Life on an Off-Grid Wilderness Island

Welcome to My Wild Holm. We’re Ryan and Melodi, and in 2022 we bought a 62-acre island on a remote lake in the Canadian wilderness.

Since then, we’ve been building an off-grid homestead from the ground up, one project, one mistake, and one hard-earned lesson at a time.

We’re not trying to disappear from the modern world completely. We’re focused on building a life that brings together wilderness freedom, practical self-reliance, solar power, internet access with as many of the modern comforts that will make this place livable for the long haul.

Follow along as we turn a raw wilderness island into an off-grid home, with all the work, weather, wildlife, setbacks, systems and everyday learning that comes along with it.

Mailing Address:

My Wild Holm
PO Box 282
Station Main
Nanoose Bay, BC
V9P 9J9

Email: hello@mywildholm.com


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The corrected episode is now live.

We had to remove the first upload because of a serious audio issue, but the fixed version is up now.

Thank you to everyone who let us know so quickly, and thank you for your patience.

Watch it here: https://youtu.be/l8tMl-R6-ks

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We have just had to pull our current episode due to a technical difficulty - - we will be back up shortly!!! Some of you may see it as private and that's because we are keeping it up to fix a few things - - but we will never charge our viewers to watch our content. We'll be ready to post it back up in the next hour! Thank you for your support!

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Quick update, Holmies — as many of you know, we’ve been travelling to the island and now trying to get settled so the new episode is running a little late. Rather than rush it out late tonight, we’re posting it tomorrow at 1 PM Pacific / 4 PM Eastern. This one contains some finished projects and continues the battery bunker work. There’s an important safety note included because these episodes were filmed months before the earlier bunker videos aired. Thanks for hanging in with us. 💚#batterybunker #bunker #mywildholm #homestead

1 week ago | [YT] | 109

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PLEASE NOTE NEW LIVESTREAM TIME THIS WEEK!
Good morning everyone! We got to our island in the dark last night and we still have to unload the trailer on the barge - soooo, we are just letting you know that we will be having our livestream tomorrow evening at 7pm CST instead of tonight at our usual time. Please know that this is a temporary time and we will return to Thursdays next week! We have had a real adventure - and not exactly the fun kind. We'll tell you all about it tomorrow night! See you then Holmies! 💚

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Uh oh... we were just sent these pictures this morning. The water at the island is the highest it's been in 7 years and apparently it's not finished 😨. We are packing up to leave and there is still much to do. We are so SORRY to say we will have to postpone tonight's livestream visit with you all. We have much ahead this season!! Stay tuned! Love to all of you 💚 See you next week! We have a new episode out this Sunday.

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3.5 years later and the reality is even better than the dream. 🌲 If you haven't seen the new episode yet, we’re looking back at how far Bird Island has come from day one to now. What's been your favorite part of the journey so far? #mywildholm #offgridlife #offgrid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq2Vd...

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We’ve worked around this for 4 seasons…

What’s one project you keep putting off?

1 month ago | [YT] | 85

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CONGRATULATIONS to Diana Regallis - the WINNER of our 2026 'Design Our Flag' contest. Diana takes home a $200 Amazon gift card and has bragging rights for a whole year! Thank you to all the wonderful people who sent in entries this year. We are excited to fly our new flag this season and cannot wait to get started (and finished) with some really fun projects at Bird Island! #mywildholm #designourflag #flag ‪@DianaRegallis‬

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Some weeks just hit different.

We had the chance to meet another member of the Bird family — the original owners of Bird Island. That connection to the past… it’s hard to describe, but it means a lot to us.

We’re proud to carry that name forward.

This episode captures a really good week on the island — and a moment we won’t forget.

Watch it here 👇https://youtu.be/QAtD-NSDsZY

1 month ago | [YT] | 7

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We heard something in our fireplace… and it did NOT sound right.

When we opened it up — this is what we found.

Full video just went live 👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvX9x...

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