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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How to Extend Your Growing Season
39-minute walkthrough of techniques to lengthen the gardening calendar for year-round food production on small urban lots.
Armored Supermarkets Stores Are Locking Up
Retail theft barriers, rising food prices, and a global PCB manufacturing disruption analyzed through supply-chain fragility lens.
The Next Food Crisis is Here — Three Food Categories to Stock Now
Analysis of near-term food-price and supply risks, with practical guidance on stocking eggs, wheat products, and cooking oils before costs rise further.
We Turn a Cheap IBC Tote into the Ultimate Garden Bed (Self-Watering Raised Bed)
27-minute walkthrough converting an IBC tote into a self-watering raised garden bed, covering materials, assembly, and planting techniques for year-round food production.
My Chicken Food Forest—Year Three (It's Finally Working)
Three-year progression building a self-sustaining perennial forage system for chickens on a half-acre: plant selection, design iteration, and what establishes itself once systems mature.
One Power Outage Away From No Water
Three-level water security plan: storage baseline, filter selection for your situation, and grid-independent sources like hand pumps and rainwater catchment.
2 Day Foraging Catch & Cook No Food No Water Survival
55-minute walkthrough of wild foraging and freshwater fishing techniques to sustain yourself in a wilderness survival scenario, from a 40-year bushcraft practitioner.
The Tiny Canning Detail That Ruins Jars
Explains ring storage, headspace, siphoning prevention, and how to identify false seals in home canning.
100-Year Low in US Wheat as Orchards Destroyed
Thirteen minutes on record-low US wheat production, California orchard destruction, fertilizer shortages, and commodity-driven inflation pressure on food supply.
What Farmers Are Seeing Right Now Should Concern Everyone
Examines upstream indicators of food crisis including fertilizer costs, drought conditions, and farmer planting decisions.
The Real Inflation Wave is Just Beginning: Prepare for July 2026
Fourteen minutes on meat-packer consolidation, 2026 beef vs. pork price forecasts, CPI food trends, and household strategies to navigate rising costs.
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.
Stockpile THESE Breakfasts in Your Prepper Pantry | Meals in a Jar
39-minute walkthrough making shelf-stable breakfast jars with pantry ingredients for emergency food storage, camping, and power outages.
Don't Make This Mistake with Dirty Eggs!
Explains why washing eggs removes protective bloom, requiring refrigeration, and how unwashed eggs offer more storage options.
Old-Fashioned Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe
Step-by-step vanilla ice cream from whole ingredients using an electric or hand-crank maker, plus customization options.
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.
How long will we ignore it? Serious Question...
Doug reads and discusses a Mother Jones investigation revealing the U.S. Forest Service's widespread glyphosate spraying in California's Lake Tahoe area as part of post-wildfire reforestation efforts.
Building an Off-Grid Homestead in Winter Was Harder Than We Expected | S1E10
Pulling emergency water from a silted well, filtering it to drinkability, building a predator-proof coop, and winter solar placement.
Pool Shock for Emergency Water Purifying: Storage and Safety Considerations
Eight-minute examination of pool shock as an emergency water purification backup, including potential storage hazards and disaster scenarios preppers should understand.
Stocking Up Again: Prepper Pantry Haul
68-minute walkthrough of long-term food storage, freeze-dried items, emergency water, and everyday supplies for prepper pantry building.
I Planted a Food Forest For My Ducks (No More Mud Pit)
Building a productive food forest and DIY pond filtration system in a duck run to grow animal feed on-site and reduce trips to the feed store.
Off-Grid Steak Meal No Kitchen
Cooking a complete steak meal over an open fire without modern kitchen equipment—basic campfire technique for protein preparation.
Improve Your Soil, Improve Your Garden
How organic matter percentage determines water retention capacity in garden soil, with actionable numbers per square foot.
Stop Watering Your Garden Every Day. Do This Instead
How to water vegetables deeply rather than frequently, measure soil moisture by depth, and adjust schedules for soil type.
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
Food Prices Are Spiking This Fall — Here's How to Prepare
Jonathan and Kylene cook fried rice from leftovers while explaining how to stock a rotating pantry, grow small amounts of food, and stretch protein with grains to counter inflation.
