Living Off the Edge: River Rapids to Homestead Bliss - Epic Adventures & Harvesting Dreams!
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Living Off the Edge: River Rapids to Homestead Bliss - Epic Adventures & Harvesting Dreams!
River life on the Magnetawan has included some wilderness exploration and homestead work as of late. I finished my four-day whitewater adventure down the Magnetawan with adventure seekers @TheRealTedBaird @XanderBudnick @MaximBudnick and my dog North. Right off the hop, we portaged around a beautiful waterfall and soon began soloing a demanding whitewater rapid. I caught a nice Northern Pike on a Mepps spoon and before too long we'd made it to our end point at Georgian Bay.
This adventure capped off four trips I'd done in the weeks prior and I hadn't spent much time with my family in recent days. On my return home, my wife Tori and I had our work cut out for us. We planned to grow a large amount of our food this year and preserve it for the winter months. I returned home with a fish fry and then we got to work. We hauled soil, build raised bed gardens, and planted two three sisters gardens of corn, beans, and squash as well as pumpkins, peppers, tomatoes, and more! It felt good to get a lot done before our next adventure...this one with the whole family along.
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Chapters:
0:00 Portaging Five FInger Falls
1:49 Catching Dinner: is it a Walleye?
2:31 Lining a Rapid & North Falls off the Canoe
5:29 Train Trestle Rapids - Canoe Dump!
8:52 Scouting & Running Thirty-Dollar Rapids!
10:58 How to Clean a Pike - the FIve Cut Method Explained
14:42 Processing Firewood - Folding Saw & Hudson Bay Axe
15:19 Fish Fry! Using Fish Crisp to Fry Up Pike for Dinner
17:29 Frost & Heavy Mist in the Morning
20:06 Loons, Scarlot Tananger & Big Pike!
21:16 Portage the Falls with Pike Clipped to Food Barrel
22:14 Smashed Boat Mid-Rapids, Canoe Dumps!
25:40 Final Thoughts on the Trip
25:55 Looking Back at my Recent Spring Trips & Heading Home to Work
26:50 What We Have Planned for our Vegitable Gardens at out Homestead
28:07 Permaculture - Putting Organic Matter in Raised Bed Before Soil
29:11 Bee on our Apple Blossum & Hauling Topsoil
30:03 Tori Plants Fron Garden in Grow Bags & Hummingbird Visits
31:45 Jim Fertalizes Three Sisters Gardens & Soaks Soil
33:22 Jim Plants Corn Using Smelt Fish as Fertalizer
34:59 Jim & Tori Build a Raised Bed Garden Box
35:39 Planting in the Pumpkin Patch & Huddy Uses the Slide
36:14 Huddy Wants to Slide into Cold Water, Does he Bail?
37:32 Laying Organic Material Down in the New Raised Bed Garden
38:21 Hauling Topsoil up to the New Garden, Mizing it with Host Soil
41:00 Cooking up One of the Lake Trout I Caught for Dinner
Thanks a lot for tuning in! Please let me know what you liked most about this vid and if you enjoyed the fuller story of what I did at my house after the whitewater trip down the river I live on. Also, here’s a link to the vid where I share the beginning of this canoe adventure: th-cam.com/video/e9ZS8j0ixYQ/w-d-xo.html
Love all the cooking segments !!!
Wow Hudson is growing up so fast, love how he bailed on the pool slide.
"Please do not heat the can food on fire and eat from it!" A lot of can food have plastic lining inside of the can. Microplastic particles are already in the human blood and it is harmful to our health.
Loved the part about what you did at your house after the trip just as much!! Can you do more of that, please? Like what you do when you get home from trips. Have you ever done a home and / or property tour?
The part I liked best- your genuine wholesomeness!
The trip portion was incredible and masterfully done imo.
I absolutely enjoyed every second of the Homestead dynamics and family lifestyle.
Such a model citizen and family!
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for allowing us into your family activities. It shows you’re real family. The boys are precious
Music is great as long as it doesn't interfere with narrating !
They sure are, you’re very welcome and I appreciate you watching.
Beautiful beautiful family. What a wonderful life. God bless you and Tori, Wesley and Hudson.
Thank you very much, indeed it is.
I must say, this was one of your best. The photography and the drone footage is breath taking.
