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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Why Do Permaculture Gardens Grow So Much Food? Tour and Harvest
44-minute garden tour and harvest walkthrough demonstrating polyculture planting, symbiotic plant relationships, soil building, and food production yields in a BC zone-5 homestead.
Designing & Implementing Permaculture/Regenerative Systems with Takota Coen
Interview on permaculture design principles and implementation strategies for homesteads, covering food production, land harmony, and long-term system planning.
Bread for Sandwiches and Wedding Rolls - Quick, Easy, Mostly Whole Wheat Recipe
32-minute walkthrough of a rich, whole-wheat roll recipe suitable for sandwiches and soups, from an off-grid homesteader in Wyoming.
Creating an Herb Wreath for the Kitchen: How to Dry Your Own Herbs & Flowers
37-minute walkthrough on harvesting, drying, and preserving culinary and medicinal herbs and flowers for year-round kitchen use in a mountain homestead setting.
4 Days Hunting Ducks, Geese & Fishing in Nome, Alaska
Four-day hunting and fishing trip in Alaska: waterfowl and upland bird hunting techniques, subsistence salmon netting from the Bering Sea, field processing game, and cold-weather bushcraft.
4 Days in Alaskan Yupik Village: Moose Hunting, Fishing, and Traditional Seal Spearing
43-minute immersion in subsistence hunting and fishing: field dressing a moose, traditional atlatl seal hunting, gill-netting cisco and sheefish, and butchering wild game for food preservation.
Camping, Fishing & Clamming in a Snow Storm: Coastal Foraging in Alaska
Razor clam and butter clam harvesting during extreme low tide in Alaska, cod and flounder fishing, kelp foraging, and cold-weather camp setup in spring snow.
4 Days in the Arctic: Crabbing, Hunting & Fishing in Alaska
Ice fishing for cod, hunting ptarmigan, and harvesting king crab from beneath the Bearing Sea ice; field preparation and butchering of game birds and shellfish in sub-zero conditions.
Saving Garden Seeds—Salad #13 Family
Step-by-step seed saving from salad greens: harvesting, drying, storage, and viability testing for next season's garden.
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
How to Save Garden Seeds #12: Beetberry, Quinoa, and Lettuce
Sixty-minute seed-saving walkthrough covering beetberry, quinoa, and lettuce—techniques for preserving viable seeds from your own garden.
Spinach: Saving Your Garden Seeds #11 — Northstar Live! Ep. 235
58-minute walkthrough on harvesting, processing, and storing spinach seeds from your own garden for next season's crop.
The Aussie Mountain Homestead with a Tiny 100 Day Growing Season | Ep 10
56-minute interview with a homesteader at 1350m elevation managing a 100-day growing season, covering frost-resistant crops, seasonal planning, and strategies to reach 70% food self-sufficiency.
Turn Your Homestead Milk Cow Dream Into a Reality: The Essential Starter Guide
74-minute interview on dairy cow ownership: breed selection, animal care, milk production, calf sharing, fresh milk uses, gear essentials, and troubleshooting for homestead food security.
4-Day Fishing and Hunting in the Arctic: Ice Fishing, Tarmigan, and Field Cooking
Ice fishing for sheefish on the frozen Chukchi Sea, hunting tarmigan in the Arctic tundra, field dressing game, and cooking fresh catch in sub-zero conditions — hands-on food procurement and cold-weather survival skills in the Inuit village of Kotzebue.
Compost Health Check 101: Effective composting as a waste management solution
Interview on composting best practices: diagnosing unhealthy piles, fixing odor and decomposition issues, monitoring temperature and moisture for successful food-waste recycling.
Harvest Right Vacuum Fix
Troubleshooting and repair techniques for common vacuum leaks in Harvest Right freeze dryers, with step-by-step fixes.
Summer Update on our Urban Homestead - Plus 5 Ways to Supplement Your Chickens on the Cheap
Garden progress update and five low-cost methods to supplement chicken nutrition, including black oil sunflower seeds and mealworms.
5 Days Fishing & Hunting in the Bayou: Catch and Cook Frogs, Crabs, Gar, Carp, Catfish, Duck & Nutria
Five-day immersion in Louisiana bayou hunting and fishing: duck hunting, spearfishing, trapline management, processing and cooking wild-caught fish and game; family-focused outdoor survival skills in a working wetland ecosystem.
Water: Collection, Filtration, Treatment & Storage
35-minute overview of water sourcing, filtration methods (commercial and DIY), chemical and UV treatment, boiling, distillation, storage options, and oral rehydration salts.
Prepper Gardening: Sustainable Food Production
Comprehensive 71-minute guide to self-reliant food gardening covering soil, seeds, season extension, composting, and preservation techniques for year-round production.
Food Storage 101: Why, What, Where, & How
62-minute walkthrough of food storage progression from emergency kits to year-long supplies, covering preservation methods, organization, tools, nutrition, and cost optimization.