Kinnwood

50 acres.
Built for human connection.

A nature playground and event sanctuary, north in Canada. I'm building it by hand, one weekend at a time, to prove you can start before you're ready.

Looking up through a round roof at golden fall leaves

What it is

A place to play, rest
and gather.

A dirt trail through fall trees
A playground Trails, fire, trees to climb. Room to play the way we did as kids, before life got serious.
The carved wooden dragon standing in a sunny clearing in the woods
A sanctuary Quiet and space to think. Somewhere to come back to yourself.
A campfire in a stone ring at night
A gathering place A fire, good people, real conversations. One day, retreats and events built around connection.
Digging into the forest floor

Why I'm building it

The world pulls us apart.
This pulls us back.

Screens, calls, commutes. Most of us spend our days far from ourselves, and even further from each other.

I wanted a place that pulls the other way. Dirt under your nails. Fire at night. People talking face to face.

So I'm building one. Not with a big team or a perfect plan. By hand, one weekend at a time.

How it ties to me

My own dream,
built in public.

Kinnwood is part of KINN, the company I started to help people connect to themselves, each other and the world.

It's also proof to myself of what I teach. I'm going through the same things as I learn and grow, getting clearer on my dream, figuring it out, and building it step by step.

See how I help people build theirs →
Usman standing in the woodshed behind a cart, firewood stacked beside him

The build so far

One weekend at a time.

Walking to the stone fire basin
Setting stones around the fire basin
Usman cleaning the wooden dragon
Cleaning the dragon
Golden light through the trees over a cleared patch
Clearing, in the last light
A campfire in the stone ring on a summer night
Summer nights by the fire
Usman building a wooden cart in the clearing
Building a wooden cart
Looking up through the fall canopy
Fall, looking up

Follow along

The Kinnwood Diaries

I share the build as it happens: the wins, the mess and what it's teaching me.

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