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Our Small Four Season Winter Greenhouse It’s the beginning of March! Spring is now less than 20 days away. Lets have a look inside the...

We often find ourselves far away from a source of power, so we decided to get a portable power station, and we were excited when...

Home Grown Asparagus From Seed In Northern Ontario, our secret to successfully growing pounds and pounds of vegetable crops despite our...

Taking some time to answer your winter greenhouse questions. We’ve been experimenting with growing food over the winter in a greenhouse...

It’s January. It’s -20 outside. We’re not in the far north, but we’re definitely north enough that winter growing takes a little effort....

Two things that we really love about this area: Maple Syrup and fresh fish from Lake Superior. Sometimes the two come together. This is...

There is a special place in our hearts here at the Wilderstead for Cowboy Candy. This stuff is very addictive, which has lead to its...

We eat a ton of potatoes. Probably more than most folks do. We make poutine at least once or twice a week, so it’s safe to say that we go...

We are expanding our herd of goats this summer! Woohoo! So that means we need to get an entire new goat enclosure and area set up. We’ve...

New life on the Wilderstead this morning! Mother Clucker and Gertrude have been patiently sharing a nesting box sitting on eggs. We don’t...

As we slowly make our transition to an off grid property, we continue to experiment with various alternative sources for power. These are...

To say we have a lot of rocks here on the Wilderstead is an understatement. It makes gardening in northern Ontario on the Canadian Shield...

Our Recipe For Pressure Canning Fresh Wild Salmon Spring time. One thing that we love to do here is go fishing for lake Superior rainbow...

We have a short growing season here. June through September – in a good year. After building our first greenhouse for spring seedlings...

Learn everything you need to know from tapping your trees to filtering and bottling your own maple syrup right here! Everyone loves it...

It’s officially maple season! I had no idea our dog Caddis would be so talented with a camera. We strapped a GoPro to her while we were...

Here we are once again, getting ready for the 2020 maple syrup season in the Algoma region of Northern Ontario! Our file cabinet sap...

We had an amazingly warm weekend here on the Wilderstead! We took the time to get the north wall of our off grid solar powered greenhouse...

We lucked out BIG TIME!! A friendly neighbour of ours who watches our channel and follows us across our social medias got in touch a...

Sometimes you make mistakes. They can be big mistakes, small mistakes, or just mistakes that leave you scratching your head saying why? I...