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

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...

A six month update on building and setting up a homemade Canadian Nightcrawler worm farm. Dew worms, or nightcrawlers are one of the most...

A tasty wild meal prepared from fresh lake Superior Coho salmon, Yellowfoot Chanterelles (winter chanterelles), Golden Chanterelles and...

Fall mushroom foraging for Yellowfoot Chanterelles, also known as winter mushroom, or Funnel Chanterelle. These fall mushrooms begin to...

Often, the biggest problem with foraging wild mushrooms is having too many. Canning and preserving wild chanterelle mushrooms is a great...

Chanterelle Mushrooms is the common name of several species of wild edible mushrooms in the genera Cantharellus. I was lucky to get out...

Broadleaf Plantain (plantago major) is one of the most common edible backyard weeds that has been used for centuries for its medicinal...

How to build and set up a homemade Canadian Nightcrawler worm farm. Dew worms, or nightcrawlers are one of the most popular fishing baits...

WATCH:  FORAGING FOR TROUT LILY – WHERE TO FIND AND HOW TO HARVEST

Come along for a day of adventure, ice fishing in northern Ontario. We headed out to the Tilley Lakes in Algoma, northern Ontario for a...

We’re surrounded by lakes and rivers in the Algoma region of northern Ontario. Every season has something to offer in the way of fishing....

Chaga freshly harvested from the Birch tree needs to be processed before you can make Chaga tea. Processing the Chaga right away is...

Today we bring a Bushcraft Special! VIDEO OUTLINING THE BIRCH OIL PROCESSING METHOD WE USE: Using our land in every way we can is very...

What is that weird black stuff that grows on Birch Trees? It just so happens that the weird black thing growing on your Birch tree is a...

Spring in the forest is such a beautiful time. Songbirds are returning from their southern vacation. Bears are waking up from...

Our property is dominated by trembling aspen, a very common tree found in the northern forests of North America. On these trees grow the...

We are lucky to have an abundance of Aspen Oyster mushrooms that grow wild on our land.  In early summer, these mushrooms begin to appear...