The Feenstras moved from Saskatchewan to a farm in the Nizhny Novgorod region and film the work: a tractor brought back to life, a workshop project, animals, the garden, the first winters. They are recent arrivals, which makes the channel unusually useful — you watch the mistakes happen in real time.
Their reasons for moving are religious and family-centred, and they say so openly. Read the channel as a family diary with tools, not as an argument about countries.
What this channel shows better than anyone
- The first two years of a farm from scratch — what breaks, what it costs, who helps.
- Rural neighbours: how a foreign family is actually received in a Russian village.
- Practical machinery and workshop work, in detail.
A second opinion
Where we would add a number or a correction — not a complaint.
“The move looks like a straightforward relocation for a family with savings.”
Land purchase, residence status and school enrolment are three separate procedures with separate timelines, and non-citizens cannot buy every category of agricultural land. Worth checking before budgeting a farm.