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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Storing water sucks but you should still do it
24-minute walkthrough of water storage methods, challenges, and practical solutions for household preparedness.
Planting Another Potato Bed
Twenty-three minutes on establishing and planting a potato bed in a small urban space, covering bed preparation and seed potato selection.
Water storage for emergencies - long term
Twenty-minute walkthrough of long-term water storage systems for household emergencies: container selection, treatment, rotation, and maintenance.
Outdoor Garden Beds Tour, Greenhouse Progress
25-minute walkthrough of diversified garden beds, greenhouse expansion, and dual solar-wind power systems on a 43-acre off-grid Arizona homestead.
March Florida Garden Tour Zone 9b | Prepping the Land for a Year's Worth of Food
17-minute garden walkthrough in central Florida showing raised beds, seedling starts, food forest setup, and permaculture techniques for year-round food production.
How to Grow Loquat Trees | Must Have Fruit Tree
Eighteen-minute guide to cultivating loquat trees for warm climates: growing zones, soil prep, harvesting, and preparing medicinal leaf tea.
A Food Growing Journey: Polyculture Gardening, Hugelkultur, and Food Forest Updates
28-minute walkthrough of polyculture gardening on a mountain homestead: hugelkultur terrace management, potato and blueberry interplanting, celery integration, and food forest maturation.
Harvest Tales ~2025: Autumn Garden and Food Forest Tour
29-minute walkthrough of a BC mountain homestead's autumn harvest: grapes on trees, apples, melons in wicking towers, squash, potatoes, tomatoes, onion curing, and food forest design.
Living Off Grid: The Grind for Water
21-minute walkthrough of off-grid water sourcing on a mountain homestead when snow melt and rain collection fail; practical solutions for livestock and household needs.
Growing New Soil & Mushrooms
Sixteen minutes on pathway composting, worm castings, mushroom cultivation, and potato harvesting on a homestead garden.
The Joys of Harvest & Preserving the Garden
22-minute walkthrough of late-season harvest and preservation: fermenting hot sauce and pickles, storing melons and root crops for winter.
Slow Living in My Stone House — Cooking & Building Off the Grid, Ep. 34
Episode 34: Building bar stools from reclaimed oak, installing a wood-fired oven spit, and slow-roasting a 13kg lamb over 3.5 hours in an off-grid stone house.
4 Years Becoming Self Sufficient (Full Farm Tour)
Tour of a 4-year homesteading project in Australia: land development, food production systems, and progress toward household food self-sufficiency.
1500 Days Homesteading: A Journey to Self Sufficiency (Full Tour)
22-minute tour of a working homestead after 1500 days, documenting food production systems and sustainable self-sufficiency practices.
A Complete Walkthrough of Our Property and the Current State
23-minute tour of a newly acquired homestead, covering land assessment for water flow, wind patterns, sunlight, soil fertility, and planned structures for self-sufficiency.
Building A Cozy Outdoor Kitchen Step By Step, Ep. 33
26-minute walkthrough building a hand-finished oak outdoor kitchen around a stone fireplace: counters, bar, support beams, and grill surround using reclaimed wood and traditional techniques.
A wood stove meal for power outages
Seventeen minutes cooking a homemade meal on a wood stove as practice for feeding the family during grid-down scenarios, with brainstorming on alternative-stove meal options.
Homestead Update Autumn 2025
Mid-November garden tour showcasing autumn harvests, seasonal tasks, and ongoing food production on a Welsh homestead using no-dig methods.
3 Days Camping & Fishing Alaska's Wilderness (Near Dick Proenneke's Cabin)
Three days in remote Alaska wilderness: shelter building in rain, fire management, fishing for food, water sourcing, and improvised camp logistics with family.
Emergency Water Filter: Make a DIY Water Filter from Bark
Step-by-step walkthrough for building a functional water filter from tree bark, charcoal, and natural materials found in the field.
Keep It Simple: My Home Apothecary #25
Building a home apothecary with budget-friendly herbs and remedies—part 25 of a series on herbal preparation and preservation.
Design a Low-Effort Food Garden That Actually Feeds You (Complete Guide)
21-minute walkthrough on permaculture-based food garden design: site analysis, layout, water strategy, bed types, and plant selection for year-round production while working full-time.
Making Perfect Sourdough Khorasan Sandwich Bread with Tender, Moist Crumb
22-minute walkthrough on baking sourdough sandwich bread from freshly milled khorasan flour using a Vitamix blender as a makeshift grain mill.
Watch Before Buying a Gravity Water Filter System: How to Find Trustworthy Filters
18-minute guide to evaluating gravity water filters by certification standards (NSF 53, P231), with comparisons across major brands and guidance on contaminant coverage and filter lifespan.
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
3 Days in Arctic Survival Shelter - Solo Bushcraft Camping & Blacksmithing
Twenty-six minutes building and refining a no-tent winter shelter in sub-zero Alaska, managing fire, drying gear, cooking preserved food, and forging a camp griddle over coals.
Extreme Winter Survival Camping (0F/-18C) — No Tent, No Sleeping Bag
23-minute overnight build of an insulated winter shelter in sub-zero Alaska conditions, demonstrating heat retention principles and fire management for extreme cold survival.
