Most people's journey to homesteading starts with them purchasing land or selling their house in town. Not mine! I must admit I'm really excited to tell you all about this part of my life! After I left off from my previous story I ended up on this beautiful 60 acres just on the outskirts of Kelowna.
I have about 20 gigs of photos from this place so I'm going to have to make this into a few posts!
You wouldn't be able to tell how close town was without this perspective. It's like a hidden treasure!
I absolutely adored this place and it will forever hold a special place in my heart
It used to be a huge cattle ranch. A very bio-diverse area featuring so many different plants and wildlife. - Lots of foraging and nutritious pasture. And a lovely creek
This was our living room until we got the house sorted haha
I arrived here with a litter of 8 puppies alongside the sanctuary critters (ferrets/sugar gliders/reptiles) which you can read about here and a 26' uhaul worth of stuff - Crazy I know
I have a bunch of great videos of these puppies I will post
The house was in pretty terrible condition - it was being used as a grow house for cannabis, there were a dozen 1000watt high pressure sodium lights setup. It was pretty extensive!
This is the basement that would sometimes flood, had to setup the pump and pressure tank. Was an interesting learning experience.
We set to work turning each of the rooms into animal bedrooms - that's the soon to be glider door on the floor
Dog room - with access to yard through the window
Sugar Glider room - with access through window to 8'x4'x4' enclosure outside
Ferret room
Can't seem to find any photos of the reptile/plant room but here's a photo of the iguana
Living room transformed!
About a month after my arrival I found the biggest trailer possible - go big or go home eh and of course it had a 20' addition to dismantle. I got a skookum deal though - $4500 for everything including a bunch of brand new appliances. Previous owner paid $35,000 and took very good care of it.
I got to trashing it right away - lol just kidding, I've been living in here for over 4 years now but it sure as heck doesn't look as nice as it did.
Soon enough my good friend @melanierosa and room mate I moved here from my previous place with both got trailers as well. I found Matt's for 400$ cause I've got a talent for finding all the deals.
There was an insane amount of stuff to be found everywhere on this property, it took a long time to clean it all up
There was way more stuff in here before this photo was taken. We harvested quite a bit, for example we got at least a dozen tarps - some of them insulated.
Just part of the building located behind my trailer
Further down the property
Inside the barn
Alright I've already spent an entire day on this post and there's tons more photos and story left to tell, so until next time!
