinegar, and cold storage.
How I Store a Year's Worth of Food in a 960 sq ft Cabin
Forty-minute walkthrough of food storage systems in limited space: pantry organization, freezing, root cellar management, and preservation techniques like canning and freeze-drying.
The Secret to Longevity: Growing Your Own Food
Forty-second overview of home gardening as a longevity practice, with practical entry points from container gardening to raised beds and tips on financial returns.
6 Common Garlic Planting Mistakes
Six practical tips for successful garlic cultivation: variety selection, fall timing, clove handling, spacing, orientation, and mulching.
Outdoor Canning Kitchen Setup: Six Weeks of Lessons Learned
Walkthrough of a backyard canning station using a propane camp stove and work table, with practical takeaways on comfort, efficiency, and keeping heat out of the home.
DIY Solar Heater Wall
Building and operating a passive solar heating wall in Minnesota: design, installation, summer management, and three years of real-world performance data.
Food Preservation Time Savers
Five practical food-preservation methods for busy households: unblanched freezing, tomato freezing, cold storage, freeze-drying, and batched canning to fit tight timelines.
Freezing Tomatoes for Later Canning
How to freeze fresh tomatoes throughout the growing season and process them in batch canning sessions during winter downtime.
Cost and cuts from a half-share of grass-finished beef
Breaking down the cost, yield, and benefits of buying a half-share of organic, grass-finished beef directly from a local farmer—including nose-to-tail use and tallow rendering.
Harvesting Early This Year | September Garden Tour | Zone 4A Minnesota
44-minute garden walkthrough covering harvest timing, pest management, food preservation (canning, fermentation, freeze-drying), and seasonal planning for Zone 4A.
Stinging Nettle Herbal Beer Recipe
Step-by-step fermentation guide: turning foraged stinging nettles into a vitamin-rich, gluten-free herbal gruit using basic equipment and a week of fermentation.
Processing Fresh Poultry: Why Patience and Proper Technique Matter
Eight-minute guide to butchering and cooking home-raised chickens: why rigor mortis timing affects meat quality and which cooking methods yield tender results.
Setting Up an Outdoor Canning Kitchen
Why moving canning outdoors keeps your home cool, reduces mess, and lets you enjoy summer while preserving vegetables and fruit.
Meat Chicken Processing Setup Tour
Equipment and setup walkthrough for processing home-raised meat chickens, including scalding, plucking, and containment tools scaled for small operations.
Ripening Produce Before Frost: Topping Tomatoes, Peppers, and Squash in Zone 4A
Step-by-step on pruning growing tips to force fruit ripening before the first frost in cold climates, plus benefits for plant health and disease prevention.
DIY Yarrow Styptic Powder
How to harvest, dry, and process yarrow into a hemostatic powder for stopping minor bleeding — a historical first-aid skill for the homestead.
Sauerkraut Recipe: Curtido Fermentation Method
Step-by-step walkthrough of making fermented sauerkraut curtido: ingredient ratios, massaging technique, fermentation timeline, and storage for up to a year.
How to Harvest and Preserve Elderberries
31-minute walkthrough on identifying, harvesting, and processing black elderberries into medicinal syrup for cold and flu season.
I Still Can't Believe This Happened: Onion Bolting and Recovery
What causes onions to bolt prematurely, how to identify at-risk plants, and preservation methods for partially-salvaged crops.
Make your own mayo using real whole food ingredients
One-minute immersion-blender mayo recipe using olive oil, egg, lemon juice, and mustard; addresses ingredient quality and food preservation fundamentals.
4 Ways to Preserve Green Beans
Step-by-step instructions for fermenting, freezing, freeze-drying, and canning green beans, with storage life for each method.
Living Off Our Land | August Garden Tour | Zone 4A Minnesota
54-minute garden walkthrough showing vegetable production, preservation techniques (freezing, fermenting, freeze-drying), and season extension strategies for northern climates.
Don't Have a Garden? No Problem!
Food preservation techniques (canning, fermenting, dehydrating, freezing) for building seasonal food stores without growing your own.
Fermented Pickles Recipe
Step-by-step fermented pickle preservation: cucumber selection, brine ratios, herb seasonings, fermentation timeline, and storage—crunchier and faster than canning.
5 Money-Saving Tips for Raising Chickens
Ten years of chicken-raising experience distilled into five budget strategies for sustainable egg production and flock management.
Training dogs to not eat chickens
56-second walkthrough of methods to train prey-driven dogs to coexist safely with free-range chickens, including timing, consistency, and multi-dog learning.
Tips for Long-Storing Garlic
Forty-one-second walkthrough on curing, trimming, and storing homegrown garlic for maximum shelf life, including variety selection and storage conditions.
Don't Make These 2 Garlic Harvesting Mistakes
54-second walkthrough of two common garlic harvesting errors: timing (when leaves dry) and technique (gentle lifting to avoid damage).
Growing My Own Groceries: July Garden Tour | Zone 4A Minnesota
54-minute garden walkthrough showing vegetable production, preservation methods, and seasonal growing challenges in a cold climate with the goal of producing a year's food supply.
How to Freeze a Year's Worth of Broccoli
Step-by-step guide to freezing broccoli for long-term storage, with guidelines on blanching, freezer duration (3 months to 12 months), and inventory management.
When you know exactly where your food comes from because...
A 29-second pep talk on starting small with food self-sufficiency: bread-baking, herb gardens, foraging classes, hunting, and community gardens as entry points to opting out of commercial food systems.
The Raw Realities of Homesteading
Twenty-three minutes on the unglamorous side of homesteading: pests, physical hardship, time demands, and why many abandon the lifestyle—balanced against why it's worth pursuing.
Garden Planting in Northern Minnesota: Zone 4 Spring Timing
Short walkthrough of planting a garden in zone 4 Minnesota, with timing notes for northern growers planning spring crops.
Garlic Scape Recipe: Grilled Preparation and Growing Tips
27-second walkthrough on harvesting and grilling garlic scapes to maximize bulb growth while preparing an edible crop byproduct.
Growing a Year's Worth of Food | June Garden Tour | Zone 4A Minnesota
49-minute garden walkthrough showing what's growing in a northern Minnesota plot mid-season, with techniques for scaling production to feed a household year-round.
Something Happens When You Shift Toward Seasonal Eating
Why eating seasonally and locally reduces waste, saves money, and builds food resilience—and how to start with a garden, farmers' market, or CSA.
Frozen Tomato Soup Recipe
Simple recipe for using frozen tomatoes: butter-based soup with onion, garlic, basil, and bone broth, ready in under 30 minutes.
Mill Your Own Gluten-Free Flour Blend at Home
How to mill your own flour from bulk oats and brown rice using a home grain mill, with cost and nutritional benefits over store-bought blends.