Creating an OFF-GRID PARADISE | Abandoned land to self-sufficiency | DIY Compost Toilet Build #4
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
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Ever since moving to the top of this mountain, our toilet experience has been primitive and, at times, traumatic.
We spent the first year on our homestead going to the toilet in the bushes, with a shovel and a knife, fighting for our place amongst the grunting wild boar.
The second year on our homestead, Emilia made some improvements. A make shift compost toilet built from pallets, scrap wood and a thoroughly cleaned out bucket of paint.
However, we're tired of battling the elements and Robbie has had enough bucket emptying to last him a life time. I’ve told Robbie we will be using a compost toilet for the rest of our lives, so we must build it to last FOREVER! Two years of thought has gone into this design, and probably 1,000 RUclips videos…. We are so excited to see the result!
0:00 Intro
00:47 Re-cap from last episode
01:07 Reinforcing the stone stairs
04:50 Adding plants to stone stairs
08:47 Final stairs reveal
09:37 The reed bed continues
10:39 Reed bed diagram
12:28 Our tank has a hole in it
13:00 Finding a new tank
14:12 Building a stone wall around the reed bed
18:00 Finding reeds in a local river
20:54 Finishing the stone wall
24:19 Delivery truck arrives just in time
25:50 Pouring a ring beam
28:15 Making a door for the fish bubbler
29:05 Emilia collects 1/4 tonne of gravel in tractor
30:09 4 hours of sheep chasing
31:27 Robbie’s mum arrives with fish
32:46 Adding the reeds
35:00 Attaching the irrigation system
36:43 Fitting the fish bubbler & door
37:18 Adding fish
38:34 Final reed bed reveal
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Our story:
We are Emilia, Robbie & Sage, we left our city lives behind and moved to the top of a mountain in Spain, to live off-grid. We’ve spent two years alone, renovating an old stone house and restoring the abandoned land. Join us as we continue to build our off-grid homestead, and become self-sufficient from the land.
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Thanks so so much for all the love and support, say hi in the comments ❤️
Danke gern geschehen..
Robbie, not sure if you're the luckiest or the craziest guy on the side of a mountain but your future won't be dull.
Haha this is hilarious, thank you Shawn! Really appreciate your ongoing comments and love!
😊 hello , I'm Trương Thị Kim Cương, nice to meet you
Little Sage demonstrates exceptional intelligence and a remarkable aptitude for learning. At this moment, he could very well be the happiest little boy in the world.
What a lovely comment! Thank you so much. We always hope we’re doing the best for him, and teaching him some essential life skills! 🌱
I sometimes wonder when Robbie starts a project, I think where on earth is he going with this and watching Emilia’s facial expressions I’m thinking she’s thinking the same as I am. But it all comes wonderfully together in the end. Sage is so adorable to watch as he’s learning so much with every episode.
Haha that's hilarious! Thank you David for the kind words on Robbie's mad ideas, I am 100% thinking this at the beginning of every project! But it all comes together in the end thankfully (after many heated off camera discussions!). Sage watches you so intensely and then replicates all your words and actions, it's amazing to see how intelligent a 2 year old can be, we spend a lot of our day amazed at him and laughing!
You're amazing, you three 😍, I love what you're doing, and how you're doing it - what a great team!!... Sweet Sage, he's wonderful with his handyman skills at such tender age already 💞👌
Thanks so much for all your lovely comments Kirstin! It's surprising how useful he is at the age of 2! He spends his entire day out on the land with us helping with all our projects, he watches what you do so intensely, and then replicates it in his own hilarious way
❤ hello, I'm Trương Thị Kim Cương, nice to meet you 😊
What a wonderful place for little Sage to grow up. You guys are both inspiring and amazing.🙏😊
Thanks for your kind words 💖💖
Nothing beats living on your land and mountain views ❤❤❤❤
Gotta love those rocks ❤❤❤❤ freeee and useful gf
Magnificent Saint Tessa - recognition at last! 😂 I'm liking the fame 😆🥳
Yes - you are! 🌻
guy actually doing the work..
