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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Anker SOLIX EverFrost 2 Portable Fridge Review: Battery Runtime and Off-Grid Performance
Five-minute walkthrough of a portable battery-powered refrigerator: runtime on single and dual batteries, 12V/solar charging, temperature control, and use as emergency backup food storage during power outages.
Baking at a Higher Altitude
Panel discussion on adapting baking techniques and recipes for high-altitude cooking, hosted by Camppatton Family Compound with guest experts.
7 Strongest El Niños — 2026 Leads
Visual comparison of historical El Niño events and heat-anomaly patterns, with focus on current 2026 conditions and potential agricultural impacts.
Farm Soil Recovery After Prescribed Burn: Forage Explosion on Newly Leased Pasture
Seventeen-minute site visit showing soil response and forage growth following spring prescribed burn on newly leased regenerative grazing land.
Solar Flare Damage to Crops: Global Reports of Sun-Burnt Plants
Examines reported crop damage from solar activity and explores potential growing strategies in response to solar weather threats.
Cooking meat in mud
Thirty-second demonstration of primitive earth-cooking technique for meat in a wilderness or off-grid context.
5 Jungle Bird Traps: Complex to Simple Designs
Five bird trap designs from complex to simple, demonstrated for wilderness food procurement and survival skill building.
Saving Heirloom Seeds and Preparing for Next Year's Garden
How to harvest, dry, and store heirloom seeds for multi-year garden continuity.
Extend Your Skillet Handle: Simple Bushcraft Cooking Hack
Two-minute walkthrough on safely extending a cast-iron skillet handle with a wooden stick for better control and heat protection when cooking over a campfire.
Sam's Club Emergency Preparedness Items: Budget Prepper Shopping Walkthrough
27-minute walkthrough of Sam's Club bulk items for emergency food storage, water, batteries, and shelf-stable pantry supplies, with cost-per-serving focus for budget-conscious preppers.
Late-Summer Garden Transition: Five Steps to Extend Your Growing Season
Five practical late-summer tasks to maximize remaining harvest and prepare your garden for fall production.
Greg Loves the Beavers: How They Hold Large Pools of Water in Creeks During Dry Summers
Eight minutes on how beaver-built water retention benefits regenerative ranching operations and pasture management through the dry season.
17 Foods To Stockpile That Never Expire
Forty-one minutes identifying 17 grocery-store foods with multi-decade shelf life, storage methods to achieve that lifespan, and realistic costs for a complete long-term food security system.
Winning the War on Weeds with John Moody
Hour-long deep dive into organic weed management strategies, soil health, cover cropping, and garden planning from a homesteading expert.
Diesel Prices Are Spiraling Out of Control: What You Need to Know
Analysis of record diesel prices and how shipping cost spikes cascade through logistics networks to affect grocery inflation and household food budgets.
Fall Apple Collecting for Long-Term Food Storage
Walkthrough of foraging and preserving apples for winter storage—sourcing, selection, and storage methods for year-round food security.
Why I Tell Patients to Ferment Food
A physician explains the gut-health benefits of fermented foods and their role in household nutrition and resilience.
Eliminating broomsedge grass on newly leased farm: Greg's plan
Detailed walkthrough of Greg's strategy for clearing broomsedge and restoring pasture productivity on a newly acquired property.
Preserving Cheap Produce and Outdoor Grill Cooking
Tomato preservation techniques and first meal cooked on a newly built outdoor grill at a rural homestead.
Eating Carp: A Guide to Preparation and Cooking
Thirty-minute walkthrough on identifying, catching, cleaning, and cooking carp as a wild food source.
Minimalist Wilderness Food
Nine-minute walkthrough of the author's tested approach to low-cost, nutrient-dense food sourcing for wilderness living, balancing satiety, health, and accessibility.
The Food Problem Can Start Before the Seed Is Planted
How fertilizer supply pressures upstream affect what farmers plant next year, and why preppers should care about agricultural input chains.
The Dust Bowl Cycle Is Back and One Third of World's Export Grain Just Disappeared
Fifty-six minutes on global grain-export collapse, harvest failures, and fertilizer cutoffs — with household food-security strategies for a fragile supply chain.
Fall planting and garden experiments
Twenty-minute walkthrough of fall planting methods, garden experiments from the year, and a new technique being tried for the first time.
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
Bush Hogging vs. Cutting Hay — Equipment Breakdown for Home Hay Production
How to produce your own hay during drought: the differences between bush hogs, hay cutters, rakes, and tedders, and why each step matters for food security.
