Join Jacques and I as we build a protective and productive orchard in the outdoor run for Jacques' chickens! This experiment should protect his hens from birds of prey while throwing a ton of fruit out over the next few years!

-to halt food production in the name of fighting climate change

A head-to-head analysis of goats and sheep to see which may suite you better.

As a modern homesteader and a mom, hot cocoa around the holidays is also a must. But every time my kids would use those packets of store-bought cocoa powder I would die a little inside (have you ever read the ingredients on those things? Hydrogenated

One of our greatest joys is providing our own meat for our family (and some family members) from our own land. We know exactly what goes into our meat, how the animals are treated and are blessed by the cycle of it all.

Are you new to raising chickens and need help choosing to build or buy a coop? This video will give you all the basic info you need to decide and how to take care of your new chickens!

In the early 90s, Mark and Jen Shepard bought a degraded corn farm in Viola, Wisconsin, and began to slowly convert it from row-crops back to a native oak savanna that would become one of the most productive perennial farms in the country.

Winter temperatures in Alliance, Nebraska can drop to -20°F (the record low is -40°F/C), but retired mailman Russ Finch grows oranges in his backyard greenhouse without paying for heat. Instead, he draws on the earth's stable temperature (around 52

How I'm running my electric fence for my sheep very inexpensively using a temporary polywire line, netting, and geared reels. This can work for any animal species.

While there are a lot of food acquisition tools out there, they're not all created equally. Some are better than others and some flat-out don't work for most people.

MeaTech 3D created the 4oz steak using 3D printing with real bovine cells that mature into muscle and fat

In this video, I show you how I grew potatoes in 3 different ways: from supermarket potatoes, wrist deep, and in drills and we see which is better!

Eden Project is a the largest greenhouse in the world built in Cornwall UK in Geodesic domes to show that humans can correct Climate change

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DO NOT BUY CHEESE! The whole secret is in the cream! Fast, tasty and cheap for the whole family. Prepare this simple cheese recipe for breakfast or the party table, children and adults alike will love this creamy, delicate cheese flavor.

Want to learn how to gut a deer? We'll show you our favorite method of field dressing a deer. Remember, gutting a deer quickly will leave you with the best tasting meat when eating wild game.

Reviewing the Subpod, the composting product I get the MOST questions about. It took me a while to get this review together because I wanted to put the system through its paces, and as you'll see, there were some design challenges I faced with the la

Stop buying butter! Do it yourself! Only 1 ingredient is required. Butter is quick and easy to make. Everyone will like homemade butter because it is delicious.

For over a decade, Israeli atmospheric water generator (AWG) company Watergen has been one of the players working to refine and grow air-to-water technology that can efficiently pull water vapor out of the air and collect it as fresh, filtered drinki

The not-so-healthy Mediterranean diet? Switching from 'Western' foods to non-organically-grown fruit, veg and whole grains can TRIPLE the pesticides you consume and weaken your immune system, study warns

... of your plants. It will tell you how well they're hydrated, attract your attention when they need water and, if you want to go a step further, even give them water!

Learn how to safely pressure can raw chicken in this step-by-step tutorial. Having home-canned chicken on your pantry shelf means you have easy last-minute meals at your fingertips!

Turn your mistakes into wins! Here's how I set up my mushroom cultivation area for mushroom logs, A-frame style. We also discuss farm design and the scale of permanence concept.

Among the many interesting scientific advances we are seeing around obesity and how it might best be tackled, one hormone central to the regulation of appetite routinely rears its head.

Full tour of 3 off-grid passive solar growing domes that can be used as 4-season year-round greenhouses in just about any climate and growing zone. The geodesic dome structure can withstand up to 7 feet of snow and ~180km/h wind speeds. They're bui

Ramutis "Ray" Narkevicius kept his day job with FedEx but cultivated his dream job by gardening his small Los Angeles backyard to a point of passion.

Join Curtis Stone as he discusses homestead irrigation in this live open consultation. If you are needing to design your irrigation, looking to improve your garden irrigation, or embarking on a new homestead, this short clip is for you.

Advances in farming have let us feed billions. The future of agriculture offers many more innovations in robotics, hydroponics, aquaponics, aeroponics, greenhouses, and more... but will it be a future of mega-farms or small farms?

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison presents on waste water recycling using plants.

Farmer Darby Simpson shares some tips and advice for anyone looking to start raising grassfed cattle on a small farm.

Why build a Forager's Toolkit?

When ingested, nutrient-rich spirulina blue-green algae is claimed to offer antioxidant, immune-boosting and cholesterol-lowering effects ?" among other things.

Today's vlog has us up in southwest Virginia to visit my stepfather's small cattle operation. We will visit the "ranch" get a bit of insight into fencing plans for our property and check out the cows.

Foster Gamble (Thrive Movement) on Thrive II: This is What it Takes; breakthrough innovations, future sustainability, community, solutions, etc...

Here is everything you need to know about installing a hand pump well. How the pump works, what kind of pipe, what kind of couplers, how deep you can go etc......

I got my first sheep, 1 St. Croix/Katahdin ram and 6 St. Croix Ewes. Learn all about raising sheep on electric netting, their diet, supplements and my overall impressions of raising hair sheep for meat.

Come along as I make SIX different dairy products in only TWO hours' time! If you thought homemade dairy products were too time-consuming to make, this video will dispel that myth!

It's strange to even think of writing a piece about creating prepper hideouts in "The Land of the Free."

The brittle sesame residue controls soil erosion like higher residue crops, without the need for excess residue bailing equipment. Researchers at Oklahoma State University, where Baath works, have been investigating the potential impacts of differ

Do you live in a little home or apartment? Here's how to store lots of supplies for small space prepping without making it look like a bunker. Come take a look inside Daisy's 600 square foot rental.

My top tips for preventing overwhelm on a busy preservation day! It's easy to see the harvest come in and quickly get overwhelmed at how much preservation has to happen. With these six tips, you can remain calm, stay upbeat and get through the day wi

Put simply, hydroponics is growing plants withoutsoil, this video makes HYDROPONICS ACCESSIBLE to gardeners of any experience level, DIY hydroponics is not just a way to avoid purchasing expensive hydroponic systems, it's also a way to create a beau

If only plants could talk, what tidings they could share! Fortunately for farmers, an agricultural company has 'translated' the biochemical signal related to certain plant behavior, allowing them to 'listen' to plants cries for water when the

When it comes to fishing for your survival, the stakes are high. Here are 5 mistakes and the solutions to help you improve your primitive fishing game.

We end up with barrels and barrels of wood ash during the burning season, but there are so many things you can use the ASH for. In today's video learn what we use wood ash for on our homestead.

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Greenery covered skyscrapers have become fairly commonplace in recent years, but what if, as well as bringing some nature into cities, they could also be used to grow food? Such is the thinking behind the "Farmscraper" by Italy's Carlo Ratti Associat

I am still practicing all of the techniques the homestead heart and granny karma taught me. this is all about being prepared and survival for hard days to come. to all my canning kings and canning queens!!!! we gotta do this! so CAN UP or SHUT UP!

Have you ever wondered if you can make quality homemade cheese from store-bought milk? Not everyone has access to raw milk, and even fewer own a dairy cow, so let me show you how to make delicious homemade cheese, using the RIGHT kind of milk from th

Water shortage solved? Newly created membrane removes 99.9% of salt from seawater and make it drinkable within MINUTES