두 분의 아기를 보면 마음이 너무나 평화로워지고 행복해지는...😄
미소를 가득 품게 되고, 영상을 보면서 3번 웃었어요.ㅎㅎㅎ
자녀를 저렇게 아름다운 자연 환경에서 살게 해주시는 두 분께 감사드리고 싶은~👍🥰
What a lovely comment. Thank you so much for taking the time to send us such kind words - we really appreciate the love 💖💖
🎥🎬Espectacular…
Graciassss 💖🌟☀️
Grandma with her delivery was amazing. 😂
Incredible what you can fit in a tiny car! She’s a star! 🌟
@@ladyandtheowlman You can take the seats out of a 2CV and do tip runs. I had the guys at the tip in stitches with tree branches sticking out of the roof hole.
Great job guys we are in Portugal join us on our journey as well 😊😊😊😊
Thanks for the support guys! Your channel looks really cool!
@@ladyandtheowlman thanks join us
The videos are getting better every time, so amazing to see you build this thing!
Thanks for the love James! What a juxtaposition to living in the middle of New York! Lots of love!
Hi! So happy to see another incredible entry of your journey so soon! This made my Sunday. Robbie is so meticulous with his work, I love to see it. No shortcuts taken. Thank you for another great video. All the best to your family.
Thanks so much for your lovely comment! A real moral boost for us to hear you're continuing to enjoy the videos! Yes Robbie is very meticulous, and forces us to spend more time to get things just right, which is sometimes a bit frustrating because I like to get things done quickly haha.
❤ I'm Trương Thị Kim Cương, nice to meet you 😊
Wonderful creation, well done Robbie.
Thanks Nigel 🧡🌟
Great rock laying skills on and around the steps, and especially around your IBC reed beds! It all looks great. Saint Tessa is a magnificent woman - what a job she did bringing everything up in her car AND with a bucket full of fish on her lap! Heroic
Sage's help with the pipe feed though was ... fun to watch! Perhaps he will be of more practical help in the future but he won't be more wonderful and entertaining than he is now. That little section will be something to show the first girlfriend he brings home to meet the parents in many years time ...
Love your videos Emilia ,Robbie and little Sage such an adorable family I love the stone work you done round the tanks very impressive waiting for next video now stay safe friends
Thank you Michael! Glad you’re enjoying the videos 💖🌟
Nice job good to see your family happily working together
THANK YOUUUU 🧡🧡🧡
You are such great parents, I love watching sage be such a help with everything you do. The team work, the planning, the arguing about what is best and the getting it done. Brilliant.
Thanks so much for the kind comment Larry! For sure there is a lot of work that goes into each project, it's like you're running a business together really, and the discussions about what is best can get quite heated for sure haha! But we luckily always find a good solution in the end. You certainly learn a lot about each other working everyday on the land with each other! We really appreciate your support and comment Larry!
Came across your channel about a month ago and have been waiting for every upload. Keep up the amazing work and before you know it, consistency is building your channel!!! Cheers
Saya pendatang baru salam kenal.❤❤❤
Hello Nicky! 🌟☀️
@@ladyandtheowlman hello juga😻
... And as for Grandma Tessa... That special delivery made me laugh so much - you brightened up my day with your incredible post! xxx
Thanks Kirstin! Haha yes there's always something very unique in her car every time she comes. 8 capazos of horse manure down the worlds longest & bumpiest track is quite an achievement in that little car! Let alone the fish on her lap!
Robbie has done an amazing job, you're very talented 😍
Thank you Catarina Robbie is very happy you said that!
Such a beautiful family you have and so pleased for you both. Great job on the watering system
Thanks Theodore! 🌟💖
Büyük bir merakla izledim vidoyu tek kelimeyle muhteşem, zirve de muhteşem bir gayret ve yaşam mücadelesi, tam bana göre, bol şanslar, mutlulular...güzel insanlar Türkiye den selam ve sevgiyle, esen kalın.................
Hello to you in Turkey! Thank you for your kind words ☀️🌻🌱
I have always had Border College very smart dog😊😊😊
Thanks Debbie, great advice! Do you know if they are ok with hot temperatures?
