Wood-chopping leads to social media success for B.C.’s Nicole Coenen

By Dana Gee
The Vancouver Sun
April 14, 2025
Category: Froggy Foibles
Region: Canada, Canada West

Coenen’s road to social-media success — she has close to six million followers across platforms — began during COVID-19 when she was holed up in Rossland working remotely as a video creator and editor. Coenen, who grew up in London, Ont., and moved to B.C. five years ago, sees the act of chopping wood as a sustainable passion… “Personally, I find getting outside has been my safe place,” said Coenen. “When I lived in the Interior, wood-chopping and burning with firewood was always a community thing,” said Coenen. “You’d go with your friends to where there was a tree that fell during a storm on your other friend’s property. You’d buck it up and put it in your friend’s tractor or truck, and then they would go drop it off at another friend’s house, and then you’d have a wood-chopping party.”

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