I’m a senior in environmental science, an avid outdoorsman, not afraid of hard work and interested in film and narration; and you are the blueprint. If I could even make one video to the caliber of what you produce, I’d be happy. You do fantastic work that is undoubtably possible because of years of knowledge that allows you to collect your own observations to apply those skills. I hope to see you producing suitable habitat and wonderful content for years to come!
I agree with all of this. I often look to Stefano's channel for inspiration on storytelling and I admire the incredibly hard work that goes into these videos. Well done Stefano!
We all share the same passion and possibly have the same dream... coming across Stefano's channel was the inspiration I needed to know its possible! :)
Absolutely incredible! Your cinematography and storytelling are top notch and you have quite a treasure there. I have to tell you that I started caring for my Mom full time a year ago because of her progressing Dementia. Not many things hold her attention these days. I put your video on the TV and she was enthralled. She would not stop talking about how much she loved the animals and the birds. One hour of pure joy for her and I enjoyed watching her. Thank you for sharing your wildlife and home with us.
Thanks so much for sharing, Lisa! It means a lot to know she enjoyed it so much. I hope you're both doing well and are having a wonderful holiday season :)
the quality of footage from your backyard is stunning. seeing the amount of salamander and frog eggs in a simple small forest pond is baffling. i share your dream to one day create a wildlife haven myself. absolutely documentary quality film you could say, all from your backyard... just wow
I recently moved from suburbia to a quiet little valley in central NY State. I have 7 acres and i'm surrounded by parcels that are as big and bigger. I'm on a similar journey of discovery. My first autumn moving in I was dismayed by the quiet songless and scanty bird population. I had three crows, some chickadees and a few titmice. Winter came and i saw deer, the tracks of a fisher and a visit by 12 wild turkeys. The highlight was seeing a bald eagle eat a fish from the creek. Then spring happened. I had started feeding in the winter and now had sightings of so many types of birds i had to keep a book by the window just to keep up. I saw foxes, a bear, many deer, some coyote, red squirrels, grey squirrels and chipmunks and of course skunks, woodchucks and many salamanders, snakes, frogs, toads. All told my mixed wooded and overgrown rather than overmown meadow is filled with life, color, and endless interest. I'm a still photographer, but seeing your videos has me thinking i need to learn some new tricks. Thank you for inspiring me to be more of a steward and nurturer of this slice of paradise.
as someone who's a borderline shut in and very depressed your videos always helps me calm down, bring my mood up and make me smile. thank you for these videos stefano and i hope you have a very merry christmas!
This is one of my favourite channels, hands down. I'm in Montréal and I often feel a bit stuck here in the city and not as close to nature as I would like. Fortunately we live fairly close to a large nature park, but it's also very popular, so on any given day there are lots of people moving through it, often just walking between home and work. It's certainly better than being in an asphalt desert, but it doesn't provide the kind of quiet nature walk I really enjoy, with long stretches where I don't see anyone except birds and animals. So your videos are very welcome to watch, even if they also make me acutely aware of what I'm missing! Mille mercis et bonnes fêtes!
Merci! Growing up in the West Island, I could definitely relate to that feeling. That's one of the main reasons I really started to enjoy the winter. Way less people walking around, and if I went to the lesser known parks, I sometimes wouldn't see anyone the whole day. I always enjoyed the quietness!
i have my own nature sighting news !! About 17 years ago some river otters were released into my area to bring up population numbers, and I saw one for the first time in the wild about a week ago near the river !! Turns out they went from endangered to least concern over the past two decades in my state, and this year especially people have been seeing them a lot
That's so nice to hear, congrats on the sighting! Keep your eyes peeled during the late Winter/eearly Spring, especially. Sometimes young otters will venture into weird places as they separate from the adults and try to find a territory of their own.
What a treat to have over an hour of beautifully filmed and narrated wildlife homestead after a couple of hectic days of Christmas. Thank you so much Stefano! I can't wait to see what you have in store for next year.
Wow, a whole hour! What an absolute joy. My favorite parts were the snow buntings, fox kits, and lynx, but I love it all. Thank you for sharing this. ❤ from Portland, Oregon.
Your channel is definitely my favourite channel of the ones I discovered this year! It was so interesting to see your property change throughout the season! I can’t wait for what’s to come in the next year!