Hi , that was well worth the effort, excellent job, from across the board,
That's a really nice thing to say, thank you. Words of encouragement like this make our day, and give us the motivation to keep going!
@@ladyandtheowlmanHi , I hope you are all safe and well, have not heard from you both for a while, France.
Thanks to that little glimpse of Ibiza, I have worked out exactly where you are now! Keep the great videos coming!
Thanks for your comment and support Richard it means so much to us!
Bravissimi 💪💪👍👋
Grazie mille per il tuo commento e il tuo supporto, significa così tanto per noi!
You are both an inspiration
What a lovely comment! Thank you Glenn 💖🌟
Very happy, very beautiful work, ❤❤❤
THANK YOUUUUU 🌟
Q bonito comparten con su hijo
Gracias por tus lindas palabras Rodolfo.
You know the best thing of your vlog is you❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉
Thanks so much for the love and support!
Hey guys.....we are missing you!!!!
Even a short vid saying hi would be great....at least we would know all is well with the 3 of you :)
Thank you for your kind comment Khris, it's nice to know we are missed! We are all doing great, just waiting to get our hard drive back from Madrid (where it is being fixed after the fire) and then we can post the video that is on there, very soon we hope! In the meantime we are working on finishing the compost toilet so hopefully that video can come out soon after too, thank you for your patience, and for the love!
guys, you need to get your hands on the HUMANURE handbook. Life changing for us 💩🌱☀🌻
Thanks so much for your comment Lucy, your channel is really cool we've checked your content out before and love it! We're obsessed with the HUMANURE handbook definitely makes you re-consider where you go to the toilet forever more!
What a beautiful family! And a beautiful farm too!
Thanks so much for the kind words and support Jay!
Awesome family. Big cheers from Korea!!!!!
THANK YOUUUU 🌟🌟
The toilet looks like the most solid building😂
Lol
Thanks Klaus! Yes Robbie is obsessed with building things that will last forever. I think I know where I am going to hide in the next earthquake!
I'm exit at the olive part. Good luck.
Never too much concrete...haha.
And he is right...
Haha thank you Stijn, Robbie is very happy to hear this!
I have been waiting for you for a long time, my dears
Thanks so much for the kind words Nachat!
Ok concretoman harsh.Stoneking❤
Beautiful job. ❤
One suggestion is a wildlife ramp so animals and pollinators can get out of the water tubs if they fall in. ❤
Hey Tracie! Thanks for your lovely comment and great suggestion! Robbie puts tree prunings in the water as an escape, but I think they look a little messy. Do you have any other ideas?
Hi, found your channel recently and I am catching up with all the videos. I loved Grandma's last mile delivery service, and your work ethic is amazing. Robbie's attention to detail cannot be faulted. Sorry for the loss of the chooks. Birds of prey eagles falcons kites and owls hate each other even a pair of eagles will never share food only with their young. Find out if you have a large owl species native to the area and place 2 large size statues around your birds in trees or roof top. it should deter other birds of prey. You can also install silver streamers on poles as a deterrent. Also consider netting if you can keep your chooks in a confined area. The only way to stop boar is solid fencing. Check out if a local sawmill can supply you first cut timber (the pieces first cut of logs with bark still on) Install solid posts and then screw the on the posts onto the side the boar travel from. Scrap yards may also be able to supply you water pipe to use as posts and fencing. Good luck with all your future plans following from Australia.
Thank you for your kind comment Louis from Australia! Some really great advice here! Robbie's attention to detail is certainly admirable, although it does mean our projects go 10x slower haha! A great idea about the owl statues, we do have some eagle owls lower down in the valley, they are adequately ginormous and scary so that's a great idea. We are in a bit of a conundrum with putting up owl statues in that Robbie loves owls and is trying to get them to move onto our land (he loves making owl boxes), so by putting up owl statues he worries we might not get any owls coming to nest! But it does seem like a very good solution to our goshawk problem! We've looked into sawmills here but Spain doesn't really have the sawmills we have in england, we think maybe they dont use as much wood here because of the termites! You can let us know in the comments of our next video if you think our fence is good enough to stop the wild boar - we're making a new fence around our destroyed food forest! Thanks again for your support and great ideas, they come from wisdom, please keep them coming!
