Returning to the good life | Slow living in the French countryside
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- The start of summer signals returning to the good life. We embrace our slow living ways with joy - weeding, harvesting, creating and getting the keys to our new shop! It’s an exciting time but the sudden increase in temperature forces a slower pace on us all. It is impossible to work in the heat of the midday sun and so we must also make time for rest.
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Welcome to Living in the Loire, we are a young family in rural France, renovating previously poorly converted barns. We aim to do most of the work ourselves, being as frugal and as eco as possible. We are learning on the job and we hope to share the skills we pick up along the way.
When possible we will take you on a tour of the region (the garden of France) sharing with you the numerous chateaux, towns and markets.
As well as the house we will be transforming the garden, bringing part of it back to its previous use as a potager. This is our dream and one of the main reasons of leaving the city to move to the countryside in France.
Join us on our journey!
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Absolutely getting your hands in the dirt or walking barefoot in the dirt is good for your soul and your mind. Very grounding
This was a great video. I really get a feel of the French pace of life from your work and I appreciate it greatly. Best of luck on your work in the shop!
Thanks Paris
Perhaps find a cover crop or two to plant when you don’t have time for big garden. Will help keep weeds down and improve soil.
There is scientific proof that certain microbes in the soil get into your bloodstream when getting your hands in soil. Those microbes help create serotonin in your brain. So yes hands in the soil literally makes you feel good.
So cool you guys will have a shop to show and sell your wonderful work! Exciting!
Oh yes, the soil microbes are great!
This is such an impactful vlog today for me…
Realising the importance of being present,taking in what’s around you..
Thank you for this calming peaceful message.
And amazing footage as always
Thanks Pete. Often a case of 'easier said than done' when it comes to being present. Always a work in progress.
How you haven't got 500k subscribers I, ll never know. Keep up the good work, Nottingham England 🏴 🇬🇧
Congratulations on the shop how cool is that! Look forward to seeing your produce. Well done.
Thanks so much!
I just found your youtube site today and watched your "purchasing a home in France" series which was very helpful. My fiancee and I are planning on moving to France and just returned from our first travels through the countryside. We plan to buy in two years, so our serious home search will begin in about 10 months. I was interested in your area before I found you on RUclips. Now I am concerned about the drought and will watch the weather patterns over the next year. By the way, I was an organic farmer and ran a coop in Pennsylvania for a number of years. I also designed and built a superinsulated house that was superinsulated with straw... Look forward to watching your progress! Perhaps we will meet some day! Cheers,
Addison
Sounds like you have a great adventure ahead of you! We haven't found the drought to be that bad. I'd recommend rainwater harvesting. The summer storms will fill up water butts in no time.
Artfully done! My favourite video of yours yet
Thanks Bex
I love you both (in a non creepy way). Well done.
Thank you!
Your gardens have evolved so much, well done 👏
Thanks Angela. We're planning a garden tour next month when everything is blooming.
Such a peaceful video! Well done, thank you.
What a wonderful videography!! Epic movie shots!!! Gladiator is one of my favorite movie especially that scene. So nicely done! Bravo!
Thanks Ima. Great film, the ending never fails to make me cry.
WOW epic filming of the storm clouds and fields. Congratulations on the shop 😊
Thanks Suzie
I thoroughly enjoyed this video - the pace of the life you are creating, the sharing of what you love about the life you have chosen to live in France, beautiful location and scenery, interesting weather, the moments that make us pause and wonder, a bit of family life around the edges, the small steps of progress towards big goals, the creative process, your connection with the work and play of every day.
Since you have recently been sharing about your channel concerns and asking for feedback, I wanted to let you know what I enjoy about your channel. This video is a great example. I, too, am a creative and have taken on the challenge of bringing new life to old spaces inside and out, am often overwhelmed by big projects, things that don't go as planned and am subject to the toll illness can take on all of life - especially the creative side. Much the same as you have shared with us. I find this content both relaxing and inspiring. I do appreciate the odd funny sketch or moments sprinkled in, and don't think you need to make somewhat forced advertising videos for products or locations. If today's video is an example of what you envision for your channel, with some privacy around your family, I think you will find a very receptive community here.
I can't wait to see more of your artistic endeavours, too. Best of luck with the shop this summer! 🤞🤞
Looking forward to the next episode - whenever it arrives. 😊
Thanks Zephyr for taking the time to respond. I'm glad this resonated with you. It's always good to know you're not the only one facing a certain challenge.
Hello dear friends you both seem to be enjoying your daily living in France 🇫🇷.
