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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Last Harvest of 2026 — Zone 2B/3A Garden
Twenty-one minutes documenting the final autumn harvest in a northern Alberta garden (zones 2B/3A), with seasonal learnings for next year's growing.
Our First Winter on the Homestead: Firewood and Sheep Grazing Planning
Walk-through of first-winter planning on a PA mountain homestead: firewood procurement, stacking and drying strategy, rotational sheep grazing to stretch pasture, and regenerative land management for cold-season self-sufficiency.
Hot Tent Camping in Heavy Rain: Bushcraft Shelter and Foraging
29-minute solo wilderness camp in heavy rain: building and maintaining a hot tent shelter, foraging wild mushrooms, primitive cooking, and managing survival conditions with a dog.
The Best Time to Buy: My Complete Q4 Stock-Up List
Month-by-month guide to Q4 pantry shopping: what to buy in October, November, and December based on USDA food price forecasts and seasonal availability.
Bone Marrow, Street Corn, Cornbread | Off-Grid Cooking in the Cabin | Preparing for a Bowhunt
Cast iron cooking techniques for three off-grid meals: Mexican street corn, bone marrow, and cornbread prepared over a wood stove.
I Bow Hunted Elk for 20 Days in the Mountains: Traditional Bow Hunting Elk 2026
Twenty days pursuing elk with a selfbow on public land: a walkthrough of backcountry hunting logistics, patience, terrain navigation, and the reality of food procurement in remote mountains.
Can You Actually Vacuum Seal Soup? Vesta V23 Tested
Real-world vacuum sealer evaluation: testing bulk meat, bread, soup in liquid mode, and dry staples to help you choose the right tool for pantry preservation.
Ferrocement: A $5,100 Problem, A $1,200 Solution
Building a 5,000-gallon water tank using ferrocement (wire mesh and cement) for $1,200 instead of $5,100: material costs, engineering principles, test-piece casting and failure analysis.
If Farmers Are Right, You Should Prepare for What's Coming
How rising input costs are forcing farmers to cut capital investment, with cascading risks for food production and household food security.
Gray Squirrel from Field to Table: Appalachian Camp Cooking
Seventeen-minute walkthrough of harvesting, preparing, and cooking gray squirrel with potatoes and gravy over a camp fire.
The 100-Day Rice Math You Need to Know
Calculate caloric and staple quantities for 100-day food storage using rice, beans, oats, and flour; learn packaging and oxygen-absorber best practices for long-term safety.
Gas Tax Relief Scam as Airlines Cut Flights
Analysis of diesel and jet fuel price spikes, their impact on agricultural harvesting costs and food supply chains, and airline capacity cuts in response to rising energy costs.
Best Kept Secret in Military Surplus? 1945 AGM Two-Burner Stove
Twenty-one minutes evaluating a vintage military two-burner stove: layout, portability, field cooking applications, and why surplus gear still works for base camps and outdoor cooking today.
Kitchen Recalls: Meat, Frozen Fruit, Cinnamon, and Household Products
Breakdown of recent food and household product recalls—what triggered them, where they were distributed, and how to check your pantry and home for affected items.
Scavenging After SHTF: 60 Days After Collapse
23-minute walkthrough of scavenging strategy when supplies run low post-collapse: critical items to prioritize, safety protocols, and decision frameworks for leaving your base.
18 Survival Items to Get Before 2027
Essential gear checklist across water, food, power, and communications to build a practical emergency foundation.
How To Get Water From Your Well in a Long-Term Blackout
27-minute walkthrough on installing and using hand pumps as non-electric backups for well water, covering static water level measurement, pump selection (deep vs. shallow), and three product comparisons.
What to Store Before 2027: The 100 Day Pantry Build
29-minute walkthrough on building a 100-day pantry: what staples to prioritize, quantities, storage methods, and rotation strategies for household food security.
Sustainable Off-Grid Homestead Transformation: DIY Projects, Pole Barn, Dutch Door, Solar Rack
19-minute walkthrough of off-grid homestead build on Arizona raw land: Dutch door construction, pole barn improvements, solar installation, outdoor kitchen setup, and livestock integration.
A Cozy Night Alone in My Secret Mountain Cabin
Eighteen minutes of cabin setup, water collection, firewood gathering, fire tending, and off-grid cooking in a remote mountain shelter.
Logs for My Next Log Cabin | Planting My Wildlife Food Plot
Select and process timber for log cabin construction, then establish a wildlife food plot for off-grid self-sufficiency.
Our Sheep's First Days On The Homestead
Step-by-step introduction of a dairy sheep flock: pasture preparation, breed selection rationale, barn setup, and managing initial integration challenges.
