Join us as we head into the mountains to forage for Christmas evergreens, to make wreaths and also to get Christmas trees to decorate our home. It is a winter wonderland, with beautiful forests and lake views.
We also share more of beautiful British Columbia by sharing some of our vacation to Vancouver Island earlier in the month. Rainforest and ocean, we enjoyed our time, and hope you enjoy getting to see some of it too!
Finally, we put our wreath ring clamp machine to the test, getting to do our first experiment with it since we purchased it in the summer. It is a fun tool for making the tricky job of wreath making much fast, and I’m glad to have it. Now I just have to sell the million wreaths I want to make…
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Great video! And your trees are beautiful!
>100K subs! Congratulations!
I really enjoyed this video! Your family shares so much joy! I’m envious of where you live. Having lived in Maine during my boyhood, I’m a northerner at heart!
Almost got to stop by your farm to purchase something but highway 99 opened up, it was a brief window and we thankfully made it through. The kids seemed happy. There is nothing better than to see children discovering the natural world. Love to BC.
I would like some colors on the wreath from the beautiful đrie flowers you have
Your haircut is so winterr
You guys are very hard working people. You deserve a nice holidays. Always watching ur vlogs. From Victoria BC
For everyone asking, you do technically need a permit to cut down a Christmas tree on public land and most permits allow only one tree to be cut.
The website suggests the following etiquette:
Do: Pick the perfect tree before cutting
Do: Ensure it fits on your vehicle to avoid trimming
Do: Cut cleanly at the base
Don't: Leave unsafe, pointed stumps
Don't: Leave debris to fuel summer fires
Loved the drone footage of the snowy pines, the time lapse of setting up the Christmas trees and the wreath maker machine! Happy you enjoyed a family trip after your exhausting growing season. There’s nothing like salty air to reboot the soul.
Oh! I've never seen snow! Xmas in QLD Australia is SO very different!! But this looks beautiful. xx
I’ve been waiting for this. Thank you! Good to know your family is safe.
Ok listen I like you guys a lot but why cut down so many trees? You guys are farmers. Why not plant a couple of trees outside your gate? And perhaps grow trees in your farm? Do they grow trees specifically for anyone to cut down during the holidays or what?
I think God smiled broadly when he created British Columbia and said, “this, my finest work, just for you. Take care of your paradise”.
Sooooo beautiful!!!
I don't understand, is this from a tree farm? or you just cut down random trees on the side of the road? (stealing it) Someone owns this land don't they?
There have been lots of questions about where we are foraging, so here's all the interesting details about what's going on, and how things work in Canada.
The area that we are in is called "Crown Land" which is owned by the government (or, another way to put it, owned by all Canadians). 89% of Canada is Crown land – Canada is pretty massive. These areas have many recreation options – we can go play in the woods, forage or hunt legally, though some uses need a permit. Christmas tree collecting (and the small amount of foraging we did here) needs a permit which is free, and you just print off a computer, and it lists the rules about what and where you can get trees.
The road that we are traveling on is a "logging road." The reason why we are able to access this area so easily is because there is some private property around the lake you see in the first drone shots, which maintains the beginning of the road. There is also a lot of active logging here, so the road is good. At our first stop, and drone shots, we are stopped at a replanted "cut block" where trees are growing back after being harvested. The kids are playing in what looks like the perfect spot to find a Christmas tree – but those aren't allowed to be cut; they need to grow back big and strong and fill the forest back in. Instead, we grabbed our trees from the very side of the road (where the permit specifies). By harvesting baby trees off the shoulder of the roads for Christmas, we actually help to maintain these logging roads, and are therefore are just thinning trees that would be cut down anyways.
Another common spot for Christmas trees in Canada is under powerlines – but often, those rights are sold to businesses who cut them in bulk and then sell them in cities for money. Christmas trees are also farmed on private land in Canada, because not all varieties of popular Christmas trees grow naturally in our woods. But many of Canada's Christmas trees are actually trees that needed to be cut down anyways. Hope you find all that info interesting!
Ian is BOSS at cutting trees and jumping ditches! Thanks for taking us along! ❤ Linda in Vancouver
So good to see Tofino in winter! We go there most summers! Lovely vacation full of beautiful memories!
Never stop taking photos of your kids even if they complain about it. I wore out 2 cameras documenting my 3 kids adventures! They bitched about my photo taking at the time but now that they are adults they LOVE to look at our big box of family photos that I printed, laughing and sharing memories! I'm doing the same now with my grandson ❤
Where do you get those wire wreath forms?
Loved this video!
Can you let us know how the wreath sales went and did you put more decorations ofvthevwreath
I did some legal foraging for my planters out front as well!!! This was a fun video the kids looked like they were having a blast!!!! and that wreath maker was AWESOME. When I saw the fresh wreaths at Costco yesterday, I had to snoop and check them out, and they were clamped like that. such a cool machine and so much faster then hand wrapping with wires. I hope you make your million wreaths by Saturday!!!
Love you take from fallen trees