I really enjoy your solo adventures but these group adventures are becoming my favourites.
Thank you Jim, Ted, Zander and Max. And a big Thx to Tory who Paddleslikeagirl and keeps the home fires burning.
I didn't think you were going to show us the dump you took on this trip. The last video just seemed to end without the last day of the trip. Not surprised you were a good sport about it. I really enjoyed watching you and Tori getting the garden set up. You grew some amazing vegetables the first year when you were beginners. I'll bet this year, it will be amazing. That slide must look really steep when you're Huddy's size!!
Thanks a lot, In the last vid, I actually showed a snippet of me about to dump as as a bit of a teaser for this vid and then put to be continued at the end. I’m glad you liked the continued video from the trip and the other elements with the planting etc. thanks a lot for tuning in.
You are not a lazy man. You and Tori are hard working people. You certainly get a lot done. Love your videos of home and outdoors - thanks again.
Thanks a lot, it feels sometimes that we aren’t getting much done but after a year or so goes by we realize we have accomplished a lot.
Thank you guys ..all of you ...for bringing us along ..on your adventures..!
Loved this video. Especially the gardening and cooking segments. You are truly blessed with Tori, Wesley, Huddy and North!
Thanks a lot, I’m glad you liked those parts of the video’
A wonderful ending where the Baird family finally sits down to a meal. Thanks for sharing!
You’re very welcome!
I know it's been said, but really, this is some of the best adventure shows out there. This one has me on the edge of my seat, pure magic. You gentlemen are killing it, thanks. ❤ to North, wadda dog!
Much appreciated!!
North has learned so much and he’s not even two.
Another great trip glad to see everyone made it ok.Nice to see the family the gardens look good. Love Huddy on the slide so cute.🙂🇨🇦❤👍
Thanks a lot, I hope you liked Buthelezi aspects being j. The one vid. Buddy ws adorable climbing up there and then deciding against it haha
Hey Jim, I loved both the canoe trip and the gardening. You guys can sure get a lot of work done together. Would like to see more of you and Tori and both boys on canoe trips. Just a special family. Good luck!!
Thanks a lot
Outstanding content. The amount of work you guys put into your lifestyle is inspiring. Wish you and your family the best.
Thanks so much!
Nice home and family you got Jim, glad you are doing well my fellow Ontario brother! I've been to Magnetawan when I was younger, it's a nice place. Nice to raise your family where the air is fresh and life is less hectic then in the big city. I enjoyed seeing your whitewater paddling and gardens.
Agreed, thanks a lot. I love it here and my family does too.
LOVE 2 SEE THE GARDEN PREPARATION... KID IS A CUTIE PIE ...AWESOME HOMESTEAD... ORGANIC PURE FOOD AND LIFE IS PRICELESS IN THE WORLD WE HAVE NOW ...
We agree! I’m going to get some more content like that out, if not this week than next.
@@JimBairdAdventurer GOOD ENOUGH
It’ll be kind of interesting to compare the farmers topsoil results vs the stores! You should do an update later this summer
Yeahhhhh! 🥳
Hey Jim and Tori y’all really worked hard on the garden and the fish looked delicious Jim. Thanks for this great video! 👍👍👍🤩🤩🤩💯💯💯
We did and hopefully we get some great results. Thanks a lot for watching
Drum roll..... after a great adventure on the river with a few nail biting scenes, the video concludes with Tory and Jim homesteading! I just picked a quart of fresh strawberries 🍓 😋 from my raised bed! If you ever come to the states, we will share our harvest of vegetables!! Yay!
Awesomeness! I hope you liked this format of video
Loved the format. Win - Win! Adventures. Family. Wesley. Huddy. Tory. AND North!!!!
Thanks for sharing. Love watching the boys play and grow up. They are precious little ones. Good luck with veggies.
They sure are, thanks a lot
You know, I do a hell of a lot in the outdoors and have done so for decades, but Jim just kicks my a... This river is something.
Haha, thanks a lot man.
Love how you trained up North to be such a good trail dog. My lab is only good for the cottage man...
Homestead bliss . Man do I envy you two !
Thanks very much
I liked the whole thing and what a gorgeous fish dish! Huddy hesitating on the slide was the best. He's got his own ideas.
Haha, ya that was funny. He climbed up there but just count bring himself to doing it.
