food-preservation
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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.
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.
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.
Alder Smoked Trout
Catch-and-cook demonstration: fishing for trout and smoking the catch with alder wood, a wilderness food-preservation technique.
Processing Fresh Poultry: Why Patience and Proper Technique Matter
Eight-minute guide to butchering and cooking home-raised chickens: why rigor mortis timing affects meat quality and which cooking methods yield tender results.
Setting Up an Outdoor Canning Kitchen
Why moving canning outdoors keeps your home cool, reduces mess, and lets you enjoy summer while preserving vegetables and fruit.
Canning Pumpkin – Monday Night Fireside Chat
Live panel discussion on canning pumpkin for storage, hosted with Rebel Canners and ChefTech experts covering techniques for food preservation beginners.
DIY Yarrow Styptic Powder
How to harvest, dry, and process yarrow into a hemostatic powder for stopping minor bleeding — a historical first-aid skill for the homestead.
Grow More Cucumbers in Less Space with Vertical Trellis Growing
Hands-on walkthrough of vertical trellis training for cucumbers: how to keep vines off soil, maximize garden-bed yield, and reduce pest and disease pressure in small spaces.
Mom's Tomato Marmalade (Jelly)
Six-minute walkthrough on making tomato jelly from garden surplus: peeling, cooking down, adding citrus and pectin, and hot-water-bath canning for long-term storage.
Sauerkraut Recipe: Curtido Fermentation Method
Step-by-step walkthrough of making fermented sauerkraut curtido: ingredient ratios, massaging technique, fermentation timeline, and storage for up to a year.
Storing potatoes for the winter
Nine-minute walkthrough on preparing and storing potatoes for winter from a homesteader and nurse.
Steam Canning – Monday Night Fireside Chat No. 1452
Panel discussion on steam canning techniques and food preservation for beginners, hosted by Gil with guest experts from Rebel Canners and ChefTech.
Don't Make These Preserving Mistakes
Learn practical habits to manage food preservation efficiently, including timing, method selection, and whether you're preserving foods your family will actually eat.
Build a Life That Is Hard to Disrupt
Design resilient home systems for water, power, food, and sanitation that function when grid infrastructure fails.
Build a Life That's Hard to Disrupt: Living Without Electricity
Learn to design a homestead with resilient systems for water, food, cooking, heating, and sanitation that function without grid electricity.
I Still Can't Believe This Happened: Onion Bolting and Recovery
What causes onions to bolt prematurely, how to identify at-risk plants, and preservation methods for partially-salvaged crops.
Very Successful Bone Broth with Collagen
Short walkthrough on making bone broth and extracting collagen for food preservation and nutritional resilience.
Pressure Canning Siphoning: Why Your Jars Lose Liquid & How to Stop It
Nine-minute walkthrough of siphoning in pressure canning: why it happens, four main causes (pressure fluctuations, rapid cooling, air bubbles, improper lids), and how to prevent and assess it.
How to Lacto Ferment Peppers or Any Vegetables: The Easiest Two-Ingredient Method
19-minute walkthrough on preserving garden vegetables through salt-water fermentation, using fresh peppers as an example; covers harvesting, prep, salt ratios, jar setup, and readiness indicators.
Biodegradable and Eco-Friendly Straws Growing in Your Garden
One-minute walkthrough on growing edible straw plants in a home garden as a self-sufficient alternative to purchased straws.
Make your own mayo using real whole food ingredients
One-minute immersion-blender mayo recipe using olive oil, egg, lemon juice, and mustard; addresses ingredient quality and food preservation fundamentals.
Will We Ever Stop Working? Thoughts on a Life of Manual Chores and Self-Sufficiency
Reflections on long-term sustainability while making sauerkraut—balancing manual labor, food preservation, and the practical realities of off-grid mountain homesteading.
4 Ways to Preserve Green Beans
Step-by-step instructions for fermenting, freezing, freeze-drying, and canning green beans, with storage life for each method.
Canning Pie Fillings
Panel discussion on canning pie fillings for long-term storage, hosted by Gil of Camppatton Family Compound with expert canners Tammy McNeill and Mark of ChefTech.
Living Off Our Land | August Garden Tour | Zone 4A Minnesota
54-minute garden walkthrough showing vegetable production, preservation techniques (freezing, fermenting, freeze-drying), and season extension strategies for northern climates.
