Self-Sufficiency

72 videos with this tag.

Keep Your Tools Handy
Assemble Your Basic Maintenance Toolkit
Assemble your baseline toolkit with guidance from an expert. Whether your filling a drawer in the garage or kitchen, or…
Kyle Ferlemann
Kyle Ferlemann
Keep Your Tools Handy
Additional Tools for Your Repair Toolkit
Don't throw away what you can fix! Stay thrifty by keeping the tools you need on hand for basic repair…
Kyle Ferlemann
Kyle Ferlemann
Keep Your Tools Handy
Tool Restoration & Maintenance
If your tools have been a little neglected, it's not the end of the world. You don't have to buy…
Kyle Ferlemann
Kyle Ferlemann
Keep Your Tools Handy
Methods for Sharpening Tools
Maintain an edge on all of your tools, not just knives. Learn about different sharpening tools and methods, as well…
Kyle Ferlemann
Kyle Ferlemann
Keep Your Tools Handy
Thrift a Secondhand Toolkit
You don't have to pay retail for a serviceable toolkit. Learn which tools you should thrift, and which second-hand tools…
Kyle Ferlemann
Kyle Ferlemann
Keep Your Tools Handy
Anachronistic Handtools that Still Work
Are anachronistic tools worth it when you could just buy a drill? Learn whether or not old-fashioned manual tools may…
Kyle Ferlemann
Kyle Ferlemann
Organic Gardening Course
Growing in Small Spaces
Get ready to dig your hands in the dirt with Karena Poke! Discover how to grow in areas such as…
Karena Poke
Karena Poke Lettuce Live
Organic Gardening Course
Plan Your Garden 2025
Starting a new veg garden in 2025? Or do you already have a few growing seasons under your belt, but…
Benedict Vanheems
Benedict Vanheems GrowVeg
Events Potpourri: 2024 Edition
Old-Fashioned Broom Making
Plastic fiber broom falling apart? Take up the time-honored handicraft of broom making. Learn from a longtime Appalachian craftsman how…
Curt Cable
Curt Cable Hollow Handcrafts
Fresh Breads from Scratch Course
Sourdough Starter Maintenance
No yeast no problem; learn how to start your own sourdough starter today! We talk about both the discard and…
Alyssa Warner
Alyssa Warner Video & Events Producer • Mother Earth News
Permaculture Gardening for Everyone
DIY Seed Starting
You don't need special equipment to start your own seedlings at home. Learn how to start seeds in small spaces…
Nicky and Dave Schauder
Nicky and Dave Schauder Permaculture Gardens
Permaculture Gardening for Everyone
How to Build a Lasagna Garden Bed
Put a garden down over grass or weeds with the lasagna method of soil building. This simple method uses recycled…
Nicky and Dave Schauder
Nicky and Dave Schauder Permaculture Gardens
Permaculture Gardening for Everyone
Transplanting Seedlings
Transplant your seedlings with minimal losses with these simple tips. Learn when and how to move your seedlings out into…
Nicky and Dave Schauder
Nicky and Dave Schauder Permaculture Gardens
Pantry From the Garden
Stock Your Pantry From the Garden
Try some recipes from Bevin Cohen's latest book, The Heritage Pantry! We talk about why food preservation is for everyone,…
Mother Earth News Staff
Mother Earth News Staff Mother Earth News
Pantry From the Garden
Stock Your Heritage Pantry (Full Interview!)
Fill your home kitchen with heritage produce and meats straight from your garden or local farmer's market with recipes and…
Bevin Cohen
Bevin Cohen Small House Farm, MI Seed Library
Fermenting Vegetables
The Art of Salt-Pressing
Elevate your pantry staples with the video companion to this magazine article on fermenting vegetables with salt. Dive deep into…
Kirsten Shockey
Kirsten Shockey Ferment Works
Real Organic Methods
How to Sun Dry Fruit in Bulk
Increase the value of otherwise unsellable produce by drying them for small package or bulk sale. Blossom Bluff Orchards shares…
Bryce Loewen
Bryce Loewen Blossom Bluff Orchards
Introduction to Raising Ducks
Heavy Duck Breeds
Explore what heavy duck breeds such as appleyard, aylesbury, muscovy, pekin, rouen, and saxony, have to offer. Some are all-purpose…
Kenny Coogan
Kenny Coogan Co-Host of the Mother Earth News & Friends Podcast • Critter Companions
Modern Homesteading Course
Preventing Poultry Predators
You might not see them every day, but it only takes one opportunistic predator to endanger your flock. Learn how…
Tomia MacQueen
Tomia MacQueen Wildflower Farm, Gardening for LIFE, Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance, NOFA-NJ (Northeast Organic Farming Assoc.-NJ)
Plan Your Seasonal Garden
Plan Your Summer Vegetable Garden
It's almost April, but it's not too late for you to plant a vegetable garden! We’ve got three months to…
Nicky and Dave Schauder
Nicky and Dave Schauder Permaculture Gardens
Ask an Editor Webinars
Successful Seed Starting Webinar
Dive into the world of starting seeds with this replay of our interactive live webinar! Although the opportunity to ask…
Marissa Ames
Marissa Ames Editorial Director • MOTHER EARTH NEWS, Ogden Publications
Growing Webinars
Do Soil Blockers Work?
Dive into the world of starting seeds with soil blockers with this replay of our interactive live webinar! Although the…
Marissa Ames
Marissa Ames Editorial Director • MOTHER EARTH NEWS, Ogden Publications
On the Farm Projects
Foraging Food on Your Farmland
Harvest food and medicine from your front yard and learn why your crops aren't the only source of food (or…
Amyrose Foll
Amyrose Foll Virginia Farm Consultants, Va. Dept. of Agriculture Equitable Food Oriented Distribution Taskforce, Women's Earth Alliance
Livestock Course
Rabbits: The Secret Homestead Resource
Learn about rabbits, one of the easiest species to raise which, unlike most of their farmyard counterparts, require little space…
Jeanette Beranger
Jeanette Beranger
Winter Gardening Course
Three Methods to Grow Food in Winter
In this video, join Nicole Sauce as she reviews the three methods that she uses at her homestead in Tennessee…
Nicole Sauce
Nicole Sauce Living Free in Tennessee, Holler Roast Coffee