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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Solo winter bushcraft trip - canvas tent, wood stove, saw horse, cooking tripod, homemade axe
46-minute walkthrough of winter basecamp setup in Danish wilderness: hot-tent heating, firewood processing, open-fire cooking, and homemade tool construction (axe, knife, drinking cup).
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.
Camping in Arctic Circle with No Tent (-26 Degrees)
33-minute solo survival in sub-zero Alaska: snow cave construction, thermal management, cold-weather gear evaluation, and hunting ptarmigan on tundra.
Solo Camping on Frozen Ocean: Ice Fishing for King Crab & Hunting Ptarmigan in Alaska
Six-day arctic survival demonstration: hot tent setup and management in sub-zero conditions, ice fishing technique for crab and shrimp, ptarmigan hunting in snow, cold-weather gear performance and troubleshooting.
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.
Forging a Knife & Survival Camping Alone in the Wilderness
Three-day solo Alaskan wilderness camp building a survival shelter, charcoal kiln, and forged knife from raw materials in sub-zero conditions.
Rebuilding Off-Grid Cabin & Digging Well at Alaskan Homestead
41-minute walkthrough of off-grid cabin repair, well-drilling to 93 feet, winterization strategies, and cold-weather problem-solving on a remote Alaska property.
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.
3 Day Rainy Island Adventure: Catch & Cook, Cozy Rain Shelter
39-minute shelter-building and foraging demonstration: kayaking to an island, constructing a rain-proof shelter, and preparing food in wet conditions.
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.
Rebuilding Off-Grid Cabin at Our Abandoned Homestead (Prepping for Alaska's Winter)
38 minutes: winterizing an off-grid Alaska cabin before heavy snow, including insulation, vapor barriers, propane heating, and food foraging (Spruce grouse hunting) under a hard deadline.
6 Days Jungle Survival Camping with No Food - US Marine Corps Jungle Survival School
Hour-long walkthrough of USMC jungle survival training: shelter building, fire starting in wet conditions, water filtration, foraging insects and game, and maintaining morale on minimal calories.
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.
4 Months at Our Off-Grid Cabin & Homestead in Alaska
Time-lapse of off-grid property repair and maintenance over four months: vehicle fixes, drainage solutions, trail building with excavator, garage weatherproofing, electrical work, and seasonal adaptation in Alaska.
3 Days Camping, Hunting & Fishing on Remote Island in Alaska
Remote-island survival: setting camp, hunting feral rabbits, surf fishing for kelp greenling, and cooking over open fire in sub-arctic conditions.
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.
3 Days Camping, Hunting and Mushing in the Arctic
Fifty miles of dog-sled travel and winter camping above the Arctic Circle at -18°F: fire management, ptarmigan and moose hunting, hot-tent setup, and field cooking in extreme cold.
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.
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.
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
120 Miles by Snowmobile to an Off-Grid Homestead: Hunting, Fishing & Winter Travel
Four-day journey across Alaskan ice trails and to a 1904 off-grid lodge, demonstrating overflow navigation, ptarmigan hunting, ice fishing, snow machine operation in thaw conditions, and homestead logistics in sub-zero wilderness.
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.
4 Days Camping in Alaska at -23 Degrees
Solo four-day winter survival in the Alaska bush: hot tent setup on frozen lakes, equipment troubleshooting in extreme cold, hunting and foraging strategy, and practical problem-solving when multiple systems fail simultaneously.
3 Days in Arctic with Bushcraft Hot Tent & No Sleeping Bag
Building a heated shelter from scratch in sub-zero Alaskan conditions, managing fire in wet snow, melting water, and sleeping on animal hides while dealing with equipment failure and frozen gear.
22 Miles in a Blizzard Without a Tent – Solo Camping in Survival Shelters
32-minute winter survival expedition across Alaska: building and managing shelters in heavy snow, improvised heating with alcohol fuel, water filtration, managing hypothermia risk, and gear failure troubleshooting under real conditions.
Stranded in Alaska's Rainforest - 3 Days Solo Camping
Three days solo in Southeast Alaska's temperate rainforest: shelter selection, fire-building in constant rain and high humidity, water filtering, hunting, and staying warm and fed in sub-optimal conditions.
4 Days Solo Camping on Remote Alaska Island: Hunting, Fishing, and Wilderness Survival
Four-day solo survival in remote Gulf of Alaska: shelter setup in an off-grid cabin, water filtration from rain catch, hunting and fishing for food, navigation through bear country, and fire management in wet conditions.
Fueling Change with HomeBiogas: The Off-Grid System Turning Waste Into Sustainable Energy
54-minute interview with HomeBiogas co-founder on converting food scraps and organic waste into renewable energy for off-grid households and homesteads.
8 Days Camping & Building a Bushcraft Survival Shelter with My 5-Year-Old Son
Step-by-step construction of an insulated platform shelter in Alaska winter, demonstrating elevated bedding, fire placement, cold-weather layering, and family safety in sub-zero camping.
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.
3 Days Stranded in Alaska's Bear Country — Camping, Foraging & Clam Digging
Three-day remote Alaska camping with hands-on foraging: identifying razor clams, butter clams, mussels and cockles; timing harvests around 20-30 foot tides; setting up bear fencing; fire management; water sourcing; cold-weather shelter and cooking over open flame.
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.
3 Days Stranded in Alaska Without a Tent: Survival Shelters in Deep Snow
32-minute backcountry survival in Alaska interior: building insulated snow shelters, navigating 4+ feet of powder, fire-starting in extreme cold, and improvised gear repair under real constraints.
Survival Camping with 4-Year-Old: Trapping, Knapping, Friction Fire & Campfire Cooking
32-minute walkthrough of core survival skills: building deadfall traps, making fire with friction (bow drill and hand drill), flint knapping stone tools, and cooking foraged and trapped meat over an open fire.
4 Days Camping & Building a Trail to the River
Solo four-day wilderness camp while hand-cutting a quarter-mile trail through dense brush to access a remote river; hammock setup, fire-building with ferrous rod, foraging hazard awareness, cold-weather camp comfort, and family joining day-three onward.
Solo Backpacking 20 Miles to a Crashed B-29 Bomber: Alpine Navigation, Cold-Weather Camping, and Survival in Alaska
Twenty-mile alpine solo expedition in Alaska: navigating glacier and ice fields without crampons, establishing a bear-proof campsite above tree line, filtering water, sleeping in sub-freezing conditions, and locating a 1957 bomber crash site with historical context.
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.
Time Spent At Our Remote Alaska Cabin
31-minute walkthrough of a two-week remote cabin stay in Alaska, covering shelter maintenance, food procurement, and off-grid power management in practice.
Building and Maintaining a Log Cabin Survival Shelter Over 12 Months
Year-long documentation of hand-building a log cabin with axe and bow saw, including weatherproofing, chinking, wood stove installation, and cold-weather camping in Alaskan conditions.
6 Days Winter Camping in Snow Storm in the Rocky Mountains — Day 1
First day of a six-day winter blizzard camping expedition in the Rocky Mountains, demonstrating shelter setup, fire-starting, and catch-and-cook fishing in severe cold.