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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Poultry Processing Equipment Unboxing
Tour of on-farm poultry processing equipment setup: scalders, pluckers, and workflow for home and small-farm chicken processing.
Planting Another Potato Bed
Twenty-three minutes on establishing and planting a potato bed in a small urban space, covering bed preparation and seed potato selection.
Rosemary Rescue: The Science of Reviving a Dying Herb
Five-minute walkthrough: diagnose and fix common rosemary plant failures indoors using soil, light, watering, and pest-management techniques.
Always dedicate a drinking water hose to your water storage
21-second tip: use a dedicated hose for drinking water storage to prevent cross-contamination and maintain water safety.
2026 Food Shortage Warning: Are You Ready? Here's Your Action Plan
Jonathan and Kaylean walk through six strategies for weathering 2026-27 food shortages, from rotating pantry basics to building living food sources and community networks.
Spring Garden Update: Container Growing, Chickens, and Quail
13-minute walkthrough of a spring garden in progress: container vegetables, fruit trees, herbs, chickens, and quail on a city lot.
Control These 5 Things or Your Emergency Food Won't Last
Twelve-minute walkthrough of oxygen, moisture, heat, light, and pests—the five primary threats to long-term food storage shelf life and how to counter each one.
Easy Moose Jerky: The Ultimate Survival Food
A demonstration of cutting moose meat cross-grain into thin slices, seasoning with salt and spices, and air-drying it above a stove for shelf-stable storage.
This Is What Preparedness Actually Looks Like
Six-minute walkthrough of everyday food-independence tasks—comfrey harvesting for garden fertilizer and topical remedies, and other small consistent actions that build real food security over time.
Coffee Chat: What I'm Seeing Right Now
Seven minutes on garden progress, food self-reliance fundamentals, and the mindset behind small-scale food production for household resilience.
Beans or Lentils? Which Is Better for Survival Food?
Comparison of beans and lentils as long-term storage staples, examining nutrition, calories, and meal-building potential for grid-down cooking.
The Most Overlooked Canned Food Category: Base Foods
Overview of seven canned food types for emergency meal systems, with focus on 'base foods' as nutritionally dense foundation ingredients for grid-down cooking.
Simple Rain Catchment & Power to the Cabin
Walkthrough of a DIY rainwater collection system and off-grid power setup for a cabin, demonstrating practical water and energy independence.
Water storage for emergencies - long term
Twenty-minute walkthrough of long-term water storage systems for household emergencies: container selection, treatment, rotation, and maintenance.
Hummingbirds and Greenhouse
Season-long look at growing vegetables, herbs, and specialty crops in an Arizona greenhouse, plus solar and wind power setup for a 43-acre homestead.
Outdoor Garden Beds Tour, Greenhouse Progress
25-minute walkthrough of diversified garden beds, greenhouse expansion, and dual solar-wind power systems on a 43-acre off-grid Arizona homestead.
Fishing Knots for Preppers, Bushcraft and Survival
Six-minute walkthrough of essential fishing knots for survival and bushcraft scenarios, demonstrating easy step-by-step techniques.
March Florida Garden Tour Zone 9b | Prepping the Land for a Year's Worth of Food
17-minute garden walkthrough in central Florida showing raised beds, seedling starts, food forest setup, and permaculture techniques for year-round food production.
Atmospheric Water Harvesting: How to Pull Clean Water From Air for $30
How atmospheric water generation works, materials for a DIY $30 device, real-world performance tests, and scalability for off-grid households.
Garden Progress: Seedlings to Success
Twelve minutes on spring seedling propagation and early-season garden setup on a 43-acre Arizona homestead, covering raised beds, transplanting, and crop timing.
How to Store 90 Days of Food in a Small Apartment (Without Looking Like a Hoarder)
Ten-minute walkthrough on building a 90-day food supply for a family of four in a small apartment using calorie math, rotation systems, and hidden storage spots.
How to Grow Loquat Trees | Must Have Fruit Tree
Eighteen-minute guide to cultivating loquat trees for warm climates: growing zones, soil prep, harvesting, and preparing medicinal leaf tea.
How to Clip Chicken Wings the Right Way
Two-minute walkthrough on safely clipping primary flight feathers to prevent flight while keeping chickens healthy and mobile.
A Food Growing Journey: Polyculture Gardening, Hugelkultur, and Food Forest Updates
28-minute walkthrough of polyculture gardening on a mountain homestead: hugelkultur terrace management, potato and blueberry interplanting, celery integration, and food forest maturation.