A lovely sharing your gardening and pottery skills .
We both wish you luck with the old shoe shop venture ❤.
Greetings from England 🇬🇧 Simon and Beth ❤️ 😀
I really, really liked the combination of nature, work, etc and the beautiful footage too!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Gardening brings us closer to our creator, nothing woo woo about grounding. Very uplifting and therapeutic love the way your living out of the rat race. Well done
Stunning photography of the fields
Hello! I discovered your channel about 7-8 months ago. I really appreciate the life you guys are building. Good luck with the shop opening. Much love and respect from NZ 👍🙏
Thanks Vik. Hope your winter is too chilly or wet over in NZ.
Beautiful cloud and sun shots.
Thank Susan. There have been some great stormy skies recently.
Great video guys 😊 good luck with your shop. Love the look of your pool - enjoy the summer 🌞
Votre vidéo est si paisible et réconfortante. Merci! Vraiment bonne chance pour votre boutique. Hugs from Québec 🇨🇦
to slow down the growth of weeds in my veggie patch I cover the parts without vegetables with cut grass from the lawn, it also helps with keeping the ground wet. Keep up the great work ;)
Thanks Davide, yes this is a good idea.
In next week's video there will be a lot less weeds!
I was so happy to view a new video of you and your family. You’re so uplifting to me and I cannot wait
to visit your new adventure. I know it will be successful. You have also a relaxing way of teaching🍒🥦🧄😊 also I like the fact you have given your boys a bit of privacy. You’re not wo wo either!
Thanks Anne
Such a beautiful and thoughtful blog. Thank you for this!
You seemed at ease and right where you want to be, doing just what you need to do, and from a selfish point of view, that was very satisfying. Prenez soin de vous tous.
Thanks Jean-Philippe
Fabulous filming ,
A lovely relaxing video
Really enjoyed it all
Loved seeing the details of the pottery process
Thanks Elaine
I grew up in the farmer family at my childhood. This really reminds me to my old stories🙂👌❤️
I really needed this video today, it's been a difficult time. Your voice is extremely soothing (both of you) & to watch you dig in the dirt (I agree it's wonderfully therapeutic) & create beautiful art with your hands, combined with the serene beauty of the nature shots:- well it was the healing balm I needed. Thank you...
Glad to see you’ve decided to stick around 🎉❤ love the editing on this!
Thank you for the update on your garden. I’m happy to see that you got a crop of cherries. I remember when I was a young girl my father would cut the center of the cherry tree branches out. So the cheery tree branches wouldn’t grow so tall. My mother would give us a bucket. They had a long string and had to wrap it around our necks, and a bucket would hang down middle of our chest so we could have both of hands to pick cherries, red currant, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries. To say those buckets were well used was a major understatement! We also would have huge raspberry patch. That myself and my three siblings would pick every other day till their season was finished. I would help my mother make jellies and jams with the raspberries, and other fruits. Then canned them. I remember my parents making dandelion wine. We had lots and lots of weeding.😊 Brook I believe you’re onto something with keeping your mind come with weeding your fingers active it does something. I always used it as a reflection on time of myself, actions, my words, and how I can make myself a better person. Maybe I’m thinking too much.😅 your shop looks like it could be really nice. I hope you prosper in your endeavors with your shop. The Barn wall looks lovely. I believe that space will be well used and appreciated when complete. Thank you so much for sharing. It’s greatly appreciate please enjoy your family time.
I love the bucket idea! It sounds like you got massive harvests, how wonderful. We've definitely got more fruit than last year so hopefully it'll continue to grow year on year. At the moment the majority aren't even making it into the bucket, they're going straight into little mouths!
The blueberries and blackberries we would pick them wild in northern Wisconsin. We had six rows that were about 10 feet long of raspberry patch. We would cut them down in the fall about 4 foot tall and anything that was silver was cut off. We would nip it off entirely, but I remember the bushes for raspberries would get over 5 to 6 foot tall in the summer, and would be just loaded with raspberries, we also had two rows of red currents had to be at 15 feet long. We also had an apple orchard with pear trees, cherry trees, and we had four grapevines. We also please put 100 chickens every year kept about 25 for laying. We also raise turkeys about 20 of them a year. Also helped the local farmers when they needed extra help or wanted to take a vacation from the farm. My father was the oldest of 13 kids that were raised on a dairy farm. We also raise to sheep each year just because my mom loved lamb chop so much. So between the farmers planning vacations them not wanting to raise chickens and turkeys we would barter with the farmers for a portion of a cow or pig.
The very best of luck with your new endeavour!! 🤗
Good luck with your shop!
