We’ve been listening to your feedback and decided to try something new: a longer and more relaxed format, over 2 hours long. This lets us go deeper into multiple techniques and lessons all in one video. We’ll still continue making our usual DIY-focused and more technical deep-dive videos, but we’d love to hear what you think of this new style. Do you enjoy long-form content like this?

I live in Interior Alaska, where we are always just one barge away from starving. Volcano goes off in Cook Inlet? Starving. Long-shoreman's strike in California? Starving. Canana gets pissed because of tariffs? Starving.  We've always been like this but back when my parents were living, they knew and prepared for it. My husband would complain that I bought toilet paper in bulk and why did we have canned goods when I don't really cook with canned foods? And then covid hit and I pretty much won the argument because we were among the few here who didn't out of things during that time -- though I admit, we did run out of fresh food because I'm not a gardener. I KNOW. I should be..

During the Texas storm, a friend of ours had just moved into a new apartment and didn't have more than a day's worth of food. Ah, but he had neighbors who didn't have a manual can opener. He had one in his camping supplies. He agreed to let them use it--in exchange for canned goods.  He never went hungry.

Not sure why I had such a problem getting by that one point and it zapped my YouTube. I am glad it did get by it. I think as an older guy I look back to my relatives and their memories, which went back to the mid-1800s. There was iron and blacksmiths, ships, machines -- no medieval. Great to hear what was before. Some, like food preservation was not dissimilar but tools, firemaking were advanced. They needed a historical foundation  of technology. If there truly was war, pestilence, famine, ... you will have wheelwrights, coopers,  iron miners, coal miners, iron smelters, and blacksmiths? It is fascinating how you need to deal with life when those skills are gone or few and far between. Thank you.

Its nice to hear a shout out to Nottingham my hometown

Awesome video! Greetings from South Africa. Seriously we going back so fast here, some days it feels Prehistoric—especially here in Johannesburg.  Your channel is amazing, fascinating and quite remarkable - particularly this video as these techniques will be so helpful & effective.

"Knowledge-based redundancy" is a lightning rod of a phrase. Yes. That.

Hello from Germany - you call a lot of this stuff medieval techniques, but a good portion of the described techniques is what my grandparents still did when I grew up, my parents dropped it and my circle of friends has picked a lot back up. Many food preservation techniques and sustainability in things like heating are big time back in fashion and not as prepping but just the way it´s always been things go out of fashion and come back in. It´s a way of life. My heating wood comes out of a 1,5 acre piece of land I own, I make my own honey, grow a part of my own fruit and vegetables and do food preservation and storage in my centuries old German woodwork houses cellars. I pretty much always have several months worth of food stored just because it´s the time of year when those things are stored plus I have a certain amount of  bought starches. This has nothing to do with prepping although I have to say that having a free heating source came in very handy of late with the high gas prices. It is a way of life trying to keep the carbon footprint small and some of the old style foods simply taste better like homemade sourdough bread or using dried mushrooms and fruit collected in the wild. I also every year make certain herbal medications like my mother taught me or others like I learned from my boyfriends italian mother. A lof of what you describe isn´t strictly medieval, even my grandpa called beer liquid bread, I think Americans are just extraordinarily out of touch with a lot of this old knowledge.

The artwork illustrating this information is lovely!  Fascinating video.

The wisdom of this video is amazing.  We have been shut out of knowledge due to the greed of others in this day of age and past. We are all enough yet have been dismissed as we need more. USA Pennsylvania

Civilization is the first born of compassion and mercy.

This is without a doubt the best informative video I have ever seen well done...

I also gained bushcraft and wilderness survival knowledge.

Thank you for the video.

Northwoods of Maine the harder parts of life up here. You can die on a beautiful day. Living with life is the key to open your eye's or die! Bsafe 🥶 🐲

❤❤❤❤ if you have a small piece of land you can have a root cellar mom and I built one in the city using plans off a&m University of rotary tiller or wheelbarrow and a shovel or wrap down to The cellar became our stairs later it saved us from several large tornadoes in Texas

God bless you for sharing this knowledge

The only thing dark about the Dark Ages is some of us had to go and get a job.

Im from Groveland Fl in America ty i love all your videos

Excellent topic. For some reason I am having issues getting by 20:10. But this was an excellent approach so far.