Upcoming Workshops!

What You'll Find

We teach land-based skills through workshops, videos, and field notes from our forest homestead in eastern Ontario.

Our work explores:

• permaculture & forest gardens

• bushcraft & survival skills

• natural movement & land-based fitness

• food preservation & wild foods

• homesteading skills and experiments

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

4 minute emails sharing stories, learnings, upcoming events, and updates from the land.

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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 alongside us, you can start with our videos, join a workshop, or stay connected through our Forest Edge Newsletter!

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)

🍃Berries & Bushcraft🍃

Field Notes from the Forest Edge

Every few weeks you’ll get a 4 minute email about our journey working with nature rather than against it, including:

🌿Reflections on what we’re learning, growing, building, and refining

🌿Mistakes we’re learning from and questions we’re exploring

🌿Permaculture, homesteading, and Earth skills to try where you live

🌿Stories, updates, and lessons from our forest homestead

🌿Upcoming workshops, courses, and opportunities to learn more

We hope to see you soon!

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-Britt & Oggi

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