EP13_ Inside my 30 foot long cabin building shelter. Bonus Episode!

This is just a little filler video between cabin-building episodes. Let me know if you like these and want me to keep shooting the weekends or just compile the best footage into epic cabin-building videos.

I know some of you will find sleeping under the stars boring but others love the peaceful pace of these slower videos. I'm doing my best to give you the full experience of this project. Cabin building is only a small part of why I'm doing this. The camp cooking, sleeping under the stars, learning about myself and practicing these skills are as valuable to me as the finished product.

Project Overview:
In 2013 we bought a little cabin in the woods as our permanent home. This decision really changed the course of our life. Living along a flowing river full of trout, surrounded with a canopy of old-growth forest has taught us the values of living within nature. But, like all good things you always want more. For now, we intend to keep this little slice of heaven but are looking to set up another home base a little further north.

Since we’re looking for land that has both a freshwater source and plenty of acres to explore, protect, and manage, we’re expecting to have to pay a fair fee and know we’ll need to put most of our financial resources into the land itself. We also want to design a life that allows us to live a debt-free life to avoid financial stress and worry that often prevents people from properly considering environmental factors in their home building decisions. When even the cheapest mass-produced house is beyond the reach of most, concerns about quality and environment are often pushed aside. This project is going to explore traditional building methods that have environmental concerns at the forefront.

Although it is a little disturbing to see how many trees it takes to make a small cabin I feel so fortunate that my cabin project won’t contribute to the deforestation of the old-growth great Canadian wildness that I love exploring. At the rate of tree growth, and the size of the woodlot, if managed properly there would be trees for many many generations of cabin builders. My goal is to self harvest 100% of the wood used in this cabin not only reducing deforestation but also reduce environmental impact with the reduced transportation costs, and manufacturing of synthetic materials.