Season 8

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; Atz Sr.'s pioneer spirit leads him to an abandoned barge.

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 backcountry. Otto's hay season nearly comes to a halt when a broken tractor forces him to get creative.

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 a coming-of-age celebration on the Yuletide; Atz Lee battles worsening weather to help Grady build a homestead on Perl Island.

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.

Charlotte and August build a cat patio to keep their house cats from killing the local animals.

This Christmas, it's the first-ever Couples Secret Santa; the Kilchers film themselves crafting inventive homemade gifts.

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; and 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.