Having a wood stove for heat is an wonderful thing - being able to cook on it is even better. We love cooking on the wood stove. But, our wood stove is NOT a cook stove, it is just a wood stove for heating our home. Doesn't matter! We are able to cook on it because our stove has a flat top. We have electric heat as well, although we don't even turn on the baseboard heaters unless it is -20C … [Read more...]
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How to Grow Your Own Animal Feed
Learn how to grow your own animal feed and save thousands of dollars in feed costs. It would be almost impossible for us to grow 100% of the feed we need for our animals. But we can grow a lot of it - here's how we grow our own animal feed. Since we live in the North, we have a short growing season and a long cold snowy winter. But we do grow what we … [Read more...]
Fishing & Camping
We headed out for a few days of fantastic camping and fishing at one of the many lakes here in the Cariboo. They say you can fish at a different lake every single day of the year here in the Cariboo. I'm not an ice fishing fan, but there are a lot of them up here. I'd rather be nice and warm inside my house sitting by the woodstove. We spent 3 nights at a Forest Srvice Campground not too far … [Read more...]
About Us
We left a city on the West Coast of British Columbia to make our homestead in the Cariboo region of British Columbia (Canadian gardening Zone 3). Life on the Coast was getting too busy, there were too many people, too much traffic and too much noise. We've traded that in for quiet evenings spent on a porch overlooking our Valley, sipping a glass of our own homemade Wild Fruit Wine. While we … [Read more...]