Thank you!
Good luck with the new shop. Sounds brill.
Love watching you. You are working hard and I find it so relaxing. 💙
There are some years where my vegetable garden hasn't gotten the attention it deserves, and others where it has. I found the Wolf-Garten multi-star garden tiller (I have no affiliation!) has been really useful as it has a super long handle (helps when you're tall), and I can just wheel it up and down the rows once a week. I still have to get in and hand pull around the plants, but using grass clippings (that I've let heat up and cool down after cutting, without matting up and turning slimy) as mulch really lessens the requirements for that. I have a bit of couch grass, but bindweed is a nightmare - you try and fork it all up earlier in the season, but it still comes back with a vengeance!
Thanks for sharing. I have a vague idea how much work goes into a video like this, sometimes for seemingly little reward, so it is is appreciated!
Thanks Gavin! Brook has experimented a bit with grass clippings and it definitely helps to keep the water in.
At the moment I’m green with envy. My two loves in life are pottery and gardening. Although I’m happily picking weeds I’m not going to be anywhere near clay for throwing with until September. A great vlog, blog or whatever they are called. Good luck with the shop and look forward to next weeks episode.
Thank you. I always look forward to your videos and really appreciate them. I was watching you weed and had a similar situation myself this year. The life saver for me was a stirrup hoe. I don't know if you can get them there, but it made the world of difference for me, so I highly recommend one to you. It saved me so much tedious work, and I was so pleased with it.
Wishing you every success with the shop. Being in the garden is my greatest joy and escape, just wish I’d found the love for it earlier 😊
Exciting news about the shop, we will definitely be along in a couple of weeks. Just getting ready for our guests now. We have had some bad news our eldest son has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer so I will be back and forth to the uk for a bit. If you have a promo leaflet for the shop send me a copy so I can encourage my guests to visit. Xx
So sorry to hear about your son. Do let us know if you need any help while you're away with anything x
Thank you and Best Wishes for your shop ❤
A very 'arty' video. It's good to see you being you. Being true to yourselves.. Good luck with your shop, France seems to be filling with tourists, hopefully their wallets are bulging :-)
We've always been arty farty. You should try it sometime. ;)
Absolutely love love your channel! I’m so envious of your life style. Wish I could be there to help pull weeds and plant seeds and started plants. You have a beautiful family. God bless you all!
Great video guys, really enjoyed it. Those cherries be nice to make jam or in a chutney. The veg plots look amazing. Great job! Lisa xxx ❤
I've never come across cherry chutney. Will look up a recipe
Find when working in the garden I do most of my problem solving, analyzing, daydreaming, planning. And yes, some I should have said blah, blah, blah. You always do such wonderful filming. Enjoyed the chat vlog last week, I wouldn't mind seeing a couple more of those.
SO jealous you have a nice big pool---perfect to cool off after the hot jobs. The barn job looks massive--but what an accomplishment when you get it done. Well done. Beautiful pics of the clouds and landscape. I had a porch built for my mom so she could enjoy the clouds/storms coming over the border--was one of her favorite things.
Oh yes, we didn't put it up last year (let's call it a fallow year to conserve water.) Plus they're older and can now both swim and enjoy it more. That's great you did that for your Mom.
your videos are so well-done and your dream is also my dream. hopefully one day I can live it as you are doing. I am aware that this series is ending (for me -- I was late to the start) and thus am savoring every last one. I'm going to miss them when I've watched all the way through because I am thoroughly enjoying watching while eating my breakfast and starting out my day nice and peaceful-like (with a dose of reality in there always too). :) cheers to you and your beautiful family. you should feel very proud of all that you have accomplished and thank you for sharing it with all of us in such a meaningful way.
That's a very kind comment. It's not the end, they'll be a video again soon once our children are back in school. Lot's of work has been going on the past nine months, still been filming a fair bit of it. We just don't have as much time to film/edit, any free time we spend together as a family or are just so exhausted. Stay subscribed, I'm sure it'll be worth the wait.
@@LivingintheLoire no need to explain. time with family is most important, especially because it is so obvious that you all enjoy each other's company so much! treasure this time.....we will all still be here whenever you are ready, or not!! it's been a joy to share your journey in a weird, techy-kinda way haha (and also inspiring!)
Thx you guys 🌹💪👍✌️🙋
You have an instant greenhouse on the back of your barn just needs a roof 😀👍🇫🇷happy gardening
Yes, we'd love to build one there
we discharge negative energy when we come in contact with the earth, everyone should do it.😁
Lovely video. after last week's video, I think you are right to present content exactly as you want to; have to say would love an 'introduction to pottery' session, what you need to get started etc; what you have learnt from the do's and don'ts etc. Thanks
Thanks Mairi will keep that in mind.
