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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Mossy Oak Chef Knife with Cutting Board Review
Forty-seven-second hands-on review of a Mossy Oak chef knife and cutting board for food preparation.
Cooking a Full Meal Off-Grid Taught Us More About People Than Prepping
Test alternative cooking methods and food storage in a practical group setting to identify gaps in your off-grid kitchen skills.
Freezing Tomatoes for Later Canning
How to freeze fresh tomatoes throughout the growing season and process them in batch canning sessions during winter downtime.
3-Days Surviving in Canada's Wild
51-minute wilderness survival challenge: fishing, animal trapping, and shelter building using only gear that fits in a 5-gallon container.
5 Grocery Foods With the Longest Best-By Dates—No Repackaging Required
Six-minute walkthrough of five shelf-stable grocery items (canned beans, almonds, canned fish, freeze-dried meals) with extended best-by dates suitable for emergency pantries, stored in original packaging.
Why Your Blueberries Keep Dying (And How to Fix It)
Walkthrough of blueberry cultivation using garden terraces and swale systems to optimize soil moisture and yield on a homestead.
Planting and Harvesting Carrots: Soil Prep, Spacing, and Timing
26-minute guide to growing carrots from seed: soil preparation, planting depth and spacing, soil temperature and moisture, harvesting timing, and thinning techniques for a continuous harvest.
Diesel Prices and Food Supply: What Farmers Are Warning
How rising diesel costs ripple through agriculture and food production, and what consumers should watch for in grocery prices and supply availability.
Prepper Pantry Haul: Food Storage and Supply Selections for Emergency Preparedness
Seventy-minute walkthrough of food storage selections, bulk-buying strategy via Azure Standard, vacuum sealing, freeze-dried foods, shelf-stable proteins, and long-term pantry rotation for emergency readiness.
Before Mass Starvation Begins... 2027
Strategic food storage planning and emergency supply assessment to prepare for potential food scarcity scenarios.
Advanced Water Filtration Products from Membrane Solutions
Tour of emerging water filtration and purification gear shown at the Outdoor Retailer Show, including products under development for emergency preparedness.
Bang Bang Kabobs
Quick outdoor cooking technique for preparing freshly caught fish as kabobs over a campfire.
Accidentally Found a Natural Spring Under My Land
Discovering and developing a natural spring for off-grid water storage: cistern installation, gravity-fed system design, and silt management on a homestead.
How Diesel Price Shocks Cascade Through Food and Energy Systems
21-minute analysis of diesel supply disruptions, their impact on farming costs and food-system logistics during peak harvest season, and downstream effects on household expenses.
$6.23 Diesel: Farmers and Truckers Hit First
How rising diesel costs cascade through harvest, processing, and trucking to reach grocery-store prices — and why farmers and truckers absorb the shock first.
Dandelions Were Food, We Were Taught to Kill Them
Why dandelions—a nutritious wild edible settlers deliberately cultivated—became weeds in modern yards, and how to reclaim them as foraged food.
Porcupine Soup
Forty-eight-second catch-and-cook demonstration: field dressing a porcupine and preparing it as soup, a practical wild-game subsistence skill.
Cost and cuts from a half-share of grass-finished beef
Breaking down the cost, yield, and benefits of buying a half-share of organic, grass-finished beef directly from a local farmer—including nose-to-tail use and tallow rendering.
Can You Eat Green Potatoes? Safety, Storage, and Risk Reduction
Green potatoes contain solanine; learn how to identify risk, safely prepare them if needed, and store potatoes to prevent greening.
Late-Season Garden Tour + Five-Vegetable Challenge to Plant Now
Thirteen-minute walk-through of five fast-growing cool-season crops (mustard greens, spinach, lettuce, arugula, radishes) you can plant immediately for harvest before first frost.
First Day of Fall – Are You Canning Yet? Monday Night Fireside Chat
Seasonal canning readiness discussion with Gil Camppatton, Tammy McNeill (Rebel Canners), and Mark (ChefTech) in a live fireside-chat format covering food preservation for fall harvest.
