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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What Happens When Gas Hits $7 / Gallon in the USA?
Eight-minute scenario walkthrough: cascading household and economic effects if fuel prices reach $7/gallon, from food costs to debt defaults.
Emergency Food That Needs Zero Cooking
Five shelf-stable meal types that require no cooking, designed for food storage plans and grid-down scenarios.
3 Layer Emergency Cooking | What Most Preppers Get Wrong
Nine-minute walkthrough of three redundant cooking methods for grid-down scenarios, covering fuel types, equipment selection, and avoiding single points of failure.
Poultry Processing Equipment Unboxing
Tour of on-farm poultry processing equipment setup: scalders, pluckers, and workflow for home and small-farm chicken processing.
Rosemary Rescue: The Science of Reviving a Dying Herb
Five-minute walkthrough: diagnose and fix common rosemary plant failures indoors using soil, light, watering, and pest-management techniques.
2026 Food Shortage Warning: Are You Ready? Here's Your Action Plan
Jonathan and Kaylean walk through six strategies for weathering 2026-27 food shortages, from rotating pantry basics to building living food sources and community networks.
Spring Garden Update: Container Growing, Chickens, and Quail
13-minute walkthrough of a spring garden in progress: container vegetables, fruit trees, herbs, chickens, and quail on a city lot.
Control These 5 Things or Your Emergency Food Won't Last
Twelve-minute walkthrough of oxygen, moisture, heat, light, and pests—the five primary threats to long-term food storage shelf life and how to counter each one.
Easy Moose Jerky: The Ultimate Survival Food
A demonstration of cutting moose meat cross-grain into thin slices, seasoning with salt and spices, and air-drying it above a stove for shelf-stable storage.
This Is What Preparedness Actually Looks Like
Six-minute walkthrough of everyday food-independence tasks—comfrey harvesting for garden fertilizer and topical remedies, and other small consistent actions that build real food security over time.
Coffee Chat: What I'm Seeing Right Now
Seven minutes on garden progress, food self-reliance fundamentals, and the mindset behind small-scale food production for household resilience.
Simple Rain Catchment & Power to the Cabin
Walkthrough of a DIY rainwater collection system and off-grid power setup for a cabin, demonstrating practical water and energy independence.
Spring At My Off Grid Cabin: Projects and Homestead Tour
April tour of an off-grid cabin showing spring plantings, blooming trees, and annual homesteading projects for sustainable living.
Hummingbirds and Greenhouse
Season-long look at growing vegetables, herbs, and specialty crops in an Arizona greenhouse, plus solar and wind power setup for a 43-acre homestead.
Fishing Knots for Preppers, Bushcraft and Survival
Six-minute walkthrough of essential fishing knots for survival and bushcraft scenarios, demonstrating easy step-by-step techniques.
Atmospheric Water Harvesting: How to Pull Clean Water From Air for $30
How atmospheric water generation works, materials for a DIY $30 device, real-world performance tests, and scalability for off-grid households.
Garden Progress: Seedlings to Success
Twelve minutes on spring seedling propagation and early-season garden setup on a 43-acre Arizona homestead, covering raised beds, transplanting, and crop timing.
How to Store 90 Days of Food in a Small Apartment (Without Looking Like a Hoarder)
Ten-minute walkthrough on building a 90-day food supply for a family of four in a small apartment using calorie math, rotation systems, and hidden storage spots.
The Survival Gear Buying Guide: What You Actually Need vs. What to Skip
Nine-minute breakdown of the 72-hour preparedness framework, household water and food math, beginner gear mistakes, and how to start preparing for under $100.
The Secret to a Breathtaking Food Garden: 5 Design Tips for Any Budget
Five practical garden design principles—from flowers and water features to hardscaping—for building productive food gardens on any budget.
Storing Apples: Gold Rush Apple Variety and Long-Term Storage Techniques
Five-minute practical guide to selecting and storing the Gold Rush apple variety for long-term household food preservation.
Permaculture forest garden
Building a multi-layer food forest under established apple trees using permaculture and no-dig methods: plant selection, soil building, and wildlife habitat.
How to Get Ready for Fur Trapping the Right Way and Avoid Mistakes
Six-minute walkthrough of fur-trapping fundamentals, common beginner mistakes, and lessons learned from years of hands-on practice.
DIY Bug Spray With American Beauty Berry
Seven-minute walkthrough harvesting American beauty berry and making a homemade mosquito repellent for garden pest control without synthetic chemicals.
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
How to Make Easy Homemade Almond Milk
Five-minute walkthrough on making almond milk at home using basic kitchen equipment, a practical food-production skill for self-sufficiency.
