Zone 3 Wild Harvest Living
Hunt it. Fish it. Forage it. Grow it. Preserve it.
We’re Brooke and Brandon, a Minnesota couple learning to live more from the land — and sharing every success, mistake, and lesson along the way.
Live Wild
Zone 3 doesn’t get much love in the homesteading world. Most homesteading advice is written for longer growing seasons, bigger gardens, and milder winters.
We live differently.
Here in northern Minnesota, we grow what we can, gather what the woods give us, fill the freezer one season at a time, and preserve enough to carry us through winter.
Fresh from the Blog
Wild Berries of Northern Minnesota: Two Easy Berries to Identify and Forage This Summer Raspberries and blackberries are some of the easiest wild berries to identify in northern Minnesota. Here’s how I tell them apart—and the lookalikes I leave behind.
Zone 3 Gardening: What I’m Growing This Summer (and Why) What’s actually in the ground this year, what I’m still learning about clay soil, and why I picked these varieties for a short season.
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