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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Sourdough Starters and Wild Yeasts
Introduction to building and maintaining sourdough starters and collecting wild yeasts for home baking on a homestead.
Why You Can't Find Local Meat Anymore
Analysis of the collapse of local meat-processing infrastructure since the pandemic and strategies for managing livestock inventory when butcher capacity is unavailable.
JPMorgan: +5% Food Inflation Expected in 2027
Analysis of converging supply-chain pressures—Black Sea logistics, weather, drone strikes—driving JPMorgan's forecast for 5% global food inflation in early 2027.
Noodling catfish
42-second demonstration of noodling—hand-catching catfish—as a primitive survival fishing method requiring no gear.
Goose Burgers
Short-form demonstration of processing wild goose into burger meat—practical wild-game food preparation.
One Seed With Endless Results: Growing Tomatoes for Food Preservation
How one tomato seed produces pounds of fruit for family meals and long-term food storage through preservation.
Smoked Wild Rabbit
Twenty-minute catch-and-cook walkthrough: trapping, processing, and smoking wild rabbit as subsistence food.
Foraging Rose Hips
Four-minute walkthrough on identifying and safely harvesting rose hips in fall, with preparation tips for this vitamin-C-rich wild food.
Stinging Nettle Herbal Beer Recipe
Step-by-step fermentation guide: turning foraged stinging nettles into a vitamin-rich, gluten-free herbal gruit using basic equipment and a week of fermentation.
Baking at a Higher Altitude
Panel discussion on adapting baking techniques and recipes for high-altitude cooking, hosted by Camppatton Family Compound with guest experts.
7 Strongest El Niños — 2026 Leads
Visual comparison of historical El Niño events and heat-anomaly patterns, with focus on current 2026 conditions and potential agricultural impacts.
Cooking meat in mud
Thirty-second demonstration of primitive earth-cooking technique for meat in a wilderness or off-grid context.
5 Jungle Bird Traps: Complex to Simple Designs
Five bird trap designs from complex to simple, demonstrated for wilderness food procurement and survival skill building.
Saving Heirloom Seeds and Preparing for Next Year's Garden
How to harvest, dry, and store heirloom seeds for multi-year garden continuity.
Extend Your Skillet Handle: Simple Bushcraft Cooking Hack
Two-minute walkthrough on safely extending a cast-iron skillet handle with a wooden stick for better control and heat protection when cooking over a campfire.
Fall Apple Collecting for Long-Term Food Storage
Walkthrough of foraging and preserving apples for winter storage—sourcing, selection, and storage methods for year-round food security.
Why I Tell Patients to Ferment Food
A physician explains the gut-health benefits of fermented foods and their role in household nutrition and resilience.
Eating Carp: A Guide to Preparation and Cooking
Thirty-minute walkthrough on identifying, catching, cleaning, and cooking carp as a wild food source.
The Food Problem Can Start Before the Seed Is Planted
How fertilizer supply pressures upstream affect what farmers plant next year, and why preppers should care about agricultural input chains.
Bush Hogging vs. Cutting Hay — Equipment Breakdown for Home Hay Production
How to produce your own hay during drought: the differences between bush hogs, hay cutters, rakes, and tedders, and why each step matters for food security.
47 Years of Glyphosate Exposure: Soil Health and Human Microbiome
Conference lecture exploring the relationship between glyphosate, gut health, soil microbiomes, and chronic illness — with practical approaches to detoxification and food safety.
The Food Problem Starts Before the Shelves Are Empty
How diesel costs, fertilizer availability, weather, and global conflict create food-price pressure upstream of retail shortages.
Crow Kabobs
Twenty-eight-second demonstration of processing and cooking wild crow as a subsistence protein source.
Harvesting Leek Seeds for the Next Season
Two-minute walkthrough on overwintering leeks to produce seeds adapted to your local growing conditions.
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
Bunny Burgers
Short walkthrough on processing wild rabbit for food, demonstrating field-to-table subsistence hunting skills.
