food-production
133 videos tagged food-production across 7 categories.
All videos
Prepping Alternate Grains: Winter Rye
Six-minute demonstration of growing and processing winter rye as a calorie-dense grain addition to long-term food storage.
Homestead Garden Update: Perennial Pigeon Peas, Container Carrots & New Growth
Nine-minute garden walkthrough covering perennial pigeon peas, container carrots, luffa, ginger, and compost—practical food production techniques for household self-sufficiency.
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.
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.
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.
Harvesting Leek Seeds for the Next Season
Two-minute walkthrough on overwintering leeks to produce seeds adapted to your local growing conditions.
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.
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.
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).
Why I Don't Buy From Grocery Stores Anymore: Food Safety and Home Production
Walkthrough of industrial produce contamination risks, farm safety practices, and how to start growing your own food for supply chain resilience.
What Comes After Your Stockpile Runs Dry
Johnathan Nash on moving beyond storage toward self-sufficient water and food production systems for long-term resilience.
Plan for a Winter Garden or Indoor Garden
Walkthrough for setting up a winter or indoor garden to extend the growing season and produce food year-round on a homestead.
I Grow More Food Than We Can Eat — And I Do It on Purpose
How to intentionally grow food surplus in a backyard or container garden and share the abundance with family and community.
Reclaiming Self-Reliance: Food, Water, Land, and Financial Independence
Explore pathways to self-reliance through food production, water filtration, land ownership, and debt reduction.
Day 17 Egg Candling: Last Check Before Lockdown
Three-minute walkthrough of candling chicken eggs at day 17 of incubation to monitor embryo development and identify non-viable eggs before the final incubation phase.
How to Get Red Bell Peppers Every Time
Twenty-three minutes on pepper ripening: why green and red bell peppers are the same fruit at different stages, and how timing on the vine affects flavor and yield.
The Truth About Peach Trees
Seven-minute walkthrough of peach tree cultivation: what online guides get wrong and what actually works in practice.
Day 14 Egg Candling: Embryo Chick Development
Ten-minute walkthrough of candling chicken eggs on day 14 of incubation to check embryo development and viability.
Day 14 Egg Candling: Monitoring Embryo Development
Two-minute walkthrough of candling chicken eggs at day 14 of incubation using a handheld torch to assess viability and embryo development.
Eating The Tomatoes You Said Wouldn't Grow
Walkthrough of tomato harvest readiness and variety selection from a producing garden, with practical assessment of ripeness and flavor.
Growing Golden Zucchini: Varieties, Garden Pests, and Harvest Timing
26-minute walkthrough comparing golden and standard zucchini varieties, managing garden pests as indicators of plant health, and recognizing harvest-ready crops.
Off Grid Homestead Progress: Six Years of Systems Coming Together
Property tour and six-year progress update on an off-grid homestead: perimeter fencing, electrical work, seed planting, vehicle repair, and what the creator learned building systems incrementally with limited resources.
Mike and Chris' Top Strategy for Facing Future Predicaments
Martenson and Maloney discuss fertilizer shortages, food production risks, AI threats to agriculture and digital systems, and personal preparedness strategies in a multi-threat environment.
Don't Let Wild Weather Destroy Your Harvest
Soil moisture and water management techniques to protect crops from drought and flooding using landscape design and natural water storage systems.
No Chemicals in Garden = Safe to Eat
Building healthy, resilient soil through organic matter and soil biology instead of synthetic inputs—a foundation for long-term food security.
Building My Dream Garden From Scratch
Multi-year process of converting steep hillside into terraced garden: contour measurement, layout planning, and greenhouse foundation on uneven ground.
Why You Should Start Small
Financial and operational strategy for scaling homestead projects incrementally to avoid over-investment, test local markets, and match production to actual family needs.
Giant Turnip
Two-minute demonstration of a large turnip harvest, with notes on turnips as a calorie-dense survival food for people and livestock.
Living Fully Off-Grid on a Remote Pacific Island
Tour of a working off-grid homestead in Vanuatu: tropical food production, water systems, shelter, and daily routines of island self-sufficiency.