My Values Are Showing: The Quiet Power of a Home Well Lived
Explore how homemaking and homesteading work together to create a resilient home that reflects your values and sustains your family.
DIY Drum Smoker: Built From a Scrap 55-Gallon Barrel
Step-by-step build of a functional smoker from a scrap drum, covering materials, assembly, and food preservation for off-grid or budget-conscious households.
Don't Have a Garden? No Problem!
Food preservation techniques (canning, fermenting, dehydrating, freezing) for building seasonal food stores without growing your own.
July Garden Harvest — What's Ready, What We're Pickling, and What's Coming Next Week
Walk-through of a mature organic garden at peak summer harvest, covering trellis growing, variety selection, and preservation techniques with heirloom tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, and cucumbers.
Fermented Pickles Recipe
Step-by-step fermented pickle preservation: cucumber selection, brine ratios, herb seasonings, fermentation timeline, and storage—crunchier and faster than canning.
15 Grocery Items You Can Grow for Free! These Vegetables Save Us the Most Money
Walkthrough of 15 beginner-friendly vegetables to grow at home—from garlic to peppers—with preservation methods to extend the harvest and reduce grocery spending year-round.
What's In Your Flour – Monday Night Fireside Chat No. 1448
Panel discussion on flour quality, sourcing, and storage for long-term food preservation and homesteading.
Frozen Yogurt Cheesecake Pie - No-Bake Summer Dessert with Variations
Fifteen-minute walkthrough of making a no-bake frozen yogurt cheesecake pie from scratch, with ingredient variations for different climates and resources.
Beauty & Food While Harvesting Heat - How the Shop Wall Microclimate Planters Are Doing This Season
Eleven-minute walkthrough of microclimate planter boxes along a shop wall in a cold Wyoming climate: what's growing, what's working, and how passive heat capture supports food production through weather swings.
What Are You Doing Now To Better Your Homestead – No. 1447
Discussion and Q&A on homestead improvement projects, food preservation, and property self-sufficiency from an Idaho family compound.
Milk Kefir Grows So Much Slower in Winter
One-minute observation on how seasonal temperature drops affect milk kefir fermentation rates and what that means for year-round food preservation.
Jars For Canning – No. 1446
Hour-long panel discussion on canning jar selection, types, and best practices for food preservation, hosted with expert guests from Rebel Canners and ChefTech.
Turning Home Grown Cabbage Into a Tasty & Fresh Summer Chip Dip
15-minute walkthrough of making fresh cabbage-based chip dip from garden produce, with full ingredient list and technique.
Why Soaking Our Legumes Is Important
How soaking legumes reduces antinutrients and improves digestibility, making them safer and more nutritious for food storage and daily meals.
My Apocalypse Food Supply is Destroyed! Don't Make This One Crucial Mistake
Learn what destroyed one prepper's food storage and how to avoid the same costly mistake with your own supplies.
The Best Way to Tell If Eggs Are Fresh
Forty-nine-second walkthrough of the water float test to check egg freshness and understand shelf life for stored farm eggs.
Botulism Risk and Food Safety: What Government Guidelines Say About Pressure Cooking
Twelve minutes on botulism contamination in food storage, government safety guidelines, and pressure cooker use for eliminating the risk.
Tips for Long-Storing Garlic
Forty-one-second walkthrough on curing, trimming, and storing homegrown garlic for maximum shelf life, including variety selection and storage conditions.
Smoking magic: low heat, big flavor
Low-temperature smoking technique for preserving and flavoring food without requiring high heat.
Making Tallow from Trimmings
Step-by-step walkthrough of rendering tallow from meat trimmings for cooking, preserving, and household use.
8 Reasons Your Canning Jars Didn't Seal
Learn the most common causes of canning seal failure and how to troubleshoot, prevent, and safely handle unsealed jars.
Mason Jars: The Ultimate Prepping Tool No One Talks About
Explore practical applications of mason jars for food storage, water treatment, fermentation, and herbal medicine in a self-reliant home.
7 Prepper Pantry Mistakes Destroying Your Survival Plan
Fifteen-minute walkthrough of seven common long-term food storage errors—oxygen exposure, pests, temperature, nutrition gaps—with fixes for each.
Growing My Own Groceries: July Garden Tour | Zone 4A Minnesota
54-minute garden walkthrough showing vegetable production, preservation methods, and seasonal growing challenges in a cold climate with the goal of producing a year's food supply.
