AlpineRoots MapleBranches

Handmade. Sustainable. Free.

A blog for everyone who wants to shape a self-determined life with head, heart, and hands.

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🌿 Why this blog? 🌿

We believe that a simple, self-determined life built with your own hands and real things is possible.

AlpineRootsMapleBranches is our way of showing exactly that – with practical ideas, honest knowledge, and a deep love for detail.

Here you’ll find inspiration for a sustainable life shaped with head, heart, and hands – growing slowly, not perfectly, but with true value.

What to expect here
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Not there yet, but already on the way

Immigrating to Canada isn’t just a process—it’s a test of patience, resilience, and hope. We share our story of trying to stay legally, facing visa changes and setbacks, while holding onto our dream. Between a work permit and startup visa, we keep reaching for something permanent.

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9. June 2025 No Comments
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What is Homesteading?

Homesteading emphasizes self-sufficiency, sustainable living, and a connection to nature, originating from the U.S. “Homestead Act” of 1862. Today, it embodies various practices from food cultivation to ethical lifestyle choices, enhancing community ties and promoting environmental stewardship. It combines tradition and modernity, fostering mindfulness and sustainability.

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24. March 2025 No Comments

🌿 Identify, use, and understand plants.🌿

Our plant profiles go beyond traditional herbalism. Here you’ll find practical uses, simple recipes, DIY ideas, and lived experience – for everyone who truly wants to make use of plants.

These profiles are more than just a collection of facts. They reflect a lifestyle that moves with the seasons, reconnects old and new knowledge, and approaches nature not only with admiration, but with respectful, creative, and meaningful use.

Here you’ll find inspiration for a sustainable life shaped with head, heart, and hands – growing slowly, not perfectly, but with true value.

To the plant profiles
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🌿 Support our work – so knowledge can keep growing. 🌿

Behind every post on this blog is time, research, and hands-on experience. We test, fail, learn, and write – so others can benefit from our journey.

If you like what you find here, you can help keep this project alive:

  • by sharing our posts with people who might benefit from them
  • by offering a small contribution through a direct donation, subscription, or support of our passion project
  • by mentioning us, linking to us, or spreading a kind word out there in the world

 

AlpineRootsMapleBranches is meant to grow – slowly, independently, but with depth.
Every bit of support helps us create more content, improve our tools, and pass on what we’ve learned.

Let it grow with your support

🌿 Our passion project: Bras d’Or – touch wood 🌿

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Alongside our blog, we’re committed to a second, very hands-on project: On bras-dor.com, we document our reforestation and restoration work on Cape Breton Island.
There, we plant fruit and nut trees, support long-term forest structures, and create habitats for insects, birds, and small animals.

We believe that regeneration only has real impact when it becomes tangible – in the soil, in the local water cycle, and in the climate. That’s why we take small but direct steps into the landscape: with trees, blossoms, refuges, and time.

Bras d’Or – touch wood is our attempt to give biodiversity space again. No romantic illusions – but deep roots and a clear goal.

Learn more about Bras d’Or

🌿 Let’s stay connected 🌿

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There, I share glimpses into our everyday life, new projects, and the little moments that shape our days here.

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I’d love to hear from you!