First post

Well I thought it was time to share the day to day happenings of our life in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. We (Ian & Lisa) emigrated to Cape Breton a year ago, I'm a bushcraft instructor and Lisa has an antique and restoration business in Baddeck. We bought an old farm house which hasn't been actively farmed for 40 years, it came with 200 acres and lots of wildlife. The land opposite the house is mostly woodland and the intended site of my Bushcraft school (approx 70 acres), the land below is old meadows (great deer habitat) that have turned to brush, a brook (Cold brook (aptly named), then there are more woods a shallow lake and marsh (great moose habitat). When I talk about traditional living, I'm referring to growing your own food and making tools and implements as the first European settlers would have, also incorporating 1st nation crafts and tools but I'm a realist and there are times when modern conveniences like tractors and snow mobiles make more sense. Hopefully there is a happy medium between the two. The traditional methods need to kept alive there's a lot to learn and mistakes will be made but hopefully over all valuable lessons will be learnt

Hopefully there will be items of interest to the bushcraft community in particular and everyone else generally.