Shelter
Bug-in resilience, bug-out shelters, hardening your home, off-grid construction, and what actually keeps people alive in cold weather. From renters to homesteaders.
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How to Make Your Home Grid-Down Ready
50-minute walkthrough of grid-down preparedness: securing power, water, food, heat, and security on any budget, urban or rural.
Making a Cold Cabin Feel Like Home | Alone Off-Grid
Six-month timelapse of building and winterizing an off-grid mountain cabin: fireplace construction, water sourcing, firewood management, seasonal adaptation.
Homestead Sights & Sounds from a Very Odd Spring in the Mountains of Wyoming
54-minute walkthrough of off-grid mountain homestead operations: gravity-fed water systems, wood heating, food preservation, composting toilets, gardening in harsh climate, and seasonal wildlife observations.
Stop Prepping Alone: The Case for a Family Compound
Explore how shared family compounds enable efficient resource pooling, skill-sharing, and sustainable self-sufficiency for homesteaders.
The 100 Items to Stockpile Before Britain Collapses
Tier-by-tier UK-specific checklist of 100 survival items for 72-hour, 30-day, and long-term grid-down scenarios, sourced from British suppliers and tailored to UK law and climate.
Massive Home Build Progress + Transforming the Dome Exterior
36-minute walkthrough of off-grid home construction progress, focusing on dome structure exterior finishing and site development.
Canoe Camping in a Blizzard with my Dog and Catching a Huge Lake Trout
Techniques for canoe camping in severe spring weather, including shelter setup, fire management, and cold-weather survival with a companion animal.
Survival Cabins: Why They Become Targets When the Grid Goes Down
31-minute tactical breakdown of why isolated cabins attract danger in grid-down scenarios, covering migration patterns, resource signatures, and community integration alternatives.
The Fatal Flaw in Every Suburban Neighborhood
33-minute analysis of suburban tactical vulnerabilities during grid-down: fatal funnels, perimeter defense, concealment vs. cover, light discipline, resource depletion, and escape routes using military doctrine.
Building an Off-Grid Homestead in Winter Was Harder Than We Expected | S1E10
Pulling emergency water from a silted well, filtering it to drinkability, building a predator-proof coop, and winter solar placement.
One Man's Trash is another Man's Treasure: Recycling Survival Items for SHTF
A room-by-room tour of reusable household discards—bottles, cans, foil, fabric, wax, foam, and containers—with practical uses for fire-starting, water transport, repair, and storage.
MAJOR Upgrade to our Off Grid Solar Power System
Wall-mounting solar panels to avoid winter snow burial, wiring series-parallel configs, and measuring real output gains.
Camping with a Kid 2026 - Autumn Edition
Father-daughter overnight canoe trip covering tent setup, wood stove installation, shore and trolling fishing techniques, and child-led camp routines.
Urban Risk Assessment: When to Consider Relocation
34-minute case for leaving cities, tied to supply-chain signals and geopolitical shifts post-China developments.
RV Battery Selection and Off-Grid Electrical Systems Live Stream
Eighty-minute live Q&A on choosing and sizing batteries for RVs, vans, boats, and off-grid cabins; covers system design fundamentals.
We Almost Lost Our Roof in 60 MPH Winds | Off-Grid Homestead Emergency
Securing metal roofing before high winds, vapor barrier installation, and running black iron pipe for propane appliances.
No Well? No Problem. How We Got Water in Our Off-Grid Cabin
Installing a 2500-gallon buried water storage tank, gravity-fed plumbing system, and transitioning from hauled water to rainwater collection.
Bushcraft Skill Day
Joe demonstrates how to harvest hook material, make backpack hangers, collect and split firewood, baton wood, carve feather sticks, start a fire with ferro rod, tie a Canadian jam knot, and pitch a tarp shelter.
Overnight Wood Harvest Camp
Solo firewood harvest documenting red oak felling, bucking with a small chainsaw, hot tent setup with wood stove, and reflections on mental health.
Installing Trusses and Rafters On our Off Grid Cabin | S1E6
Hands-on demonstration of truss installation, loft framing, roof sheathing, and ice-and-water shield application in cold weather.
How to Build an Off Grid Cabin
Complete walkthrough of building a 10×12 off-grid cabin: foundation, framing, insulation, wood stove installation, with material list and costs.
Living Off Grid: Generator Oil Change and Self Haircuts
36-minute walkthrough of generator maintenance and cutting your own hair—practical skills for reducing dependence on external services during off-grid living.
Living Off Grid - Land & Structures Livestream
2.5-hour livestream covering land selection, shelter design, energy systems, and seasonal considerations for off-grid living.
Living off grid - Small cabin power setup
68-minute walkthrough of designing and building a small cabin power system for off-grid living, covering energy generation and storage fundamentals.
Bug Out Bag for Women: Evacuation Preparedness Long-Term Go Bag
30-minute walkthrough of a complete evacuation go bag setup for fires, floods, and longer-term disasters, with detailed gear selection and packing rationale.
Construction of a Modern Home (Basement Build)
Owner-builders troubleshoot ICF block dimensional variance, rebar placement conflicts, and waterproofing membrane application during basement construction.
Time Spent At Our Remote Alaska Cabin
31-minute walkthrough of a two-week remote cabin stay in Alaska, covering shelter maintenance, food procurement, and off-grid power management in practice.
Tecma Thetford Macerating Toilet Issues and Repair Troubleshooting
30-minute walkthrough of common macerating toilet failures, diagnostics, and field repairs for off-grid homesteading systems.