Ta-da! Water in the bunkhouse kitchen! Out here at the farm, we have slowly started to collect everything that we need to live...

Brad and I have fallen into a bit of a routine when we get to the farm. We unload everything we brought down to the farm for the week and...

On August 10th around 9:15 pm, my son, my dog and I hopped into our car and drove up the 105 highway, temporarily blinded by billowing...

At Raleigh Falls in Ignace, looking for doodads Both Brad and I are really into second hand finds. For me, it is part of my genetic code,...

As you may recall from past blogs, Brad and I had been looking for a chunk of homesteading land for a few years before we found what we...

In typical early May weather in North West Ontario, one day it is a balmy +20 and the next day the sleet is shooting in my eyes in a...

Take me straight to the YouTube version of this blog! Who knew that these little tubes of cardboard could bring so much joy and...

pain is the enemy I am sitting at home at the moment, leg elevated and ankle submersed in ice. I have had ongoing issues with my ankles...

In today’s blog, I am going to share with you many entertaining stories about trees. Trees! Trees! Trees! I just want to give you the...

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In today’s blog, Tai and I go through the exploratory process of learning from the beautiful mountain ash tree, and make some nifty stuff...

My husband thinks I am a tad bit overly empathetic, sometimes to the point of personifying things that are a far cry from having to be...

I was at a workshop yesterday. In this workshop, Jennie Olgilvie, touted as the “Comedian Median”, was teaching us how to connect to our...

When I originally wrote this article about pickling in 2018, we were in the depths of cucumber chaos. Not so much this year, though. The...

In today’s blog, you’ll learn about my approach to the fine art of boreal harvesting and what my main motivation is for harvesting and...

As a Amazon Associate, I may earn from qualifying purchases. When you are burning anywhere from two to three thousand calories in a day,...

In today’s blog, I’ll be talking about how I find peace and quiet in the noisiest of places. Some of the wild flowers that can be found...

No, this isn’t a handy household cleaning tips blog about supplies you can use to keep your house sparkly clean. As the saying goes, “The...

As the snow melted in that first spring in 2015, Brad, Alexander and I realized that we may have bitten off more than we could chew……...