Homestead Rescue

In this special episode, the Raneys hang out in a cabin, answer some viewer questions and tell the story of Marty and Matt's epic adventure.

While the Raneys are building their family homestead in the untamed Alaskan wilderness, a bear encounter sends them predator proofing. After using every ounce of off-grid ingenuity to secure their own homestead, they rush to help a family in need.

Embarking on a new season of saving homesteads in peril, the Raneys look back on some of their most ingenious builds, unpacking their techniques and examining the off-grid financial savings before revealing the all-time fan-favorite build.

In Montana, the Raney's help Beth and Mike Ettinger who live in an abandoned ghost town where many previous homesteaders failed. Survival is a battle on this homestead that is stalked by a mountain lion and void of any livestock, water or food.

The Raney's attempt to help the Zabec family in Virginia. With pigs destroying the homestead, predators killing livestock, and a huge oak threatening their cabin, the Raney's must convince them that their free-range dream is killing their homestead.

The Deeters are dog-mushers with a homestead on the edge of disaster. Bears dine on the dog food and the forest around them is a deadly tinder box. The Raneys must push them to make drastic changes, but discover the Deeters don't trust outsiders.

Poisoned well water and a mystery predator plague an Arizona homestead. After the family dog is killed, the Raneys must act quick to stop the couple from becoming the next victims.

Fire is a constant threat for this Oregon homestead. Livestock should be meat, but here they are family pets. The Raneys must teach a hungry family to work together before its too late.

An isolated road becomes a death trap when a medical emergency strikes a secluded homestead. The Raneys face their first ever failed rescue.

The Raneys find a bee-keeper with hives attracting bears and a homestead too unsanitary for a child to visit. Marty builds a bathhouse and bush-engineers a windmill water pump, but violent winds threaten to derail his mission to reunite a family.

The Raneys must rescue an Arizona family under siege from livestock-eating coyotes & hungry cattle! While Marty and Matt try to build a massive livestock "fort" from three 40 foot storage containers, Misty must find a way to grow crops in the desert.

The Raneys must save an Oregon homestead trapped at the bottom of a 100 foot cliff separating them from four acres of land they need for food and livestock. Marty risks all forming a road up a bedrock cliff to a forest crawling with mountain lions.

Toxic land plagues this Kentucky homestead, so the Raneys must build the Rains family a hillside garden, turn a cave into a goat fortress, and find uncontaminated water deep underground.

Stranded on a cliff in their RV, amputee Jeff Tatsch and wife Carol need a livable home, water, and a place to grow food, so the Raneys build an entire cabin from scratch on solid ground and harness a source of water from a natural spring.

Marty embarks on an ambitious, off-grid hydropower system after Tennessee storms obliterate the Reathifords' power source; Matt creates a meat smoker, but a surprise accident leads to a construction site injury for one of the Raneys.

A homestead in serious danger of a raging California wildfire prompts Marty to clear cut surrounding trees and create an evacuation ark for the Grants' livestock while Matt devises a unique layer of fire protection to save the home from destruction.

Marty takes on a risky first-time build - a huge diverter trench to deflect the torrents of storm water devastating the homestead of musician Lou and his wife Stacey. But with a huge storm forecast, no one can predict if this rescue will succeed.

Shocked to find a bear den near the Counter family's Colorado homestead, the Raneys build an old school root cellar and innovative greenhouse and attempt to inspire two off-grid reluctant teenage sisters to help bring their father's dream to life.

In Alaska, the Raneys turn a homestead on the verge of going up in flames into a golden opportunity. Later they race to Louisiana to protect a family under threat of vicious storms, black mold and feral hogs.

To save a single mom and her daughter from rampaging moose and secure a source of food, Marty builds a bridge across a murky creek to access more property, Matt teaches predator deterrent techniques, and Misty builds a snow-proof greenhouse.

The Raneys find a family living in a home made of tire bales.

The Raney family turns cameras on themselves as they shelter in place on their Alaskan homestead.

