For four generations the Kilchers have lived off what their 600-acre homestead in Homer, Alaska, has provided but cultivating that living is never easy.
Otto is trampled by a cow during a severe snowstorm and must be rescued before he succumbs to his life-threatening injuries; the younger generation must step up and take on more responsibilities or the Kilcher homestead won't survive.
As spring approaches, the Kilchers prepare for a potentially devastating wildfire season; however, when COVID-19 threatens the homestead and crews are evacuated, the family must come together and adapt like never before.
As supply chains in Alaska are disrupted, Jane and Eve focus on maximizing food supplies; the cattle drive is threatened by a runaway stallion; Eivin suffers a serious injury in his workshop; Atz Sr. requires emergency surgery.
Kilcher road is threatened by a dangerous flood, and Otto must repair the vital road before it's washed away; Eve struggles to home-school her kids; Jane and August score big on a deep-sea fishing trip; Atz Sr. recovers from his surgery.
The Kilchers take advantage of the extra daylight to forge ahead; Atz Lee uses a helicopter to haul in vital equipment; Jane and Charlotte battle an angry nest of wasps; Eivin fells trees and clears land for an upgraded chicken coop.
An earthquake strikes Homer, triggering a tsunami warning and evacuation; Eivin and Eve traverse treacherous mountain terrain on their first-ever goat hunt; Charlotte creates a special memorial for victims of COVID-19.
To protect the homestead from wildfires, Otto dynamites a reservoir; Charlotte goes fishing with Jane but finds it's not for her; after falling behind on the Fox Cabin, Atz Sr. enlists the help of his family to get back on track.
As fall approaches, the Kilchers kick into high gear; a large bull moose stalks the homestead and Eivin must keep his family safe; Atz Sr. hunts bear and nearly loses a horse; Otto begins the cleanup from an explosive wildfire prevention project.
The Fox Cabin nears completion; Atz Sr. unites seven Kilcher siblings to finish the interior of his legacy rebuild; Jane, August and Etienne embark on the final fishing trip of the year; Eivin suffers a devastating loss.
The Kilchers prepare for winter; Otto saves a friend's home from sinking into the bay; parenting during the pandemic is stressful for Eve; Atz Sr. stalks a bear on the homestead.
Atz Sr. reveals his Fox Cabin legacy build; Eivin tries to complete a late project; Jane and Atz Lee attempt to airlift a piano to their remote cabin before snowfall.
The Kilchers look back on the last decade of their lives homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness; from their first moments on camera to never-before-seen footage, the family relives 10 years of danger, adventure and ingenuity on the last frontier.
Sharing the homestead with both wild and working animals is at the core of the Kilcher lifestyle; the family reflects on friendships, mishaps, heartaches, and chaos involving these animals -- as well as Alaska's deadliest predators.
The key to pioneering success is true mastery of wilderness cuisine; finding food on the frontier is not just about survival, however -- it's an art form.
Otto surveys the condition of his rusting barge after a winter in dry dock; Eivin and Eve use explosives to clear land for a new root cellar; Jane builds an innovative dogsled for Atz Lee.
In preparation for the spring cattle drive, Atz Lee, Otto and August survey the homestead for signs of bears and employ surveillance to track their movements; Eivin and Eve take the kids on a kelp-harvesting expedition; Atz Sr. goes bear hunting.
While collecting coal on the beach after a storm, Eivin and Eve find a capsized boat and begin looking for survivors; Otto, Charlotte and August build a shelter for their calves; Jane brings the family together with a new spring tradition.
With predators stalking the homestead, the need for safe grazing land is greater than ever; Atz Sr. and Atz Lee head to Perl Island to begin plans for a new pasture; Otto and Eivin set to work transporting a small herd to the island by boat.
When Jane and Charlotte get word of a sick calf at the Head of the Bay, they trek through bear country to protect their herd; three generations of Kilchers build a line shack on Perl Island; Otto has a surprise for Charlotte.
The Kilchers use dynamite to blast a section of their main road and improve access to the homestead; Jane and Charlotte brave muddy bogs for good fishing; a risky salvage mission goes wrong.
In the midst of Thanksgiving preparations, a baby seal needs help getting back to its family in time for dinner; Eivin and August engineer a hay baler that will literally take a load off their backs.
