The 10 Best Off-Grid Homesteading YouTube Channels
Homesteading and getting off-grid will never go out of style. People are always looking for ways to get back to the land, and the best off-grid homesteading YouTube channels let you live vicariously through them. By sharing their own love of self-sufficiency, these top creators can share off-grid tips, build complex off-grid setups, or just give you an escape.
Whether you are looking to learn or just relax, homesteading is a great rabbit hole to go down on YouTube. With a huge range of skills and techniques out there, you can always find fresh faces and content stepping up and sharing their love of the land.
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This is an updated look at the top 10 off-grid homesteading YouTube channels. We review new channels and update annually to continue to bring you the best homesteaders sharing online.
What is a Homesteading YouTube Channel?
Homesteading is the process of establishing a self-sufficient lifestyle by developing and maintaining a home or piece of land.
Homesteaders try to produce as much of their own food and resources as possible, using techniques like gardening, livestock rearing, and food preservation. They may also generate their own energy through methods like solar panels or wind turbines to go off-grid.
Homesteading practices can vary widely, from those who fully embrace a self-sufficient lifestyle to those who simply aim to live more sustainably and reduce their environmental impact. Even these top channels reflect the different approaches.
Off-grid homesteaders live with very little or no reliance on supplied electricity, water, sewer, supermarkets, and other societal dependencies. Some capture the benefits and drawbacks on video, sharing them on YouTube.
Top 10 Homesteaders on YouTube
These YouTube channels all champion the homesteading lifestyle, and the creators below express their love of off-grid self-sufficiency through the content they create.
Becky’s Homestead
Rank = 10, Previous = 10
Subscribers: 547,000
Founded in 2006
Becky does it all and is your quintessential homesteader. She consistently drops content every week on a huge range of topics.
Becky is sweet-natured and a great hostess as she guides us around her homestead, covering a huge range of topics. Self-sufficient, community-driven, and eco-friendly all drive her project scopes, and she explains along the way how you can accomplish it all, too.
She has also authored a couple of books, so she is a vault of homesteading info. Her post frequency is pretty calm at just a few videos every month, so it won’t overwhelm your YouTube feed if you give her a subscribe.
Appalachia’s Homestead
Rank = 9, Previous = 9
Subscribers: 558,000 (⇧8K)
Founded in 2014
Patara stays at the entry spot on our list, defending her position as she continues to gain subscribers on her homesteading channel.
Head to the mountains to join Patara as she shows off her homestead. She has a slight alarmist prepper angle to her channel, talking occasionally about why she escaped suburbia for a homestead.
Her bread-and-butter topics include:
- gardening
- animal husbandry (esp. chickens)
- food preservation (esp. canning)
- homeschooling
Here is her channel’s welcome video:
Kris Harbour Natural Building
Rank = 8, Previous = 8
Subscribers: 607,000 (⇧11K)
Founded in 2015
Kris does it all and records it all on his unique, sustainable homesteading channel from across the pond.
He started his channel when he was 28, and since then, he has bought some land in the wilderness of Wales, built his off-grid home, and outfitted it with solar and hydropower. He is living his dream, like many homesteading YouTubers, after snatching up some real estate on eBay.
This ex-Londoner also knows how to film and produce interesting videos of his lifestyle. His latest videos showcase the expertise he’s gathered since 2015, building a hydroelectric turbine and a massive timber-framed barn.
Homesteading Family
Rank = 7, Previous = 7
Subscribers: 889,000 (⇧25K)
Founded in 2016
Josh and Carolyn share a huge range of homesteading tips, but they really excel in whipping your garden and pantry into shape.
The Homesteading Family wants to help you increase your self-sufficiency and become healthier through their gardening, preserving, DIY projects, and traditional cooking videos.
Their motto is to help families grow, preserve, and thrive- and they are an excellent resource to get your pantry in order. Most impressively, they built a cabin for their daughter in just 67 days, despite cabin-building not being a main focus of their channel.
Arms Family Homestead
Rank 6, Previous = 6
Subscribers: 1,090,000 (⇧96K)
Founded in 2011
This small-town family is living their best life out in Oklahoma. Plus, the star of the show is occasionally a miniature donkey.
This family-first channel follows a small-town family as they strive for self-sufficiency and document the good times and the bad. They are a likable bunch with plenty to teach and plenty to share.
You’ll find yourself enamored with their animals as well, from loyal dogs to bison, and even mini donkeys. They had the largest increase in survivors over the past year of all of the channels on the list, so check out what you’ve been missing.
Wild Wonderful Off-Grid
Rank = 5, Previous = 5
Subscribers: 1,120,000 (⇧20K)
Founded in 2018
Josh and Erin packed their three kids up and built an A-frame on plenty of acres in West Virginia, and it’s a blast to watch.
Our editor’s pick is Wild Wonderful Off-Grid, as this channel is good fun to watch and showcases the impressive A-Frame home they built from scratch in the mountains of West Virginia.
The most impressive part is that they did this while raising 3 young kids, which most of you parents out there know is a feat in itself. They have built a lot together since they started in 2018 with some land and an idea.