The intense winter has frozen the water supply on the homestead, forcing Marty to hunt for a new water source In Hawaii, Matt and his wife Katie self-film a lesson in Cacao harvesting on her family's plantation.

The Raneys kick off an annual tradition on the Alaskan homestead with a project that passes along essential skills to the next generation. The Raneys check in via video with homesteaders who built a house with 30,000 rubber tires.

The Raneys face an emotional rescue of young, inexperienced homesteaders in Alabama; to save the legacy of an eighth generation family property, they must use all new ingenuity including a solar kiln, tornado bunker and upcycled predator-proof coop.

In Mississippi, the Raneys must first solve the mystery of flooding water before teaching a family of six to thrive off-grid together. Builds include a new Elvis-inspired "Heartbreak Goat-tel" goat pen, garden compound and metal forge.

The Raneys rescue the Kramers in Alaska by converting an old barn into a commercial fishing kitchen. But when Marty is suddenly forced to quarantine, Matt and Misty must finish alone, leading to the discovery of the homestead's biggest resource: gold.

In the rugged Tennessee mountains, the Raneys scramble to save a family without suitable food, water and shelter; Marty constructs a massive yurt, Misty transforms a rundown pond into a food source, and Matt creates a workshop with a propane forge.

The Raneys bring some homesteading mastery to a Vermont couple who start but rarely finish big projects. Marty creates viable access through dense terrain, Misty builds an underground garden and Matt bear-proofs the homestead with ingenious builds.

The Raneys find an Idaho family struggling to survive in a geodesic dome home on the edge of a cliff. While Marty brings them water and Misty builds an innovative garden greenhouse, Matt and a local tracker corner a dangerous predator in a tree.

The Raneys struggle to revive an inherited Wyoming hill country homestead with a tragic legacy.

Bus-dwelling Virginia homesteaders struggle for a foothold in the wilderness.

The Raneys meet their match on a homestead in Idaho, where millennial off-gridders are plagued with dead soil, grizzly bear visits and constant landslides.

A Colorado war veteran's family and stable of horses are ravaged by hurricane-force winds that make subsistence all but impossible. But when the Raneys learn of their larger dream, they pull out the stops with some of their most creative builds yet.

Oregon homesteaders find their dream in jeopardy following a near-fatal accident; the Raneys face a daunting rescue where a dilapidated bridge has cut them off from their land, and strict building regulations force them to get creative.

An early 20s couple struggle to keep their homestead afloat in torrential Texas weather. But the Raneys face a tense and daunting rescue to save the rain-devastated cabin and soggy livestock shelters under threat of storms and tornado warnings.

A tragic plane crash has destroyed access to his homestead across a treacherous river.

Virginia homesteaders are on the brink after the disappearance of their water and food sources.

The Raneys are in Maine to help a couple whose homestead is overrun with boglands.

After Hurricane Helene obliterates a 100-year-old farmhouse in NC, a once self-sufficient family is left with nothing; the Raneys face their most urgent mission yet: to rebuild a fourth-generation homestead, making it 100% self-sustainable.

Two young couples in Alaska struggle with their homestead near the Arctic Circle; but with no access, no water and no shelter, survival is impossible; the Raneys must engineer all-season solutions for the harshest climate they've ever faced.

A Colorado family's dream of self-sufficiency is crumbling under the destructiveness of their bison herd. To supply the ranch with food and water, the Raneys must first tame the chaos and build a path to true self-sustainability -- starting with the herd.

In California's fire country, a couple's dream homestead is on the brink of ruin; when Marty must leave early, Misty and Matt face the flames and an urgent fix, alone in a high-stakes rescue.

At over 9,000 feet, a Colorado family faces inhospitable alpine isolation; winter looms, threatening to cut them off from civilization; the Raneys must upgrade their infrastructure and water supply before it's too late.

Marty heads back to Missouri to reinforce the Oglesbys' failing cabin, but upon discovering critical needs at their son's homestead, his mission doubles; can Marty save both cabins in a limited amount of time?