The Transformation From a Lifeless Abandoned Property to The Beginning of an Oasis Full of Life
51-minute walkthrough of six years of land reclamation, planting, water harvesting, and food production systems in a remote mountain homestead.
Investing In Your Homestead – Where To Start?
Two-hour discussion on prioritizing homestead improvements for food production, water management, and self-sufficiency on rural property.
Sprinklers Won't Save Your Garden
Efficient irrigation techniques for food gardens: drip systems, mulch, timing, and olla pots to deliver water at the roots and reduce waste.
Summer Rains Brought a Shiitake Flush
Short walkthrough of shiitake mushroom cultivation triggered by seasonal rainfall—a practical food-production technique for home growing.
Greg interviews Jennifer Noland, a passionate grazer in Driggs Idaho
Interview with a regenerative grazer on rotational pasture management, livestock husbandry practices, and building food production on small acreage.
Why I Stopped Planting and Started Building Soil
Regenerative farming approach prioritizing soil health and livestock integration over immediate planting—designing self-sustaining food systems from the ground up.
Summer Garden Tour: Squash, Asparagus & Vegetable Growing Methods
Ten-minute walkthrough of a productive home garden in summer, covering vegetable cultivation techniques for squash, asparagus, and other crops to ensure reliable harvests.
Why Bare Soil Is a Bad Idea
How to build living soil using mulch, cover crops, and no-till methods instead of destructive tilling — critical foundation for growing reliable food.
What Tractor Implements Do You Need
Overview of essential tractor attachments and implements for homestead food production, gardening, and property maintenance on rural land.
Regenerative Design: Small Garden, Same Power As Big Farm
How to implement regenerative gardening systems at any scale, from raised beds to larger plots, to maximize food productivity with natural resources.
Composting Is The Secret Ingredient
How to build garden soil fertility through composting, kitchen scraps, livestock rotation, and chop-and-drop methods integrated into daily homestead routines.
Unexpected Encounter & We Finally Got Clean Water! | Homestead Update
Norwegian couple documents well installation and testing, kitchen renovation, potato cultivation, and establishing clean water access on their remote farm restoration project.
How to Grow Big Squash Plants
One-hour walkthrough on squash plant cultivation techniques for maximizing yield in a homestead garden setting.
Efficient Homesteading Isn't About Working Harder
How to design regenerative homestead systems that reduce daily exhaustion and create sustainable food production with intentional planning rather than constant reactive work.
Overgrown Garden? Let the Goats Handle It
How to use goats to clear overgrown garden beds and turn a planting mistake into productive land management.
We Own Everything and We're Happy
How a family eliminated debt, owns their property and vehicles outright, and built financial resilience through off-grid solar, food production, and repair skills.
We Are Seeing This in Every City Now
Practical steps for accelerating food production and community building before systemic collapse.
Going Off-Grid in Australia: The Rules That Catch You Out
Legal boundaries for off-grid water collection, food production, and power generation in Australia — what's permitted and where regulations tighten.
How I'm Prepping for a WW3 Food Apocalypse and Famine
Build a self-sufficient food system using garden crops, chickens, and bees to produce thousands of pounds of food for long-term resilience.
Follow the Sun: The First Step to a Thriving Garden
How to evaluate sun exposure and aspect when choosing a garden location to maximize crop growth and soil health.
The best livestock for a small homestead might surprise you
Guidance on selecting livestock species suited to small homestead operations, covering production efficiency and space constraints.
What if you never bought compost again?
52-second introduction to worm farming and vermicomposting as a method to produce free compost and soil amendments for food gardens.
From Freezing to 90's F: Are the Plants Surviving Extreme July Weather in Our Wyoming Garden?
Nine-minute walkthrough of how a high-altitude garden recovers from frost damage and manages extreme heat swings—what survives, what fails, practical lessons.
Healthy Soil, Fewer Beetles: Building Soil to Reduce Pest Pressure
46-second field observation on how soil health influences plant resilience and natural pest resistance in potato cultivation.
Low Effort Gardening for the Self-Sufficient Beginner
53-minute walkthrough on setting up automated drip irrigation, eliminating weeding and daily watering, and growing high-yield vegetables—tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, okra, squash—with minimal labor.
