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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Ferrocement: A $5,100 Problem, A $1,200 Solution
Building a 5,000-gallon water tank using ferrocement (wire mesh and cement) for $1,200 instead of $5,100: material costs, engineering principles, test-piece casting and failure analysis.
Working on Watering System – Switching to Irrigation Ditch Water
Three-minute walkthrough of upgrading a home watering system to use irrigation ditch water as an alternative to city supply.
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
When you live 100 percent on rainwater, you love seeing this
40-second look at a rainwater harvesting system in operation on an off-grid homestead.
Off-Grid Steak Meal No Kitchen
Cooking a complete steak meal over an open fire without modern kitchen equipment—basic campfire technique for protein preparation.