Subsistence Farming: Grow Calories, Not Just Vegetables
Why the garden is about calories first, and vegetables second. The math of feeding a household from the land.
Watch on Spectra.Video →9 Days of Building a Food System From Scratch
Nine days of hard work turning bare land into a food system. Terraces, beds, planting, and the slow turn toward independence.
Watch on Spectra.Video →Massive Flooding On The Homestead
Water moving the way it wants to. What a real flood teaches about designing with the land instead of against it.
Watch on Spectra.Video →The Islamic Republic Of Japan
A thought experiment on systems, extraction, and what a republic built on other rules would look like.
Watch on Spectra.Video →The Democratic Socialists Are Coming!?!?!!
On movements, labels, and what actually changes material conditions for ordinary people.
Watch on Spectra.Video →Our First Oat Harvest & 24 Hours Without The Grid
The first real harvest of a staple crop, and a full day running without the grid. Small, honest, and real.
Watch on Spectra.Video →June 30th Year One: Walk Around The Homestead
One year in, a full walk around. What worked, what did not, and what the land taught us in the first year.
Watch on Spectra.Video →Turnips, Seed Saving, and Building a Closed-Loop Fertility System
Seed saving in practice and the fertility loop that keeps the farm feeding itself.
Watch on Spectra.Video →Chop and Drop: Tree Cleanup & Permaculture Garden Update
Closing loops with the woodlot and letting the garden tell you what it needs.
Watch on Spectra.Video →Rain Day Farm Tour: Terraces, Swales & Water Systems
The whole farm on a rainy day. Terraces, swales, and the water systems that hold it together.
Watch on Spectra.Video →Learning to Listen To The Land
The oldest skill in farming. Observation before action, and the patience to let the land answer.
Watch on Spectra.Video →Growing A Years Worth Of Onions
A year's worth of onions from the ground. Storage crops are how the pantry survives the winter.
Watch on Spectra.Video →Solarpunk: The Third Path Between Doom and Denial
The future is not built in offices. It is built in gardens. The most-watched video on the channel.
Watch on Spectra.Video →Why I'm A Subsistence Farmer
The why behind the whole thing. Not a lifestyle, a refusal, and a building of something real.
Watch on Spectra.Video →Welcome to The Loop: Our Little Agroecological Farm in West Virginia
The introduction. Four and a half acres in the northern Appalachians, and what we are building here.
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