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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You Don't Need Acres to Grow Your Own Food
Nine-minute tour of a quarter-acre backyard garden: fruit trees, chickens, corn, and vegetables with tips for maximizing small spaces and fixing mid-season mistakes.
Summer Garden Tour: Squash, Asparagus & Vegetable Growing Methods
Ten-minute walkthrough of a productive home garden in summer, covering vegetable cultivation techniques for squash, asparagus, and other crops to ensure reliable harvests.
Canning Peaches with a Certified Master Food Preserver (Step-by-Step)
Five-minute walkthrough on safe peach canning techniques and equipment selection, with a certified Master Food Preserver.
Bulk Food Store Prices
Twelve-minute walkthrough of current pricing at a Mennonite bulk food supplier, tracking food costs and availability for storage planning.
Starbucks new powder making people sick
Clarification on reports of illness linked to a Starbucks emulsifier powder: primarily workplace exposure among baristas rather than customer food poisoning.
How to Store 3 Weeks of Water in an Apartment
Practical water storage solutions designed for apartment dwellers and small spaces, covering stackable containers and creative placement strategies.
The Ultimate SHTF Food Machine: Infinite Protein with Alumicoop
Hands-on review of a livestock housing system designed to simplify animal husbandry and protein production for homesteaders.
3 Things Every Chicken Needs in Hot Weather
Learn three essential strategies to keep backyard chickens healthy, comfortable, and productive during summer heat.
We Are Seeing This in Every City Now
Practical steps for accelerating food production and community building before systemic collapse.
Former Executives Speak Out About Canned Food
Analysis of public allegations against a major canned food manufacturer and what consumers should know before stocking their pantry.
The Prepper's Secret to Watering a Garden When Water Is Scarce
Learn how gravity-fed olla systems reduce water waste and labor in off-grid food production.
Beauty & Food While Harvesting Heat - How the Shop Wall Microclimate Planters Are Doing This Season
Eleven-minute walkthrough of microclimate planter boxes along a shop wall in a cold Wyoming climate: what's growing, what's working, and how passive heat capture supports food production through weather swings.
We Finally Got Our First Milking Goat — Now the Real Work Begins
Ten-minute walkthrough of setting up a milking goat operation: building a homemade milking stand, establishing twice-daily routines, and producing fresh dairy on a small homestead.
First Tractor Investment – Was It Worth It?
Scott walks through 12+ years of tractor ownership on a Virginia farm, covering equipment evolution, maintenance hacks, and principles for scaling farm tools wisely.
100-Year-Old Pipes Are About to Cost You Thousands
Federal lead pipe replacement mandates and their financial impact on homeowner water bills and household budgets over the coming years.
How to Make a Blackberry Shrub
Learn to preserve fresh blackberries into a versatile fruit syrup for drinks, cooking, and long-term storage.
I Can't Unknow This
Why one family decided to grow almost all their own food on half an acre: seed oils, misleading labels, corporate consolidation, and how to raise eggs and meat chickens in a regular neighborhood.
From Freezing to 90's F: Are the Plants Surviving Extreme July Weather in Our Wyoming Garden?
Nine-minute walkthrough of how a high-altitude garden recovers from frost damage and manages extreme heat swings—what survives, what fails, practical lessons.
Ultimate Dutch Oven Cobbler Recipe
Eight-minute walkthrough of baking a fruit cobbler in a Dutch oven over a campfire, with ingredient ratios and technique for camp cooking.
Food Crisis Unfolding in Europe
Analysis of emerging food supply disruptions and shortages affecting European markets and availability.
Sowing Sorghum in the Mediterranean Using Dry Land Strategies
Six-minute walkthrough of soil preparation and planting techniques for sorghum in water-scarce climates, including potting soil, spacing, and mulching strategies.
Botulism Risk and Food Safety: What Government Guidelines Say About Pressure Cooking
Twelve minutes on botulism contamination in food storage, government safety guidelines, and pressure cooker use for eliminating the risk.
15 Crops That Practically Grow Themselves in the Heat
Nine-minute walkthrough of heat-tolerant crop varieties and summer gardening strategies for Central Florida gardens during peak heat and humidity.
How we raise broilers naturally | No hormones, no antibiotics
Twelve-minute walkthrough of a homestead broiler-chicken system: feeding, housing, daily management, and lessons from three trial iterations toward sustainable meat production.
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
2 Items Under $25 That Could Save Your Family
Seven-minute walkthrough of two affordable emergency essentials: a manual can opener and Coast Guard-approved emergency food bars, with real-world application examples.
