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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Pasture Weed Management: Timing Your Mowing to Interrupt Seed Cycles
One-minute walkthrough on controlling invasive weeds in pasture by mowing at first flower to prevent seed drop and protect grazing land.
Mylar time at the Homestead
Twelve-minute walkthrough of packing and storing food in Mylar bags at an off-grid homestead, covering practical storage techniques.
10 Years With Our Freeze Dryer and Why the Price Just Got Way More Accessible for Preppers
Ten years of field experience with a home freeze dryer: how the technology works, what's changed in newer models, space and budget requirements, and how to make the economics work for long-term food storage.
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.
Gravity Water Filter for Urban Disasters
One-minute overview of gravity-bag water filtration kits and their role in contaminated-water response during urban emergencies.
Greg Interviews Denise Young, Executive Director of Triada World: Farm Well-Eat Well-Be Well
Interview exploring the connections between regenerative agriculture, soil health, nutrition, and chronic disease prevention from a science-based nonprofit perspective.
Come Make Pickles With Me - 3 Veggies From the Garden
Thirteen-minute walkthrough of fridge pickling radishes and fall harvest vegetables—quick, easy, no canning equipment needed.
Major FDA Seed Recall: What You Need to Check
Two-minute guide to fall 2026 seed recalls (broccoli, radish, alfalfa) affecting multiple vendors: how to identify recalled seeds in your collection and where to find official details.
Heating My Greenhouse for Free All Winter: DIY Wood-Burning Stove Install
Step-by-step installation of a wood-burning stove in a greenhouse to provide free winter heat for year-round food production.
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.
Transform Dirty Water with This Filter Kit
Ninety-second demonstration of a pump filtration kit converting murky water into clean, drinkable output with easy field setup.
Rotational Grazing for Chemical-Free Parasite Control
How to sequence goats, cows, and chickens across pasture to naturally manage parasites, maintain soil health, and maximize productivity without chemical inputs.
Catch and Cook Chicken for Survival: Egg and Mushroom Preparation
67-minute walkthrough of catching, processing, and cooking wild chicken and foraged mushrooms in a survival setting.
5 Years Growing a Tropical Food Forest in Australia
Five-year tour of a tropical food forest orchard: what grows, establishment timeline, and lessons from a working homestead in Australia.
Water Filtration System Configurations for SHTF: Gravity, Straw, Bottle, and Hand Pump
Walkthrough of the MUV Eclipse water filter's three-stage system and how to deploy it as a gravity filter, drinking straw, filtered bottle, or hand pump for hiking, camping, and emergency scenarios.
Rainwater Harvesting Off Our Earthbag Dome
25-minute walkthrough of installing a rainwater harvesting system on an off-grid earthbag dome structure, from planning through implementation.
3-Stage Water Filter: Tested for Purity
Demonstration of a three-stage bucket water filtration system, showing how it handles contaminants and viruses plus initial flow performance.
Food Recalls: 10 Products to Check in Your Kitchen Now
Breakdown of ten active food recalls (berries, cheese, salmon, chips, bacon, and more) with lot numbers and expiration dates to check in your pantry and freezer.
Building a Hunting Bow in the Wilderness
Craft a functional osage orange longbow using hand tools and wilderness materials at an off-grid homestead.
It Doesn't Have to Look Pretty. It Just Has to Work.
Fence repair, off-grid solar troubleshooting, and meat processing on a half-acre: practical homesteading skills learned through mistakes and iteration.
Cooking Dried Green Peas: Rehydration and Preparation
Step-by-step walkthrough on rehydrating and cooking dried green peas from long-term storage into a complete meal.
Feeding Our Sheep Trees to Stretch the Grazing Season
Fourteen-minute walkthrough of silvopasture: using chainsaw-cut tree browse to extend sheep grazing into fall, manage forest edges, and build firewood supply on a small Appalachian homestead.
Super Cheap Vermicomposting System Full Build in Our Greenhouse
Step-by-step construction of a budget vermicomposting system for the greenhouse, covering materials, assembly, and low-cost composting methods.
Insane Inflation: Food Prices 2016 vs 2026
Decade-long price comparison of common grocery items revealing inflation's cumulative impact on food costs.
