self-sufficiency
60 videos tagged self-sufficiency across 9 categories.
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Foraging, Diversity and Staying Healthy
Guided forage walk identifying edible wild plants, discussing nutritional diversity and self-sufficiency through wild food.
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.
Meat Chicken Processing Setup Tour
Equipment and setup walkthrough for processing home-raised meat chickens, including scalding, plucking, and containment tools scaled for small operations.
Buy Food and Land Now: Economic Decline and Self-Sufficiency
Explores generational wealth erosion and strategies for building food security and land ownership outside traditional economic systems.
The Only Way to Become Self-Sufficient (It Isn't What You Think)
39-minute exploration of off-grid self-sufficiency through a family's homestead build, combining practical skills (hand-dug hugel, mill operation, wood-chip systems) with a 1937 rural electrification history lesson and reflections on community interdependence.
We Left the City for Rural Life: 6 Reasons We'd Do It Again
Two-year rural homestead residents walk their village and explain six reasons they chose off-grid living over city life, covering land, community, and lifestyle factors.
Food System Reliability and Home Food Production
Explores declining confidence in commercial food systems and strategies families are adopting to produce their own eggs, meat, and staple foods.
Why Is Everyone Ignoring This? Could You Go One Month With Zero Electricity?
Explore strategies for surviving extended power outages and building resilience without grid electricity.
Is Raising Your Own Chicken Actually Cheaper?
Full cost breakdown of raising meat and laying chickens at home: feed, infrastructure, per-pound economics versus store-bought, and why food independence matters beyond the math.
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.
We found the cheapest state to go off-grid, here's what it actually costs you
Three-year off-grid homesteaders break down the real trade-offs of off-grid living: convenience, health, freedom, and finances — plus which Australian state works out cheapest.
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.
How I Run a Washing Machine Off Grid
Practical walkthrough of operating a washing machine on an off-grid homestead without grid power — power sourcing, water handling, and system integration.
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.
Real and Deep: In a World of Fakes
Explore how real whole foods nourish body and soul, and why cultivating genuine community matters more than convenient substitutes.
Top 10 Job Skills for Grid Down
Identify practical skills to prioritize for economic collapse or extended grid-down scenarios.
One Day in The Most Sanctioned Country in The World
Daily life and survival practices in a heavily sanctioned nation, showing practical resilience and self-sufficiency strategies.
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.
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.
Could You Feed Your Family Without a Store? (Field to Table)
Step-by-step field dressing, butchering, and processing game animals for food: backstrap, tenderloin, quarters, zero waste.
The Healthcare Time Bomb Is About to Explode
Analysis of rising US healthcare costs, hospital closures, and ER strain, with practical steps households can take to prepare for reduced access to medical care.
The Off-Grid Community I Would Actually Want
Six years off-grid: why independent homesteads with mutual aid work better than co-dependent communities, and how to balance self-reliance with neighborly support.
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.
100km Canadian Rockies E-Bike Survival Challenge
Two adventurers test e-bike mobility and wilderness navigation across 100km of Canadian Rockies terrain with a skilled bushcrafter demonstrating outdoor survival techniques.
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.
Why This Is My Favorite Chicken Breed
Learn which chicken breed Becky prioritizes for her homestead and the practical advantages that make it her top choice.
Sowing Sorghum in the Mediterranean Using Dry Land Strategies
Six-minute walkthrough of soil preparation and planting techniques for sorghum in water-scarce climates, including potting soil, spacing, and mulching strategies.
How we raise broilers naturally | No hormones, no antibiotics
Twelve-minute walkthrough of a homestead broiler-chicken system: feeding, housing, daily management, and lessons from three trial iterations toward sustainable meat production.
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.
How to Collect Calendula Seeds for the Next Season
Four-minute walkthrough on harvesting and saving calendula seeds for year-round garden renewal without repurchasing.
Wild Edible Series - Blackjack
53-second identification and foraging guide to blackjack, a wild edible plant for food self-sufficiency.
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.
Three Underrated C's: Crappie, Cornbread & Coffee | The Perfect Catch and Cook
Fourteen-minute catch-and-cook walkthrough: fishing for crappie, field dressing and frying fresh fish, baking cornbread in camp, and brewing coffee outdoors.
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.
An Amazing Doomsday Prepper Property
Walk through a thoroughly prepared SHTF homestead to evaluate its defensive design, food storage, water systems, and self-sufficiency infrastructure.
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.
A Warning About Off-Grid Life
Realistic assessment of the challenges and hidden costs of leaving urban areas for off-grid self-sufficiency.
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.
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.
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.
Apocalypse Island! Could YOU Survive Here? Should I Buy It?
Detailed walkthrough of an off-grid island property's viability for homesteading and self-sufficiency.
How I Would Learn Herbalism From Scratch Today
Eight foundational principles for building practical herbal medicine skills safely, starting with a few local herbs rather than overwhelming yourself with extensive study.
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.
Rebuilding a Free Society After Infrastructure Failure
Explores community resilience through renewable energy, water purification, and food production after grid collapse.
Off Grid Living – Vehicle Repair and Winter Recovery
Off-grid living update: replacing a distributor cap and vehicle recovery after winter without transportation, plus local conditions after snowfall.
Slow Living in My Stone House — Cooking & Building Off the Grid, Ep. 34
Episode 34: Building bar stools from reclaimed oak, installing a wood-fired oven spit, and slow-roasting a 13kg lamb over 3.5 hours in an off-grid stone house.
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.
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 — I Am the Pack Mule
Eighteen minutes documenting snowmobile operation and load-hauling logistics as part of off-grid winter self-sufficiency work.
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.
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.
Turn Your Homestead Milk Cow Dream Into a Reality: The Essential Starter Guide
74-minute interview on dairy cow ownership: breed selection, animal care, milk production, calf sharing, fresh milk uses, gear essentials, and troubleshooting for homestead food security.
Hand Crafted Weasel Trap with Mors Kochanski
Four-minute demonstration of constructing a functional weasel trap from natural materials using traditional bushcraft techniques.
Greenhouse failure & prep to rebuild
Walkthrough of diagnosing greenhouse damage, planning repairs, and rebuilding from failure—practical skills for food production resilience.
Growing Food and Medicine
Episode 5: cultivating edible and medicinal plants in an off-grid homestead setting for household self-sufficiency.
10 Best Trees to Kickstart an Off Grid Food Forest Garden
Sixteen-minute guide to selecting and establishing ten productive tree species for a food forest system on off-grid property.