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Can You Really Live Off Grid With Just 2 Acres?
Off-grid cabin build on 2 acres: solar power setup, rainwater collection, food gardening, and achieving energy independence with low utility costs.
Meat vs. Egg Chickens: Big Feeding Mistake
How to feed meat chickens and egg layers differently to avoid health issues, waste, and overeating while maximizing pasture efficiency.
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.
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.
Safe Eggs: Washing and Refrigeration Rules
46-second guide to proper egg washing, sanitation, and refrigeration practices for safe storage and farm-to-table handling.
Why Free-Range Chickens Love Their Coop
53-second guide to nesting-box setup and understanding flock behavior to reduce egg loss in backyard chicken systems.
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.
How Long do Eggs Really Last?
Learn practical methods for preserving eggs long-term and how storage conditions affect shelf life.
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.
Plymouth Barred Rock Chickens: The Ultimate Pet & Layer
Overview of Plymouth Barred Rock chickens as dual-purpose homestead birds for eggs and meat production.
Rhode Island Red: The Ultimate Chicken for Your Homestead
Learn why Rhode Island Red chickens are prized for homestead egg production and self-sufficiency.
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.
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.
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.
Boost Your Gut Health: The Power of Fermented Foods
Learn fermentation techniques for preserving food and supporting digestive health using simple equipment and salt.
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.
Grow Huge Onions: 2 Secrets for Massive Harvests
Learn two key techniques for growing substantially larger onions and improving your harvest yield.
Making Cream Cheese
Eight-minute walkthrough of cream cheese production from basic ingredients, a foundational dairy preservation skill for self-sufficient food storage.
Your Cattle Keep Testing the Fence, Check This First
58-second walkthrough of high-tensile electric fence installation, grounding mistakes, and insulator placement to keep livestock secure long-term.
Gardening Secret: Boost Your Plants' Health Easily
Quick techniques to improve plant health and productivity in your garden.
How to Grow Garlic the Easy Way
Step-by-step garlic planting technique covering soil prep, clove orientation, and burial depth for reliable harvests.
Mobile Coop Hack That Stops Every Predator
DIY predator-proof chicken coop design using tarps and simple fencing to protect backyard flocks from raccoons and foxes.
This House Looks Normal from the Outside! Off-Grid Home Tour
Tour of a fully off-grid house covering power systems, water sourcing, and self-sufficiency infrastructure.
Lemon Peels for Disinfecting Cutting Boards
Learn how to use lemon peels as a natural disinfectant for food preparation surfaces.
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.
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.
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.
Off-Grid Living: 5 Things Nobody Warns You About
Learn five practical challenges of off-grid living that most guides overlook, from resource management to infrastructure reality.
Why I'm Scaling Back My Survival Garden This Year
Adapt your garden plans to physical constraints: prioritize high-yield, low-strain crops like carrots during recovery.
Knowing THIS Improves Your Garden!
Learn a key principle that enhances garden productivity and resilience for food self-sufficiency.
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.
My Off Grid Life In Florida
18-minute walkthrough of daily off-grid homesteading chores, permaculture food forest design, and subtropical self-sufficiency systems on a Florida property.
Do Eggs Need to be Refrigerated?
Learn whether fresh eggs require refrigeration and explore methods for preserving eggs long-term on the homestead.
Country Life - War Time Russia #survival
Firsthand documentation of rural Russian survival practices and daily life during wartime conditions.
The Future of Homesteaders of America | Exclusive Interview with Amy Fewell
Amy Fewell, founder of Homesteaders of America, reflects on ten years of the modern homesteading movement and shares her vision for food security, self-reliance, and local food systems ahead.
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.
2 Year Timelapse: Everything We Built On Our Off Grid Property (from Scratch)
Timelapse documentation of structures and systems built during the first two years of off-grid homesteading.
We Turn a Cheap IBC Tote into the Ultimate Garden Bed (Self-Watering Raised Bed)
27-minute walkthrough converting an IBC tote into a self-watering raised garden bed, covering materials, assembly, and planting techniques for year-round food production.