Justin Rhodes
Rank = 4, Previous = 3
Subscribers: 1,130,000
Founded in 2012
The Rhodes family involves their kids as they tackle projects around the homestead, making this one of the top family-oriented homesteading channels.
The Justin Rhodes Show is all about family-friendly homesteading, so it doesn’t just show you how they’re getting around their homestead- it teaches some powerful life lessons along the way.
Their likable family is a joy to watch tackle obstacles, as they teach their kids the importance of hard work and share some laughs while they are at it.
Bushradical
Rank = 3, Previous = 4
Subscribers: 1,170,000 (⇧40K)
Founded in 2017
Brooke and Dave Whipple have a pair of channels and several cabins between the pair of them, and Dave’s channel has a significant edge on subscriber count.
Dave also shares a couple of kids with Brooke, but neither features them on their channels (which I can appreciate, for the kids’ sake). You may recognize the pair from season 4 of Alone, a popular survival TV show.
Dave highlights his off-grid cabins, shows off how he builds them, and continues to document upgrades, including:
- drilling wells
- building outhouses
- adding solar power systems
Here is a start-to-finish of one of his off-grid cabin builds:
Off Grid with Doug & Stacy
Rank 2, Previous = 2
Subscribers: 1,320,000 (⇧10K)
Founded in 2012
Doug and Stacy make traditional homesteading look easy as they stick to a pioneer lifestyle- all the way down to Doug’s beard.
Homesteading and off-grid living may seem a little strange to most, but it was the only way to live not too long ago. Doug and Stacy harken back to a simpler time, but also show that it’s not that simple.
There can be interesting things to find in every detail of off-grid life, and their pioneer lifestyle is a breath of fresh air. You can also catch up with them at a homesteading festival each year, where they do meet and greets and share some off-grid living tips.
Wranglerstar
Rank = 1, Previous = 1
Subscribers: 2,560,000 (⇧10K)
Founded in 2010
The self-proclaimed professional homeowner has the biggest following to pair with consistent content from his huge video library.
“Hello, beloved.” The big one, Wranglerstar, has grown into a massive channel over the years as Cody Crone left his urban life and documents his adventures along the way. He has a ton of resources at his disposal at this point, raking in an estimated $2,000 per day just in YouTube ads alone.
As an engineer, I appreciate his tool tests and reviews, but he has gone down some impractical rabbit holes, like ‘Earthing’, where you ground your bed with metal strips.
Despite a couple of loose screws and inconsistent stories about his time in the US Forest Service, he and his family sport the biggest and best homestead channel.
More Homesteading YouTube Channels
These channels were reviewed and have good content, but did not have the subscriber count or active uploads to stack up against our top 10. Still, they may be a good option for you if you are looking for even more off-grid or homesteading YouTube channels:
- Keeping it Dutch – 534,000 subscribers – This family of five vlogs their way through building their house while living in a camper, and then moving on to renovated rentals.
- Wild Homestead – 471,000 subscribers – James Alofs is on his 40-acre slice of Canada, building an off-grid homestead.
- Red Rose Homestead – 415,000 subscribers – They often stray into prepping territory, discussing emergency prep, food security, and self-reliance.
- Engineer775 – 332,000 subscribers – A prepping homestead guru, he can figure out and install any self-sufficient setup off-grid.
- Kyles Cabin – 312,000 subscribers – In Northern Minnesota, Kyle shares his simple off-grid cabin with his wife, Cierra, and his little boy.
- The Mac’s – 311,000 subscribers – The family of 8 in Southern Mississippi has somewhat swapped to a talking-head prepper prophecy-type channel.
- Better Together Homestead – 310,000 subscribers – A family-first channel with wholesome homesteading content.
- Homesteady – 295,000 subscribers – A ton of how-to videos; this couple is serious about sharing homesteading tips.
- An American Homestead – 288,000 subscribers – This modern extended family moved off grid in the Ozarks in 2012, documenting their journey and weighing in on current events.
Retired YouTube Homestead Channels
Nothing lasts forever, whether it’s the homestead itself or the YouTube channel that has built up thousands of subscribers. Here are some of the channels that have made it into the top 10 over the years, or the honorable mentions section, and wrapped up their filming for good.
- Guildbrook Farm – 342,000 subscribers – Our neighbors out here in North Carolina have been building up a following, but quit posting late 2024.
The Final Word
Homesteading and Off-Grid YouTube channels are out there in droves, but these channels are the biggest and best you can find. If you are looking for other media to explore prepping and survival topics, check out these rankings and roundups:
- The 10 Best Prepper YouTube Channels
- The 10 Best Wilderness Survival YouTube Channels
- Home Survival Kit List | 53 Essentials
Plus, if you’re looking to start your own homestead, you might want to pick up some free land: How to Get Free Land in the US (and Canada).
If you have any favorite channels that we may have missed or chosen not to rank, weigh in below in the comment section. We’ll always take the time to review it before our next roundup and see where it stacks up.
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I wouldn’t exactly call Acre Homestead a real homesteader. I guess if you pay millions of dollars for everything to be done FOR YOU, she qualifies.
Same with Justin Rhodes. He has a full staff that works his farm ands markets his products. Doug and Stacy have become almost exclusively political with very little homesteading content. HINO- Homesteaders in name only.