Stefano, you don't realize how impressive this is. The quality of your content is impressive. I'm glad I stumbled upon your content more than a year ago because you never cease to inspire us to do even small stuff like a pond in our own backyard. I started watching this on Christmas morning on the TV at my parents' place and everyone gradually started watching the video with me, attracted to the screen and the stunning visuals you create. Keep this impressive content up!
Currently a freshman in Wildlife Management, and im just so jealous of the homestead you managed to create. I want to move to Canada in a few years to achieve something similar. Keep it up!
Love the part at 26:14 where the little bird comes up thinking you have food. Great video, very entertaining to see all the wildlife and the changes throughout the season!
This video was a wonderful Holiday Gift to all your viewers! Even my kitty loved watching it. Thank you so much! Looking forward to what miracles transpire on you Homestead in 2024.😍
I love the quiet humor - shout out to basement water feature and dandelion mowing machine. My goal is to one day know exactly what I'm looking at when you share those videos of animals, plants, insects with the music playing and no voice over to id. I can't wait to see what the berry/ fruit patch has to offer. This was the best "end of year" thng to 2023. I was very overwhelmed by the holidays that i basically sat this year out. This was therapeutic to say the least. Really helps me love the holidays again because holidays should really signifying the seasons changing and not what gifts to get who and what party is happening where. Thank you as always!
Thanks so much! It's really nice to hear I was able to bring some peace during the hectic holidays. Hope you have a great end to the year and a happy new year, as well!
the "NUTHATCH" at 13:46 and "sad hide" at 20:00 made me chuckle. I absolutely enjoyed the full hour watching this, and I'm very excited to see more of what happens in the homestead. Looking forward to your next videos!
This is beautiful and mesmerizing. It's like we as humans should have learned to live on this earth - with respect to the wild life and fauna and providing it with the best chance to thrive unobtrusively. Thank you for filming your progress at this slice of heaven you have there! :)
Wow, you know your birds! Visual ID, their preferred diets & migration patterns...and you were able to speak about them with such ease. Thank you so much for sharing this incredible footage, of birds, reptiles, mammals, trees, flowers and more. And the fox kits! So cute and funny! I can't imagine how many hours it must have taken to review, choose which footage and compile it all into a coherent documentary. I grew up around Quebec and Ottawa, so this definitely brought back memories. And also served as a great reminder to fall in love with all the "regulars" wherever one lives, as they all have unique roles in the ecosystem. You must have gone to McGill's Macdonald campus? I took some of my favourite courses there! Thank you so much from a fellow bird nerd!
I started watching, saw that it was over an hour long, and decided that I'd just watch a few bits of it. Well, over an hour later I had watched the entire thing start to finish. I just couldn't turn it off, it was too fascinating.
From the swamps of Louisiana, I gotta admit, the variety up in Quebec is just as much as down here; I dream of moving to the mountains and homesteading. Muchos props!
This is super beautiful! I love all the progress you’ve done and all the variety on your homestead. Watching this video helped me calm my panic attacks and gave me something relaxing to enjoy. I look forward to seeing your progress you make next year and I hope to one day have my photography and videography skills as high as yours. Keep up the amazing work and I hope you have a wonderful day.
You never have to tell Ron he's going to need to get a drone and learn how to fly it for when they finally inhabit their homestead in St Genevieve or near St Genevieve so we can get a bird's eye view of what everything looks like cause I love this footage it's amazingly beautiful especially the autumnal colors are great And you need to plant some sugar maples because you want color forget the Norway maple which is your on your Canadian flag but the Sugar Maple is such a varrogated kaleidoscope of colors on their leaves from green to yellow to orange to red to Crimson almost a purply red sometimes almost a black purple it's amazing and it can be all on one tree and even on one leaf you can get all these colors it's a beautiful sight And in the springtime you get the maple syrup sugaring remember for every four quarts you get one quarter syrup so a gallon makes one quarter syrup and you could always plant birches and get the birch sap you have to figure out which species that is I don't know offhand but I do know that you can get some birch shop the same way you get maple syrup shop or maple syrup excuse me again you're going to boil it down and reduce it by 3/4 you just put enough the excess moisture and Voila you get birch syrup which I hear is quite good it's a little bit different tasting than maple syrup But it is good to use on pancakes and other stuff cooking wise it's great. and of course you want a corn so you can make acorn flour but you get to make sure you get the right kind of acorn and oak trees To do that and definitely you want Hazel what do you call them they have been in England they make like living fences out of them because you kind of break the cane near the base you bend it over and you tack it down with like little steaks and then the next year this press will all come up going straight up and it'll make like a wall of Hazel branches And those branches could become in handy for other stuff too later on If you want to make any water and dob fences nothing better than his hazelwood For that. and you get the hazelnut harvest at the end of the year It's a win win and they make good wind breaks too so if you get like fruit trees that you're trying to protect Plant those near the fruit trees and you might want to plant wild walnuts oh I don't know how hardy they are up in Canada and if you can get them to grow in Canada you might want to add paw paws but you need at least three or four trees because you need to make sure you get both genders they're gender specific plants there are males and their females and you can't tell unless they sprout and start going he also might want to add some chestnuts and if squirrels will love you for both the acorns and the chestnuts I'm sure you'll love them too.