Should be a separate episode on Robbie's mum who a star ❤
Haha Tessa is very happy to hear that thank you Andrew!
Wow amazing ❤
Thank you Colín 💖🌟🌱
A bit like Salvador Dali,in generations to come, people will come to visit this scientific marvel of home sanitation built by loveable loons❤😂
Some very poetic words here Andrew thank you! Haha for sure someone will discover it, and wonder what on earth they were thinking!
So Cool
Thanks so much for the support Jason, it means the world to us!
qué bonitos sois!...yo en el monte desde hace más de 24 años, como vosotros tengo gallinas y ovejas...contad conmigo para la energía, os ayudo!...animo!...Salud!...
Gracias por este lindo mensaje! En qué montañas vives? Espero que dentro de 24 años también sigamos viviendo aquí. Qué bueno saber que tienes ovejas y gallinas! Para qué usas las ovejas? Queso? Los comes?
❤ hello! Nice to meet you, I from Vietnam 😊
Wake up babe new ladyandtheowlman video just dropped!!! Excellent work by rob
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In time to come the roots of that olive tree will tear apart that wall and the stairs you should listen to your husband
Haha thanks Ritchie, I'm sure your words come from wisdom and experience! I have told Robbie and he is very happy to hear your words, stay tuned to our videos and in 10 years from now perhaps either our stairs have broken half by an olive root or Robbie has ripped it out of the ground and blamed it on a mouflon!
Looking good Robbie you done a nice job. Really turning it into your own little piece of heaven. Love how all get involved. Omg you’re mothers car is a right little workhorse.❤❤😊😊
Hey Donald! That little bit does feel like a little piece of heaven now - it’s true! It’s nice to have little bits on interest around the land. A new meditation spot for Robbie! 🧡💫
LOL! 22:02 "I think that needs to shift my way a little bit!!"
Thanks for your comment Ted and Jenn! Haha this was pretty funny!
Huge work done! Just, I don`t get, why you did not done toilet in the house? Usual DIY concrete septic could work 20+ years before first cleaning... ;) if you need more info - ask me
Haha yes this is the big question! Perhaps after doing all this work we're re-considering whether we should have just built a toilet inside haha! We read a book called the HUMANURE handbook, and after that we were convinced a composting toilet is the only way forward! Hopefully it will be a fulfilling experience using the end product! It's nice to know we can use the compost to grow our trees and have more water to irrigate in this hot climate! Our last proper rain was in September so not sure we can justify and indoor flushing toilet!
Arată foarte bine treptele din piatră! Salutări din România!👍
Thank you! 💖💖
I love it!!
THANK YOU 🤩
Ha ha, the olive tree conversation, that is Paul and I every day lol
Haha yes this is the conversation around every decision! No wonder it takes so long for us to do anything. Your channel is cool! How on earth do you look after 140 acres of land in Australia!? That's a big job
@@ladyandtheowlman thank you! it is a big job but we just let the land look after itself mostly!
WoW thank 😊
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We need a new video! You guys are one of my favorites!
Thank you so much for the kind words! Sorry it's taking us a long time to get this video out, we're working like crazy filming and editing everyday... we're waiting for our broken hard drive to arrive so we can finish the last video off! Should be arriving today or tomorrow! Thanks so much for your patience, we promise our videos will be a bit more consistent going forwards! We didn't realise how complicated it is to store all your video files... we are 100% going to back everything up in future, not making that mistake again.
What a beautiful life for your lovely little Sage. God bless
Thank you so much for the kind comment! Sage brings us so much joy, he is hilarious, and so cute, he spent all of today chasing lizards around, he knows them all very well, and fed one of them a lettuce leaf which surprisingly it ate and enjoyed! The rest of the time he replicating the sounds of the toads in the spring, and chasing after sheep and birds, sometimes he runs away for a long time even at the age of 2, searching for animals and adventuring on his own!
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How beautiful.This is how children are meant to grow and explore creation with wonder. God bless you both abundantly 🙏🏽
Excellent ❤
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Fabulous video Gang. Regards from Australia 🦘🦘
Thanks so much! We really appreciate the kind words! So cool you're watching from Australia!