The Kilchers navigate their newly blasted road for the first time, hauling a huge pole barn up the hill and across the homestead; Eivin and Atz Sr. get tangled in a mooring line as the tide comes in, pushing Eivin's boat towards the rocky beach.
A back-country winter wonderland is threatened when unseasonably warm weather brings rain to the homestead; however, the Kilchers won't let the storm ruin their Christmas plans, and they adapt to throw a holiday celebration for the entire family.
Otto unearths and restores a homestead relic once used by Yule Kilcher himself; Jane is dropped into the harsh and unforgiving Arctic Circle with only a rifle and a backpack in her first ever solo hunt.
Eivin and Eve discover a tangle of old nets endangering fish in a nearby river, and they launch a clean-up operation; Charlotte and Otto rebuild their rotting deck, leaving Jane and Jewel to pitch in elsewhere; Atz Sr. goes on a solo hunt for moose.
Since their arrival on the homestead, the Kilchers have relied on fast, decisive and out-of-the-box thinking to maintain their wild way of life; no matter how big, little or crazy the idea, a little homestead ingenuity always gets the job done.
After eight decades on the homestead, the Kilcher clan continues to thrive; now, the family is revealing the valuable lessons, techniques and special skills they've acquired that allow them to flourish in the Alaskan wilderness.
Traveling to parts unknown and known is a part of the Kilchers' lifestyle; it goes all the way back to Yule and Ruth's time in Switzerland; now, the family reveals how venturing off the homestead is still necessary for survival, adventure and more.
As the coronavirus spreads into Alaska and ATLF camera crews are sent home for safety, the Kilcher family self-documents the quarantine and how the CV-19 crisis is changing life on the homestead.
Otto and Charlotte defend against the homestead's first predator attacks; Atz Lee and Jane travel to Lake Louise to catch massive lake trout; Atz Sr. renovates his new floating homestead; Eve takes on more work as Eivin recovers from a broken rib.
Atz Lee and Jane rush to aid a fellow homesteader; Atz Sr. searches for a remote spot to anchor his floating homestead; Otto, Eivin and Levi rebuild a homestead hot tub; Charlotte takes extreme measures to protect her herd from predators.
Otto and Eivin fight to douse a raging coal seam fire on Kilcher beach; Atz Sr. attempts the most unconventional bear hunt of his life; Jane and Charlotte take a girl's day adventure clamming.
Otto creates a calf caboose for his spring cattle drive at the Head of the Bay; Atz Lee and Jane bring sustainable power to their remote cabin; Atz Sr. builds a smoker to preserve the meat from his epic hunt; Levi renovates his childhood cabin.
Atz Lee builds a bridge and encounters a predator in the back country; Otto's hay season nearly comes to a halt when a broken tractor forces him to get creative; Eivin, Eve and Bonnie journey to Atz Sr.'s floating homestead to bring him crops.
The Kilcher family takes Thanksgiving to Atz Sr.'s floating homestead, the Yuletide; steeped in family tradition, each person brings something special to share, from homestead dishes to the dinner table itself.
Atz Lee journeys to Perl Island to build a homestead for a friend; tempers flare as Otto, Eivin and Levi work to move an old workshop cabin to Otto's property; Tela constructs a fence for a surprise horse for her children.
Singer Jewel Kilcher throws her son, Kase, a coming-of-age celebration on the Yuletide; Atz Lee battles worsening weather to help Grady build a homestead on Perl Island; Otto constructs a drawbridge between his cabin and his new man cave.
The Kilchers mobilize a major sea/land effort to help finish Grady's Perl Island cabin build, under threat of the approaching remnants of a typhoon; Charlotte and August build a cat patio to keep their house cats from killing the local animals.
Eivin takes son Findlay on his first ever, coming-of-age hunt; Atz Lee and Jane venture far out into the wilderness to fish for elusive pike; Atz Sr. upgrades the Yuletide for the impending cold.
Atz Lee and Atz Sr. take Jane on an epic hunt on horseback in the foothills; Eivin builds a one-of-a-kind motorized cart for Findlay; Otto, Charlotte and August race to repair a fence breach after their cattle escape.
Otto and Levi bring wind power to the remote cabin; Atz Lee and Jane help homesteader Mike re-purpose a city house into a cabin; Tela gets help from the Kilchers as she struggles to fix her dry spring; August moves back home on his 21st birthday.
