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.

Everyone scrambles to finish salvaging, salmon harvesting and construction on a new cabin for the coming winter.

The Kilchers are nearing the end of the summer harvest but receive no breaks from Mother Nature as a fishing trip runs foul and a crucial beehive colony is dying off for unknown reasons.