Batten the Hatches is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Jenny Owen Youngs.

Originally self-released in 2005 by Youngs, it was reissued with the bonus track "Drinking Song" two years later by the Nettwerk label.

[5] The track "Fuck Was I" was used in the first episode of the second season of the Showtime series Weeds, to illustrate a scene in which main character Nancy Botwin, a part-time marijuana dealer, discovers that her new lover is in fact a DEA agent.

This appearance reportedly led to sales of the album increasing from between five and ten per week to between twenty and thirty per day.

[6] The album was listed as one of Guardian Unlimited's "Greatest Albums You've Never Heard" in a feature in November 2006.