How to Freeze a Year's Worth of Broccoli
Step-by-step guide to freezing broccoli for long-term storage, with guidelines on blanching, freezer duration (3 months to 12 months), and inventory management.
Easy Preserved Lemons, Limes & Oranges: 2-Ingredient Fermented Citrus
22-minute walkthrough of salt-fermented citrus preservation: selecting fruit, packing jars, fermentation timeline, storage, and four recipes using preserved citrus.
Ghee: From Skin Savior to Gut Healer — Amazing Uses
Learn multiple practical applications of ghee for health and homestead use, from topical skin care to digestive support.
Do Less, Preserve More
Learn which harvested foods deserve preservation effort and which to use fresh, saving time and resources.
How I Preserve a Year's Worth of Food Without Burnout
Rethink pantry strategy: prioritize foods that preserve well, use fermentation and root cellaring, and skip what's cheaper to buy preserved.
Turning Ruined Peaches into a Sweet Treat
Converting damaged or overripe peaches into preserved sweets: practical food preservation technique for homestead surplus.
7 Immune Boosting Foods She Swears By For Years
Learn seven nutrient-dense foods that support immune function as part of a homestead diet.
Boost Your Gut Health: The Power of Fermented Foods
Learn fermentation techniques for preserving food and supporting digestive health using simple equipment and salt.
Honey Fermented Garlic Immune Boosting Recipe
Learn to make a simple two-ingredient fermented garlic and honey preserve for immune support during cold and flu season.
The Truth About Sterilizing Canning Jars
Learn when jar sterilization is actually necessary for safe water bath and pressure canning, and common mistakes that cause seal failures.
Red Onion Secrets: Unlock Health Benefits Now
Learn the nutritional and medicinal properties of red onions and how to incorporate them into your homestead growing and food preservation plans.
Making Extremely Nutritious Bone Broth Then Canning It
Step-by-step walkthrough of making nutrient-dense bone broth and pressure-canning it for long-term storage.
Power Outage Solution: Save Money & Your Food!
Cost-benefit analysis of backup power systems: how a $3.5k–$5k battery setup pays for itself by protecting food stores during outages.
10 Survival Foods Preppers Stock Long-Term
Ten shelf-stable foods that last decades or indefinitely with proper storage; foundational pantry selection for long-term food security.
Summer Solstice Midsommer Fest - Wartime Russia
Traditional Russian summer festival survival skills and seasonal food preservation techniques during conflict.
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.
Freezer Hack: Keep Food Cold Longer
23-second walkthrough: fill a freezer with frozen water jugs to maintain cold longer during outages and create emergency drinking water.
What Would You Do in Another Great Depression?
Doug and Stacy discuss practical strategies for economic collapse, covering food production, preservation, and self-sufficiency fundamentals.
Grid Down Power for Your Fridge
33-second demo of using a portable power station to keep your refrigerator running during a power outage, with certified refurbished unit options.
Free Food! Identifying Swine Cress and What You Can Use It For
Identifying swine cress in the wild and practical culinary and preservation uses for this common edible plant.
Full Garden Tour - Feeding Ourselves from 600 Square Feet, Crop Choices for a Cold Climate, & Pests
Tour of a productive 600-sq-ft mountain garden in cold climate: crop selection, pest management, and strategies for maximizing food self-sufficiency in harsh conditions.
Rendering Bear Grease and Cooking Lake Trout on a Wood Stove
Learn to render animal fat for storage and cooking and prepare fresh-caught fish using a wood-burning stove.
Building a Smokehouse from Scratch
Step-by-step walkthrough of designing and constructing a functional smokehouse for preserving meat and other foods on a homestead.
Off-Grid Food Storage - How to Dry Fruit Like Your Ancestors
Ten-minute walkthrough on traditional fruit drying techniques for long-term storage without refrigeration, applicable to off-grid living or emergency preparedness.
Garlic Scape Recipe: Grilled Preparation and Growing Tips
27-second walkthrough on harvesting and grilling garlic scapes to maximize bulb growth while preparing an edible crop byproduct.
Do Eggs Need to be Refrigerated?
Learn whether fresh eggs require refrigeration and explore methods for preserving eggs long-term on the homestead.
Growing a Year's Worth of Food | June Garden Tour | Zone 4A Minnesota
49-minute garden walkthrough showing what's growing in a northern Minnesota plot mid-season, with techniques for scaling production to feed a household year-round.