What a lovely diverse world we live in. It never snows where I live in Australia, and my wildlife is made of echidnas, possums, wombats, koalas and the occasional kangaroo. The birds are galahs, many species of parrots, cockatoos, finches and sparrows. But we do have those lovely little jumping spiders.
I can listen to you talk birds and habitat restoration all day long! I'm also a bit sad that I don't have any of these animals where I live. or even a functioning ecosystem... Thanks for your work and love for what you do! Amazing!
Dude I saw this video posted then waited to watch it when I could do so uninterrupted. Ah, such a great time. Loved how educational it was for me. Thanks 😊
Wow Stefano another absolutely wonderful video. Moving to a homestead like this and making it a haven for wildlife is our dream and it's so lovely to watch all the work you've been doing! We're keeping our fingers crossed we'll be able to do something similar one day and in the meantime we'll continue to learn from you! Looking forward to all the future updates 😀
This was the best Christmas gift! My 9yr old daughter and i watched with our eyes glued to the screen..hanging on to your every word! We love the long video this week. Thank you for this. Thank you for loving nature like you do! And for sharing your love.
You inspired me this past year to begin feeding my local birds with suet and make my backyard into more of a bird habitat. Thank you for these wonderful videos!
Yes I have. A pair of red bellied woodpeckers are visiting pretty regularly, and the downy/hairy woodpeckers are pretty much feeding all day lol. Tons of chickadees and other birds like titmouse coming by, my favorite has been the Eastern Phoebe. Fun to watch them survey my yard from the garden fence and swoop down to grab bugs!@@StefanoIaniro
I really enjoyed this beautiful documentary nice shots. Love the birds in their natural habitat in the wildness. It's so tranquil also full of life, it's magical as it is.
Omg what I would give to be doing this right now, all I have is a park with a few foxes that I can never see be cause they never come out in the day. Plus I am too young and really Hope that I can get a stable job and eventually make enough money to make videos like this. This is truly inspiring and amazing. Keep up the amazing work and I hope that you can keep your videos going.
Also do you have a lot of stats at night? I’m just wondering because I’m going to a dark sky park close to Canada in Mackinac Michigan, and don’t really know what to expect
Looked like that young fox was trying to be friends and play with the mouse when he should of been eating it lol That was absolutely adorable and funny.
Thank you so so much for this amazing gift. Your videos keep me going while I am stuck inside for months on end to write my PhD dissertation. May 2024 bring you amazing wildlife sightings and stimulating projets. Thank you for sharing your corner of the world !!
Why are your videos so good? I litterally feel calm and relax when watching, i love natureprograms, but this is just on another level. thank you so much for making this awsome content. I will follow your episodes on all of your new projects :)
What a wonderful Christmas present you give us all! This is spectacular, I really got immersed into this environment. It feels like a full blonw BBC nature documentary. Such treasures, the abundance of wildlife! I love that you not only concentrate on the birds (which I adore!) but all the other fauna and flora around. I especially liked the underwater shots. And your humour. Please give a hug to your sweet little bunny. Thank you so much for your videos, I'm looking forward to many more of them :) Have a happy and healthy new year!
This got a like/subscribe from me before the end of Winter! I love the waterfalls! For the next camera trap, consider keeping the sensor on one of the more sturdy stands and take dead branches to camouflage the camera & flash stands. For the fir plantation, take down dead & weaker trees first. Find/make a clearing, and dig a hole big enough to fill half a cubic meter of good compost & topsoil, and plant a large (4-7 meter tall) sapling. If you can do this perhaps 3-5 times, with fruit trees & mountain ash that will give a head start to a more natural diversity. Deciduous trees share resources with conifers. You probably have saplings on your property, if not maybe a neighbor or local nursery. Cheers!
