Guildbrook Farm is a YouTube channel about homesteading and off-grid living. Many channels discuss these topics, but Guildbrook Farm’s instructional videos are clear, practical, and often fun to watch.

Let us learn more about the channel and the people who run it.

Tito from the YouTube channel RV with Tito is not legit. Why? Because he is not human! Tito is the name of the happy dancing dashboard mascot in the RV of Brian Pursel, an incredible YouTuber who shares RV maintenance and upgrades tips, tricks, and how-tos.

Let’s find out more about the channel and Brian himself.

Engineer775 is a YouTube channel that shares videos on prepping and sustainable living. The videos cover topics like homesteading, renewable energy, water pumping, gasification, and air conditioning.

Among the multitude of homesteading channels, what separates Engineer775 from the others is a professional degree and engineering experience. Let’s find out if Engineer775’s content is any good.

Jehu Garcia is an EV enthusiast and DIYer whose YouTube videos about building EVs and e-bikes have gained significant popularity. In 2021, Vice Media created a documentary on Jehu Garcia’s work and called him “The Battery King.”

But can someone without an electronics degree be good at building electric vehicles and teaching them? Let’s find out.

YouTube may be full of channels about off-grid living, but Kyles Cabin is unique for several reasons. 

First, the channel takes us on a cabin-building journey in the beautiful but uncompromising Alaskan wilderness. Second, the channel’s founder and host is a 24-year-old man who grew up in a city. 

Let’s take a look at what the channel has to offer and whether it is any good.

If you are into DIY home improvement, especially lawn care, you’ve undoubtedly come across Silver Cymbal. 

Meant for “helping you take care of your home inside and out,” Silver Cymbal is a YouTube channel that shares information about landscaping, weed control, air conditioning, solar generators, plumbing, etc.

Let’s learn a bit more about the channel.

According to Google, usage of the word “wanderlust” has more than doubled in the past four decades. Obviously, not only the word’s usage has shot up. It is also an emotion that is increasingly prominent among people nowadays.

As a result, hundreds of people will give up their comfortable homes to live in an RV and travel full-time. One such couple is Ray and Anne, who wander the North American landscape while living full-time in their RV. They share their story through YouTube videos on their “Love Your RV” channel. 

Let’s learn a bit more about their story.

You may wonder what a middle-aged couple with no off-grid experience has to teach about living in the woods, but Martin Johnson’s YouTube channel gives you an answer: a lot. 

Today, there are dozens of off-grid and homesteading channels on YouTube, but Martin and Julie Johnson’s simplicity and relatability have gotten them hundreds of thousands of viewers. Let’s look at their story and see if their channel is any good.

Admit it. At some point, you have thought of how nice it would be to take a break from civilization and live in the woods in a simple log cabin. Young Swedish YouTuber Erik Grankvist took this feeling more seriously and built a log cabin in the Swedish woods.

Many people, particularly YouTubers, have ventured into the quiet woods and built homesteads like the Deep South Homestead or Jake and Nicolle. But Erik Grankvist is unique in that he built his cabin in the ancestral method, using no automatic tools or vehicles. Moreover, Erik was just 18 years old when he started work on his cabin.

Let’s get to know Erik Grankvist and his channel a little better.

“Equipping city dwellers to survive in times of crisis,” reads the text on the City Prepping’s YouTube channel page. With the multitude of channels about surviving in the wilderness, there had to be a channel about survival and preparedness in urban environments.

The City Prepping channel describes its “chief aim” as “helping provide survival basics for everyday people that are practical and easy to implement to be prepared should calamity strike.“ Let’s learn a bit more about what the channel has to offer.

Search for videos for homesteading in the wilderness, and you’ll surely come across Jake and Nicolle’s YouTube channel. Off-Grid w/ Jake & Nicolle depicts the off-grid adventure of a young couple living in the Canadian wilderness.

The couple shares several interesting things from their journey, from building yurts and showers to handling pregnancy far away from civilization. Let’s dive a little deeper into Jake and Nicole’s world.

YouTube is full of weird and wonderful stuff, and weird and wonderful often combine into something remarkable, such as Hobotech. Hobotech is a YouTube channel that reviews a wide variety of off-grid solar products – solar generators, panels, batteries, inverters, fridges, etc.

The channel is hosted by the quirky Professor Hobo, a middle-aged tech-nerd sporting a lab coat, a long goatee, and a ponytail. He does this with a unique style and tone, sometimes acting as a “crazy genius” scientist. 

The videos often have 90’s sci-fi music and pop culture references, such as an exciting dialogue with “Marty” when speaking about the future (any Back to the Future Fans?).

Canadian Prepper is a YouTube personality and seller of emergency preparedness gear. His YouTube channel publishes informational videos to “help more people get prepared for emergency situations”. After eight years of publishing videos, the channel is nearing its one million subscriber milestone.

The idea of preparing for doomsday or societal collapse may seem ridiculous to some. However, recent years have seen many unpleasant things, including a horrifying pandemic and a war that threatens to change the course of the world. 

As such, the Canadian Prepper’s content is gaining more relevance and more viewers. Let’s take a look at what the channel has to offer.

Utter the word “homestead,” and it creates a longing, almost transporting you to a cozy house surrounded by farmland, woods, and perhaps a pond. Deep South Homestead is a YouTube channel about homesteading life. It’s run by Danny and Wanda King, for whom the longing for a quiet lifestyle was powerful enough to go and live on a homestead. 

Driven by their love for peace and raising their own food, the couple escaped the rat race and now live a sustainable lifestyle. They grow their own organic food and are fully prepared to live off-grid, with solar panels, a solar generator, and other devices. 

Deep South Homestead is one of the most popular YouTube channels about living on a farm and has a staggering 246,000 subscribers. Let’s learn a bit more about their unique life.