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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Mid-Term Food Storage
Twenty-two minutes on selecting, storing, and rotating mid-term food supplies for household preparedness, covering shelf life and practical strategy.
Survival and Emergency Food Shelf Life, FAQs, and More
24-minute Q&A on emergency food storage longevity, shelf-life expectations, and practical FAQ answers for household food security.
Prepping Food Storage for SHTF: Budget Build on $10 per Week
Fifteen-minute walkthrough on building a long-term food storage pantry on a tight budget, comparing costs over time and demonstrating mylar bags, oxygen absorbers, and storage best practices.
Food Shortage Is Worse Than You May Think
Analysis of current food production constraints, supply disruptions, and underlying structural factors affecting household food security.
Composting Chicken Coop Tour
20-minute walkthrough of a chicken coop designed to produce compost while raising birds for eggs and meat.
Life Without Electricity or Refrigeration
Ransom Godwin and David DuByne discuss food storage shelf life, canned goods, butchering meat, and living without modern refrigeration.
Build a Solar Powered Drip Irrigation System Easily and Affordably
23-minute walkthrough on assembling a solar-powered drip irrigation system for food growing on a budget.
Beef patty MRE review
Taste test and evaluation of a 2018-packaged MRE Menu 19 beef patty with jalapeno pepper jack, assessing palatability and shelf-life performance.
4 Recipes To Make Using Your Emergency Storage Food
Dad-daughter team demonstrates four recipes using common emergency food storage staples to prevent monotony and build confidence in long-term food.
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
The End of the Worst Drought in Living Memory... Hopefully
19-minute walkthrough of drought impact on off-grid food production, water sources, and regenerative agriculture strategies for household food security.
10 Best Trees to Kickstart an Off Grid Food Forest Garden
Sixteen-minute guide to selecting and establishing ten productive tree species for a food forest system on off-grid property.
Chicken Noodle and Veggie MRE Review
26-minute taste test and condition assessment of a 2018-packaged MRE Menu 3 chicken noodle with vegetables.
Sea Bass Supper Overnighter
24-minute overnight bushcraft trip: building a functional shelter, foraging, and catch-and-cook preparation in a wild setting.
Camping on Abandoned Island - Fishing, Crabbing & Coastal Foraging
Two-day island camping trip demonstrating crab potting, coastal shellfish harvesting, tidal awareness, and cooking foraged seafood over an open fire.
Cleaning out the hay bale end of the garden: spring planting prep
Twenty minutes of hands-on garden bed preparation and spring setup on a ten-acre homestead, with practical tips on raised bed management and soil maintenance.
Organic Weed Control, Year Two: Work with Me
Twenty-seven minutes of hands-on organic weed management and early-spring garden prep on a ten-acre homestead, filmed during January planning.
Super Early Frost in the Organic and Hay Bale Garden
Walking through frost damage assessment and recovery in a mature organic garden after an unseasonable early freeze.
End of September Garden Tour: Bugs and Cats and Thunder, Oh My!
Fifteen-minute walk-through of a ten-acre homestead's vegetable garden at season's end, covering organic pest management, raised-bed design lessons, and fall gardening planning.