Same country, similar situation. Little Spanish Farmstead on RUclips.
Thanks for your comment Jerry, we appreciate the support! We've checked out some of their videos, they make some really cool content, a very unique filming style, we've actually learnt a few things from them already!
Welcome back guys,missed U esp Robbo concretoman.I watched so much rubbish this past month waiting for post with loads of brill ideas to keep big 4 legged animals outta your pool 😊 But travelling in HaNoi &Manila so catchya next time.Sage gonna be contractoman like Papa😅
Haha wow thank you for your research on keeping animals out of our pond! We appreciate any ideas you have, keep them coming! Have a nice trip Andrew!
Great stone work, very inspiring! Please bear in mind that horse Manure from pasture that has been exposed to herbizides Will harm your plants
Hey Eduardo! Thanks for your comment. We try our best to do everything organically, and we sourced this manure from a woman who feels the same! So fingers crossed 🤞🏻
@@ladyandtheowlman Composting is the key to great soil, again thanks for inspiring people!
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Thank you for your encouragement it means so much to us!
You can seal the tank with concrete and supper glue😂
... Hurry the f,,,,,, up (stealth Mode) 🤣🤣 Beautifull family ,,, u got a new subscriber
😅🤣 Thanks Pedro 🧡🧡
Lady and the Concrete man.. love you guys, keep it up 🤟
Haha thanks Kristóf! Love it. Really appreciate the love!!
Well you should get plenty of water to fill your ponds this week, as there is an awfull lot on the cards right through untill Sunday and windy with it.
Thanks Robert! There's definitely a bit of rain today, we hope more continues to come. The last proper rain we had was in September last year! We'll let you know in an upcoming video if the pond fills before summer! Fingers crossed!
@@ladyandtheowlman You're pulling my leg, I though when the rain comes in from the Atlantic in drops what left on Spain when it has crossed our mountains. The last 6 months here I think has been one of the wettest winters for a while, we have had a years rainfall since Sep 1 39 " or Se 165 mm, Oc 238 mm, No 264 mm, Dec76 mm, Jan 170 mm,Feb 152 mm and March 208 mm +yesterday as not checked the gauge yet. You really have picked a dry spot. Might be a good idea to relocate to Portugal as plenty farms here for sale, very cheap and most with their own water supply. With global warming set to continue your problem is only going to get worse. Not sure exactly where you are in Spain, but might be an idea to take a short break a pay me a visit then you can see what it 's like her for yourselves. I have plenty room here if you need an overnight stay.
@@ladyandtheowlman If you are wondering, yes am a bit of a weatherman, when you've been growing all your life you have to be so you know what crops are going to do best in any particular year. The rainfall here is 39" or 1 meter.
Дивлюся з перекладом. Ви цікава команда. Привіт з України.
Thanks for watching 🧡🌟🌻
Just found your channel brilliant work it all looks amazing. so nice sending regards from Australia xxx
Thanks so much for your kind words 💖🌟
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Immer wieder Hammer...😄❤❤❤
Vielen Dank für die Liebe und Unterstützung, Franz! Bedeutet uns die Welt!
What a ludicrous idea, “to much concrete” aren’t words that should even be whispered.
Hahaha love it
Beautiful location. The bins should be removeable, o7
Thank you Josey! Do you mean the compost bin? For sure! We're going to remove each bin as it fills up, we'll use the tractor to move it and store for 12 months in a shaded place, before using it as compost on our trees. We've calculated that each bin will last around 6 months!
Lady & The Owl Man , your videos are wonderful. This place is a paradise, excellent to live. You have direct contact with nature. I'm 65 years old, I'm chronically ill, my dream is to have a ranch and live in nature. Alongside my wife, my children, daughter, granddaughters and grandchildren... A ranch here in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, the price is 60,000 dollars, with 4 hectares. I don't have money now, but I have to keep dreaming. Because whoever doesn't dream, doesn't live. I'm going to fundraise, would you participate in the fundraising? Congratulations on your paradise.
