self-sufficiency
99 videos tagged self-sufficiency across 9 categories.
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When You Have Everything but Have Nothing at All
Explore the paradox of material abundance without meaningful preparedness and self-sufficiency.
Should You Live Off-Grid?
26-minute walkthrough of off-grid living considerations: feasibility, costs, infrastructure options, and whether it fits your preparedness goals.
Storm preparations and winter gardening plans
Securing a garden ahead of severe weather, then planning autumn and winter growing projects for resilience and year-round food production.
Making Homemade Tooth Powder
Eleven-minute walkthrough of formulating a homemade tooth powder using sea water pearl powder and natural ingredients.
Homemade Deodorant Recipe
34-second walkthrough of making natural deodorant from beeswax, coconut oil, arrowroot, and essential oils—no commercial additives or hormone disruptors.
Cutting Back on Ultra-Processed Foods: Homemade Bread, Plant Milk & Easy Swaps
Hands-on walkthrough of swapping packaged staples for homemade versions: bread, plant milk, granola, and snacks, with cost breakdowns and homestead sourcing.
Keep Your Home Running in Tough Times
Twelve minutes on essential repair supplies and parts to stock at home when supply chains tighten or professional help is unavailable.
Cali's first retrieve of the season
Off-grid wilderness cooking by the water: finding purpose and self-sufficiency in manual outdoor meal preparation.
We're Rethinking How We Homestead (Again!)
Seasonal adjustments to livestock, food preservation, and self-sufficiency practices for winter homesteading in North Idaho.
How to Safely Revive an Automatic Watch
Learn safe methods to restore a stopped automatic watch to working order without professional repair.
They Say 72 Hours. I Say 36 Days.
Why 3-day emergency kits fall short: planning supply reserves for 30+ days of self-sufficiency when roads stay closed and deliveries don't restart.
Building Life Outside the Internet
Practical steps to reduce dependence on digital systems: backing up photos and data, maintaining physical reference libraries, and developing skills that don't require internet access.
The Future Isn't Gone. It's Just Going to Look Different
Five-minute reflection on adapting to shifts in food, education, and healthcare through homesteading and intentional self-sufficiency practices.
Crafting a traditional longbow from black ash
Hand-tool techniques for building a functional longbow from raw wood using materials on hand.
Powering My Entire Homestead Off-Grid: 5.5-Year Update
30-minute tour of a 30-acre tropical Australian homestead's off-grid power system and orchard development, demonstrating practical energy independence and food self-sufficiency implementation.
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.
I Bow Hunted Elk for 20 Days in the Mountains: Traditional Bow Hunting Elk 2026
Twenty days pursuing elk with a selfbow on public land: a walkthrough of backcountry hunting logistics, patience, terrain navigation, and the reality of food procurement in remote mountains.
3 Keys to Surviving an Economic Collapse
Explore three foundational strategies for financial resilience and self-sufficiency during economic disruption.
When Nothing Goes as Planned Living Off Grid
A day on an Arizona off-grid homestead: troubleshooting horse trailer axles, washing machine repairs, and managing setbacks in self-sufficient living.
Making Brain Tanned Buckskin Part 2
Second installment in a walkthrough of brain-tanning deer hide into buckskin using traditional methods for clothing and gear.
Citizens Will Be on Their Best Behavior
Doug and Stacy explore behavioral dynamics and social order during disruptions on their off-grid homestead.
Wendell Berry Was Right. Here's My Proof
Kentucky farmer Wendell Berry's sixty-year experiment in local self-sufficiency, and how the creator applied his principles to their own off-grid homestead: solar, water systems, and household independence.
Dandelions Were Food, We Were Taught to Kill Them
Why dandelions—a nutritious wild edible settlers deliberately cultivated—became weeds in modern yards, and how to reclaim them as foraged food.
Reloading the 45-70 Government
Twenty-eight-minute step-by-step guide to reloading 45-70 Government ammunition, covering equipment, powder, primers, bullets, and quality checks.
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.
The Burnt North: A One Week, Fly-in Camping Trip
Extended wilderness canoe expedition demonstrating backcountry self-sufficiency and camp craft in remote boreal forest terrain.
10 Homestead Priorities for Rising Food Costs in Australia
Ten-point breakdown of food security strategies: staples, storage, equipment, butchering, seeds, local sourcing, livestock, and dietary shifts for household resilience.
Making Brain Tanned Buckskin
Step-by-step demonstration of brain tanning a deer hide into usable buckskin using primitive methods.
Building Rural Self-Sufficiency and Community Resilience
Strategies for establishing land-based self-sufficiency and reducing dependence on centralized systems through local production and cooperation.
Quality Bushcraft
Overview of essential bushcraft tools and techniques for wilderness survival and self-sufficiency.
First Look at Our New Homestead (After Being Forced Out)
Drone and walking tour of a new raw-land homestead property in Appalachia: soil assessment, water, livestock plans (chickens and sheep), rotational grazing layout, and the practical first steps for building self-sufficiency from scratch.
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.
Building with Timber and Dinners with Family
Episode 171 of daily off-grid living in Swedish Jämtland: timber framing work on the cabin entrance and family meals sourced from the 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.
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.
It All Started With 11 Chickens
A couple documents their growing backyard chicken flock: breed selection, mixing homegrown feed, and free-range management on their Adelaide homestead.
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.
What's Happening on the Homestead?
45-minute documentation of daily chores and lamb birthing on an off-grid Swedish mountain homestead, part of an ongoing renovation and self-sufficient living project.
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.
Food Security: Building Long-Term Self-Sufficiency Through Gardening
Eight minutes on survival gardening techniques, equipment, and resource management to maintain a steady food supply independent of external supply chains.
Country Life - War Time Russia #survival
Firsthand documentation of rural Russian survival practices and daily life during wartime conditions.
S3E5: One Acre Survival
Can one acre of land feed a family? Explores food production reality, common mistakes, livestock, fruit trees, and the gap between growing food and actual family nutrition.
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.
Is Incubating Eggs Right for You?
Introduction to home egg incubation: evaluating whether hatching chicks at home fits your homesteading setup and goals.
So you want ducks
Five-minute introduction to keeping ducks on a homestead: basics of duck husbandry, why they're useful for self-sufficiency, and what beginners should know before starting.
Can You Really Be Self Sufficient and Live Off-Grid?
Eight-minute overview of off-grid living realities, addressing whether household energy and resource independence is achievable.