Beautiful video ❤ very nice montage and filming. It's relaxing and inspiring 😊
Really enjoy your relaxing video. I think I could watch you work pottery for an hour, lol, something very calming about it. Thank-you.
Thanks M and M
Really love this thanks
Oh, I so love cherries! I was born and raised in Michigan and we really looked forward to the cherry season. I live in the South now and cherries are non-existent (though peaches are everywhere so I'm not complaining). My grandmother made the most wonderful tart cherry pies. I don't know if you are into making a pâte brisée sucrée but it is really worth a try! Julia Child's recipe is a winner and EASY! Or a "Clafoutis aux Cerises" for breakfast is lovely. No, these aren't health foods, just France's gift to the world, lol.
Cheers from North Carolina USA
Will look up those recipes, thanks Catherine!
I use limnanthes - poached egg plants as a crop to cover the ground. So easy to sow, self sows ,pretty and excellent for hoverfly etc. also very easy to pull up !
I love your videos. They are very calming.
All looks lovely...Good luck with the shop. Very exciting!
I've a small front and back garden. I've 2 raised beds and fruits and vegetables growing in containers in the back also hanging baskets , wall planters, and pots with blooming flowers. The front is just flowers. I love walking around the garden in my bare feet. I find gardening is just so good for me. Saying that I do really try to get things cleaned up and all hanging plants done early I know I don't get them flowering right up to September cause I do it early. I just find if I'm not on top of things by June, I panic and I know I shouldn't because it always comes together and if it's to late for certain plants so b it. The most important thing is enjoying it, especially when you have a young family.
It is starting to look hot ! How nice to have that pool. I love that dark sky ! Good luck with the shop ! 💕🌷
The clouds that evening were so dramatic! We're really lucky to get some incredible skies here.
Watching you prep and throw the clay takes me back to high school art class. Love watching the process. Good luck with the shop, what a great opportunity.
We had wild (sour) cherry bushes in our garden in Italy and we made jam from them and also cherry-cello, a variation on limoncello that was also good with raspberries, limes and oranges.
Fill a 1L jar with cherries. Then take 95% pure ethanol (available in France and Italy at supermarkets) and top up the jar. Note how much alcohohol you add. Leave the fruit to soak for about 6 weeks.
Remove the cherries and to the liquid add the same volume of sugar water (just white sugar dissolved in warmed water). Don't just double the volume as there will be water from the cherries and you need the liqueur at whisky strength so you can put it in the freezer as it's best to drink after dinner ice-cold.
Cover the cherries with sugar water too - they will still be quite alcoholic and are great either with desserts or with confit duck.
PS Nice VLOG - particularly the cloudscape over the barn and the wheatfield vista.
Good luck with the shop !
Love watching you throw! Your ceramics are beautiful
Cheers Ella
So happy you continue to put out videos. Your audience will find you. You will get people on Patreon. Time to get to know you.
We may offer some form of subscription. Where we can offer the podcasts and other less polished content to those who want to hear us speak more. We did try a Patreon (when we had 500 subs🤦♂️) but we couldn't find the time to commit to the additional content and shut it down.
Oh how exciting, a shop!! Hope it goes really well and you sell heaps! I've thoroughly enjoyed this video, such a relaxing, quiet pace, so lovely after most of the other channels rip tear hurries! Can you please send me a month of your beautiful weather? It's rained so much here today that I've now got a waterfall down my drive, which has formed a rather large lake onto my front yard! If it keeps up we won't be able to get the car out! But the house is warm and dry with the fire well stoked, and I just made some hot scones and a nice cuppa. Could be worse! Much love and big hugs xxx
Thanks Karen. Hope the rain has stopped now. A cuppa and scones by the fire sound pretty good though ☺️
So glad you got a shop! How fantastic for you and your patrons.
Hi guys, a lot of people are now turning to raised beds in a big way,I'm sure you have a raised bed, you might want to add a lot more to your garden,so much easier to manage,I've always. suffered with a bad back and digging was always a problem especially if I tried to do too much,something you could think about.
We have some areas where we want to have raised beds. Like you say, far easier to maintain and weed. To do it everywhere I think would be too big an undertaking. Or at least would need to be done over many years. As obviously you need to fill them all! I know there's hugelkultur and other methods but you still need something.