Thanks so much for your kind comment! It's a great dream you have, we wish you the best of luck in achieving this, it's a great way to live in alignment with nature. That seems like a good price for a ranch too, much cheaper than Spain that is fore sure! We really appreciate the love, and wish you the best with achieving you vision.
Just too add now that you should have your bog up and running. A small thing we say when on soak away or septic tank. Don't pee inside if you can pee out. Saves on water, especially if it is in short supply, like you say you are just now. The alternative is only flush every other time. Now I'll go back to the fire as is very cold here just now, warmer in Scotland at 75, as here only 56 and showery.
Wow running the fire in May in Portugal, that's pretty great! We're still waiting for our rain!! Still not finished the compost toilet, we are very slow at building! The next video is out today, about some mountain beasts, hope you like it - leave us a comment and let us know what you think? I'm sure you've got more experience than us in everything we were doing in the video!
He's made a good job of that, looks really nice. And Robbie is right, never enough concrete. Are you going to plant the toilet roof? It's thick enough
Hey Dave! Yes - we are planning on making the toilet a green roof. I guess the next thing is to pour a concrete lip around the edge, Robbie’s going to be thrilled 😅 Just got to find the right type of plants for the scorching Spanish summer.
Not many are greeted at their front door by a swallowtail on a Pride of Madeira bush - I guess that's the reason you chose the life less travelled
Un poco loco,la condena de Ulises mover piedras de un lugar a otro j
Your olive will produce some Olives in 2years as it produces fruit on last years wood, but they don t go too well with spuds, onions and carrots.
Thanks for the info Robert 🌱🧡
Your tanks are made of Polyethylene plastic... and unless coated with something that is UV resistant, they tend to weather, and crack in fairly short order. You may want to consider covering your tanks.
Thanks Curtis for this information! For sure we need to find a good way to cover our tanks, everything we seem to cover them with in the past does end up degrading in the sun after one or two summers though! Any recommendations?
it was necessary to concrete the metal posts near the stairs and make a railing, or make them on the other side.
Thanks Alex! Yes I think you're right, we've decided a railing does make sense. And yes good idea putting it on the other side, then it can be a shorter railing with less posts!
Is there ever enough concrete..Nice work your son can even climb the rock steps..brmmm brmmm..So Cute
HAHA. brrmmm brrmmm 🌟🧡
1st time on ur channel, loved what i just saw, but the amount of concrete used is smth else :d (and i used to work in constructions :) )
Thanks so much for the comment, and for the kind words! Yes Robbie is a bit crazy when it comes to concrete, coming from absolutely no background in construction we have no idea how much to use! I guess where it comes from is that we have seen so many houses cracking and looking a bit worse for wear (the clay soil here seems to break most houses over time!), and figured we don't want that to happen to us, we want the things we build to last forever, so we just make things nice and big haha!
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Plenty of opportunities for lamb stew over there…
Haha yes absolutely! Although it might have to be a mouflon or wild boar stew, because the sheep are actually owned by a shepherd! Not sure he'd be too happy we took one of his sheep! Even though they do eat all of our trees haha.
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Hellooooo Daniel 🌟💖🌻
Why build the toilet outside and far away, Don't you think it would have been easier, cheaper and less time consuming to have done inside the house ?
ABSOLUTELY! But as with every project we do, we have a small idea that suddenly snowballs, and we just can’t stop 🤣😅🤦🏻♀️
Why not build the filter beds out of block work and face them? Didn’t seem too easy to reinforce the plastic but the result 👌
In the end, I think that would have been a valid approach too! It started with just digging two plastic containers in the ground, and snowballed from there 🙈😅
Poor Fiesta...
Mighty car! 🚙😅
Hope you have had plenty of rain by now, if not you can have some of ours as we've had more than enough and my pond is full and the walls have sealed so am looking forward too a big harvest this year as am running out of things now so having to buy fro shop, which peeves me as I like to think I can grow enough, but being warm in winter doesn't help with the storage and thing go off to fast.
Thanks Robert for your ongoing support! That's amazing news about your pond, how do you store your food over winter? Do you have a cold store? How did you make it? We're thinking we need one!
