Welcome to the Connected To The Land podcast, sponsored by Peavey Mart.
On this latest episode, Ian chats with Mallorie and Ben, fulltime homesteaders, trying to revive a neglected 1800's 200 acre homestead. Located in cold zone 3 Quebec, they have to deal with the challenges of a very short growing season and deep deep snow in the winter. Due to a serious accident in Afghanistan with the Canadian Forces in 2007, Ben suffers from chronic back pain and PTSD. In turn, Mallorie and Ben rely heavily on a lot of machinery to help out with the heavy lifting on the farm: a skidder to harvest the wood from their beautiful mixed wood forest, farm tractors, a Kubota Excavator, and a saw mill to make all of their building materials. They are also big on reusing and recycling, so sometimes their buildings may be a bit unconventional, but it works for them.
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