So well done. I found your channel a couple years ago with your bird photography and videography, and it's really special to have you combined those skills with this personal adventure and story of your 'homecoming.' Well done. And thank you.
Just watched this for the second time in as many days… and I’ve been following along all year, too. What you’re doing matters on so many levels, Stefano. My daughter, who is 6 and calls herself ‘nature girl’ is also a huge fan. Congratulations on an incredible first year!
Oh man, I just came across your channel Stefano and this was the first video, what an incredible adventure! Great job and looking forward to the continuation!
Amazing summary of the year. The shots, the edit and the narration just speaks to me. As a biologist and someone who dream about getting a property like that one day this is amazing to see.
This is so good. Im adding it to my favorites playlist. This next year is going to be amazing but im most excited to watch the long term growth of your property. Especially once you get some more fruit trees established and providing sustenance. 5 yrs...10 yrs.... ill continue to follow and watch. Well done. Love the video.
You are such an inspiration! I loved every second of this. I cant wait to follow along throughout the new year. Thank you for creating such a thoughtful haven for all the animals on your lot and taking us along for the ride.
Best Christmas gift!! Woke up this morning and I'm having a hot chocolate while enjoying this wonderful video. Thanks for your hard work and dedication Stefano, Merry Christmas to you and your family.
I’m a senior in environmental science, an avid outdoorsman, not afraid of hard work and interested in film and narration; and you are the blueprint. If I could even make one video to the caliber of what you produce, I’d be happy. You do fantastic work that is undoubtably possible because of years of knowledge that allows you to collect your own observations to apply those skills. I hope to see you producing suitable habitat and wonderful content for years to come!
Thank you so much for the kind words, very encouraging!
I agree with all of this. I often look to Stefano's channel for inspiration on storytelling and I admire the incredibly hard work that goes into these videos. Well done Stefano!
We all share the same passion and possibly have the same dream... coming across Stefano's channel was the inspiration I needed to know its possible! :)
Sounds like this person wants to come intern with you
Una meraviglia....grazie
Absolutely incredible! Your cinematography and storytelling are top notch and you have quite a treasure there. I have to tell you that I started caring for my Mom full time a year ago because of her progressing Dementia. Not many things hold her attention these days. I put your video on the TV and she was enthralled. She would not stop talking about how much she loved the animals and the birds. One hour of pure joy for her and I enjoyed watching her. Thank you for sharing your wildlife and home with us.
Thanks so much for sharing, Lisa! It means a lot to know she enjoyed it so much. I hope you're both doing well and are having a wonderful holiday season :)
One hour of wildlife homestead update. Stefano is really blessing us this christmas
Have a merry christmas!
Seeing this in June 2024 here in a hideous heat wave in Florida panhandle ( lower Alabama) ,this is so refreshing ❤ thank you so much for sharing..❤
Probably the best 2023 recap video I've seen on UA-cam ❤❤
the quality of footage from your backyard is stunning. seeing the amount of salamander and frog eggs in a simple small forest pond is baffling. i share your dream to one day create a wildlife haven myself. absolutely documentary quality film you could say, all from your backyard... just wow
Thanks so much, and good luck on your future property!
I recently moved from suburbia to a quiet little valley in central NY State. I have 7 acres and i'm surrounded by parcels that are as big and bigger. I'm on a similar journey of discovery. My first autumn moving in I was dismayed by the quiet songless and scanty bird population. I had three crows, some chickadees and a few titmice. Winter came and i saw deer, the tracks of a fisher and a visit by 12 wild turkeys. The highlight was seeing a bald eagle eat a fish from the creek. Then spring happened. I had started feeding in the winter and now had sightings of so many types of birds i had to keep a book by the window just to keep up. I saw foxes, a bear, many deer, some coyote, red squirrels, grey squirrels and chipmunks and of course skunks, woodchucks and many salamanders, snakes, frogs, toads. All told my mixed wooded and overgrown rather than overmown meadow is filled with life, color, and endless interest. I'm a still photographer, but seeing your videos has me thinking i need to learn some new tricks. Thank you for inspiring me to be more of a steward and nurturer of this slice of paradise.
A whole hour of content, literally an early Christmas present thank you
So kind, hope you enjoy it! Merry Christmas!