Ted got the tent set up cos he wants some of your fish !!!!!!😆😆😆
VERY SATISFYING CANOE TRIP AND GARDENING !!!!!!!!!
Thanks!
@@JimBairdAdventurer Watching your 5hr52min Arctic venture. Love to support U !!!!!
Always love your videos Jim. I enjoyed watching your videos last year with your gardening. Will be interested to see how it all moves along over the summer. Hopefully you all will keep us posted. I’m sure Tori has plans to can any overflow. Would be cool to watch. The gardens look great so far!! ❤. Thanks for taking us on another adventure. The way O see it Adventures come in all forms. Now your adventures are putting all the work into planting & growing your gardens. Hudson contemplating going down the slide into the pool…..❤❤❤ adorable.
Love the adventures, but also the home life! Seeing the boys at home and your garden, your beautiful land, is awesome. Thanks for the video! ❤
You’re very welcome and I’m glad you enjoyed that element that I shared here
Great video. Loved seeing the garden work and a bit of the home life. You have a beautiful family and lifestyle.
Thanks very much. I’m glad you liked the different elements of it.
What a beautiful river. I cant believe I haven't paddled it yet. I think it needs to move up the list. A beautiful place to raise a family!
Thanks, ya it’s up there for rivers south of the French.
Jim, what a great adventure, & such a wonderful family that you have shared with us. Please keep the videos coming, I absolutely enjoy them so much!!!.... Sincerely, the old Montana cowboy,Frank Scherping😂
Just incredible footage from start to finish ,enjoying the beginning the middle and family end great great entertainment
Thanks a lot! I’m glad you enjoyed the two elements of the trip to the homestead aspect.
Hey Jim you know how much I love all the bits of history you toss in your videos .. when you spoke of the First Nation People the Dene , for my 74th birthday I drove from Sudbury Ontario to BC and on my way back who shall I meet in Thunder-bay was a family of Dene .. what a great chat we had .. I would never have known who or what part of Canada they were from if you had not spoken of them .. hugs to you thank you a bunch
Yee haaaa!
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Woe Jim...you guys are truly blessed to be living on the Magnetawan...such a beautiful wild river...this was a perfect trip....live the Budnick Brothers too...but you and Ted are the stars haha...lots or work getting the garden going...great job with Tori..all the best to you guys come harvest time 🤙
Thanks a lot! I do feel lucky for sure. I’m glad you liked the video and the different elements of it too.
@JimBairdAdventurer also Jim we've been watching your Nat Geo TV show...totally live it... just that it's too short, haha we need more...great show ...love the kids ..you and Tori are amazing...and North is too 👍
Jim keeps me on vacation.
Sweet
Love the two-part of this video! Thanks for sharing your life at home too!
You’re very welcome! It fits as I live in the river we paddled higher
I must be 3rd !!!! Yeaaaaahhhhh!
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Man you just dumped to make North feel not so bad for dumping too. It was a bonding moment. A tale as old as time between man and dog. Kind of like when North bit you in the ankle off camera for throwing the rest of that pike in the water without offering him any of it. 🥳
Lol, absolutely
@@JimBairdAdventurer Thanks for replying man. All the best.
Great video...exciting trip and then a bonus getting to see the start of the garden! I hope you guys have a great bounty out of there! Dinner looked amazing!!!
I hope so, ya. We will see. We did well last year in this spot so we tripped out efforts in that spot.
Wow I didn’t realize the beauty of magnetawan. Drone shots were awesome. Thrills and spills. Tori is amazing to put up with you going on these adventures. My wife was the same when I would go alone cause she knew how much I loved it. As I’ve gotten older and sick she is hesitant in letting me go.
Great video, Jim. Really enjoyed watching you and Tori around the house, planting and cooking.
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi Jim, you could have been a navy seal. Instead your a family man and adventurer, and I would say the latter is harder. I love you man!
Great comment, big thanks!
Good looking dinner! Beautiful day working in your garden, I'll be watching for all those lovely veggies as the seasons change. Thanx for sharing family time
I enjoy seeing happy people doing the stuff we love too!
You’re very welcome! We’ve planted the third raised bed now and the corn is sprouted so I planted beans and squash in the three sisters gardens.
You and Tori are amazing... those raised beds are terrific. My daughter always lays out newspaper FIRST, then the organic material. Those weeds will eventually come thru.... your boys are beautiful little souls...