Lovely video, high points for me were you talking about weeding and working with your hands in the earth, I also ask remember the impact of that final scene in gladiator. Wow, a shop, loads of work to do, keep it simple though. Good luck.
Thanks David. Yes, we'll be keeping it simple. Or trying to at least ☺️
Hey guys!!! Nice to see another new video, loved the allusion to that movie 'Gladiator ' and I perfectly remember that shot, a real poem for sure..... your videos has a characteristic you know, ....heeeee don't know how to explain....... 'genuine' must be the word.
Juan
Thanks Juan!
Bravo excellence shines through 👏
Thanks Tona
Nice. This is you two.
Love that plate !
Cherry picking season! Your lettuces look wonderful!
Thanks Linda
There’s been studies in recent years of Mycobacterium Vaccae bacteria in the soil. While you garden it is inhaled and absorbed topically and when this happens it increases cytokine levels which in turn increases your serotonin levels.
I love ya's!
HOW FUN! Good job
Such an enjoyable video. 😊
I like your plates.
I do the same thing with blueberries and strawberries!
That sounded like a cockerel !
I put that sound effect in just to troll you Jenni 🤣
do you know that previously in french countryside, those sour cherrys were called english cherries?
Interesting. No we didn't. Maybe it's why we like them 😊
Sorry couldn't be bothered with the content of your podcast style vid. Loved the stuff in this vid! Thanks!
No worries!
Just a suggestion but if you watch videos of Charles Dowding no dig gardening, perhaps you wouldn’t have to do any weeding.
The weeds that you do have could be put into a barrel, covered with water and used as a compost tea for your garden.
Great work though and it’s all a giant learning curve.
Thanks Marie. We do follow no dig principles (apart from this year digging up the cooch grass).
Hello! I was wondering about your reflection that you feel better when you can garden.
As you consider what working with the earth does for your nerves, there are various ways in which contact with the earth has a healing effect.
Firstly, there are the negatively charged electrons in the earth's soil, which have a strong antioxidant effect. They neutralize the positively charged free radicals. On the one hand, being in the house has the consequence of getting into an electron deficit and often being exposed to high-frequency energies (for example via WiFi), which cause oxidative, inflammatory stress in the body and at the same time getting into a deficit of negative electrons.
You can find out more about this in the film “The Grounded” or the book “Earthing”. (Although I would warn against the sheets in times of high stress due to uncontrollable high-frequency exposure in the environment)
Furthermore, we live in a symbiosis with the microbiotes in the soils around us, in which our food is ideally grown.
A healthy microbiome is necessary for the health of both our gut and our brain. When we work in the earth, we absorb its subtle information and it enriches our microbiome, where it can have an anti-inflammatory effect. You can also read more about this in Sayer Ji's highly recommended book "Regenerate".
I hope, these informations are helpful for you and other readers.
Love fresh sour cherries, I just can't find them fresh in US ☹️
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ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸ್ ದೇಶದ ಗ್ರಾಮೀಣ ಭಾಗದ ಚಿತ್ರಣ .
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Beautiful, comme d'habitude.
Did you feel the earth move?
I did as I was editing. I shouted earthquake. Rebecca didn't feel anything and I thought I was going crazy (again) until we heard the news. All okay with you?
I saw your channel name and my first thought was- they live in the river?😂😂
What lettuce do you grow as mine always bolt in this heat!
I'm not sure of the varieties though, we buy from the local market or nursery. They do do pretty well but the first ones we planted are definitely on the verge of bolting...
I think life lived before people is a loud statement.. I believe you can use the system to benefit yourselves and still remain true to yourself.. reality is you are seeking to live a simple life… look for the positive moments in your life and stay focused in that spot not what is wrong with the ( system) or the human condition…
this globalized world deserves to die, people ought to be more local, more in tune with their roots, with their people, their communities, to treasure the land and heritage of their ancestors, if everyone thinks this way, the world will be a better, more interesting, more sustainable place.
Why don't you mulch... That will contain the weeds and makes your garden more futile and keep the moist in. We live 100/150km south of you in the Berry. Dry summers like yours
Plant banana trees
Do you get some rain ? I'm a few kilometers south but the rain keeps avoiding us...
We've had a couple of heavy downpours that have been very welcome but not as much as was forecast.
Hope you weren't affected by the earthquake 😕
Brook felt it. I was in a different room and didn't feel a thing. Didn't believe it until I saw the news! Having said that our barn beam that is due to be replaced next month is looking even more iffy now. Fingers crossed it holds out 😬
@@LivingintheLoire Good wishes for the beam. I hope you never have to see it munted (second definition of "munted").
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