My thoughts exactly
as someone who's a borderline shut in and very depressed your videos always helps me calm down, bring my mood up and make me smile.
thank you for these videos stefano and i hope you have a very merry christmas!
Glad I was able to bring some peaceful nature to you during the holiday season! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I'm grateful you are the owner of that beautiful land.
You are so knowledgeable,respecful and appreciative of nature,thank you!
The video is four months old , I hope all is good ! I look forward to seeing more videos .
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
This is one of my favourite channels, hands down. I'm in Montréal and I often feel a bit stuck here in the city and not as close to nature as I would like. Fortunately we live fairly close to a large nature park, but it's also very popular, so on any given day there are lots of people moving through it, often just walking between home and work. It's certainly better than being in an asphalt desert, but it doesn't provide the kind of quiet nature walk I really enjoy, with long stretches where I don't see anyone except birds and animals. So your videos are very welcome to watch, even if they also make me acutely aware of what I'm missing! Mille mercis et bonnes fêtes!
Merci! Growing up in the West Island, I could definitely relate to that feeling. That's one of the main reasons I really started to enjoy the winter. Way less people walking around, and if I went to the lesser known parks, I sometimes wouldn't see anyone the whole day. I always enjoyed the quietness!
Stefano, the other comments say everything that I feel. Thank you for what you give to us. We are privileged. Kind regards.
Thank you!
I love watching these! It's beautiful to see it all come together in one video. Keep living the dream!
SO kind of you, thanks so much!!
i have my own nature sighting news !! About 17 years ago some river otters were released into my area to bring up population numbers, and I saw one for the first time in the wild about a week ago near the river !! Turns out they went from endangered to least concern over the past two decades in my state, and this year especially people have been seeing them a lot
That's so nice to hear, congrats on the sighting! Keep your eyes peeled during the late Winter/eearly Spring, especially. Sometimes young otters will venture into weird places as they separate from the adults and try to find a territory of their own.
Thank you, Stefano, you are a gift to humanity as well as wild life.🥰
Just incredible cinematography, narration, and musical score, this is on the level of a program I'd watch on Nat Geo or the BBC.
Wow thanks so much!
Hands down, best video ever! I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. Thank you for takin the time to film all of this. I can't stop smiling.😊
What a treat to have over an hour of beautifully filmed and narrated wildlife homestead after a couple of hectic days of Christmas. Thank you so much Stefano! I can't wait to see what you have in store for next year.
Wow, a whole hour! What an absolute joy. My favorite parts were the snow buntings, fox kits, and lynx, but I love it all. Thank you for sharing this. ❤ from Portland, Oregon.
So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching 🙂
Your channel is definitely my favourite channel of the ones I discovered this year! It was so interesting to see your property change throughout the season! I can’t wait for what’s to come in the next year!
I haven't had this much enjoyment watching just about anything on the TV recently. What a superb and beautiful video this is
Stefano, you don't realize how impressive this is. The quality of your content is impressive. I'm glad I stumbled upon your content more than a year ago because you never cease to inspire us to do even small stuff like a pond in our own backyard. I started watching this on Christmas morning on the TV at my parents' place and everyone gradually started watching the video with me, attracted to the screen and the stunning visuals you create. Keep this impressive content up!
That's so nice to hear! Thank you. And I hope you and your family had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Why do I feel so calm and happy when I see this video
Currently a freshman in Wildlife Management, and im just so jealous of the homestead you managed to create. I want to move to Canada in a few years to achieve something similar. Keep it up!
That's awesome! Hope school is going well for you. And I wish you luck on your future projects!
Love the part at 26:14 where the little bird comes up thinking you have food. Great video, very entertaining to see all the wildlife and the changes throughout the season!
Absolutely in love with this project, cheers form Italy ❤
Thanks so much!
Pure delight. Thank you, Stefano.
watching this felt like meditating. thank you for putting all this hard work in for all these babies! totally jealous of your life!
How are you not famous yet?? Ur videos are so high quality!
This video was a wonderful Holiday Gift to all your viewers! Even my kitty loved watching it. Thank you so much! Looking forward to what miracles transpire on you Homestead in 2024.😍
So glad you all enjoyed it! Thanks so much for watching!
Thank you,thank you, thank you! Just wonderful!❤️
You have so much to be proud of. So grateful of the incredible effort you make to share it all so beautifully in this way. Happy, merry everything!
This just brings me so much joy, all the animals and lovely scenery brings a smile to my face.
