by Victoria Gazeley | Nov 7, 2012 | Emergency Preparedness, From City to Country, Lessons
You’re driving down a long country road on the way to your weekend retreat, or maybe you’re on your way back to your rural home from the winter market. It’s freezing out. It’s snowing hard. And you’re miles from your destination....
by Victoria Gazeley | Oct 29, 2012 | Fear, From City to Country, Homesteading Stories, Mindset, Rural Living Skills, Wildlife
The fear started before we even moved in. Staying in our old cabin alone had been on my bucket list for years. Along with sleeping in a tent alone (which, I have to admit, I still haven’t done). The cabin we now live in had been in our family for about a decade before...
by Victoria Gazeley | Oct 23, 2012 | Buildings, From City to Country, Homestead Planning, Lessons, Rural Real Estate
Our new neighbours, not yet even moved in, recently had most (if not all) of their winter fire wood supply stolen at some point in the night. Our properties are far enough apart, and uphill from us with a creek and hill between, that we didn’t hear a thing. It...
by Victoria Gazeley | Oct 22, 2012 | Heating with Wood, Product Reviews, Rural Living Skills, Videos, Wood Heat
Get the scoop on the easiest, cleanest, and most ergonomically correct way to carry firewood from the wood pile to your house. A product review of the Apron Tote, which you can pick up from Lee Valley Tools. I’ve been using this handy ‘gadget’ since...
by Victoria Gazeley | Sep 18, 2012 | Children on the Homestead, From City to Country, Lessons
“Come see what I built!” It was an invitation from my then almost-9-year-old son to visit the space he had built for himself to ‘get away from it all’. He led me carefully through one of the many patches of undergrowth near our little cabin, thick with salmon...