Golly gee willickers fiddlesticks...not the target species...lol...awesome, Jim!
That river isn't messin! You are lucky to live where you do for sure.
Hey John, I got the gifts you sent! Awesome man, tanks a lot from me and Tori. I really needed a new multi-tool too if you could see from this vid where I lost mine in the dump.
@@JimBairdAdventurer I’m so glad you git the stuff, hopefully no duties or taxes. It’s really cool to watch you guys. Someday when you are older you are going look back and say I really did kick ass. I hope I can get out with my group more.
Cool vid!! That Lil guy is the sweetest ❤ and that fish at the end omgg yummm!!😊
Great all around video with the bonus footage of Spring gardening and some delicious looking fish thrown in to cap off a wonderful channel feature that was a delight to observe.
Thank you guys for bringing us alone really appreciate you sharing God bless and be safe❤🙋♂️🙋♂️
Perfect!
Thanks! Glad you liked it
I like the campsites and the fishing best !!!
Glad you like them!
I liked that you had white water an family. Gardening and cooking too. Thanks great video
Much appreciated. I’m glad you enjoyed all the elements
You're DOIN IT! 😊
Thanks a lot, we’re trying.
I think you have some excellent company on this trip. Very enjoyable .
Indeed I did, thanks!
Nice run Jim and Happy Fathers day to you bro.
another great video - your two boys are getting such a rounded education.
Thanks a lot, they do seem to be learning a lot
Hello from Sudbury,great video as always Jim,my daughter and I enjoy your content very much! Keep it up brother God bless you and your wonderful family.
Thanks a lot
So a Jim and the boys adventure, and a Baird Familia video, all in one? Who says the greatest crossover doesn't exist.
That would be cool for sure
Thanks!
No problem! And thanks for the donation 😊
I love that Huddy has a fro!
It looks pretty red too eh?
Love watching you run rapids, fish and then relax and camp out. So cool
Really enjoyed this Jim. Happy Father's day 👊🏻
Very entertaining jim❤
Thanks
I love it one diner in family take it easy and relax 😃👋👍
Absolutely and what a delicious dinner it was!
Great video Jim, makes me want to buy another canoe, just to get out there and do some fishing. Thanks..
❤❤😊
cool hug :)
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@@JimBairdAdventurer Ty :)
Beautiful journey, I envy you having a life like this, enjoying the wildlife and your family also accompanies you, it's great Happy New Year 🕊️🍾🥂😉🎄⛄🎄🧑🎄💐🙏
I would love to be able to do what you do - What a life! I got the opportunity to Guide every summer on the East Arm of Great Slave Lake in the Canadian Northwest Territories and I absolutely LOVE doing it & would love to spend more time doing things like what you do and go explore parts of the territories I have never seen before! Heading back up there next week and can't wait to get back on out the water where I belong... your videos are so inspirational - keep up the great work Jim!
Awesome to hear man, thanks for dropping an encouraging comment too. I’m guess I t you might have guided at Plummer’s? I met Chummy and hung into with Bob there, went fishing with him too a couple years back while I was doing some work on the Production side of Alone season 7. I actually have a video up here from it. Amazing fishing to say the least s I was there past the prime time for the spot.
@@JimBairdAdventurer I have been Guiding at Frontier Fishing Lodge (since 2008) which is across from the village of Lutselk'e. I had the opportunity to meet Chummy from Plummers once. I watched your video from up there and I do know the area where Season 7 was filmed. The East Arm of Great Slave Lake is a majestic place and the fishing is unlike any other place I have ever fished and it is why I continue to go back there! I grew up hunting and fishing all throughout Northern Ontario in the Temagami area... I recently watched your winter trip you did up there and that was a GREAT video - took me back to many great memories of that area! Keep up the great work - I always look forward to your adventures!
Beautiful! I can smell that BBQ fish from here. Enjoyed watching you both prepare those gardens. The river adventures excellent as usual!
Fine homesteading indeed! cheers
Much appreciated
Great video Jim! You live in a very special spot which of course fits given what you and your family do. Lots of hard work at home and I hope you all have a bountiful harvest. Thanks for sharing 💜 B
Nice adventure for sure.
Thanks!