FEMA's 11 Must-Have Items for Winter Preparedness
Walkthrough of FEMA's winter-storm checklist: heating, water storage, food, communications, and safety gear with specific product recommendations and common family mistakes.
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.
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
Interest Rates and Inflation: Energy, Supply Chain, and Economic Disruption
Analysis of inflation drivers, Fed policy, and cascading effects on diesel, trucking, and food production — how macro instability ripples into household supply chains.
Quiet Days in the Woods: Building a Maple Sugar Shack
Install windows and a porch on a maple sugar shack, then craft and test a functional ash longbow from reclaimed wood.
Off-Grid Homestead Pole Barn Reveal: Building From Raw Land
Step-by-step pole barn construction, window installation, animal shelter setup, and property improvements on a remote Arizona homestead.
Wendell Berry Was Right. Here's My Proof
Kentucky farmer Wendell Berry's sixty-year experiment in local self-sufficiency, and how the creator applied his principles to their own off-grid homestead: solar, water systems, and household independence.
Wizard's Log - September 17th 2026
Site visit and assessment of a potential year-round off-grid homestead location, focusing on winter survival techniques and food-growing infrastructure.
How Diesel Price Shocks Cascade Through Food and Energy Systems
21-minute analysis of diesel supply disruptions, their impact on farming costs and food-system logistics during peak harvest season, and downstream effects on household expenses.
Bugging In: Why Leaving Home Could Be Your Biggest Mistake
Twenty minutes on sheltering-in-place versus evacuation in UK emergencies: water storage, food without power, backup lighting and comms, sanitation, and how to identify your household's weak points.
Bow Trap Survival Build
Twenty-minute walkthrough on constructing and setting a bow trap for hunting game, from a self-taught bushcraft instructor with four decades of wilderness experience.
Our 1,700-Gallon Water Tank Fills Itself (Off Grid)
Complete build of a gravity-fed spring collection and cistern system: finding springs, sizing flow, building collection boxes, routing multiple sources, and solving silt problems.
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.
Homestead Systems Maintenance: Rainwater, Heating, and Winter Prep
Twenty-two minutes of practical off-grid maintenance: securing rainwater collection, testing a diesel heater, prepping a Russian stove, and repairing water-storage tanks.
Farm Soil Recovery After Prescribed Burn: Forage Explosion on Newly Leased Pasture
Seventeen-minute site visit showing soil response and forage growth following spring prescribed burn on newly leased regenerative grazing land.
Building an Earthen Pizza Oven in the Forest
Learn to construct a functional earthen pizza oven from raw forest materials—clay, sand, and straw—for off-grid outdoor cooking.
Sam's Club Emergency Preparedness Items: Budget Prepper Shopping Walkthrough
27-minute walkthrough of Sam's Club bulk items for emergency food storage, water, batteries, and shelf-stable pantry supplies, with cost-per-serving focus for budget-conscious preppers.
The Herbal Oil Method Used by Professional Herbalists
Learn the alcohol intermediary method to extract medicinal compounds more effectively when infusing dried herbs into oil.
Seven Days Without Power: What Changes and How to Prepare
Step-by-step walkthrough of how a week-long power outage affects water, food, refrigeration, backup power, fuel, communications, and sanitation systems—and what preparation matters most.
The Exodus Plan: Beyond the Bug Out Bag
Build a practical extended-evacuation kit beyond the basics, with water, fire, shelter, food procurement, and signaling tools.
Fall planting and garden experiments
Twenty-minute walkthrough of fall planting methods, garden experiments from the year, and a new technique being tried for the first time.
They Sent Me This Water Filter To Test - Part 1
Unboxing and field testing of the E01 Mini portable electric water filter, including flow-rate demos, rainwater and creek-water analysis, and maintenance breakdown.
First Look at Our New Homestead (After Being Forced Out)
Drone and walking tour of a new raw-land homestead property in Appalachia: soil assessment, water, livestock plans (chickens and sheep), rotational grazing layout, and the practical first steps for building self-sufficiency from scratch.
Cleaning Wilderness Water
Fifteen-minute walkthrough of water purification methods for outdoor survival: removing pathogens and organisms that cause illness when living or camping in the wilderness.
3 Days Solo Camping in Heavy Rain with My Dog: Fishing and Bushcraft Survival Skills
24-minute walkthrough of wilderness camping in heavy rain: shelter construction, primitive fish cooking, fire management, and survival in adverse conditions with a dog.
Three Things Happening in America You Need to See
Breakdown of a major product recall, Walmart tracking practices, food price inflation, and chemical standards gaps between US and EU products affecting consumer safety and grocery costs.
First harvest of the season
Walkthrough of the first vegetable harvest from a zone 3 Northern Alberta garden, including updates on new gardening methods tried this year.