Balancing Wild

We are a family of three raising our young son in a 200 sq. ft., one-room cabin deep in the woods. Our property sits near where the paved road ends and the dirt begins, completely surrounded by public lands, with a 400-foot footpath leading to our front door.

We don’t really know what label fits us. We aren't traditional "homesteaders," though firewood and high quality meals make up a big part of our life.  We aren't "minimalists" by design, we just don't think a larger house would actually improve our lives right now. We aren’t “survivalists”, but we do forage, hunt and we figure out how to fix things ourselves.

We rely on a woodstove for heat, but we also rely on a Starlink dish 130 feet up a Douglas fir. We haul our groceries through the woods by hand, but we also really like our smart light dimmers.

We don't have it all figured out. This is just our family’s attempt at finding our own balance point between the primitive and the practical.