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Spring on the Homestead - May 2025
New YouTube video just published chronicling May on the homestead. Things are coming to life!
Jun 2


Northwoods Homestead Journal - Spring 2025
It's been a busy and chaotic year so far. Self-sufficiency has become more of a priority than ever before. There are a lot of unknowns in...
May 2


Carve, Paint, Print: A Lesson in Persistence & Letting Go of Control
When we moved up to Ely in the fall three years ago, we lived in a log cabin way up by the Canadian border. It was a temporary rental and...
Nov 23, 2024


Vogl Homestead Update
What a year 2023 was. We got so much accomplished on our home, added to our acreage, and had a lot of fun. There were also many...
Jan 14, 2024


A New Life in Ely
We finally did it! After many years of talking and planning, we moved from South St. Paul to Ely, MN. It's been about 13 months since we...
Oct 12, 2022


Hello 2021, We've Been Waiting
*This post includes updates and reflections about our personal lives, about the land/little forest and about our business lives over at...
Jan 3, 2021


Mother Nature / Father Time - Halloween 2020
This year there are no Halloween parties. Trick-or-Treating is going to look different for us too - we're hitting up a trunk-or-treat...
Oct 23, 2020


A Topsy Turvy World + 2020 Plan Changes
Back when we bought the land, we wrote down some things we wanted to remember on this journey. One of them was to "Keep an open mind." To...
Jul 13, 2020


So we bought some land. Now what?
Without further ado, here is our general top-level plan for the land, in order of priority:
Oct 21, 2019


Time to Go Up North
After half a lifetime of dreaming, years of planning and many months of on-the-ground searching, we are now the grateful owners of 10...
Oct 2, 2019
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