Final Steps of Building a Florida Food Forest
Step-by-step walkthrough of completing a permaculture food forest in central Florida, including sweet potato planting and subtropical plant selection.
Cats and Chickens
Becky shares hard-won lessons on protecting chicks from cats, managing feral predators, and selecting trainable farm dogs for flock safety.
How Doing LESS Transformed My Food Garden & Saved My Sanity
Twelve-minute walkthrough of five core gardening fundamentals—water, soil, sunlight, timing, pest management—and how simplifying your approach builds sustainable food production.
10 Cheap Household Items That Still Work After an EMP or Solar Flare Blackout
Eleven-minute walkthrough of ten low-tech household items that remain functional in a grid-down scenario caused by EMP or solar storm, covering water, light, tools, and cooking.
July Garden Tour | Productive, Efficient No Till Garden
Walkthrough of a no-till organic garden in mid-summer growth, demonstrating layout, soil management, and yield efficiency from a homesteader using this method.
AquaTru Reverse Osmosis Water Filter Review VS Gravity Filters
Side-by-side comparison of reverse osmosis and gravity water filtration systems, with demonstration of setup and use for household water purification.
DIY Hydroponics Fertilizer: Truth About Homemade Nutrients
Six-minute breakdown of DIY hydroponic fertilizer methods: what actually works, common pitfalls, and whether homemade nutrients are worth the effort for food growers.
What Every Gardener Wishes They Knew About Essential Tools
Guide to eight essential, durable gardening tools that handle 95% of tasks without waste or gimmickry—gloves, cutting tools, trowels, shovels, rakes, and watering gear.
Homestead Animals: New Chickens, Baby Bunnies and More
Tour of a working homestead's newest animals—chickens, rabbits, goats, and pigs—with practical context on raising livestock for food and self-sufficiency.
5 Chicken Mistakes Beginners Make (and How to Fix Them) | Backyard Homestead Guide
Five common chicken-keeping errors beginners encounter and practical fixes: straight-run surprises, coop upgrades, predator proofing, and flock integration.
How to Make a Potato Grow Tower
Six-minute walkthrough of building a DIY potato tower from garden scraps—a low-cost, space-efficient growing method adaptable to available materials.
Raising Chicks the Right Way: Moving to Grass, Adding Shelter, and Flock Growth Tips
Eight-minute walkthrough of moving chicks to pasture, building a second coop, expanding the flock, plus updates on sheep, orchard, and berry plantings on a family homestead.
Grow a 4-Hour Food Garden With These 7 EASY Crops
Seven high-yield crops (herbs, greens, berries, cucurbits, nightshades, roots, fruit trees) designed for balconies and backyards on a 4-hour weekly time budget.
Maintain Your Jerusalem Artichoke Bed for Success & Creeping Charlie Management
Six-minute walkthrough on refurbishing a Jerusalem artichoke bed for optimal production and managing invasive Creeping Charlie weed spread.
Turmeric Harvest March | Zone 8a
Nine-minute walkthrough of harvesting turmeric across multiple seasons in zone 8a, demonstrating year-round production from just six plants.
Spring No-Till Garden: Easy Prep & Planting Potatoes
Five-minute walkthrough of no-till garden preparation and potato planting, comparing soil-building methods and demonstrating the creator's preferred cover-crop approach.
Nortent Gamme 4 Hot Tent Two-Day Canoe Tour: Cold Night, Warm Days, Campfire Cooking
Two-day canoe camping trip demonstrating hot-tent setup, fire management, and campfire cooking in spring conditions with hands-on gear evaluation.
How to Mill Your Own Flour to Make Survival Flatbread & Flour Tortillas
Thirteen-minute walkthrough on milling wheat berries into flour at home, with step-by-step recipes for survival flatbread and tortillas using minimal equipment.
Homemade Tomato Salsa from Augason Farms Tomato Powder
12-minute walkthrough making fresh salsa from dehydrated tomato powder and other shelf-stable pantry staples, with exact measurements and texture tips.
Canned Eggs for Scrambled Eggs: Augason Farms Egg Powder Recipe
Eight-minute walkthrough making scrambled eggs from powdered eggs on a camp stove, with ingredient ratios and taste-test comparison to fresh eggs.
How to Store Water When You Have Limited Storage Options
Nine-minute walkthrough on storing emergency water in small spaces, including container selection, preparation, and filtration options.
Can Food Growing Be Beautiful? Pollinator Garden, Compromising Aesthetics with Production
Ten-minute walkthrough of designing a productive edible landscape that balances food output with pollinator habitat and visual appeal on a homestead.
Digging a Pond: Permaculture Principle 1 — Observe and Interact
Six-minute walkthrough of site selection and pond excavation on a homestead, applying permaculture observation to build water resilience.