Preserving Pears in Heavy Syrup
Five-minute walkthrough on water-bath canning pears in heavy syrup, a long-term food storage method for home gardeners and foragers.
47 Years of Glyphosate Exposure: Soil Health and Human Microbiome
Conference lecture exploring the relationship between glyphosate, gut health, soil microbiomes, and chronic illness — with practical approaches to detoxification and food safety.
Water Filter Test Results - Part 2: Rainwater Purification Over 48 Hours
Controlled field test of a portable water filter system on collected rainwater, with analysis of clarity and safety results over two days.
They Sent Me This Water Filter To Test - Part 1
Unboxing and field testing of the E01 Mini portable electric water filter, including flow-rate demos, rainwater and creek-water analysis, and maintenance breakdown.
How to Store 90 Days of Water for Your Family
40-minute walkthrough on building a hybrid water storage system for a family of four under $100, covering container selection, math on daily requirements, treatment methods, and storage locations.
First Look at Our New Homestead (After Being Forced Out)
Drone and walking tour of a new raw-land homestead property in Appalachia: soil assessment, water, livestock plans (chickens and sheep), rotational grazing layout, and the practical first steps for building self-sufficiency from scratch.
The Food Problem Starts Before the Shelves Are Empty
How diesel costs, fertilizer availability, weather, and global conflict create food-price pressure upstream of retail shortages.
Crow Kabobs
Twenty-eight-second demonstration of processing and cooking wild crow as a subsistence protein source.
Cleaning Wilderness Water
Fifteen-minute walkthrough of water purification methods for outdoor survival: removing pathogens and organisms that cause illness when living or camping in the wilderness.
I Built a Food Forest for My Ducks (Here's What Happened)
Twelve-minute walkthrough of a backyard food-forage experiment for Muscovy ducks: what plants survived grazing, why Jerusalem artichokes outperformed intentional crops, and lessons for building sustainable animal runs.
Persimmon Trees as Free Fall Livestock Feed
Greg demonstrates how to use wild or cultivated persimmon trees as a low-cost, nutritious fall feed source for cattle and other livestock on regenerative pasture.
Three Things Happening in America You Need to See
Breakdown of a major product recall, Walmart tracking practices, food price inflation, and chemical standards gaps between US and EU products affecting consumer safety and grocery costs.
First harvest of the season
Walkthrough of the first vegetable harvest from a zone 3 Northern Alberta garden, including updates on new gardening methods tried this year.
Can I Turn This Bare High Desert Land Into Pasture?
Nine-month land transformation: building soil health and establishing pasture on arid land through native vegetation, strategic plantings of grasses and forage, and minimal-water techniques.
Harvesting Leek Seeds for the Next Season
Two-minute walkthrough on overwintering leeks to produce seeds adapted to your local growing conditions.
Late Summer Tasks in the Garden
Prioritize harvesting and adjust watering as summer wanes; plan fall crops and cover crops to reduce next year's work.
Nutsedge: The Weed I Actually Like (And How I Control It)
Thirteen minutes on nutsedge ecology, why this persistent weed may have practical uses, and integrated management strategies for garden resilience.
Bunny Burgers
Short walkthrough on processing wild rabbit for food, demonstrating field-to-table subsistence hunting skills.
Spring Review: Winter Accomplishments on Our Off-Grid Homestead
Year-in-review walkthrough of food production, preservation, and off-grid systems: chicken tractors, water management, gardens, greenhouse, bulk pantry, and first-time pork processing.
Heat Stress Relief for Backyard Chickens: Using Coop Shade and Ventilation
One-minute walkthrough on keeping laying hens cool during heat stress: shade structures and ventilation adjustments that keep a backyard flock productive through summer.
"Hormone Free" Chicken Is Already the Law
Why U.S. poultry packages trumpet "no hormones added" when federal law has banned chicken hormones since the 1950s—and what the USDA disclaimer actually means.
Complete Flock Dispersal Auction: 140 Sheep, Guardian Dogs, and Grazing Equipment
Tour of a Georgia sheep operation liquidation sale: 100 breeding ewes, 40 lambs, trained guardian dogs, and full grazing setup ready for acquisition.
Hatch Day: Egg Incubation Results (Day 21-22)
Two-minute walkthrough of a home chicken-egg incubation cycle: setup, candling, hatching day, and live results (5 of 10 eggs successful).