Summer has arrived but The Kilchers have no time for relaxing; they'll be busy stocking freezers to survive the oncoming winter and they're hoping to score big on a salmon run.

Cattle are a crucial element to sustaining life; one cow is harvested for meat and materials while another calf is being born.

As summer comes to an end, the heat dwindles; the Kilchers need to gather stockpiles of wood and use some frontier ingenuity to create a new stove.