The fall cattle roundup takes an electrifying turn when a horse gets tangled in electric wire; Eivin and Levi go on a rock-climbing expedition to secure access to a valuable, new hunting ground; Atz Sr. takes Bonnie on an epic hunting date.
Otto and August radio Eivin for rescue after facing an emergency at sea; Atz Sr. must choose between living on the Yuletide and returning to the family homestead; Atz Lee puts Jane's homesteading skills to the test with a wilderness scavenger hunt.
With the Constructor dead in the water, it's up to Otto and his crew of family and friends to save the invaluable boat for future use; Eivin takes novice hunter Levi on a last-chance hunt to Shuyak Island to stockpile deer meat for winter.
The family members speak candidly about life in the Alaskan wild, which is a perpetual cycle of fails and fixes; for every great solve that goes horribly wrong, another is genius, and uniquely Kilcher.
Animals play a critical role in survival on the homestead, from dangerous predators to hardworking livestock to elusive prey, each has an undeniable effect on the Kilchers' day-to-day life.
In the harsh Alaskan wilderness, it's impossible to thrive alone; the Kilchers look back on key moments when the family and their fellow homesteaders depended on each other for survival.
The Kilchers kick off a complete homestead overhaul; blindsided by a massive snowstorm, the family uses every piece of heavy machinery in their arsenal to ensure the survival of future generations.
The family bands together on a massive mission to rescue a tractor, but Otto faces pressure to get it going before the ice road melts; Otto puts his safety on the line when the family pitches in to build tracks across the frozen river.
Otto is forced to the edge after a chimney fire threatens to destroy his cabin; Eivin and Eve burn up dangerous brush piles threatening their family; Atz Lee and Jane embark on a dangerous ice fishing mission and end up on thin ice.
Otto and Eivin race to get the barge ready for its most ambitious mission yet- moving wild buffalo; Jane and Charlotte are put to the test as they lead the Kilchers' first ever all female cattle drive; Atz Sr. and Atz Lee protect a homestead relic.
The Kilchers join forces to conquer big projects; tensions flare when Otto and Jane journey to Kodiak Island to rescue a herd of wild buffalo; Eivin and Eve tackle an urgent roof repair; Atz Sr. and Atz Lee help Shane on his long overdue cabin build.
Atz Lee and Charlotte rush to save the life of a stuck cow before it's too late; a father-son shrimping trip turns deadly when Otto and his sons must outrun a colossal caving glacier; Eve and Jane fish for salmon for their family.
Otto and August make a risky attempt to acquire a massive machine; Charlotte, Eivin, and Eve race against the tide to rescue a weak cow; Atz Lee and Jane go kayak fishing.
Jewel returns to the homestead for son Kase's first cattle drive; Shane faces an uncertain future with his home; Otto and Eivin fight to save the Kilchers' prized Octagon cabin from destruction.
The Kilchers try to pick up the historic Octagon building and move it to safety and to finish Shane's multi-year cabin build before winter once again stops them cold.
Christmas has the Kilchers playing secret Santa; Atz Lee makes art with fire, Eivin tries to avoid blowing himself up, Atz Sr. jams out with a shovel and Jane wraps coal for someone special; after his injury, Shane spends Christmas in the hospital.
Atz Lee and Atz Sr. trek in search of black bear; Eivin builds a survival motorcycle; the Kilchers film themselves for the first time; Eivin and Eve take their kids crabbing; Atz Senior helps a fellow veteran with a big build.
Eve butchers chickens with her children to teach them about the circle of life; Eivin builds a shelter for his trusty horse to protect it from the freeze; Atz Lee and Jane warm up their remote cabin; Atz Sr. goes on a solo hunt.
Eve finds herself alone with a buck while hunting; Jane and Atz Sr. hunt elk; Otto races a snowstorm while rounding up his cattle; Otto and Charlotte travel to Switzerland to see where the Kilcher family started and learn old building techniques.
Yule Kilcher's legacy has survived on perseverance and the commitment of his family and a community of fellow homesteaders, but in order for that dream to continue, a new generation of young homesteaders must rise up and carry the torch.
The Kilchers answer the audience's most pressing questions about the ups and downs of life on the homestead over the last six years; a sneak peek of what to expect in the next season.
The Kilchers pay tribute to their most unique and skilled homesteader friends, from kilt-wearing mountain man Turkey Joe to gold mining surgeon Doc Sayer.
