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Dave & Amanda

Welcome! You’ve reached Dave and Amanda’s website documenting our lives while we develop our 16 acre property in northern Ontario, aptly named Wilderstead, with the goal of becoming self-sufficient.

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Tiny home
16 acres
Homesteading
Bushcraft
Going Offgrid
Northern Ontario
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A first for us on the Wilderstead. Peanuts! Starting small this year. Three boxes planted. If it’s a success, we may ramp that up next year. We definitely eat our fair share of peanuts and peanut butter here. Seeds from @bakercreekseeds (rareseeds.com)
#peanuts #growyourownfood #experiment #growingnorth

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The bumble bees are happy! They’ve moved on from the dandelions to kitchen garden. Which is awesome. Once those bean buds open up, they’ll likely help us out with them. In the mean time, fresh kale, romaine, oak leaf lettuce & radish. Gotta love springtime!

#pollinators #bumblebee #kitchengarden

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#blackouttuesday

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I’ve been spending a lot of time roaming the logging roads and woods here in search of springtime foragables. It’s amazing the friends you meet along the way. These are wood turtles. Doing their spring time thang. They’re endangered. And they are friends, not foes. So cool to meet these two today.
@algomacountry @algomaforestandnatureschool

#woodturtle #northernontario #endangeredspecies

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It all starts with a fresh wild brook trout, some fiddleheads and some pheasant back mushrooms. Add some taters and onions and you have a feast. It’s just amazing having all of this right in our backyard. Delicious. Lovingly fried in a Wilderstead grown CBD oil. It really can’t get much better than this.
#wildtrout #fiddleheads #pheasantbackmushroom #cbdinfused #wildfood #eathealthy #eatlocal

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New life on the Wilderstead this morning! Mother Clucker and Gertrude have been patiently sharing a nesting box sitting on eggs. We don’t know how many they are sitting on, but at least two little peepers have been spotted so far.

#mychickencoop #littlepeepers #broody #broodyhen

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How many various vegetable plants must one grow to ensure a harvest that will last until the next year? Just how much do you buy on an annual basis? Have you ever wondered that? The amount is quite staggering, actually. Here’s a little breakdown of what just TWO of us require for a year of both fresh veg during the growing season, as well as what we can and preserve. This list doesn’t include our cut and come again veg such as lettuce, Swiss chard, mustard and herbs. Nor does it include our direct sow crops such as cucumber, pea, bean, squash, pumpkin, peanut, potato, carrot, beet, onion, leek and various other veg. We’ll update on the numbers on those plantings as the season goes on. It’s a lot of work, but well worth the piece of mind knowing where your food comes from.

Peppers: 96 plants, a variety of hot and sweet.

Tomatoes: 144 plants. A large variety from paste to cherry to slicing.

Kale: 30 plants, a few varieties.
Celery: 28 plants.

Cabbage: 12 plants

#foodforthought #selfsufficiency #growfoodnotlawns #1millioncaloriechallenge #foodsecurity

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Spring has definitely arrived! We’re just about ready to start planting all of our seedlings into their permanent homes. We spent the last few days making sure our irrigation systems were ready to rock and roll. We’re running two separate solar powered irrigation setups. One in our main garden area which is fed by lake inferior. And a second system in our seedling greenhouse. If you’re interested in how we manage our irrigation with solar power, there’s a new video on our YT channel. Very simple solar powered irrigation.

#solarpower #irrigationsystem #selfsufficiency

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Findlay’s Fungus bringin’ the flavour to the table again! ‘Fish’ Tacos. We decided to get a little creative with our 1/4 lb Lions Mane mushroom that we picked up the other day. This was a delicious take on our fish taco recipe. And it did not disappoint! If your are in Sault Ste. Marie or the general area, and you like delicious, locally grown mushrooms, definitely get in touch with @findlaysfungus. You will not be disappointed.

Our fish taco recipe can be found on our website. Inspired by Dave’s sister Lisa (@go_seweco). It’s a tasty fusion of fresh greens, cumin and a creamy sauce.

#lionsmanemushroom #fishtacos #becreative

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Well that was a long winter! Welcome back spring time fresh flavour! French breakfast radishes straight outta the dirt!

#radish #delicious #fresh

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Taking advantage of today’s gorgeous weather! We’re getting a couple more raised beds set up behind the hoop house. These will be joined with a trellis/arch for our cucumbers, beans and other tasty produce.

#raisedbeds #canadianshield #shebuilds #bluesky

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Findlay’s Fungus bringin’ the flavour to the skillet! It’s awesome having a local mushroom producer. Also some of the #fiddleheads we harvested and saved last spring. Those are almost gone. Luckily this years crop of fiddleheads from the wild should be popping up very soon! @findlaysfungus - thanks for hooking us up today!

#stirfry #mushrooms #smallbusiness #wildfood

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More to come.... #appleorchard #goats #canadianshield

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The next step in the ginger bug saga... 4-5 days until I bottle and then another 5-7 until I can enjoy this lemon and wild blueberry soda-pop #goodthingscometothosewhowait

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WOW Folks!! THANK YOU! Our Wildergoodies have been flying out of our online shop. Everyone’s orders up until right this moment have shipped! We wanted to update on a few of our products that we have sold out of. Our Granulated Maple Sugar is sold out and our Strawberry Maple Sugar Jam is sold out. Also sold out are our Chaga Nuggets. We’ll have more of the Jam available in June. Plenty of Maple Syrup is still available. We have just 2 of our FREE Wilderstead Branded tote bags left. Again, thank you ALL so much!

#smallproducer #maplesyrup #sweettooth #wilderstead

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