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18 videos tagged gardening across 3 categories.
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Why Your Garden Looks 'Bad' But Works Great
A working garden doesn't need to be perfect: how to grow productive food with minimal maintenance, inconsistent input, and real-world constraints.
Early September Zone 2B/3A Harvest
Walkthrough of early-season garden harvesting in Northern Alberta's short growing season, documenting what grows and yields in zone 2B/3A.
How I'd Keep My Family Alive During a Global Famine
Food storage, cooking fuel, backup methods, gardening, and community: a six-minute breakdown of household resilience during serious food shortages.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2026 Food Shortage Warning: Are You Ready? Here's Your Action Plan
Jonathan and Kaylean walk through six strategies for weathering 2026-27 food shortages, from rotating pantry basics to building living food sources and community networks.
Late Summer Garden Tour
Four-minute walk through a Minnesota homestead garden in late August, showing what's growing, harvest timing, and cold-climate vegetable varieties.
Saving Garden Seeds—Salad #13 Family
Step-by-step seed saving from salad greens: harvesting, drying, storage, and viability testing for next season's garden.
Planting to be self-sufficient
Seven-minute tour of Dry Creek Homestead's current crop plantings and strategy for food self-sufficiency.
How to Save Garden Seeds #12: Beetberry, Quinoa, and Lettuce
Sixty-minute seed-saving walkthrough covering beetberry, quinoa, and lettuce—techniques for preserving viable seeds from your own garden.
Prepper Gardening: Sustainable Food Production
Comprehensive 71-minute guide to self-reliant food gardening covering soil, seeds, season extension, composting, and preservation techniques for year-round production.
Five Garden Tips in Five Minutes
Five practical gardening techniques for food production, presented as a quick reference guide by an urban homesteader.