Congratulations on so much created joy! Thank you for your time and sharing it with us.
I love the quiet humor - shout out to basement water feature and dandelion mowing machine.
My goal is to one day know exactly what I'm looking at when you share those videos of animals, plants, insects with the music playing and no voice over to id.
I can't wait to see what the berry/ fruit patch has to offer.
This was the best "end of year" thng to 2023. I was very overwhelmed by the holidays that i basically sat this year out. This was therapeutic to say the least. Really helps me love the holidays again because holidays should really signifying the seasons changing and not what gifts to get who and what party is happening where.
Thank you as always!
Thanks so much! It's really nice to hear I was able to bring some peace during the hectic holidays. Hope you have a great end to the year and a happy new year, as well!
What a great Christmas treat! Thank you, Stefano. I could watch another hour of this year's footage, it's so good.
Perfect, you're knowledgeable enough to share facts and also a pleasure to listen to and inject just the right amount of humour. Love it!
An hour passed unnoticed. Bless your homestead.
Really beautiful and somehow both soothing and informative.
What beautiful birds. Thank you for show casing the diversity of our wild life.
Thanks for sharing the recap of your year. That was grand!
the "NUTHATCH" at 13:46 and "sad hide" at 20:00 made me chuckle. I absolutely enjoyed the full hour watching this, and I'm very excited to see more of what happens in the homestead. Looking forward to your next videos!
Can’t wait for the next iteration, there is so much diversity to be found in nature
This is beautiful and mesmerizing. It's like we as humans should have learned to live on this earth - with respect to the wild life and fauna and providing it with the best chance to thrive unobtrusively. Thank you for filming your progress at this slice of heaven you have there! :)
lol at the Chickadee that shows up when you find caddisfly larvae! MINE?!
Wow, you know your birds! Visual ID, their preferred diets & migration patterns...and you were able to speak about them with such ease. Thank you so much for sharing this incredible footage, of birds, reptiles, mammals, trees, flowers and more. And the fox kits! So cute and funny! I can't imagine how many hours it must have taken to review, choose which footage and compile it all into a coherent documentary. I grew up around Quebec and Ottawa, so this definitely brought back memories. And also served as a great reminder to fall in love with all the "regulars" wherever one lives, as they all have unique roles in the ecosystem. You must have gone to McGill's Macdonald campus? I took some of my favourite courses there! Thank you so much from a fellow bird nerd!
Absolutley the best thing I've watched on UA-cam this year!
So kind, thank you!
I started watching, saw that it was over an hour long, and decided that I'd just watch a few bits of it. Well, over an hour later I had watched the entire thing start to finish. I just couldn't turn it off, it was too fascinating.
Seeing this video pop up in my feed was the absolutely perfect Christmas present I needed after a difficult December!
Glad to hear it brought you some joy! Hope you have a wonderful holiday season!
From the swamps of Louisiana, I gotta admit, the variety up in Quebec is just as much as down here; I dream of moving to the mountains and homesteading. Muchos props!
This is super beautiful! I love all the progress you’ve done and all the variety on your homestead. Watching this video helped me calm my panic attacks and gave me something relaxing to enjoy. I look forward to seeing your progress you make next year and I hope to one day have my photography and videography skills as high as yours. Keep up the amazing work and I hope you have a wonderful day.
That's so kind of you to say, thank you! Hope you're having a wonderful holiday season!
You never have to tell Ron he's going to need to get a drone and learn how to fly it for when they finally inhabit their homestead in St Genevieve or near St Genevieve so we can get a bird's eye view of what everything looks like cause I love this footage it's amazingly beautiful especially the autumnal colors are great And you need to plant some sugar maples because you want color forget the Norway maple which is your on your Canadian flag but the Sugar Maple is such a varrogated kaleidoscope of colors on their leaves from green to yellow to orange to red to Crimson almost a purply red sometimes almost a black purple it's amazing and it can be all on one tree and even on one leaf you can get all these colors it's a beautiful sight And in the springtime you get the maple syrup sugaring remember for every four quarts you get one quarter syrup so a gallon makes one quarter syrup and you could always plant birches and get the birch sap you have to figure out which species that is I don't know offhand but I do know that you can get some birch shop the same way you get maple syrup shop or maple syrup excuse me again you're going to boil it down and reduce it by 3/4 you just put enough the excess moisture and Voila you get birch syrup which I hear is quite good it's a little bit different tasting than maple syrup But it is good to use on pancakes and other stuff cooking wise it's great. and of course you want a corn so you can make acorn flour but you get to make sure you get the right kind of acorn and oak trees To do that and definitely you want Hazel what do you call them they have been in England they make like living fences out of them because you kind of break the cane near the base you bend it over and you tack it down with like little steaks and then the next year this press will all come up going straight up and it'll make like a wall of Hazel branches And those branches could become in handy for other stuff too later on If you want to make any water and dob fences nothing better than his hazelwood For that. and you get the hazelnut harvest at the end of the year It's a win win and they make good wind breaks too so if you get like fruit trees that you're trying to protect Plant those near the fruit trees and you might want to plant wild walnuts oh I don't know how hardy they are up in Canada and if you can get them to grow in Canada you might want to add paw paws but you need at least three or four trees because you need to make sure you get both genders they're gender specific plants there are males and their females and you can't tell unless they sprout and start going he also might want to add some chestnuts and if squirrels will love you for both the acorns and the chestnuts I'm sure you'll love them too.
