Bushcraft for Beginners

In this heartfelt episode of Miles from Nowhere, we take on the daunting task of saving the roof of a historic cabin on our property. This cabin, nestled deep in the Colorado wilderness, holds stories of the past—and now, it’s becoming part of our journey to build a sustainable, off-grid life. As we shore up the structure and breathe new life into the roof, I open up about my personal journey to living off the grid. My goal is to share the path I took, and its not an orthodox one. If you can read, you can do anything. I hope to inspire you to take your own path to get off grid and find purpose, freedom, and connection in the wilderness. You’ll see: Our step-by-step efforts to repair and reinforce the cabin’s roof. The tools, techniques, and care we use to preserve its historic charm. My reflections on the path that led me here—trading city lights for starlit nights. This episode is about more than just renovation; it’s a tribute to the past, a glimpse into the present, and a vision for the future. Subscribe to our channel to join us on this journey of off-grid living, historic preservation, and self-discovery. Hit the bell icon so you never miss a moment as we continue crafting a life Miles from Nowhere. Keywords: off-grid living, cabin roof repair, historic preservation, wilderness lifestyle, personal journey, sustainable living, Colorado wilderness, self-reliance, cabin renovation, life off the grid. Hoedown by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Use code "COWBOY" at checkout on https://provenhands.com to get 15% off your order. I’ll also ship you a physical copy of my field notes from this cowboy bedroll project — my sketches, notes, and measurements from building it. *discount only valid on Proven Hands Products. Sale ends 2/09/26 My favorite Field Notes👉 https://provenhands.com/collections/books/products/national-parks-series-b Check Out My Self Published Book👉 https://provenhands.com/collections/books/products/benchlore-issue-01-the-sawhorse In this video, I take a homemade cowboy bedroll into the woods for an overnight solo camping and hunting trip. I built this bedroll using a $7 Harbor Freight drop cloth, waxed the canvas, sewed in a zipper, and made a simple rain fly using sticks. This is the first night this bedroll has ever been used. No tent and no backup shelter — just the bedroll and a quiet night in the woods. I also do some crossbow hunting along the way. In the next episode, I’ll show exactly how I made this bedroll. Thanks for watching and for supporting the work.

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Homestead kitchens are a busy place; full of preserving the harvest (meat or garden), processing foraged wild food, making medicine, and feeding bellies with simple, from the land ingredients. You make do with what you have, it doesn't have to be perfect- just homemade. One thing we keep on our counter along with jars of lacto-fermenting foods and medicine, is a sourdough starter. A starter allows you to bake bread without depending on the store for commercial yeast, which is a handy thing in the bush. It also is a low glycemic, easier to digest way to make bread, more like what folks were baking with 100 years ago. It also can be passed down from generation to generation. This week we shared how to make your own, with a simple no fuss method. We took that same starter and baked a loaf of homemade sourdough bread with it in a week with our frontier sourdough recipe, which we shared too! Til next week in the kitchen, -Dennis, Amy & Lena HOMESTEAD RECIPES FRONTIER SOURDOUGH STARTER quart mason 1/4-1/2 C flour 1/4-1/2 C water, or sightly less Combine flour and water in a quart mason. Cap lightly. Repeat everyday for 5 days, then feed 2x a day for another 2. Put starter in fridge to slow down or feed less often, if you wish. FRONTIER SOURDOUGH 1/2 C active starter 2 C water 1 tbsp salt 4 C flour 1. Combine water, starter, mix well. Add salt and mix in. Add flour and mix until a shaggy dough forms. Sit 1.5 hrs. 2. Do 3-4 stretch and folds, 30 min apart. et sit another 3-7 hours. Or more, if you are busy! 3. Shape, put in a parchment lined bowl. Let sit 1.5 hrs. 4. Preheat oven to 450, with dutch oven inside. Bake loaf 20 min with the lid on, and 20 min with it off.

Lonnie shows how to make a homemade DIY woodstove that is suitable to use for a hot tent, bug out shelter etc..... If this series has benefited you in any way and If you care to, it would be super if this series was shared with your friends and others on the social networks that may also benefit from and enjoy this series. This is the second installment in the 3 part series on how to make a "do it yourself" hot tent. The first video in the series showed how to make a very efficient and popular modified design tipi tent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtLdMIaIIFw The second video in the series showed how to make a woodstove that is large enough to heat a 4 man tipi shelter in a Northern winter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5fPbDwtUIU The final video shows how to make a stove jack and how to install it in a tent so that you can then use your stove in the tent to make a very cozy and comfortable cool to cold weather shelter https://youtu.be/HfiUgGhTe1k Intro and ending song is "Tucson" available in the YouTube audio library