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 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 | 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...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jun 17, 2012 | About Us, From City to Country, Lessons, Mentoring, Rural Living Skills
I’m looking out my office window at the foundation of the new addition we’re building onto our little cabin. Or really, that my Dad is building as I keep working so I can pay for it. And it’s got me to thinking about where we’d be without his...
by Victoria Gazeley | Apr 2, 2012 | Clothing & Footwear, From City to Country, Homesteading Stories, Lessons, Uncategorized
Whether you’ve been on this rural living/modern homesteading journey for decades, or you’re just starting out, the question always comes up – how do you know when you’ve ‘arrived’? This whole question was born out of something that...
by Victoria Gazeley | Mar 12, 2012 | Clothing & Footwear, Lessons
Before we moved to our rural property, the only shoes I’d ever owned that even resembled ‘Wellies’ were of the knee-high, steel-toed LaCrosse industrial variety, purchased for a hydro-seeding job one spring in the mid-90s. No need for this sort of thing in the city...