What a lovely diverse world we live in. It never snows where I live in Australia, and my wildlife is made of echidnas, possums, wombats, koalas and the occasional kangaroo. The birds are galahs, many species of parrots, cockatoos, finches and sparrows. But we do have those lovely little jumping spiders.
What a lovely holiday gift this video was. 💙
I can listen to you talk birds and habitat restoration all day long! I'm also a bit sad that I don't have any of these animals where I live. or even a functioning ecosystem... Thanks for your work and love for what you do! Amazing!
Can’t wait to see more of your content
Dude I saw this video posted then waited to watch it when I could do so uninterrupted. Ah, such a great time. Loved how educational it was for me. Thanks 😊
Wow Stefano another absolutely wonderful video. Moving to a homestead like this and making it a haven for wildlife is our dream and it's so lovely to watch all the work you've been doing! We're keeping our fingers crossed we'll be able to do something similar one day and in the meantime we'll continue to learn from you! Looking forward to all the future updates 😀
This was the best Christmas gift! My 9yr old daughter and i watched with our eyes glued to the screen..hanging on to your every word! We love the long video this week. Thank you for this. Thank you for loving nature like you do! And for sharing your love.
That's awesome! Hope you both had a wonderful Christmas!
Beautiful footage! Really impressed by the biodiversity you have on your property. Keep up the awesome conservation work!
That's awesome the birds are so comfortable with you they freely land on you like 26:20
this is genuinely incredible, so glad I found this
S-tier TV documentary quality
You inspired me this past year to begin feeding my local birds with suet and make my backyard into more of a bird habitat. Thank you for these wonderful videos!
Hope you've been having some interesting visitors to the feeders!
Yes I have. A pair of red bellied woodpeckers are visiting pretty regularly, and the downy/hairy woodpeckers are pretty much feeding all day lol. Tons of chickadees and other birds like titmouse coming by, my favorite has been the Eastern Phoebe. Fun to watch them survey my yard from the garden fence and swoop down to grab bugs!@@StefanoIaniro
@@XxMichx Sounds busy! You definitely have a good setup if you’re getting a solid mix of birds to your yard
I really do love your videos and the lifestyle you're living 🥹❤️
Wow, such an awesome property with already huge biodiversity and it's only get better and better with your care. Such a great video! Thank you!
What. A. Great. Video.
Thank You so much for letting us into your beautiful world of nature! 👍
Looking forward to your next video. I've enjoyed all of them. So peaceful and relaxing. Your knowledge is outstanding. Keep them coming.
1 hour flew like 10 min really captivating video.Great content mate👍 Good luck for future projects and Merry Christmas 🎄😇
I really enjoyed this beautiful documentary nice shots. Love the birds in their natural habitat in the wildness. It's so tranquil also full of life, it's magical as it is.
I'm a big fan of nature documentaries like Planet Earth, but this is even better! Amazing work!
Omg what I would give to be doing this right now, all I have is a park with a few foxes that I can never see be cause they never come out in the day. Plus I am too young and really
Hope that I can get a stable job and eventually make enough money to make videos like this. This is truly inspiring and amazing. Keep up the amazing work and I hope that you can keep your videos going.
Also do you have a lot of stats at night? I’m just wondering because I’m going to a dark sky park close to Canada in Mackinac Michigan, and don’t really know what to expect
So glad you enjoy! Yes, there's virtually no light pollution out here so we do get some great views of stars on clear nights
Looked like that young fox was trying to be friends and play with the mouse when he should of been eating it lol
That was absolutely adorable and funny.