Where Will Your Water Come From When the Grid Goes Down?
Live class on three-tier water security: building a two-week buffer, identifying and treating backup sources, and long-term solutions like hand pumps and rainwater collection.
Flintlock Hog Hunt: Traditional Muzzleloader Hunting with Dave Canterbury
Dave Canterbury hunts wild hogs with a traditional flintlock muzzleloader, demonstrating low-dependency hunting techniques and old-school fieldcraft.
The Easiest Way to Store Nuts for Your Pantry
Five categories of grocery-store foods that require no repackaging for long-term storage, from canned goods to shelf-stable dairy.
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
From Soil to Strength: Rebuilding a Nutrient-Dense Food Culture + Bison Farming
Interview with a grass-fed bison rancher and clinical nutritionist on soil health, nutrient density, whole-animal utilization, and building food resilience through sustainable farming practices.
Prepping Alternate Grains: Winter Rye
Six-minute demonstration of growing and processing winter rye as a calorie-dense grain addition to long-term food storage.
Squirrel Dinner: Catch and Cook
Fifty-seven seconds on field dressing and cooking a squirrel—a practical wild-game skill for off-grid subsistence.
Ten Years on a Half Acre: Building Self-Sufficiency Without Burnout
Reflective essay on a decade of backyard farming, off-grid systems, and raising animals on half an acre: what it cost, why expansion became unsustainable, and how to choose between growth and contentment.
Retro Camp Dove Dinner: Cleaning & Camp Cooking Tips
Field-to-table walkthrough: cleaning wild dove and preparing it over a camp fire, with practical tips on meat handling, cookware, and fire management.
Greg Interviews Hank Reed of Natural Gramma: Regenerative Ranching in North Missouri
Interview with a neighboring regenerative farmer on pasture management, livestock practices, and natural food production techniques.
Indonesia Rice Fields Cracked by El Niño
Visual documentation of El Niño drought impact on Indonesian rice terraces: crop stress, reservoir collapse, and river disappearance—implications for global food supply.
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.
Bow Trap Survival Build
Twenty-minute walkthrough on constructing and setting a bow trap for hunting game, from a self-taught bushcraft instructor with four decades of wilderness experience.
Tenkara Fly Fishing
Eleven-minute introduction to tenkara, a minimalist Japanese fly-fishing technique using only a pole, line, and fly — ideal for backpacking and wilderness self-sufficiency.
Goose Burgers
Short-form demonstration of processing wild goose into burger meat—practical wild-game food preparation.
Harvesting Early This Year | September Garden Tour | Zone 4A Minnesota
44-minute garden walkthrough covering harvest timing, pest management, food preservation (canning, fermentation, freeze-drying), and seasonal planning for Zone 4A.
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.
Homestead Garden Update: Perennial Pigeon Peas, Container Carrots & New Growth
Nine-minute garden walkthrough covering perennial pigeon peas, container carrots, luffa, ginger, and compost—practical food production techniques for household self-sufficiency.
Our 1,700-Gallon Water Tank Fills Itself (Off Grid)
Complete build of a gravity-fed spring collection and cistern system: finding springs, sizing flow, building collection boxes, routing multiple sources, and solving silt problems.
10 Homestead Priorities for Rising Food Costs in Australia
Ten-point breakdown of food security strategies: staples, storage, equipment, butchering, seeds, local sourcing, livestock, and dietary shifts for household resilience.
Homestead Systems Maintenance: Rainwater, Heating, and Winter Prep
Twenty-two minutes of practical off-grid maintenance: securing rainwater collection, testing a diesel heater, prepping a Russian stove, and repairing water-storage tanks.
Smoked Wild Rabbit
Twenty-minute catch-and-cook walkthrough: trapping, processing, and smoking wild rabbit as subsistence food.
How to Stop Bugs From Ruining Your Long-Term Food Storage
Eight-minute walkthrough of how insects infest stored dry foods, which storage methods (Mylar, oxygen absorbers, freezing, vacuum sealing) actually work, and what to do if you discover an infestation.
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.