A massive earthquake hits Southern Alaska and the Kilcher family fights to re-open vital access roads; Atz Lee races towards his dream of a new remote homestead to aid in recovery.
Mother Nature continues her onslaught on the Kilcher homestead; Otto, Charlotte, Jane, Bonnie and August scramble to save a hay barn; Atz Lee and Sr. begin building Atz Lee's new cabin.
The Kilchers rush to make headway on time sensitive projects; Otto, Charlotte, and Eivin travel to rescue a family relic; the first fishing trip of the year leaves Eve and Jane lost at sea.
After years of procrastination, Otto goes under the knife; Jane must take care of the farm and deliver her first calf alone; Eivin and Atz Lee scout the Head of the Bay, but their findings won't ease Otto's concerns.
With Otto recovering from surgery, Levi heads to Alaska to lead the annual spring cattle drive with Eivin; Otto's unwillingness to step aside puts him in danger.
Otto puts his recovery at risk to help save a paralyzed cow; Jane and Atz Lee put their differences aside to prepare for winter; Atz Senior prepares for a very special visitor: his daughter and singer-songwriter, Jewel.
Otto flies a massive greenhouse to a new location using a helicopter; Eve takes on the role of provider and learns a new skill to feed her family; Atz Lee risks his recovery to continue his cabin build alone.
Tensions flare between Otto and August in their last mission before August leaves for college; Atz Lee Sr. and Jane work on Atz Lee's new cabin, but Jane still has doubts; Eivin builds a special surprise.
Otto pays for his hernia surgery and ends up with gold fever; Jane and Eivin search a remote island for enough deer to last the winter; Atz Lee faces down old fears and reaches new heights as he races the freeze in order to complete his cabin.
The Kilchers look to the future as winter looms; Atz Sr passes on vital survival knowledge; Atz Lee embarks on a risky solo hunt to a remote and dangerous island; Eivin builds the ideal boat for his young family's adventures on the water.
Otto and Charlotte fight to round up their cattle; Atz Lee and Jane come to a decision about his cabin; Eivin and Eve take the new boat on a maiden fishing journey; Shane and Kelli brace for unexpected news about her health.
The Kilchers team up to tame the land after a warm winter; Otto and Eivin want to turn the wilderness into a source of food for generations; Atz Sr. battles the elements.
With the arrival of spring, the homestead needs work; Atz Sr. hunts to restock dwindling food supplies; Otto, Charlotte and August try to protect livestock; Atz Lee develops a new foothold.
The Kilchers brace for summer on the homestead; Atz Lee takes a crash course in wilderness survival; Jane fights for food; Otto and Eivin try to build a sauna.
Otto and August take on a major plumbing project as spring draws to a close; Eivin attempts to help but loses control of his truck; Atz Sr. searches for two predators threatening the Kilcher property; Atz Lee & Jane help Shane with his cabin.
The Kilcher's cattle is threatened by the hot summer; Atz Lee learns how to tame the frontier; Jane faces a bear; Shane and Kelli make progress on their cabin.
When the Kilchers play Secret Santa, Jane wraps a lump of coal for someone special; Atz Lee makes art with fire; Eivin tries to avoid blowing himself up.
Otto and Charlotte try to resuscitate a stillborn calf; Eve learns that hunting is difficult; the Kilchers say goodbye to Bruce; Eivin and Eve welcome new life.
Atz Lee and Jane brave subzero temperatures to search for fish; the Kilcher men mount a mission to the head of the bay; Eivin and Atz Lee are pushed to their limits.
Elvin and his pregnant wife, Eve, make a decision to finally add running water to their home; Otto upgrades his milking shed; Atz Sr. and Atz Lee go bear hunting.
Atz Sr., Atz Lee and Jane hunt for a wild goat; Eivin and Eve's bee hive and honey harvest are destroyed by a wasp infestation; Otto and Charlotte are determined to protect the hay crop.
The Kilchers work on last-minute projects before winter comes; Jane faces weather and quicksand on her first cattle drive; Eivin and Eve introduce a new Kilcher.
Otto and his family wage war with the elements and predators to drive their cattle to the summer pasture; Antz Lee and Jane build a makeshift greenhouse.
The Kilchers have 48 hours to build a long cattle fence and rebuild a cabin or the treacherous river's tide will trap their barge full of equipment for another month.