Thank you so so much for this amazing gift. Your videos keep me going while I am stuck inside for months on end to write my PhD dissertation. May 2024 bring you amazing wildlife sightings and stimulating projets. Thank you for sharing your corner of the world !!
We have areas with high densities of high-bush cranberries. (Viburnum opulus) The roughed grouse love them, and so do I. I make jelly every year.
Why are your videos so good? I litterally feel calm and relax when watching, i love natureprograms, but this is just on another level. thank you so much for making this awsome content. I will follow your episodes on all of your new projects :)
Thank you for this beautiful Christmas gift!
Thank you for sharing with us. Christmas came early! Looking forward to the next one!
Beautiful story, love the wildlife specially the birds!
What a wonderful Christmas present you give us all! This is spectacular, I really got immersed into this environment. It feels like a full blonw BBC nature documentary. Such treasures, the abundance of wildlife! I love that you not only concentrate on the birds (which I adore!) but all the other fauna and flora around. I especially liked the underwater shots. And your humour. Please give a hug to your sweet little bunny. Thank you so much for your videos, I'm looking forward to many more of them :) Have a happy and healthy new year!
Thanks so much for sharing! Happy new year to you, as well!
This got a like/subscribe from me before the end of Winter! I love the waterfalls! For the next camera trap, consider keeping the sensor on one of the more sturdy stands and take dead branches to camouflage the camera & flash stands. For the fir plantation, take down dead & weaker trees first. Find/make a clearing, and dig a hole big enough to fill half a cubic meter of good compost & topsoil, and plant a large (4-7 meter tall) sapling. If you can do this perhaps 3-5 times, with fruit trees & mountain ash that will give a head start to a more natural diversity. Deciduous trees share resources with conifers. You probably have saplings on your property, if not maybe a neighbor or local nursery. Cheers!
Stefano, I loved your video. Congratulations on a fantastic and comprehensive wilderness adventure in your backyard. Amazing. Mike Soegtrop
I love your dedicated work for those tings around you and especially animals
So well done. I found your channel a couple years ago with your bird photography and videography, and it's really special to have you combined those skills with this personal adventure and story of your 'homecoming.' Well done. And thank you.
So glad you enjoyed it. And thanks! It's been fun to see how the content has evolved over the years
Just watched this for the second time in as many days… and I’ve been following along all year, too. What you’re doing matters on so many levels, Stefano. My daughter, who is 6 and calls herself ‘nature girl’ is also a huge fan. Congratulations on an incredible first year!
Wow, so glad you both enjoyed it! Having that connection with nature at a young age is so important. Hope you have a wonderful holiday season!
Oh man, I just came across your channel Stefano and this was the first video, what an incredible adventure! Great job and looking forward to the continuation!
Amazing summary of the year. The shots, the edit and the narration just speaks to me. As a biologist and someone who dream about getting a property like that one day this is amazing to see.
This was such a beautiful video! Thank you for all your work!
The ruffed grouse at 32:00 sounded like a cold start on an old tractor lol. Wonderfull film though, really inspiring!
This is so good. Im adding it to my favorites playlist. This next year is going to be amazing but im most excited to watch the long term growth of your property. Especially once you get some more fruit trees established and providing sustenance. 5 yrs...10 yrs.... ill continue to follow and watch. Well done. Love the video.
Thanks for the words of encouragement. I'm excited for the what the future holds!
This was so well done/inspiring. I look forward to sharing this with others. Keep up the great work, Stefano!
Thanks so much!!
You are such an inspiration! I loved every second of this. I cant wait to follow along throughout the new year. Thank you for creating such a thoughtful haven for all the animals on your lot and taking us along for the ride.
I only found your videos today and am hooked and it’s with pleasure you have my subscription thank you
A seemingly perfect video mate!
Best Christmas gift!! Woke up this morning and I'm having a hot chocolate while enjoying this wonderful video. Thanks for your hard work and dedication Stefano, Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Yay, hope you and your family had a Merry Christmas, as well!
What a wonderful Christmas present!!
I loved watching this, i hope to see more! I love watching wild animals.
what a lovely project and footage plus comentating. cheers!!!
been following the homestead since the start! my dream is to be like you when i grow up x
This is such as amazing video, please make more of these!!