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Cass & Gen

@localprairie

Starting up a homestead in Saskatchewan, focusing on permaculture and rewilding!

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Cass & Gen
@localprairie Feb 14, 2018, 8:14 PM UTC

Flora of the Land

We are Blessed. This land is alive. Through every season there is movement, colour and song. Even now, in late winter the Aspen are photosynthesising through their bark, and their branches are speckl…

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Cass & Gen
@localprairie Jan 31, 2018, 8:51 PM UTC

Fauna of the Land

I really enjoy spending my winter time observing the life around me. Some folks will find it weird that I say such a thing in the middle of a long Canadian winter. Even the thought of winter tends to…

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Cass & Gen
@localprairie Jan 24, 2018, 3:40 AM UTC

Rewilding, our journey

Genevieve here, this post takes a look at the rewilding lifestyle. This is study is from our perspective, everyone is on their own unique journey and so rewilding will mean something different for ev…

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Cass & Gen
@localprairie Jan 23, 2018, 1:25 AM UTC

The Shed - building a tiny nook Part 2

Welcome to Part 2, let me continue where I left off. It was well into December by this point and I wanted a heated space to work in. We went ahead and installed the windows and doors, the building wr…

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Cass & Gen
@localprairie Jan 22, 2018, 5:18 AM UTC

The Shed - building a tiny nook Part 1

It was the fall of 2015. Our landscaping business was coming into existence, yet we still had much to figure out over the long prairie winter. Things were starting to look up as we began a new relati…

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Cass & Gen
@localprairie Jan 18, 2018, 7:32 PM UTC

Our 1/4 section - falling in love with a place.

We found ourselves looking for a place to stay, and I really mean to STAY. Connection, a word that has a lot of meaning. But I mean it in a very simple primal way. Maybe the way our ancestors felt it…

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Cass & Gen
@localprairie Jan 18, 2018, 2:14 AM UTC

Let us introduce ourselves...

My partner Genevieve and I are very happy to have found steemit through the very wise and wonderful @wwf. I have been following his postings on facebook for a couple years, he and his family have bee…

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Cass & Gen
@localprairie Jan 16, 2018, 8:59 PM UTC

A summer of building a cordwood cabin! Part 3

And finally! Time to talk a bit about cordwood masonry in this post! Although I have had some good construction experience in my life I have never tried anything like cordwood masonry. Last winter I…

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Cass & Gen
@localprairie Jan 16, 2018, 4:17 AM UTC

A summer of building a cordwood cabin! Part 2

Hola! Here is the continuation of the cabin construction as promised! Here is the pad curing day after the pour. Did I forget to mention the floor footprint is roughly 24'x20'? The cabin will be just…

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Cass & Gen
@localprairie Jan 16, 2018, 3:30 AM UTC

A summer of building a cordwood cabin! Part 1

Hello my name is Cass, Over the past year and a half my partner (Genevieve) and I's dream has been coming to fruition! We bought a beautiful quarter section north of our home town of Saskatoon Saskat…

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