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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My Values Are Showing: The Quiet Power of a Home Well Lived
Explore how homemaking and homesteading work together to create a resilient home that reflects your values and sustains your family.
The Ultimate Guide to Emergency Water Off Grid
29-minute walkthrough of water storage quantities, container options, purification methods, and grid-independent systems from stored supplies to hand-pump wells.
5 Dangerous Water Purification Myths That Could Make You Sick
Learn the difference between water disinfection and purification, and understand what common treatment methods actually remove.
Keyhole Fire Cooking & Brown Sugar Bannock | Using a Carbon Steel Skillet Like a Dutch Oven
15-minute walkthrough on using a keyhole fire and carbon steel skillet to bake bannock and other foods in camp without carrying heavy cast iron.
Unexpected Encounter & We Finally Got Clean Water! | Homestead Update
Norwegian couple documents well installation and testing, kitchen renovation, potato cultivation, and establishing clean water access on their remote farm restoration project.
15 Grocery Items You Can Grow for Free! These Vegetables Save Us the Most Money
Walkthrough of 15 beginner-friendly vegetables to grow at home—from garlic to peppers—with preservation methods to extend the harvest and reduce grocery spending year-round.
They're Pricing Us Out of Food
Analysis of food price inflation across retail and fast food, historical parallels to civil unrest, and strategies to reduce dependency on conventional markets.
Survival Challenge (No Food, No Water) Catch and Cook — Fishing Bushcraft Camping
23-minute solo survival scenario: building shelter, sourcing water using primitive methods, and catch-and-cook fishing on an island with minimal gear.
August Stock-Up Guide: What to Buy Now Before Prices Surge for Your Prepper Pantry
Seasonal food storage buying guide covering freeze-dried foods, long-term pantry staples, and current sales before fall price increases.
Frozen Yogurt Cheesecake Pie - No-Bake Summer Dessert with Variations
Fifteen-minute walkthrough of making a no-bake frozen yogurt cheesecake pie from scratch, with ingredient variations for different climates and resources.
Smallest Electric Water Filter I've Ever Tested & It WORKS! ITEHIL E01 Mini
Twenty-two-minute hands-on test of the ITEHIL E01 mini electric water filter, covering setup, flow rate, filtration quality, portability, and suitability for off-grid or emergency water treatment.
How I'm Prepping for a WW3 Food Apocalypse and Famine
Build a self-sufficient food system using garden crops, chickens, and bees to produce thousands of pounds of food for long-term resilience.
Turning Home Grown Cabbage Into a Tasty & Fresh Summer Chip Dip
15-minute walkthrough of making fresh cabbage-based chip dip from garden produce, with full ingredient list and technique.
My Apocalypse Food Supply is Destroyed! Don't Make This One Crucial Mistake
Learn what destroyed one prepper's food storage and how to avoid the same costly mistake with your own supplies.
Stop Poisoning Your Soil: It's Worse Than You Think!
Learn why chemical-free soil is foundational to food production and how to restore your soil's living ecosystem naturally.
Solar Water Disinfection: Free, Simple, and Scientifically Proven
Learn how to purify drinking water using sunlight and a clear bottle when conventional supplies fail.
8 Vegetables to Plant Now for Big Harvests in Small Spaces
Sixteen-minute walkthrough of eight high-yield vegetables for container and raised-bed gardening, with harvest projections and beginner mistakes to avoid.
Catfish Fillets and Hushpuppies | Catch & Cook on a Camp Stove
Twenty-minute catch-and-cook demonstration: selecting, cleaning, and preparing fresh catfish over a camp stove, plus traditional hushpuppies using simple ingredients.
Stock Food and Emergency Supplies Now
17-minute overview of food storage strategy and emergency supply planning for household preparedness.
A Journey to Self Sufficiency (I've Been Neglecting the Farm)
26-minute orchard tour and farm update on a 30-acre tropical homestead in Australia, covering food growing practices and viewer Q&A.
Food Recalls Are Skyrocketing: Latest FDA Alerts and What You Need to Know
Overview of current food recalls, contamination outbreaks, and an FDA proposal to use ionizing radiation on foods—what it means for your household food safety.
This Growing Season Has Been Brutal... Here's What Survived
27-minute walkthrough of a coastal garden's performance through extreme weather—cold snaps, heat waves, drought, heavy rain—with harvest updates, crop failures, and practical lessons for the rest of the season.
Mason Jars: The Ultimate Prepping Tool No One Talks About
Explore practical applications of mason jars for food storage, water treatment, fermentation, and herbal medicine in a self-reliant home.
8 Food Items That Will Skyrocket in Price in 2026
Identify eight food categories likely to see significant price increases over the next year and plan storage accordingly.