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
Catch and Cook Catfish and Duck Eggs in the Jungle
68-minute walkthrough of fishing for and preparing catfish and duck eggs with chili sauce in a forest survival setting.
Grocery Store Cyberattacks and Food Supply Vulnerabilities
Analysis of recent refrigeration system failures and cyberattacks at U.S. and European grocery chains, and what they reveal about food-supply fragility and the case for home food storage.
Survive What's Coming With This Device
Review of the QuenchSea 3.0 portable hand-powered desalinator for obtaining fresh water in survival scenarios.
The Right Way To Store Food Long Term: Mylar Bag Workshop
Twenty-minute walkthrough on storing bulk staple foods in mylar bags and food-grade buckets for long-term shelf life, including oxygen absorbers and sealing techniques.
Rabbit Care and Hutch Management in a Productive Garden
Eleven-minute walkthrough on rabbit husbandry basics: keeping rabbits healthy, moving them safely to new hutches, and integrating them into garden spaces without requiring manicured property.
Living Off the Land in the Rocky Mountains
29-minute walkthrough of foraging, fishing, and hunting techniques for food self-sufficiency in alpine terrain, demonstrated by a 40-year bushcraft practitioner.
See Inside Your Filter & Backflush Like a Pro
Fifty-second walkthrough of filter inspection and backflushing technique to restore clogged water filters to working condition.
Changing From Outdoor to Indoor Canning
Panel discussion on transitioning canning operations indoors, featuring Camppatton Family Compound, Rebel Canners, and ChefTech experts.
Cali's first retrieve of the season
Off-grid wilderness cooking by the water: finding purpose and self-sufficiency in manual outdoor meal preparation.
We're Rethinking How We Homestead (Again!)
Seasonal adjustments to livestock, food preservation, and self-sufficiency practices for winter homesteading in North Idaho.
Survival in forest: Duck curry with wild mushroom for jungle food
67-minute walkthrough of preparing duck curry and foraged mushrooms in a wilderness survival setting.
Two Weeks Stranded Off-Grid: Water Logistics and Homestead Management
Seven-minute reflection on managing an off-grid Arizona homestead during supply delays, including water-hauling systems, animal care during limited mobility, and when to outsource vs. DIY.
Planting Fall Garlic
Garlic planting guide for Zone 2B/3A northern Alberta gardens: timing, variety selection, and technique for cold-climate growers.
Know Your Local Farmers Before the Shelves Go Empty
Why building relationships with local food producers and small businesses matters for household resilience when supply chains break down.
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.
Oats for Long-Term Food Storage: The Overlooked Survival Food That Lasts 30 Years
Learn why oats are a cornerstone survival staple, which varieties to store, proper quantities, and how to package them for 25–30 year shelf life.
Off Grid Life: A Day in the Forest | Duck Hunting with my Dog
Harvest wild waterfowl for food and observe seasonal changes while maintaining an off-grid homestead in autumn.
Deer Catch, Clean, and Cook Start-to-Finish
Twenty-two minute walkthrough of harvesting, field-dressing, butchering, and cooking a whole deer, emphasizing respect for the animal and zero-waste processing.
Life in the Jungle: Duck Egg and Bamboo Shoot Cooking, Catch and Cook Crabs
Sixty-seven-minute walkthrough of foraging bamboo shoots, cooking duck eggs, and catching and preparing crabs in a jungle survival setting.
This is a Game Changer
Review of a new food preservation technology that the creator believes significantly advances home food storage capabilities.
Hackers Took Down 700 Supermarkets. Are You Ready?
How infrastructure interdependencies create supply disruptions, and why shelf-stable food stocks buffer against sudden store closures.
Food Label Scams: How Ingredient Splitting Hides Sugar and Other Ingredients
Eight-minute breakdown of ingredient splitting — how food companies list multiple forms of sugar and other ingredients separately to obscure actual content — with practical tips for reading labels and spotting misleading marketing.
They Say 72 Hours. I Say 36 Days.
Why 3-day emergency kits fall short: planning supply reserves for 30+ days of self-sufficiency when roads stay closed and deliveries don't restart.
Baby Nigerian Dwarf Goat Kids Born on Our Homestead
Two Nigerian dwarf goats give birth to twin kids each with no complications—documenting livestock breeding and neonatal care on an off-grid Tasmanian homestead.