@@ladyandtheowlman Morning, with great difficulty as it is too warm and storing it in the cellar is no better so have switched too 2 crops a year with roots. The first crop is all but ready and will sow and plant again last week in August just before the rain comes back and they will be ready by Christmas, then can stay in the ground untill used. I don't like to be beaten by Mother nature, so work with her. All greens soft fruit and sweetcorn go in the freezer. Did you get any of that rain that came by us.
Wow cool to see how you're doing things, definitely need to work with mother nature that's for sure. Wonder how deep a cellar needs to be in the ground in hot countries like this to keep things cool over summer? We don't seem to be getting any of the rain you guys are getting!!! Some people saying it's worst drought since 1976 here! All good though, it's fun to find new solutions to things, next year we'll be more prepared with our big new water tank!
@@ladyandtheowlman Thought you must have drowned in all the rain you are not getting. Yes 76 in U.K. was about the worst on record, had just started life on my own farm 2 years previous so got really hammered that year. I would think you need to go about 10-15 down there the temperature evens out more so should keep a steady 10 c. This year so far is not a problem as the coldest and wettest since I arrived here in 20 and crops doing pritty well if a little late. Weather feels more like England than Portugal. No doubt that will change when we reach July, unless mother nature as other things in store. Spain never sat well in my book when thinking of pulling up roots, but each too his own. My water supply is spot on this time as my res walls have sealed so no 10,000 gallons more than last year and only used 4 times I think so far this year.
I would be this in an instant! But not alone, otherwise I would be a blah, it's the reason you all 3 are so fucking BLEWSED, the complete family to make it perfect. Never leave or betray one another, don't let any bullshit influence any of you, please. You have love, peace and happiness. NEVER LOSE THAT DAMNIT
Thanks so much for the kind words! We really appreciate the love. It's comments like this that make us forget all about our challenges and be super grateful, so thank you!
Hi. Maybe use these to keep boars and other predators away
Zon scare guns are the most user friendly propane cannon in the world. They are ideal for fruit and crop protection, hazards and nuisances, as well as predator and wildlife control, including birds, bats, foxes, rabbits and kangaroos.
Wow we've never seen one of these before, thanks so much for the recommendation! We'll look into them for sure. Haha not sure we need to scare away kangaroos though! Thanks so much for your support!
@@ladyandtheowlman my pleasure. Just wanted say how impressed I am with your work ethic. The way you set your goals and implement them is exceptional. The stairs were outstanding. Keep up the excellent work. Kia kaha (New Zealand native Maori language for Keep Strong)
Thanks so much for these kind words, it gives us such great motivation! Kia kaha - love it!
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I do agree with her that olive tree look nice there
Robbie made some good points about the branches getting in the way and slapping you in the face as you head up the steps on a cold winter's night (my embellishment), the wild sheep/mouflon will attack it, like they have attacked many of their new trees, or the unstable steep slope above it will slump down and wipe it out, or it will be 25 yrs before it produces a crop ...
On the otherhand, who cares; it looks great, branches can be trimmed and the slope may be good for many, many years! So what if the sheep eat it?
🙈🤣 Only time will tell! My motto is, put it there and if we need to cut it down, we cut it down 😅
Appreciate your agreement Andrea! 😅🌟💖
i think that you need to use T connector on output in the first tank for get water from middle part instead of top level. upd and probly better use a bigger ppipe
That's great advice thank you! Definitely think we should have used a bigger pipe, especially if we end up connecting the rainwater pipe from the roof! In a storm the whole thing will probably overflow.
You should get a 🐶 too scare the 🐑 off
Thank you for your advice Debbie! We're definitely considering a dog, any recommendations on a type of dog? And how long it would take to train? We need to make sure it doesn't harm the sheep when it scares them off, and also we'd like the sheep to have a drink at the spring before the dog scares them off, which is quite a complicated request I imagine for a dog haha!
What a lucky guy...a woman like that, up for that kind of dream, and who clearly loves him. Ready to take part in everything. She's priceless. I'm 74. Reminds me of the best beauties of the 1960s in California. Both of you, hang on to what you've got. Have sex regularly. Never stop.
Thank you Adrian for the kind comment!