Heat Stress Relief for Backyard Chickens: Using Coop Shade and Ventilation
One-minute walkthrough on keeping laying hens cool during heat stress: shade structures and ventilation adjustments that keep a backyard flock productive through summer.
"Hormone Free" Chicken Is Already the Law
Why U.S. poultry packages trumpet "no hormones added" when federal law has banned chicken hormones since the 1950s—and what the USDA disclaimer actually means.
Complete Flock Dispersal Auction: 140 Sheep, Guardian Dogs, and Grazing Equipment
Tour of a Georgia sheep operation liquidation sale: 100 breeding ewes, 40 lambs, trained guardian dogs, and full grazing setup ready for acquisition.
Hatch Day: Egg Incubation Results (Day 21-22)
Two-minute walkthrough of a home chicken-egg incubation cycle: setup, candling, hatching day, and live results (5 of 10 eggs successful).
Alder Smoked Trout
Catch-and-cook demonstration: fishing for trout and smoking the catch with alder wood, a wilderness food-preservation technique.
Why Your Chickens Are Struggling In The Heat: Water Management for Mobile Coops
Water management strategy for keeping a 300-bird mobile flock hydrated during extreme heat, with focus on nipple drinker systems and reservoir maintenance.
Processing Fresh Poultry: Why Patience and Proper Technique Matter
Eight-minute guide to butchering and cooking home-raised chickens: why rigor mortis timing affects meat quality and which cooking methods yield tender results.
California Egg Regulations: When Backyard Production Requires Registration
Thirty-one seconds on California Department of Food and Agriculture rules for backyard egg production and neighbor sharing.
X3 Fixed Blade Broadheads: Stocking Archery Consumables
Short review of X3 fixed blade broadheads, positioning arrow tips as a consumable to stock like ammunition for hunting and food security.
Bear Stew
Preparing and cooking bear meat as a subsistence food source in wilderness or off-grid contexts.
Why Your Chickens Are Thirsty (And How to Fix It)
45-minute walkthrough on building a reliable water system for chickens, integrating feed and shade into one efficient setup for better resource management.
Setting Up an Outdoor Canning Kitchen
Why moving canning outdoors keeps your home cool, reduces mess, and lets you enjoy summer while preserving vegetables and fruit.
Bushcraft Camp Life
Learn to brew wintergreen tea over an open fire and repurpose a fire reflector as a cooking pot hanger.
Practical Survival Emergency Survival Water Straw
One-minute walkthrough of water straw portable filters for urban and bug-out water filtration scenarios.
What Comes After Your Stockpile Runs Dry
Johnathan Nash on moving beyond storage toward self-sufficient water and food production systems for long-term resilience.
Plan for a Winter Garden or Indoor Garden
Walkthrough for setting up a winter or indoor garden to extend the growing season and produce food year-round on a homestead.
Cutting Garden Expenses: Strategies for Backyard Food Production
Under one minute on practical ways to reduce costs while growing food at home, from seed to harvest.
Bush Bird Butter Chicken
Forty-four-second catch-and-cook demonstrating how to prepare wild game using foraged ingredients and basic camp cooking.
Meat Chicken Processing Setup Tour
Equipment and setup walkthrough for processing home-raised meat chickens, including scalding, plucking, and containment tools scaled for small operations.
Homesteading Family
Learn freeze-drying, dehydrating, and preserving potato harvests with practical homestead techniques.
Decentralize.TV Episode 145 – Billy Bond Interview: Permaculture Food Production and Off-Grid Living
Billy Bond discusses permaculture principles, biological infrastructure, off-grid systems, and practical skills for food self-sufficiency.
Dad's Potato Crate
Four-minute walkthrough of building wooden crates from pallets and slats for winter vegetable storage.
No-Cooking Required Survival Foods Every Prepper Should Have
Five categories of no-cook foods for grid-down food storage: foundation foods, canned goods, ready-to-eat meals, and how to build an actual livable emergency menu.