Solo Bushcraft Camping and River Travel in Sub-Zero Alaska
Three-day cold-weather solo shelter build, fire management, foraging, and packraft navigation through ice and rapids at freezing temperatures in remote Alaska.
Backpacking Stove Recipe: Hash Browns and Ketchup from Dehydrated Ingredients
Step-by-step preparation of hash browns and ketchup using dehydrated potato shreds and tomato powder on a portable camping stove, with single-serving recipes and gear rundown.
Water Storage and Filtration for Emergencies
22-minute walkthrough on water storage volume planning and filtration methods for household emergency preparedness.
3 Days Solo Camping, Fishing, Hunting & Foraging Food in Arctic Alaska
25-minute walkthrough of backcountry survival in sub-freezing Alaska: shelter setup, fire, foraged wild berries and fish, navigation by terrain, gear troubleshooting, and food preparation over three days.
Micro Climate Planters: An Experiment that is Working Out
15-minute walkthrough of a micro climate planter design for extending growing season and maximizing food production in remote/challenging environments.
Mid-July Garden Tour & Tips for Healthy, Productive Plants
25-minute garden walkthrough covering mid-summer plant health, common growing challenges, and techniques for maximizing yields in a remote mountain setting.
Watering With Snow Melt in the Summer - Flood Irrigation for Our Little Orchard
Sixteen-minute walkthrough of using snow melt for summer irrigation in a mountain orchard, including flood-irrigation setup and seasonal water management techniques.
I Made Easy Peasant Bread (and it was AMAZING)
Step-by-step peasant bread recipe using basic pantry staples: mixing, rising, shaping, and baking a no-knead loaf in oven-safe bowls.
Solo Bushcraft Camping in Alaska: Shelter, Hunting Grouse, and Coyotes
Nineteen minutes of shelter-building, fire management in rain and cold, hunting and processing wild game (grouse and rabbits), and handling a coyote pack at night—all on a gear-light bushcraft trip in fall Alaska.
4 Days Camping, Hunting & Searching for Plane Crash in Alaska's Rainforest
Cold-weather camping in Alaska: shelter setup, duck hunting and field dressing, water management below freezing, improvised cooking, and navigation in temperate rainforest with a young son.
Bushcraft Shelter Camping Under Northern Lights
Building a no-tent shelter in sub-freezing Alaska conditions, including a heated-sand-trench technique for deep-winter survival without sleeping gear, plus fire-building and cold-weather camp cooking.
Caught in an Alaskan Snowstorm: Emergency Shelter and Cold-Weather Survival
Luke gets caught in a surprise September snowstorm at 9.5 miles into a mountain hike, uses a volunteer-maintained survival cabin to recover from hypothermia, and practices layering, fire-building, and decision-making under cold-weather duress.
3 Days Camping & Foraging in Arctic: Fishing, Hunting & Edible Plants
Three-day Alaska tundra camp: fly-fishing grayling, ptarmigan hunting, wild edible plant ID (berries, rose hips, Labrador tea), shelter building in cold wet conditions, and backcountry navigation without trail or map.
4 Days Alone in Alaska — Bushcraft Camping & Foraging Food
Solo four-day Alaskan wilderness survival: shelter building, water sourcing with gravity filtration, kayak navigation in glacier-fed tidal rivers, cold-water fishing, and fire-cooked meals in sub-freezing conditions.
Testing the Alcohol Mini Stove: Different Fuels and Boiling Water
Sixteen-minute walkthrough testing an alcohol camp stove with various fuels, measuring burn temperatures and demonstrating water boiling for emergency cooking.
How to Long Term Store Eggs
Sixteen-minute walkthrough on freezing, vacuum-sealing, and testing eggs for long-term storage, plus how to read expiration dates.
9 Fatal Transplanting Mistakes to Avoid in Your Garden
A home gardener shares nine transplanting lessons learned over six years, covering potting up, fertilizing starts indoors, hardening off, soil preparation, and planting depth techniques for tomatoes and peppers.
Old Country Gravity Smoker: Relighting Leftover Charcoal Quickly
Technique for rapidly relighting saved charcoal in a gravity smoker using a cordless blower, useful for efficient food smoking in off-grid scenarios.
Winter Survival Camping in Alaska: Building Shelter and Staying Warm Without Tent or Sleeping Bag
23-minute walkthrough of no-tent winter shelter construction in sub-zero Alaska: site selection, snow-block clearing, fire placement for ground thawing, platform building, and sleeping-on-warm-coals technique with wool blankets.
Winter Camping in -22 Degrees: Hot Tent Setup and Cold-Weather Gear
Luke Nichols demonstrates winter camping in extreme Alaska cold using a hot tent, covers gear layering, overnight fire management, water and sanitation logistics in sub-zero conditions.
Winter Camping in a Bushcraft Bunkbed Shelter
Building and winterizing a log shelter in Alaska snow, managing fire and condensation, sleeping-bag selection, and keeping warm in sub-zero conditions—with a young child in tow.
Hot Tent Camping in Blizzard: Fire, Water, and Snow Navigation
Setting up and managing a hot tent stove in an Alaska blizzard, with wet-wood fire techniques, snow-to-water melting, and navigating whiteout drifts to escape the mountain.