Drip Irrigation System On A Homestead
Ten-minute walkthrough installing drip irrigation across a two-acre market garden: component breakdown, live demo, soil moisture contrast, and real cost analysis.
I Planted a Garden to Block Out The World
Half-acre property tour showing how to layer crops, trees, and shrubs for year-round privacy and food production on a small lot without expensive fencing.
Chickens Loved This New Feed (Here's Why)
Seven minutes on chicken nutrition: ingredient breakdown of a natural supplement (cayenne, garlic, oregano, flax) and its role in flock health, egg production, and immune support.
The Best Vegetables to Grow Now in July for a Big Fall Harvest
Ten-minute walkthrough of cool-season vegetables to plant in July for fall harvest, covering fast crops, leafy greens, root vegetables, and brassicas suited to late-season growing.
This Is My Health Insurance
How a decade of poor health and desk work led to quitting to build a half-acre homestead; why daily physical labor growing food became more effective than insurance premiums.
Catch, Clean and Cook with Only Pocket Primal Kit
Ten-minute walkthrough of using a pocket-sized multi-tool fire kit to catch, prepare, and cook a fish using only natural resources and the kit's components.
Complete Seed Saving Guide for Every Gardener
Twelve-minute walkthrough of seed saving techniques: choosing open-pollinated varieties, harvesting at peak maturity, dry and wet processing, storage for viability, and building an emergency seed bank.
Outdoor Cooking Trick
Stefan demonstrates a practical technique for cooking outdoors, showcasing improvised methods for field food preparation.
Three Underrated C's: Crappie, Cornbread & Coffee | The Perfect Catch and Cook
Fourteen-minute catch-and-cook walkthrough: fishing for crappie, field dressing and frying fresh fish, baking cornbread in camp, and brewing coffee outdoors.
Preparing Ewes for Lambing Season: Scanning, Fencing, and Pasture Management
Walk through pre-lambing preparation on a working farm: electronic ID scanning, building grazing paddocks, pre-lambing nutrition, and moving ewes to fresh pasture.
Deeper Sonar Initial Review and Testing | First Look from a Canoe
Eleven-minute hands-on test of a portable sonar fish finder from a canoe, covering setup, app connectivity, accuracy, and practicality for ultralight fishing.
Daily Life - War Time Russia | And How To Get Rid of Giant Hogweed
Learn practical methods for identifying and safely removing giant hogweed, a hazardous invasive plant threatening gardens and property.
Your Food Supply Depends on This Dying Aquifer | Here's What's Happening
Nine-minute analysis of the Ogallala Aquifer's depletion, its impact on agricultural yields and food production, and what changing water availability means for regional food security.
AquaTru Carafe Reverse Osmosis Water Filter Review
Eight-minute side-by-side comparison of the AquaTru Carafe and Classic reverse osmosis countertop filters, with NSF certification breakdown and performance specs.
How to Make Eating Carnivore Affordable with Top-Quality Meat
Two-year case study on sourcing affordable high-quality meat for a carnivore diet, with practical sourcing strategies and cost-saving tactics.
Making Cream Cheese
Eight-minute walkthrough of cream cheese production from basic ingredients, a foundational dairy preservation skill for self-sufficient food storage.
Gardening for Resilience: Growing Food Without the Store
Twelve-minute walkthrough of breeding resilient crop varieties and landrace gardening to achieve food independence for a family on half an acre without buying seeds or store supplies.
Why Every Horse Secretly Wants To Be An Appaloosa
Learn why Appaloosas make excellent homestead horses and how to train them effectively for your property.
9 Canned Foods That Become Toxic After They Expire
Ten-minute walkthrough of warning signs for spoiled canned food—rust, swelling, dents, leaks—and which foods pose the highest botulism risk after expiration.
Summer Solstice Midsommer Fest - Wartime Russia
Traditional Russian summer festival survival skills and seasonal food preservation techniques during conflict.
Thrivalist Ready Harvest Freeze Dried Food - Is it Worth It? Honest Review
13-minute breakdown of Ready Harvest freeze-dried food: quality, sourcing, cooking flexibility, cost, and whether single-ingredient freeze-dried beats pre-packaged emergency meals.
Fruit Prices Are Rising… And Farmers Have Lost Entire Orchards
Spring freezes have destroyed U.S. orchards; Eagle Eye breaks down crop-loss impacts on fruit prices and what families can do now to prepare.
The Most Self-Sufficient Animal You Can Raise at Home
Ten-minute walkthrough on raising Muscovy ducks for meat and eggs with minimal space, noise, or feed cost on suburban homesteads.