How My Off-Grid Homestead Actually Works
Complete 23-minute systems overview of a six-year Arizona off-grid homestead: shelter, water harvesting, food production, solar power, and sustainable income integration.
Lowering the acidity level of our IBC tote wicking beds
Two-minute walkthrough on adjusting soil pH in wicking-bed systems for improved plant growth in off-grid food production.
Cheapest Trellis Ever: Cattle Panels for Climbing Vegetables
54-second walkthrough on building and training vertical trellises from cattle panels to support heavy crops like beans, squash, and melons in small spaces.
Dirt Moving Power: Matching Tiller Size to Tractor for Seed Bed Prep
Short walkthrough on selecting and operating a tiller matched to your tractor's PTO system for efficient soil preparation and food production.
15 Crops That Practically Grow Themselves in the Heat
Nine-minute walkthrough of heat-tolerant crop varieties and summer gardening strategies for Central Florida gardens during peak heat and humidity.
Growing Limes in Virginia: Greenhouse Methods for Year-Round Citrus
Walkthrough of greenhouse setup and container methods to grow fresh citrus in cold climates, with focus on organic production and food self-sufficiency.
Drip Irrigation System On A Homestead
Ten-minute walkthrough installing drip irrigation across a two-acre market garden: component breakdown, live demo, soil moisture contrast, and real cost analysis.
Hard Lessons: 2 Years Homesteading in Rural Zimbabwe
77-minute first-person account of building a self-sufficient homestead from scratch in rural Zimbabwe, covering land acquisition, food production, and off-grid living after two years of trial and error.
I Planted a Garden to Block Out The World
Half-acre property tour showing how to layer crops, trees, and shrubs for year-round privacy and food production on a small lot without expensive fencing.
Colorful Vegetable Garden Magic: Seed Propagation and Pollinator Management
How to use flowering herbs and pollinator plantings as a dual-purpose garden system: natural seed spreading and crop pollination on a homestead.
Will Key Limes Survive in Virginia? Growing Citrus Indoors
How to build a controlled greenhouse environment to grow temperature-sensitive citrus like key limes and lemons in any climate zone.
Cornish Cross Chickens: Why Mobility Declines as They Age
Why Cornish Cross broilers struggle to move and access feed as they mature past typical slaughter age, and what this reveals about breed selection for long-term homestead flocks.
You've Probably Never Tried These Tomatoes
One-minute introduction to heirloom tomato varieties, why supermarket tomatoes lack diversity, and how to identify and grow unique cultivars in your backyard.
Start Your Garden With The Right Foot
Stagger your planting schedule to avoid harvest gluts and maintain consistent garden production throughout the season without overwhelming yourself.
The Depression Plant You Can Actually Eat: Pokeweed Foraging
How to identify and safely harvest pokeweed shoots in spring; traditional foraged green with specific harvesting windows to avoid toxicity.
Don't Make These 2 Garlic Harvesting Mistakes
54-second walkthrough of two common garlic harvesting errors: timing (when leaves dry) and technique (gentle lifting to avoid damage).
A Journey to Self Sufficiency (I've Been Neglecting the Farm)
26-minute orchard tour and farm update on a 30-acre tropical homestead in Australia, covering food growing practices and viewer Q&A.
These 'Bad' Bugs Are Actually Saving Your Garden
How to identify beneficial insects and use interplanting to protect crops without pesticides—a 37-second primer on natural pest control for home gardeners.
Growing Malabar Spinach: A Continuous Harvest Variety
49-second overview of Malabar spinach as a high-yield, vertically-growing variety for year-round home garden production.
This Gardening Excuse is Costing You Time and Money
40-second walkthrough on why beginning gardeners should start planting now rather than waiting for perfect knowledge.
Garden Myth #3: How Much Land?
Debunks the myth that productive food gardens require acres; shows how to maximize yields in small spaces like window boxes and raised beds using permaculture zoning.
Garden Myth #2: The Watering Mistake
39-second breakdown of why consistent soil moisture beats frequent heavy watering for healthy plants and better harvests.