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
28 Foods Containing Plastic: Microplastics in Everyday Groceries
21-minute walkthrough of foods where researchers have found microplastic contamination, which foods have highest levels, and practical steps to reduce family exposure.
Massive Drill Rig Arrives—Securing Water & Power for Our Homestead
Norwegian couple documents drilling a new well, installing a frost-free hydrant, planting potatoes using no-dig methods, and building layered backup systems (old well, wood heat, future solar) while grid-connected.
June Garden Check In: Spring Maintenance for Thriving Harvests
Garden maintenance walkthrough covering soil health monitoring, water and nutrient assessment, and early-stage crop management to prevent losses.
7 Prepper Pantry Mistakes Destroying Your Survival Plan
Fifteen-minute walkthrough of seven common long-term food storage errors—oxygen exposure, pests, temperature, nutrition gaps—with fixes for each.
What Morning Chores Really Look Like on a Homestead
Real-time walkthrough of daily pasture rotation chores and their benefits for livestock, soil health, and grazing efficiency.
Easy Preserved Lemons, Limes & Oranges: 2-Ingredient Fermented Citrus
22-minute walkthrough of salt-fermented citrus preservation: selecting fruit, packing jars, fermentation timeline, storage, and four recipes using preserved citrus.
Is THIS the Store Where You Can Find ALL of Your Prepping Gear on a Budget?
28-minute walkthrough of Aldi's emergency food storage options: grains, beans, canned proteins, shelf-stable meals, and what to look for when building a frugal prepper pantry.
The Deadfall Trap: Design and Construction
Twenty-two minutes on building and tuning a deadfall trap for small game and larger animals, with scalability principles for different prey sizes.
Pan Fishing Tips & Retro Gear: Why the Zebco 202 Still Catches Fish
Practical panfishing techniques and tips for catching bluegill and crappie using the classic Zebco 202 reel—low-cost, reliable gear for food self-sufficiency.
How I Preserve a Year's Worth of Food Without Burnout
Rethink pantry strategy: prioritize foods that preserve well, use fermentation and root cellaring, and skip what's cheaper to buy preserved.
10 Dirt-Cheap Household Items Every Prepper Needs
Practical household supplies that serve double duty in emergencies, with a focus on safe water disinfection methods.
Adding Seed Saving and Soil Blocking to Your Food Security System
Seed saving and soil blocking techniques to build a self-renewing food garden that reduces dependence on purchased seedlings and annual seed purchases.
American Crop Yields Down | Bear Brief 29JUN26
Analysis of declining US crop yields and implications for food security and agricultural planning.
Honey Brand Investigation: Which Are Real and How to Identify Quality
Investigates popular US honey brands for authenticity, explains pollen testing and ultra-filtration, and teaches how to identify genuinely high-quality honey before buying.
How I'm Protecting My Beef Supply: Pressure Canning vs. Freeze Drying
Comparison of pressure canning and freeze drying for long-term beef storage, with practical setup and cost considerations for food preservation.
Full Garden Tour - Feeding Ourselves from 600 Square Feet, Crop Choices for a Cold Climate, & Pests
Tour of a productive 600-sq-ft mountain garden in cold climate: crop selection, pest management, and strategies for maximizing food self-sufficiency in harsh conditions.
The Truth About Soil Health (And Why It Changes Everything)
Learn how soil ecosystem health drives plant resilience, water retention, pest resistance, and harvest yields without extra inputs.
The Emergency Meal in a Bag That Doesn't Taste Like Survival Food: Cheesy Taco Chicken Rice
21-minute walkthrough of a shelf-stable 'meal in a bag' recipe using canned chicken, soup, rice, and freeze-dried cheese — ingredients, assembly, storage in mylar, and cooking with minimal equipment.
The Biggest Canned Food Mistakes New Preppers Make
Fifteen-minute breakdown of common errors in building a canned-food pantry: calorie density, protein ratios, variety, and choosing foods your family already eats.
America's Beef Supply Has a New Problem… and It's Spreading
How the screwworm fly outbreak is compounding existing cattle herd shortages, what it means for beef prices and food availability, and protein alternatives for prepper pantries.
My Off Grid Life In Florida
18-minute walkthrough of daily off-grid homesteading chores, permaculture food forest design, and subtropical self-sufficiency systems on a Florida property.
Preparedness When You're Starting From Zero
Budget-friendly first steps to two weeks of water, food, heat, and power for renters and homeowners with no prior supplies.
Nations Begin Nationalizing Food
Indonesia nationalizing palm oil and metals, India canceling soybean contracts on 41% price surge, copper and diesel price forecasts, and the shift toward sovereign resource control.
Why the Media is Finally Admitting the Food Crisis
Seventeen minutes on global wheat harvest declines, fertilizer shortages, and why official UN data is only now entering mainstream reporting.