A Moose Attacked Cali while I was Butchering a Bear that tried to Break into my Log Cabin
Processing a defensive bear kill at an off-grid cabin, including butchering techniques, meat preservation, and managing aggressive wildlife behavior.
Making a Wooden Fishing Net and Catching Trout
Learn to craft a functional wooden fishing net from natural materials for sustainable protein procurement in remote settings.
How to Tell if Your Home Canned Food is Spoiled
Explains visible signs of spoilage and why botulism safety depends on tested methods, not guesswork or fear.
How To Build a 21-Day Food System on a Budget
Step-by-step guidance on building a three-week food reserve from scratch without breaking the bank.
I Stopped Scrolling and Started Building (Here's What Changed)
Personal narrative on shifting from consumption to creation: growing food in small spaces, building community ties, and intentional living as household resilience.
How To Make Great Camp Coffee From Dirty Water - Grayl Geopress TI
Field demonstration of the Grayl Geopress titanium purifier used to filter contaminated water and brew French press coffee over a compact backpacking stove
Something Feels Off at the Grocery Store
Why grocery store changes signal the need for smarter food storage choices, supply chain awareness, and critical evaluation of what you bring home.
Popcorn: The Most Fun Food in Your Prepper Pantry
Popcorn storage methods using Mylar and oxygen absorbers, microwave and stovetop popping techniques with coconut oil, and cost comparison showing 75% savings over commercial bags.
Improvised Foil Cup: Boiling Water in the Field
40-second demonstration of folding aluminum foil into a cup to boil water over a fire — useful no-gear technique for backcountry and emergency scenarios.
Planting 178 More Trees & Bushes - Adding Growth for Food, Wildlife, Bees & Birds
21-minute walkthrough of establishing perennial food sources (fruit and nut trees, berry bushes) on a mountain homestead, including site selection, planting technique, and long-term food security strategy.
In 4 days it all goes down! Will you be ready..
Doug and Stacy announce their upcoming homesteading conference, new radio show, copper water storage benefits, concerns about 6G rollout, and updates on Missouri Tea Company products
The 1 Thing You Aren't Prepping For - Super El Nino Scenario
Two-hour scenario walk-through of extreme weather cascade effects on UK supply chains, infrastructure, and food security, with military logistics applied to civilian preparedness.
Soon This Is All They'll Talk About
Unable to determine specific content from title and description; appears to cover food inflation, gas prices, and grid strain based on hashtags.
Emergency Food That Needs Zero Cooking
Five shelf-stable meal types that require no cooking, designed for food storage plans and grid-down scenarios.
Sustainable Garden Infrastructure and Seasonal Harvest Management
How to build raised beds and vertical gardens from reclaimed materials, set up gravity-fed irrigation and rain barrels, and use succession and companion planting to maximize yields.
Building Shelves for Sprouting Seeds
Walkthrough building shelving units for seed germination and seedling care in a small-space urban garden setup.
No Well? No Problem. How We Got Water in Our Off-Grid Cabin
Installing a 2500-gallon buried water storage tank, gravity-fed plumbing system, and transitioning from hauled water to rainwater collection.
The Best Bushcraft Cordage for Fishing Set Line Trap
37-minute walkthrough of making natural cordage from wild materials and testing it in fish traps for food procurement.
Let Your Tank Breathe!
32-second explanation of how vented tank lids regulate internal pressure and protect water storage systems as levels change.
Transplanting 2 Fig Trees
Step-by-step walkthrough of transplanting established fig trees into containers on an urban lot, covering timing, technique, and aftercare.
This Passive Energy Greenhouse Stays 50°F in Single-Digit Temps — Here's How
Owner and builder walk through a 36×18 steel greenhouse using thermal mass (water totes, concrete), earth tubes, and insulation to stay 50°F in winter with no electricity
3 Layer Emergency Cooking | What Most Preppers Get Wrong
Nine-minute walkthrough of three redundant cooking methods for grid-down scenarios, covering fuel types, equipment selection, and avoiding single points of failure.
Storing water sucks but you should still do it
24-minute walkthrough of water storage methods, challenges, and practical solutions for household preparedness.