Family members search for a newborn calf and its mother during a snowstorm.

Desperate for food, the Kilchers struggle to get through a harsh winter.

Spring arrives and the family deals with a rogue hen and hunts for food.

The family battles danger to drive their cattle to the summer pasture.

Atz begins range riding to protect Otto's cattle herd from predators.

The Kilchers call in favors to help build a fence before the high tide.

The Kilchers fish for the hundreds of pounds needed over the winter.

Atz Lee and Eiven travel to "Terrible Island" to hunt deer.

Fall arrives and the Kilchers scramble to finish their winter preparations.

Otto's sense of humor and ingenuity inspire his family and neighbors.

The Kilchers must not only reuse and recycle, but also reinvent.

Late fall. Half the herd returns early from the summer grazing grounds so the Kilchers drive the rest home across icy rivers. The family rushes to finish other winter prep work but still makes time for a beach-scavenged gourmet picnic.

Otto gets creative to beat the frozen soil when he realizes he must move the outhouse, now. Eivin takes Eve on her first deerhunt on Afognak Island, which is teeming with wild animals including awake bears.

Eivin's deer quota is met and it's up to Eve to bring home enough meat.

The Kilchers race through the last few days of fall before winter finally hits, prepping the hunter and cattleman cabins, winterizing the bee hive, sorting the root cellar, bottling the raspberry mead, and creating a new field with an excavator.

Otto and his son Eivin's hunt for Ptarmigan ends in disaster. Atz Lee and Jane tour Jane's past and travel to remote Adak Island in search of Caribou. And Atz Sr.'s pioneer spirit leads him to an abandoned barge.