Food & Water
The two things a household runs out of first. Long-term food storage, rotating pantries, freeze-dried, canning and mylar — plus water filtration, storage, sourcing and treatment. The ground truth on what actually feeds and hydrates a household when the supply chain stalls. Plain reviews and honest taste tests, no panic.
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Mobile Coop Hack That Stops Every Predator
DIY predator-proof chicken coop design using tarps and simple fencing to protect backyard flocks from raccoons and foxes.
Melon Plants Training: Vine Management to Prevent Rot and Cracking
Technique for training melon vines vertically to prevent ground rot, cracked rinds, and soil-borne moisture damage while maximizing garden space.
EMP Prep: Beyond Power, Focus on Survival Essentials
37-second overview of EMP preparedness strategy, emphasizing self-reliance in water, food, and shelter over grid-dependent systems.
Water Security Starts With a Second Option
37-second primer on building water resilience through backup systems, using a hand-pump well as an example of insurance against supply disruption.
Lemon Peels for Disinfecting Cutting Boards
Learn how to use lemon peels as a natural disinfectant for food preparation surfaces.
Blackout Food Safety: Keep Your Fridge Cold!
One-minute guide to food safety during power outages: how long refrigerated and frozen food stays safe without opening doors, and practical steps to extend that window.
SpaghettiOs Lawsuit: What Walmart Didn't Tell You About This Product
Case study of contamination in canned goods: what the SpaghettiOs lawsuit reveals about retail food safety, inspection practices, and risks to home pantries.
Freezer Hack: Keep Food Cold Longer
23-second walkthrough: fill a freezer with frozen water jugs to maintain cold longer during outages and create emergency drinking water.
Solar Pump Without Battery for Farming or Swimming Pool
Evaluation of a 750W solar pump and controller system ($300, Dexzon brand) suitable for off-grid water pumping without battery storage.
Emergency Hygiene: Stay Clean When Water is Scarce
Essential hygiene supplies to stockpile and how to build a makeshift handwashing station when clean water is limited.
Emergency Water Purification: Safe Drinking Water Hacks
Three practical methods to purify drinking water in emergencies: boiling, household bleach, and portable filters like LifeStraw. Covers what works and what doesn't.
Water: The Crucial First Domino for Survival
One gallon per person per day baseline and two-week water storage math for a family of four—why water scarcity cascades into systemic failure.
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.
Stretch 2 Weeks of Food Into a Month: Smart Stockpiling Meals
Two-minute walkthrough: plan meals around shelf-stable ingredients your family actually eats to double your food supply's duration and reduce waste.
A Salad Made From Weeds
Two-minute walkthrough of identifying and harvesting common edible wild greens for a foraged salad.
Fresh Milled Flour: What Should You Actually Bake First?
Four-minute interview with a flour expert on what to bake first when you start milling your own grain, and how to work with fresh-milled flour.
Why We Raise Coturnix Quail
Two-minute overview of raising coturnix quail for household food production, including setup and care basics.
Country Life Beats City Costs: Gardens, Food & Freedom
Two-minute comparison of rural self-sufficiency and lower living costs versus urban expenses, with lessons from Depression-era food production for modern resilience.
Buying one or two things each time you shop adds up so quickly
Short walkthrough on building food storage incrementally by adding a few items per shopping trip, showing how small consistent purchases compound over time.
WWII Rationing: Soup Lines, Black Markets & Future Warnings
Elder recounts Depression-era food scarcity, government rationing, and black market emergence as historical parallel to modern supply-chain fragility.
Rendering Bear Grease and Cooking Lake Trout on a Wood Stove
Learn to render animal fat for storage and cooking and prepare fresh-caught fish using a wood-burning stove.
Why I'm Scaling Back My Survival Garden This Year
Adapt your garden plans to physical constraints: prioritize high-yield, low-strain crops like carrots during recovery.
3 Ingredient Sweet Potato Flatbread Easy & Healthy Recipe
Make nutritious flatbread from boiled sweet potatoes, sprouted wheat flour, and salt—a simple carb source for storage.
Backyard Garden Update: Companion Planting and Vertical Growing
Suburban garden tour showing companion planting, vertical trellising with recycled materials, and fertilizer effects on cucumber, bean, and watermelon yields.
Editor's note
“If you only have a weekend and $200, fix water before anything else — it's the prep with the highest ratio of survival impact per dollar. On food: most $400 emergency kits could be replaced with $120 of supermarket staples plus mylar bags. The expensive part of food prep is the marketing, not the calories.”
— Cockroach editorial
Is your city prepared for an emergency? Urban survival starts here.
Learn how to assess local threats, locate water sources, and plan evacuation routes for urban resilience.
The First 24 Hours Without Running Water: What Really Happens
Four-minute walkthrough of the sanitation and adaptation challenges that emerge in the first day of a water outage, plus a two-hour home exercise to identify your household gaps.
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.
Identifying Plantain
One-and-a-half minute guide to identifying plantain in the wild, covering key visual markers for confident foraging.
3 Ways to Get Safe Drinking Water When the Grid Goes Down
Three grid-down water purification methods: boiling, purification tablets, and emergency filters, demonstrated by a former CIA officer and survival trainer.
Building a Smokehouse from Scratch
Step-by-step walkthrough of designing and constructing a functional smokehouse for preserving meat and other foods on a homestead.
Growing My Perfect Squash Garden
Tour a productive squash garden and learn variety selection and cultivation techniques for homestead food production.
Knowing THIS Improves Your Garden!
Learn a key principle that enhances garden productivity and resilience for food self-sufficiency.
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.
S3E7: Water Preparedness - Beyond 72 Hours
Water storage, sourcing, filtration, and purification strategies for extended emergencies, plus vulnerabilities in modern water infrastructure.
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.
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.
Turn swamp water into pure gold in 30 seconds
Portable water filtration for roadside emergencies: how the Grayl UltraPress makes untreated water safe to drink.
Solo Fishing Trip on Lake Huron: Venison on an Open Fire, Fly Fishing and Canoeing
Practical demonstration of backcountry food procurement, shelter, and fire management during a solo wilderness overnight.
Making a Primitive Fishing Rod That Works #Bushcraft #Wilderness #DIY
One-hour walkthrough of building a functional fishing rod from natural materials using techniques demonstrated on the TV show Alone.
Australia Fuel Spike $2.90/L, Farms in Trouble
Short analysis of rising fuel costs in Europe and Australia, how machinery costs affect farm economics, and implications for food-system fragility.
Do Eggs Need to be Refrigerated?
Learn whether fresh eggs require refrigeration and explore methods for preserving eggs long-term on the homestead.
Should You Mulch Your Garden?
Learn the benefits and considerations of mulching for garden productivity and soil health.
Water Filtration vs Purification: Preppers Must Know the Difference
Two-minute explainer on the difference between water filtration and purification, when to use each method, and when both are necessary.
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.
S3E5: One Acre Survival
Can one acre of land feed a family? Explores food production reality, common mistakes, livestock, fruit trees, and the gap between growing food and actual family nutrition.
Most People Store Water Wrong
Four-part framework for evaluating emergency water storage: accessibility, distribution, resupply, and usability beyond quantity alone.
Pantry canned food shelf in above freezers – compact space organization
Walkthrough of organizing canned food storage in a compact above-freezer pantry space for efficient access and inventory management.
Can you breed your own meat chickens?
Expert walkthrough on breeding sustainable meat chickens at home, covering heritage breeds, genetics, and alternatives to commercial Cornish Cross.