Indoor plumbing and winter access to Brazil-grown tomatoes are pretty much modern miracles. What would happen to your family if the life-support systems we rely on failed? How do you begin to take back control of the quality of your food and water? And do these modern "shortcuts" cheat us of the skills, character and endurance our great-grandparents had to earn? 

Zac Bauer gives a tour of his off-grid homestead to show you how to break free from the system.