Countryside Acres
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.
- From
- Canada
- Lives in
- Nizhny Novgorod region
- In Russia since
- 2024
- Does for a living
- A Canadian family farming their own land; the channel funds part of the farm.
- Films in
- English
- Topic
- Village life · Family & children · Building a house · Everyday life
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.
Five videos to start with
Plays here, on their channel's terms — nothing loads until you click.
Start here: the land, the buildings and the scale of what they took on.
Their own explanation of why they left Canada, in their words.
The everyday version: what a Russian growing season looks like from the inside.
Sourcing tools and parts in a region — quietly one of the most practical topics.
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.
Where to follow
Details checked: 2026-09-08
