I grew up watching my grandparents farm in much the same ways the Kilcher's farm. My aunts and uncles would all come home to help my grandparents make hay. Eve talks of all of the things they do on the homestead and I would love to see how they make cheese. I remember that our family all came together on Thanksgiving to do the butchering for our winter meats. Our celebration dinner often consisted of fresh pork and chickens which were butchered earlier in the day. I often watched as my grandmother milked her cows, separated the milk and made butter, smearcase( cottage cheese) and buttermilk. This show takes me back to my childhood where my parents and grandparents could do "everything". I eagerly await each new episode. Please keep those episodes coming.

This show is a load of staged nonsense, it shows nothing about real Alaska. The reality of Alaska is that nobody lives like this, much less these people. Source: I live five miles from these people, in Homer. Otto owns a machine shop, Atz is a wealthy musician, the show is just designed to make it look like they fight for survival when there's a paved road and a grocery store just a few miles away. These people are a laughing stock in my town, and nobody likes the way they misrepresent Alaska. Stop buying this garbage and don't think we're all like this, nobody is. It seriously bothers me to see how many people totally buy this. We hunt, we fish, we do rough it, but it's not a survival situation 24/7 like the kilchers would have you believe.

Since I started watching the show I have watched it every week and really enjoy seeing how they all use the skills they have been taught and learnt throughout their life. It just shows how different life is with families like them and us city slickers. I know the Kilchers have the power tools and farm machinery but using what they can from the land is one thing they are known for. Growing and catching their food and making other things is something that is knowing you have achieved something worthwhile. These sort of programmes are interesting to watch and you can also learn a few things. Another thing about this show is how family help each other and are willing to get in and do whatever needs doing no matter what the weather is.

However cornball it might sound... I like programs like "Alaska -- the Last Frontier", with intelligent people behaving sensibly.I should point out that these people /do not/ lead a "subsistence" lifestyle, which would require that they make everything they need. They have access to power tools (some of them Very Large) and store-bought supplies in an emergency. Still, it's sobering to see people who spend most of their time doing the work needed to support themselves, rather than in vain pursuits.Otto is the unintentional star. He's extremely intelligent and has an ironic, self-deprecating sense of humor. (The sequence in which he blows up a stump and brags about it is classic.) The show would be merely "good" without him.As for the "excessive" killing... If you're not a vegetarian, you have no right to complain. The domestic animals have led uncaged lives, and are killed humanely. (I loved it when Otto had his son kill a favorite cow that wouldn't have made it through the Winter. Instead of the animal dying on its side, it ends up on its back, with its legs angled in "dead cockroach" position.)I'm 66 years old and have heard theme songs for scores of TV shows. "Alaska -- the Last Frontier" has absolutely the worst. The lyrics and melody are either consciously cornball C&W -- or the writers are idiots. They've got to be kidding... (It seems he song was written and sung by Atz Lee! My condemnation nevertheless stands.)"Sometimes it's blood, sweat, and tears On Alaska, the last frontier. But life is simple, life is good, When you're livin' like you should. Hey! Hey! Sometimes it's struggle 'n strife Fathers, sons, brothers, wifes. But we're makin' our way, And yes, we'll stay Right here! On Alaska, the last frontier!"How about "Life is simple, life is good, when you've got takeout Chinese food." Well, it is, isn't it?