How a Survivalist Grows Food | Life Below Zero | BBC Earth Explore

To avoid battling with bears for berries, Sue Aikens has a remarkable plan to grow her own sustainable food supply.

Life Below Zero: Series 2: Ep 015: The Thaw - Opportunity Knocks
The caribou have yet to arrive, and Sue believes they may have changed their migration pattern meaning she will need to source alternative food.

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[alechorn]

This is not her hobby/adventure. She owns an airport/fueling facility. She lives there full time in the harshest of conditions. She’s an amazing example to us all. I wish I was her equal.

[kitchenpractical]

Seriously....such a beneficial content.

[TinoDeBiaso]

How am i the only one stressing about the cost of this

[anuradhaaravind]

My daughter just saw this, wonderful study material for wannabe learners, you can work on the detail and be much more elaborate.

[sedanwheel]

Are you really a survivalist if you have a tracked vehicle and a greehouse or are you just someone with too much freetime and money on your hands ?

[japrogramer]

She should be doing aquaponics not hydroponics.

[Smt_Glaive]

She needs to change what she is smoking

[cherbear]

Shes been there for over 15 years and she rocks it, but why the hell did it take her so long to think of AND build a greenhouse? If u r thinking survival, food would be top of my list, so after my "kills" I'd be thinking ways to preserve fresh foods, so umm..freeze then grow..so um greenhouse..just very surprised it took her so long cuz sue usually got it going on!!

[cowswayne]

I'm so glad that the TV licence fee that i pay goes into this immaculately compelling series, where a film crew follows a 54-year-old woman doing survival things and stuff. I am glad that I am forced to pay £154.40 (if i want to watch TV, access the internet or use a mobile device ) to watch a 54 year old woman in some camp somewhere doing absolutely nothing. Is she there for research? no, is she there to discover something? no, is she in a third world country where she has no place to go and is forced live there? no, what is she therefore? surviving and doing stuff. Yet some bright spark at the BBC thought 'hey you know what's good way to blow millions of the fee paying public's money - lets book a flight to god knows where and follow around god knows who doing god knows what - hopefully that will be enough crap to earn us a couple of million pound bonuses'.