You all cleaned up good after some hard work! 🤣A+ on the presentation as well. This was one of the first videos where I've seen you dump. I was glad to see it was in relatively open water and not near a ton of rocks. Looks like everyone had a blast, dumps and all.
Indeed we did! Haha, I have def had my fair share of dumping but I guess I haven’t dumped in a while. Live and learn
This was a great little series, I enjoyed it. When is the next one? It's great to see the mist on the water in the morning but no one mentions how cold it is then, dedication for sure. Thanks
I’ll have another vid up next week. Thanks for watching! It was a long-johns kinda morning for sure and there was a layer of frost on everything.
It was nice to see you and Ted with the Budnick brothers adventuring. Your gardening makes me wish I would have planted this year, but I took it off, now I"m going to try the gardening bags and planting flowers in my veg bag as well. Sweet family.
Really good videography.
Big thanks!
Portage... the Dog North! You guys spend a lot of time in the drink LOL Too Realistic! LOL
Nice group trip glad that you have a very understanding wife!!!
Should have a good crop come September. Gardens are all in here too. Been really cold on the west end of Lake Superior. Off lake winds everyday for weeks. Seems we have an 80 degree day every week or so since late April to serve as a teaser for real summer. Thanks for the great video. A little of everything. Have a great summer.
Glad you liked it and how I incorporated the planting and family stuff. Here, we can’t really plant before June 1st with the frosts but you are probably further north than is so I imagine you’d have to wait a bit longer. Here’s hoping those winds die down for ya.
@@JimBairdAdventurer North 46 degrees 43 minutes. First week in June for us here too. Near the lake there's much less chance of frost than a few miles inland but the air temp is just a little above lake temp. We've had our peas in the ground in early may. Snow on them doesn't hurt them. Thanks again Jim. I love all your vids.
Awesome show !! Jolly good show !
Hells yeah. Love it. Miss my long lost "downtown magnetewan" tee shirt. I wonder if that general store ever re opened.
I enjoy watching your videos.. and that you respond to the comments..😊
Thanks, ya I try to get to a few comments at least with every vid. Thanks for watching this one
Inspiring!
Love the ending to vid Jim!
Thanks a lot! That was a great meal. We will be eating that with the corn and asparagus we grow ourselves before too long.
Love this vid!…nice blend of adventure on the water and adventure on the homestead!
Love the 3 Sisters/Maidens method - always great results with my DD…
Try ur potatoes in Coffee bags…I get them CHEEP (sometimes free) from my local roaster..roll the bag down like a sock, add soil and straw and unroll/hill the bag as the greens come up with more composted soil and straw….in the fall, when the greens die back - kick over the bag and harvest…everything left (including the bag) is compostable for next year…
Keep it up J & T….love your content and really enjoying the gentle shift to the whole fam adventures!
Great tip, I love it. I’m glad you liked the different elements of the video, thanks for tuning in.
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Niice!
@@kinlochholmes8352 haha
@@kinlochholmes8352. Hahahaha 😂
The river was awesome and I'm just as excited to follow along with the homestead. Hope to see a video of the garden later on.
Glad to hear you liked both elements in this one! I’ll definitely share an update on how things are going. In one I did poke beans and the other sugar snap peas. I ended up letting a few of hose pumpkins that started unexpectedly from seeds in my compost stay and planted winter squash in both of them. It’s all coming up now…Exciting stuff!
I thought you had it, Jim !!!!
A certain Slaid Cleaves song comes to mind
I'm loving your channel!
Thanks! I’m glad you’re enjoying it.
PLZ SHOW MORE AROUND UR HOMESTEAD CHORES ...
Will do
Hello from Malaysia...
Hey Jim great videos and wonderful family, your adventures are awesome 👏.
Awesome video, so Canadian too 👍🏻👍🏻🍁
Thanks!
entertainment, for sure! Brave or Stupid or some kind of both; talking about non flat water works. I love the Tori wife info. My wife is tori too LOL
Looks like y’all gonna have some great gardens! Been planted down here in the Pine Barrens for month or so. Best of luck and stay safe for that wonderful family. Cheers
great life. great family
Loved it all as usual. Your a lucky man!
Thanks! 😃
Great gardening both
Haha Baird went swimming 😂 gotta love it that’s more fun than making it not flipping huh
It can be and fry picky more fun and faster than portaging too haha