10 Everyday Skills Your Grandparents Had That Most People Lost
Sixteen minutes on ten practical skills previous generations used for resilience—food preservation, sewing, repair, cooking from basics, waste reduction, heating, manual tools, and community support.
Something Happens When You Shift Toward Seasonal Eating
Why eating seasonally and locally reduces waste, saves money, and builds food resilience—and how to start with a garden, farmers' market, or CSA.
The Tiny Canning Detail That Ruins Jars
Explains ring storage, headspace, siphoning prevention, and how to identify false seals in home canning.
Frozen Tomato Soup Recipe
Simple recipe for using frozen tomatoes: butter-based soup with onion, garlic, basil, and bone broth, ready in under 30 minutes.
Mill Your Own Gluten-Free Flour Blend at Home
How to mill your own flour from bulk oats and brown rice using a home grain mill, with cost and nutritional benefits over store-bought blends.
Planting 178 More Trees & Bushes - Adding Growth for Food, Wildlife, Bees & Birds
21-minute walkthrough of establishing perennial food sources (fruit and nut trees, berry bushes) on a mountain homestead, including site selection, planting technique, and long-term food security strategy.
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.
Best Red Fleshed Apple Types, Blood Apples Impress Again
45-minute walkthrough of red-fleshed apple seedling varieties coming into season, with tasting notes and cultivation insights for food production and storage.
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.
Friends Taste Test New Red Fleshed Apple Varieties In The Orchard
Seventy-minute orchard walkthrough featuring red-fleshed apple variety evaluation, taste-testing, and notes on flavor, storage, and cultivation characteristics.
Making Perfect Sourdough Khorasan Sandwich Bread with Tender, Moist Crumb
22-minute walkthrough on baking sourdough sandwich bread from freshly milled khorasan flour using a Vitamix blender as a makeshift grain mill.
Bread for Sandwiches and Wedding Rolls - Quick, Easy, Mostly Whole Wheat Recipe
32-minute walkthrough of a rich, whole-wheat roll recipe suitable for sandwiches and soups, from an off-grid homesteader in Wyoming.
Homegrown Chicken Feed: Growing, Harvesting and Curing Corn, Sunflower, Garlic and Barley
Seven-minute walkthrough of harvesting and processing flint corn, sunflower, barley, and garlic as homegrown chicken feed on a Canadian homestead.
4-Day Fishing and Hunting in the Arctic: Ice Fishing, Tarmigan, and Field Cooking
Ice fishing for sheefish on the frozen Chukchi Sea, hunting tarmigan in the Arctic tundra, field dressing game, and cooking fresh catch in sub-zero conditions — hands-on food procurement and cold-weather survival skills in the Inuit village of Kotzebue.
Old Country Gravity Smoker: Relighting Leftover Charcoal Quickly
Technique for rapidly relighting saved charcoal in a gravity smoker using a cordless blower, useful for efficient food smoking in off-grid scenarios.
Old Country Smoker Mods
Five-minute walkthrough of three modifications to an Old Country Smoker: smokestack installation for improved draft, drain bucket mod, and Thermoworks temperature control integration.
Old Country Insulated Gravity Fed Smoker Ash Collector Mod
Six-minute walkthrough: adapting a Masterbuilt ash collector into an Old Country smoker for ash management and wood-chunk storage during long burns.
Harvest Right Vacuum Fix
Troubleshooting and repair techniques for common vacuum leaks in Harvest Right freeze dryers, with step-by-step fixes.
Food Storage: Storing Sugar for Long Term, Shelf Life, How Much Do You Need?
12-minute walkthrough on storing sugar long-term: shelf-life expectations, quantity planning for one person annually, and best practices using mylar bags for food preservation.
5 Days Fishing & Hunting in the Bayou: Catch and Cook Frogs, Crabs, Gar, Carp, Catfish, Duck & Nutria
Five-day immersion in Louisiana bayou hunting and fishing: duck hunting, spearfishing, trapline management, processing and cooking wild-caught fish and game; family-focused outdoor survival skills in a working wetland ecosystem.
Food Storage 101: Why, What, Where, & How
62-minute walkthrough of food storage progression from emergency kits to year-long supplies, covering preservation methods, organization, tools, nutrition, and cost optimization.
Easy Corn Fritters Recipe - Midwest Style
Seven-minute recipe for corn fritters using fresh or preserved corn, demonstrating food preparation from homegrown harvest.