I Stopped Scrolling and Started Building (Here's What Changed)
Personal narrative on shifting from consumption to creation: growing food in small spaces, building community ties, and intentional living as household resilience.
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.
Off Grid Sprinkler System At My Cabin
Building an off-grid sprinkler system using a sump pump, 1100-gallon water tank, and 400-watt solar array to maintain yard irrigation without grid power.
Your Exhaustion Isn't a Mindset Problem. It's Biology.
Why off-grid living feels harder than modern life, the psychology of effort that doesn't pay back, and how responsive feedback (rather than grinding without results) sustains long-term resilience.
Trimming Trees With Electric Chainsaw and Solar Power
Four-minute walkthrough: using a corded electric chainsaw and solar power station to trim fruit trees on an off-grid homestead.
Coffee Chat: What I'm Seeing Right Now
Seven minutes on garden progress, food self-reliance fundamentals, and the mindset behind small-scale food production for household resilience.
Spring At My Off Grid Cabin: Projects and Homestead Tour
April tour of an off-grid cabin showing spring plantings, blooming trees, and annual homesteading projects for sustainable living.
The Journey to Growing Our Own Food (5 Years Later)
Five-year progress update on establishing a productive orchard and raising animals toward household food self-sufficiency and sustainable living.
Living Off the Grid - The Grind for Water
Short walkthrough of water sourcing, collection, and daily management challenges on an off-grid mountain property during low-snow periods.
Living Off Grid: The Grind for Water
21-minute walkthrough of off-grid water sourcing on a mountain homestead when snow melt and rain collection fail; practical solutions for livestock and household needs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Homestead Animals: New Chickens, Baby Bunnies and More
Tour of a working homestead's newest animals—chickens, rabbits, goats, and pigs—with practical context on raising livestock for food and self-sufficiency.
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.
Building Soil to Regenerate an Old Pasture with Hay
Seven-minute walkthrough of a multi-year soil regeneration project: using hay and cover crops to restore degraded pasture for livestock integration and food production.
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.
Watering With Snow Melt in the Summer - Flood Irrigation for Our Little Orchard
Sixteen-minute walkthrough of using snow melt for summer irrigation in a mountain orchard, including flood-irrigation setup and seasonal water management techniques.
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.
Warmbond Fire Pit and Grill Package: Blowing Smoke or Legit?
3-minute hands-on review of the Warmbond Bond Stove fire pit and grill, comparing it to established brands for off-grid heating and cooking.
Living Off Grid - Land & Structures Livestream
2.5-hour livestream covering land selection, shelter design, energy systems, and seasonal considerations for off-grid living.
Memorial Day Weekend Log Cabin Update
Progress report on an off-grid log cabin build covering foundation work, timber framing, and next construction phases.
Greenhouse failure & prep to rebuild
Walkthrough of diagnosing greenhouse damage, planning repairs, and rebuilding from failure—practical skills for food production resilience.
Plumbing in our Shipping Container Cabin
8-minute walkthrough of plumbing installation and water system setup in a shipping container homestead.
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.
Powering the Homestead in Oregon - Off the Grid
17-minute walkthrough of an operational off-grid solar and battery power system on an Oregon homestead, including equipment choices and real-world performance.
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.
Self-Built Off-Grid Tiny House: Cost and Complications
13-minute walkthrough of building and living in a self-constructed off-grid tiny house, covering build costs, practical challenges, and lessons learned.
Off Grid Regenerative Agriculture
Ten-minute overview of regenerative agriculture practices for off-grid homesteading and food self-sufficiency on your own land.
2020 Cordwood Challenge: Rick
22-minute demonstration of cordwood cutting technique using a low-cost Harbor Freight axe to show that sharpness matters more than price.
Goats! Farm Update
Nubian dairy goats setup, housing construction, and early-stage farm management on a homestead switching from cattle to milk production.