The NPCs Won't Wake Up Until It's Too Late: Prepare for What's Coming
Examines societal complacency and systemic fragility; explores practical skills, food production, and reducing dependence on infrastructure.
Extra Chickens: Define Your Market
Planning before buying: how to assess whether chickens feed your family or generate income, and why most first-time homesteaders skip this critical step.
Don't Rush Into Farm Animals: Five Things to Know First
Planning checklist before buying livestock: fencing, shelter, feed, space, budget, and animal selection to avoid costly beginner mistakes.
The Secrets of Good Soil, Myth 1
Why you don't need perfect soil to start gardening—how composting kitchen scraps, mulching, and returning organic matter build productive soil over time.
A Little Self-Reliance: Muscadine Grapes
Seven-second look at an 80-foot muscadine grape trellis established 10 years ago with minimal gardening experience required.
From City Life to Full Time Farm Girl: Interview With Ann Scott
Ann Scott discusses her transition from urban living to full-time homesteading and farm operations.
Books for Every Homesteader: A Chat with Sawdust Publishing
Interview with a homesteading publisher showcasing recommended books on food production, animal husbandry, and self-sufficient living for beginning and experienced homesteaders.
Our Life Is a Mess (And I've Never Felt Richer)
Ten-year journey building a debt-free half-acre homestead: why financial independence through small-space living, food production, and intentional frugality outweighs conventional wealth.
Garden Pests Don't Stand a Chance Against This
31-second demonstration of using diatomaceous earth as an organic barrier against garden pests on eggplants, without synthetic chemicals.
When you know exactly where your food comes from because...
A 29-second pep talk on starting small with food self-sufficiency: bread-baking, herb gardens, foraging classes, hunting, and community gardens as entry points to opting out of commercial food systems.
Growing Garlic Is Easier Than You Think
Four-step garlic cultivation walkthrough: bed preparation, planting depth and orientation, six-month growth cycle, harvest and drying for home use or surplus.
The Fantastic Root Vegetable: Radish
Forty-one seconds on using daikon radish as a cover crop to improve soil quality, aerate compacted earth, and build organic matter without heavy tilling.
How to Grow Garlic the Easy Way
Step-by-step garlic planting technique covering soil prep, clove orientation, and burial depth for reliable harvests.
I'm Still Not Great at Gardening, But I Get Better Every Season
45-second reflection on incremental gardening skill-building and seasonal crop success for household food production.
Melon Plants Training: Vine Management to Prevent Rot and Cracking
Technique for training melon vines vertically to prevent ground rot, cracked rinds, and soil-borne moisture damage while maximizing garden space.
The Most Self-Sufficient Animal You Can Raise at Home
Ten-minute walkthrough on raising Muscovy ducks for meat and eggs with minimal space, noise, or feed cost on suburban homesteads.
Fresh Milled Flour: What Should You Actually Bake First?
Four-minute interview with a flour expert on what to bake first when you start milling your own grain, and how to work with fresh-milled flour.
Country Life Beats City Costs: Gardens, Food & Freedom
Two-minute comparison of rural self-sufficiency and lower living costs versus urban expenses, with lessons from Depression-era food production for modern resilience.
We Transformed Raw Land Into a Real Homestead (Year 2 Begins)
Document practical land clearing, garden setup, and structural improvements during the second year of off-grid homestead development in North Idaho.
Knowing THIS Improves Your Garden!
Learn a key principle that enhances garden productivity and resilience for food self-sufficiency.
Yogurt Maker for the Win: Experimenting with Propagating Fig Cuttings
Repurposing a yogurt maker as a propagation chamber to grow fig cuttings—a practical skills demo on food production and equipment versatility.
Golden Oyster Mushroom Success
Short walkthrough of growing golden oyster mushrooms at home as a food production skill for self-reliance.
Building a Multigenerational Homestead: Interview with the Fuhrmanns
Twenty-minute interview with a family operating a multigenerational homestead and farm, covering how they structure work, income, and decision-making across generations.
My Chicken Food Forest—Year Three (It's Finally Working)
Three-year progression building a self-sustaining perennial forage system for chickens on a half-acre: plant selection, design iteration, and what establishes itself once systems mature.
