About this season
Expert homesteader, Marty Raney, along with his daughter Misty and son Matt, give struggling families a second chance at surviving off-the-grid. The stakes are high, but the Raney family is determined to prepare these families for nature’s worst and set them up for success.
Episodes (6)
1. Home Sweet Homestead: Safer at Home-Stead
Aired 20 August 2020 • 44 min
The Raney family turns cameras on themselves as they shelter in place on their Alaskan homestead.
2. Home Sweet Homestead: Cold Hard Lockdown
Aired 27 August 2020 • 44 min
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.
3. Where The Heart Is
Aired 3 September 2020 • 44 min
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.
4. Home Sweet Homestead: Winter Washout
Aired 10 September 2020 • 44 min
In Alaska, Marty races to rescue his property from a deluge of snow runoff. In Hawaii, Matt builds a human-sized slingshot to bring down invasive trees. The Raneys check-in with homesteaders rebuilding after devastating wildfires.
5. Rugged Road Home
Aired 17 September 2020 • 44 min
Marty embarks on a dangerous self-shot mission to carve a road up 300-foot cliffs. With their chickens growing, Misty enlists her family to build a predator-proof coop from scratch.
6. Future Of The Forty
Aired 24 September 2020 • 44 min
Spring arrives and the family self-shoots preparation for the epic expansion of their homestead. Misty plots a supersized greenhouse to feed three generations, while Matt and Marty acquire the family's first ever sawmill.