The Prepared Homestead: Six Nitrogen Fixing Plants for Cold Climate

Sean from The Prepared Homestead discusses nitrogen fixing plants to incorporate into your garden.

The Prepared Homestead: Propagating Basil and Extended the Harvest

Sean from The Prepared Homestead talks about vegetative propagation of basil in this video and extending the harvest indefinitely.

The Prepared Homestead: Improving the Supply Chain

In this video from The Prepared Homestead, Sean discusses problems with the supply chain that we’re seeing now and how supply chains should be improved to be more resilient and better serve people.

The Prepared Homestead: Coronavirus – Six Actions You Should Be Taking Now

The Prepared Homestead has a video out talking about six steps that you should taking right now in regards to the pandemic and resultant/simultaneous supply chain/economic problems. He covers (1) sizing up the situation, (2) scenario development – best, most likely, worst case, (3) taking stock of your financial situation, (4) topping off supplies, (5) growing some of your own food, (6) working on your health. Much of one and two will be familiar to you if you’ve taken or read Forward Observer‘s SHTF Intelligence or Area Study book/classes.

The Prepared Homestead: Victory Gardens

The Mitzels of The Prepared Homestead have a couple of videos on their Youtube channel about victory gardens. Their homestead is a colder zone in Idaho. They give a little history of victory gardens, how supply chains work and why you would have a garden yourself. In the part two video, they get into how to start, what to grow, how to read seed catalogs and so forth. If you aren’t familiar with the Prepared Homestead already, they have a lot of herbal and permaculture knowledge in addition to what they’ve learned homesteading.