City Folk Moving to the Country
It all begins with a dream. A dream to live closer to God’s creation, surrounded by green in the summer and white in the winter. A life that is quieter, slower, and spent more outside than inside. A life that involves animals, and not just our dog. A life that recovers the art of living off the land in a more sustainable way.
When we first came to the Hideaway Farm, we felt the healing that this land held for our souls and our bodies and we decided right then to share this place with others.
We dove in head-first - looking after 24 chickens and 6 ducks through a very cold and snowy winter. Sheep came within 3 weeks of our move. We were getting the barn ready at 11pm for their arrival the next day. Learning how to keep the water from freezing, how to walk through hip-deep drifts to the barns each and every day, how to put up snow fences so that our driveway would not blow over within an hour of clearing …these were all hard-earned lessons.
With each one, we marvelled at God’s provision and the way we understood ourselves as part of wonderful world, in which we all need to care for one another. As we, daily, care for our sheep and poultry, they also care for us, and God cares for us all.
The neighbours were a God-sent - to help figure out the tractor, to learn how to install and electric fence, to even helping us to cull our very nasty ram-Rambo.
And now we get to live in paradise. Watching our souls and our bodies be restored. You are most welcome to drop in for a night or longer. Listen to the silence, watch the dark sky, swim in the sparkling clean water of the Georgian bay and become and bit more who you are meant to be.