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Life On The Land

In today's guru culture, the internet is saturated with Insta-glam homesteads and armchair survivalists teaching gimmicky Tiktok tricks - and often miss the little details that actually matter.

We teach from real life on the land - shaped by our own experiences, experiments, and by the people who've taught us along the way.

Multi-passionate? Yes. A little scatterbrained? Absolutely. But the one thing that ties it all together? It all comes back to working with nature rather than against it.

About Us

We’re Britt and Oggi — two big nature nerds living life on the forest edge in Eastern Ontario, Canada.

Over the years we’ve studied and practiced many land-based skills: gardening and permaculture, bushcraft and survival, natural movement, foraging, food preservation, and other homesteading and ancestral crafts. But more importantly, we’ve spent years learning how these skills fit together as part of a life lived close to the land - both in the city and in the big woods.

We love sharing what we're learning - including our successes, mistakes, and any small discoveries we encounter along the way.

If you'd like to learn with us, you can start with our videos, join a workshop, or stay connected through our Forest Edge Newsletter!

Workshops & Courses

Seasonal workshops and courses for gardeners, homesteaders, and nature lovers.

YouTube

Free videos exploring skills, ideas, and life on the forest edge homestead.

The Forest Edge Newsletter

A simple way to stay connected and keep learning over time.

Choose Your Path

Rabbit Holes

Some of the land-based topics we love exploring.

Forest Gardens & Permaculture

Design beautiful, resilient, and abundant food systems for your homestead or backyard

Bushcraft & Survival

Practice skills for reading the land, surviving in the wild, and preserving the skills of our ancestors

Build strength, mobility, and resilience through ancestral movements our bodies still require

Land-Based Movement

Dehydrating Your Harvest

Turn garden produce, wild foods, and full meals into lightweight, long-lasting pantry staples

Growing Gourmet Mushrooms

Cultivate delicious mushrooms at home, from backyard logs to small-scale indoor setups

Keep happy, healthy backyard flocks by learning to read their signals and work with their natures

Chickens and Ducks

Nature Activities for Kids

Facilitate hands-on games, crafts, and activity sheets, helping kids reconnect with nature

Raising Mealworms at Home

Raise mealworms as a simple, sustainable protein source for chickens, ducks, and wildlife

Turn maple sap into syrup - then making traditional granulated maple sugar over the campfire

Maple Sugaring (the old way)

Newsletter:

🍃Notes from the Forest Edge🍃

If you’re a curious, multi-passionate nature nerd who also loves diving down rabbit holes, needs to learn every skill, likes to analyze why things work (or don’t), and can’t help but get distracted mid-conversation because “hey, sorry, I just need to go see a plant” - then we hope you'll enjoy these Notes from the Forest Edge :)

Every week (or few), we’ll send you a little note from our Forest Edge Homestead.

It might be a new skill we’re trying, a mistake we made, or even a moment or story that’s just too good not to share!

In it, we’ll explore ideas like:

• Is this really a problem - or a solution in disguise?

• Designs we're testing to help us do more with less work

• Where we think it’s worth doing something the long way - and why

• Why things didn't work the way we expected

• What nature is teaching us - and how we're trying to apply it

… along with simple invitations, prompts, and projects to try at home.

And if you'd ever like to go a little deeper, we'll also send occasional updates on upcoming workshops or courses, our newest videos, and any special events you might enjoy.

Spam is the worst! We respect your privacy, time and energy.

If our newsletter isn't bringing you inspiration, value, or joy, feel free to unsubscribe at any time.

-Britt & Oggi

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Life on the Forest Edge

A sampling of some of our most popular videos (and a few that deserve more love) featuring permaculture, homesteading, skills of the wild, and kids nature activities.

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Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledge that the work we do takes place on lands cared for by the Algonquin (Omàmìwininìwag) Anishnaabeg.

We also recognize that acknowledgement alone is not enough.

While much has changed on these lands in recent generations, Indigenous communities continue to live, work, and care for these lands today. We honour the knowledge passed down for generations - and grieve for the knowledge that has been lost.

As people who spend our time learning from and working with the land, we see firsthand how much knowledge and care is required for ecosystems to thrive.

In these disconnected modern times, we believe we need to work together to each bring our unique gifts to care for the Earth. Whether it's through activism, education, community work, or art - no one can do it alone.

While we have learned much with our teachers, we are still learning what it means to be on this land in a good way - and this is a lifelong journey with no finish line.

While every decision in life comes with connections and consequences, we work every day to:

• live in right relationship with the spirit of this land and its peoples

• honour and respect every being, water body, landscape, and ecosystem

• explore and carry forward the collective knowledge and skills of all our land-based ancestors - no matter where on planet Earth they called home