Heading Back to the Wilderness – Trailer Packed for Remote Island Living
Season 4 begins with the long-awaited drive north as we return to our Remote Wilderness Island in British Columbia. 🚛🌲 After months away, the planning, packing, welding…
Wilderness Island History Revealed — As Told by One of Its First Children
This trip back to the Island was pretty rough, but a wonderful surprise awaited us! One of the highlights of this trip was meeting Beverly, who grew up on Bird Island and…
Off Grid Life on a Remote Island in Canada – Solar Power, Swamped Boat & Beating the Storm
Real Off Grid Life — solar fixes, boat mishaps, barge logistics and a stormy supply run… all in a day on our Island! This episode dives into the…
Off Grid Life & Homestead Living on a Remote Island: The Life We Built from Scratch
In the spring of 2022 we bought a remote wilderness island sight unseen on a lake in British Columbia. We drove across the country to pick up an old barge, and…
Living Off Grid: When a Storm Takes Our Shoreline Away
After a fierce overnight storm tears into our shoreline, we’re forced to reassess how we protect our remote off-grid island homestead. In this episode, we inspect the erosion damage, plan a…
Off Grid Life: We Bought an Island in Canada – 3 Years Later, Here’s What We Built!
Step into off grid life on a remote Canadian island — wild, unpredictable, and breathtaking. We’re building our dream from scratch : cabins, solar power…
Canadian Off Grid Island Life: A Reality Check — Barge DEAD in the WATER
When you choose Off Grid Life, you sign up for moments that test your patience, ingenuity, and sense of humor — all at once. This week on our remote wilderness island,…
Off Grid Life Canada: Building a Tiny Cabin on Our Remote Island – Biggest Transformation Yet!
Waking up to a glassy lake and the hush of the forest is a quiet reminder of why we chose this off-grid life. Our remote island tiny cabin is…
Off Grid Cabin Build: Facing Fears on Homemade Scaffolding After My Bad Fall
Off Grid Cabin Build, Homemade Scaffolding, and pushing past fear after a bad fall… all on our Remote Island Homestead in northern BC. When we bought this island in…
Off Grid Island Build: 14½ Hours for a Sawmill?! Our Biggest Upgrade Yet
We’re gearing up for a long trip off the island — 14½ hours of barges, boats, forest roads, ferries, and highways — all to bring home a sawmill we’ve been dreaming…
One Slip and Our New Sawmill Falls Into the Water!
This episode is pure Off Grid Island Build reality — a long road back, unexpected delays, brutal washboard roads with a trailer that has zero suspension, and then the biggest test: transferring…
Off Grid Island Build: Three Days to Get the Sawmill Off the Barge
In the spring of 2022, we bought a remote wilderness island sight unseen on a lake in British Columbia. We drove across the country to pick up an old barge, and now we’re building…