Planting Another Potato Bed
Twenty-three minutes on establishing and planting a potato bed in a small urban space, covering bed preparation and seed potato selection.
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.
March Florida Garden Tour Zone 9b | Prepping the Land for a Year's Worth of Food
17-minute garden walkthrough in central Florida showing raised beds, seedling starts, food forest setup, and permaculture techniques for year-round food production.
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.
4 Years Becoming Self Sufficient (Full Farm Tour)
Tour of a 4-year homesteading project in Australia: land development, food production systems, and progress toward household food self-sufficiency.
1500 Days Homesteading: A Journey to Self Sufficiency (Full Tour)
22-minute tour of a working homestead after 1500 days, documenting food production systems and sustainable self-sufficiency practices.
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.
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.
Design a Low-Effort Food Garden That Actually Feeds You (Complete Guide)
21-minute walkthrough on permaculture-based food garden design: site analysis, layout, water strategy, bed types, and plant selection for year-round production while working full-time.
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.
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.
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.
Tomboy Crab Apple: Very Sweet, Pink Flesh, Rich Flavor
Two-minute variety showcase of a dessert crab apple cultivar: flavor profile, growing characteristics, and suitability for home cultivation and storage.
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.
Harvesting Potatoes While They are Still Growing: New Potatoes Picked by Hand From Raised Beds
Seven-minute walkthrough on hand-harvesting new potatoes from raised beds without fully uprooting the plant, allowing continued growth and multiple harvests.
Micro Climate Planters: An Experiment that is Working Out
15-minute walkthrough of a micro climate planter design for extending growing season and maximizing food production in remote/challenging environments.
New Chicken Flock 2024: One Month Update
One-month progress report on establishing a backyard chicken flock: what's working, early lessons, and practical steps for someone starting their own food production.
Planting English Peas | Dry Creek Homestead
Step-by-step walkthrough of planting sweet peas as part of a homestead food production system.
The Aussie Mountain Homestead with a Tiny 100 Day Growing Season | Ep 10
56-minute interview with a homesteader at 1350m elevation managing a 100-day growing season, covering frost-resistant crops, seasonal planning, and strategies to reach 70% food self-sufficiency.
Compost Health Check 101: Effective composting as a waste management solution
Interview on composting best practices: diagnosing unhealthy piles, fixing odor and decomposition issues, monitoring temperature and moisture for successful food-waste recycling.
Food Shortage Is Worse Than You May Think
Analysis of current food production constraints, supply disruptions, and underlying structural factors affecting household food security.
Greenhouse failure & prep to rebuild
Walkthrough of diagnosing greenhouse damage, planning repairs, and rebuilding from failure—practical skills for food production resilience.
Taming Cottontail Rabbits
Eleven-minute guide to handling, socializing, and caring for wild cottontail rabbits as a practical homesteading and food-production skill.
Composting Chicken Coop Tour
20-minute walkthrough of a chicken coop designed to produce compost while raising birds for eggs and meat.
Overhauling our main garden - Part 2: Building a raised garden bed
Seven-minute walkthrough of constructing a raised garden bed as part of a suburban homestead food-production overhaul.
Overhauling Our Main Garden - Part 1
First episode in a suburban garden transformation series: assessing the existing space and planning production beds for the 2021 growing season.
Growing Food and Medicine
Episode 5: cultivating edible and medicinal plants in an off-grid homestead setting for household self-sufficiency.
Growing Corn in Straw
Nine-minute walkthrough on growing sweet corn using straw as the growing medium, with results from an experiment the creator says hasn't been widely documented.
Tomato Bucket System - Setting Up and Planting
11-minute walkthrough transplanting tomato starts into 5-gallon buckets for a space-efficient growing system.
Straw Bale Garden Collaboration - Update
Garden update on a multi-channel straw bale gardening collaboration project, showcasing seasonal progress and participating homesteading channels.
Free Seed Catalogs by Mail
Five-minute walkthrough of how to request free seed catalogs from 20+ major US seed suppliers for planning your next growing season.
Five Garden Tips in Five Minutes
Five practical gardening techniques for food production, presented as a quick reference guide by an urban homesteader.