New YouTube video just published chronicling May on the homestead. Things are coming to life!

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...

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...

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...

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...

*This post includes updates and reflections about our personal lives, about the land/little forest and about our business lives over at...

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...

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...

Without further ado, here is our general top-level plan for the land, in order of priority:

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...