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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Winter Camping in Raised Bushcraft Shelter - Alaskan Cold-Weather Shelter Build
Building and sleeping in an elevated survival shelter in sub-zero Alaska: platform construction, insulation, heat capture, and fire management overnight.
Hot Rocks in My Bushcraft Cot — Winter Camping in Alaska with a Survival Shelter
Solo overnight in Alaska: building a no-tent survival shelter and cot, testing hot rocks for warmth, managing fire in wet snow, and practical lessons on what actually works in sub-zero conditions.
Solo Camping at 11,500 ft in -26°F Conditions
High-elevation winter camping in sub-zero temperatures: site selection by snow analysis, cold-weather gear performance, altitude effects, heating strategies, and overnight survival techniques at 11,500 feet.
Old School Survival Camping - No Tent, No Sleeping Bag - Exploring Appalachia
Overnight survival camp in the Appalachian Mountains using frontier-style gear: shelter site selection, fire-building in wet conditions, water sourcing and purification, foraged food, and cold-weather sleep strategy.
Top 5 Ways to Supplement Your Chickens on the Cheap
Five methods to boost chicken nutrition affordably: black oil sunflower seeds, calcium sources, foraged weeds, homegrown kale, and microgreens.
Alpine Survival Camping in Alaska: Building a Shelter, Fishing, and Foraging
Solo alpine survival in treeless terrain: building a rock shelter in high winds, identifying edible and toxic plants, fishing for dinner, water sourcing, and navigating bear country in Alaska's mountains.
Planting Grapes at High Altitude - What Types to Choose for Your Zone
Eighteen-minute walkthrough on selecting and planting grape varieties suited to high-altitude growing zones, covering soil, technique, and initial pruning.
Creating a Self-Sustaining Food Cycle on our Urban Homestead - Potatoes, Mealworms, Chickens
21-minute walkthrough of mealworm farming for chicken feed, including DIY enclosure builds and practical setup lessons from 6 months of hands-on experience on a suburban homestead.
Food Shortages and Why You Need to START PREPPING!
25-minute walkthrough of grocery selection for long-term food storage, shelf-life strategies, and budget-conscious pantry-building for SHTF readiness.
Making a Simple Survival Shelter Warm: Winter Bushcraft Camping in Alaska
Building and heating a winter survival shelter using buried coals, thermal mass, and fire-reflector techniques in sub-freezing Alaska conditions; includes water sourcing, fire-starting, and cold-weather site selection.
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.
Building & Camping in a Bushcraft Log Cabin in the Alaskan Bush
27-minute walkthrough of building an insulated log shelter from harvested firewood, managing fire overnight in sub-zero temps, and executing a multi-day firewood harvest for home heating in Alaska.
Winter Camping in Snow Storm with Survival Shelter & Bushcraft Cot
Building and testing a no-tent snow shelter in sub-freezing conditions: cot lashing technique, fire placement, insulation principles, and measuring the 26° temperature gain inside versus outside.
Winter Camping in a Hot Tent at -60F/-51C
Setting up and managing a hot tent overnight in extreme cold with a young child: tent assembly, stove operation, temperature stratification, gear selection, fire maintenance, and survival protocols at -60F.
Alaska Winter Camp and Skillet Pizza
21-minute winter backcountry camping trip demonstrating hot tent shelter setup, cold-weather camp management, and outdoor cooking in subzero conditions.
Composting Chicken Coop Tour
20-minute walkthrough of a chicken coop designed to produce compost while raising birds for eggs and meat.
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
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.
The E.P.C. - A Lightweight Bug Out Bag For Your Vehicle (Part 3)
25-minute walkthrough of the Emergency Preparedness Cache bug-out bag: how to assemble a lightweight emergency kit organized around the Rule of 3's (shelter, water, food) with integrated stove for off-grid cooking.
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.
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.
Mountain Hammock Camping - Site selection and wild huckleberry foraging
Eighteen minutes on selecting a safe hammock campsite in mountainous terrain and identifying edible wild huckleberries.
Sea Bass Supper Overnighter
24-minute overnight bushcraft trip: building a functional shelter, foraging, and catch-and-cook preparation in a wild setting.
Swamp Survival Camping & Bushcraft (No Tent) – Hunting & Eating Frogs
Five days in Louisiana bayou: tarp-and-hammock shelter rigging in rain, water purification with chlorine tablets, catching and butchering frogs for food, fire-cooking in wet conditions, and navigating high-bug environments.
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.
Building and Testing a Modular Floating Fishing Cabin
Design, build, and field-test a 16-by-8-foot floating cabin made from recycled storage bins and wood panels, covering buoyancy math, modular assembly, and overnight camping in cold water conditions.
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.
Deep Snow Primitive Survival Camping in Mountains - Winter Shelter Build
Winter survival shelter construction in heavy wet snow at 7,500 feet: snow-cave digging, fire management in cold wet conditions, insulation with natural materials, and high-altitude survival logistics with a 4-year-old.
Winter Survival Camping in Alaska: Building a Primitive Shelter and Managing Fire in Negative Temperatures
Step-by-step winter survival shelter build in sub-zero Alaska with fire management, layering strategy, fuel planning, and cold-weather camp logistics over an 18-hour overnight.
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.