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
The Journey to Growing Our Own Food (5 Years Later)
Five-year progress update on establishing a productive orchard and raising animals toward household food self-sufficiency and sustainable living.
Harvest Tales ~2025: Autumn Garden and Food Forest Tour
29-minute walkthrough of a BC mountain homestead's autumn harvest: grapes on trees, apples, melons in wicking towers, squash, potatoes, tomatoes, onion curing, and food forest design.
Living Off the Grid - The Grind for Water
Short walkthrough of water sourcing, collection, and daily management challenges on an off-grid mountain property during low-snow periods.
Living Off Grid: The Grind for Water
21-minute walkthrough of off-grid water sourcing on a mountain homestead when snow melt and rain collection fail; practical solutions for livestock and household needs.
Growing New Soil & Mushrooms
Sixteen minutes on pathway composting, worm castings, mushroom cultivation, and potato harvesting on a homestead garden.
The Secret to a Breathtaking Food Garden: 5 Design Tips for Any Budget
Five practical garden design principles—from flowers and water features to hardscaping—for building productive food gardens on any budget.
The Joys of Harvest & Preserving the Garden
22-minute walkthrough of late-season harvest and preservation: fermenting hot sauce and pickles, storing melons and root crops for winter.
4 Years Becoming Self Sufficient (Full Farm Tour)
Tour of a 4-year homesteading project in Australia: land development, food production systems, and progress toward household food self-sufficiency.
Elementi Fermentation Kit: Gear Review for Home Fermentation
Two-minute walkthrough of a fermentation kit designed for beginners—glass weights, self-burping lids, and mason jar compatibility for making sauerkraut, kimchi, and pickles at home.
Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway: Review
Review of Hemenway's permaculture guide for small-space gardeners: building soil, water conservation, biodiversity, and low-effort food production.
Storing Apples: Gold Rush Apple Variety and Long-Term Storage Techniques
Five-minute practical guide to selecting and storing the Gold Rush apple variety for long-term household food preservation.
1500 Days Homesteading: A Journey to Self Sufficiency (Full Tour)
22-minute tour of a working homestead after 1500 days, documenting food production systems and sustainable self-sufficiency practices.
A Complete Walkthrough of Our Property and the Current State
23-minute tour of a newly acquired homestead, covering land assessment for water flow, wind patterns, sunlight, soil fertility, and planned structures for self-sufficiency.
Best Red Fleshed Apple Types, Blood Apples Impress Again
45-minute walkthrough of red-fleshed apple seedling varieties coming into season, with tasting notes and cultivation insights for food production and storage.
Permaculture forest garden
Building a multi-layer food forest under established apple trees using permaculture and no-dig methods: plant selection, soil building, and wildlife habitat.
How to Get Ready for Fur Trapping the Right Way and Avoid Mistakes
Six-minute walkthrough of fur-trapping fundamentals, common beginner mistakes, and lessons learned from years of hands-on practice.
A wood stove meal for power outages
Seventeen minutes cooking a homemade meal on a wood stove as practice for feeding the family during grid-down scenarios, with brainstorming on alternative-stove meal options.
DIY Bug Spray With American Beauty Berry
Seven-minute walkthrough harvesting American beauty berry and making a homemade mosquito repellent for garden pest control without synthetic chemicals.
Homestead Update Autumn 2025
Mid-November garden tour showcasing autumn harvests, seasonal tasks, and ongoing food production on a Welsh homestead using no-dig methods.
How to Make Easy Homemade Almond Milk
Five-minute walkthrough on making almond milk at home using basic kitchen equipment, a practical food-production skill for self-sufficiency.
Friends Taste Test New Red Fleshed Apple Varieties In The Orchard
Seventy-minute orchard walkthrough featuring red-fleshed apple variety evaluation, taste-testing, and notes on flavor, storage, and cultivation characteristics.
Final Steps of Building a Florida Food Forest
Step-by-step walkthrough of completing a permaculture food forest in central Florida, including sweet potato planting and subtropical plant selection.
Emergency Water Filter: Make a DIY Water Filter from Bark
Step-by-step walkthrough for building a functional water filter from tree bark, charcoal, and natural materials found in the field.
Testing New Apple Varieties: Red Fleshed, Performance Evaluation
57-minute walkthrough evaluating new apple varieties for home cultivation, including flavor, storage potential, and performance in diverse growing conditions.