Oakstream Farm

Oakstream Farm A farmstead-in-progress. Bed and breakfast opening in fall of 2027.

The dog days of summer. The bird songs have gone quiet, replaced by the rising and falling drone of cicadas. Sipping min...
08/20/2026

The dog days of summer. The bird songs have gone quiet, replaced by the rising and falling drone of cicadas. Sipping mint juleps on the porch hoping for an afternoon thunderstorm to break the sultry heat. It doesn’t come.

08/14/2026

The Pulverizer

We had some grading done last week and borrowed a neighbour’s tractor attachment today to do some finishing work. Added some pasture seed mix and this area should be ready for horses next summer.

There’s lots of cool bugs we’re discovering on the farm. Check this one out. The Maize Calligrapher, a species of hoverf...
07/31/2026

There’s lots of cool bugs we’re discovering on the farm. Check this one out. The Maize Calligrapher, a species of hoverfly that feeds on corn pollen. This confused little guy was checking out our yellow plastic chair.

06/20/2026

Big step in our massive project. The property came with dozens of Norway spruce and white pine that the previous owner had stockpiled for a landscaping project that never happened. These trees are way too big to deal with by hand so we finally got a chance to get some machines to replant them. We want to create a forest essentially from scratch where currently there’s just grass and thistle. Over the next few years we will interplant the conifers with native deciduous trees and shrubs to replicate a natural Carolinian forest type.

06/03/2026

Footage from our riverside trail cam during the last flood. The cam is about 8 feet higher than the normal water level and it almost got swamped.

06/02/2026

They say wild turkeys eat lots of . Here’s hoping that’s true…

Part of our start-up native tree and shrub nursery. Everything is temporary until we can move into the new house, but we...
05/24/2026

Part of our start-up native tree and shrub nursery. Everything is temporary until we can move into the new house, but we wanted to get a jump on things this year. American chestnut, shagbark hickory, sugar maple, eastern redbud, northern catalpa, black tupelo, tulip tree and false indigo are all started. A bunch of other species are finishing up their cold stratification and will be planted out this week. We’ll plant many of these trees on the property but might also sell some potted stock if we grow enough.

05/23/2026

Can’t fool this guy!

05/20/2026

We haven’t downloaded our trail cams for a while. Spotted this “bachelor group” of male

05/19/2026

After greasing the loader I went on a hunt for two zerks on the tractor that I hadn’t been able (or taken the time) to find…Bingo!

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Belle River, ON

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