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Five things that may help you:
1. I can’t tell if you have blackberries or black raspberries, but the proliferation of brambles tells you that this delicious crop is happy to live where you are! You might want to get thornless blackberry plants. It’s a cultivated variety that is easier to care for, for obvious reasons. No need to buy a lot of plants because they are really easy to propagate. With each stem the plant grows, you put the end into a pot of soil. In winter you cut the stem and you have a new plant for next year. You can multiply your plants by 5-10 every year and quickly have enough to cover the entire land.
2. The well is also a refrigerator. This is an old-time trick. Put a basket or net of food on a rope and lower it into the well. It doesn’t necessarily need to be in the water, just down low where it’s cool. Protip: put a float and hook or ring on the basket so if the rope breaks you have an easy way to grab it with a pole.
3. Most flies don’t fly all that well and they follow your breath and body smells. The cleaner you are the less they find you, so a quick dip in the pond on sweaty days helps a lot. Also, if you keep a fan on you while working in one spot, they can’t follow smells as well and struggle to fly against the wind created by the fan. Wear long pants (linen or cotton) and tuck the cuffs into your socks, and just use the fan up top to keep them off your face and hands. Obviously this only works when you are in one place but it’s very effective for those times. Also, the fan feels nice!
4. Chances are that you can find a niche for growing and producing food, despite having so many neighbors already doing it. There are so many things that can be grown that it’s almost certain you can find crops they aren’t doing. Also find out what value-added products you can make. Maybe your neighbor grows cabbage but is anyone making sauerkraut or kimchee? Maybe your neighbor grows tomatoes but is anyone drying them or making canned sauces? In the US we have special “cottage food” exemptions from the usual strict food laws. I have no idea what this is like in Portugal or the rest of the EU, but you should find out. You have a global audience who might want to buy things from you.
Also your Precious Plastics connection is valuable. What plastic products are local farmers using, and what do they want them to be? You can prototype improved products for this industry and test them yourself and with your neighbors.
5. Look into NTFP, non-timber forest products. You have a lot of land and these are generally sustainable, foraged (by some definitions) things your land can produce profitably.
You’re doing great. Keep it up.
@Beautiful things are love and dreams no problem at all! I’ll look those berries up. Always something new to learn.
FWIW, Wikipedia says “amores silvestres” -> “Rubus fruticosus” -> blackberries.
Late to the party but I was thinking maybe keep some honey bees on the land?
Great suggestions! They don't mention the kind of flies (assuming they aren't the biting kind that afflict livestock/deer). Whatever species they are, introducing natural predators of flies (toads & frogs) would go a long way to keeping the population in check. I have a black walnut tree that hosts flies and in the summer I have to tamp them down with a bag type trap in a suburban setting. Keep it a distance away from the house (it's stinky to attract them) and the bag has been filled up in less than a week at times. When insects reproduce in the thousands it's sometimes a necessary deterrent to keep them away from home spaces.
I notice the Kamp has salamander. We always consider them good luck. They, along with preying mantis, eat lots of nuisance pests to humans and crops. Especially mosquitos. I'd consider them a protected species in the Kamp doing lots of needful work for free.
Instead of focusing on one major topic every single week maybe some weeks if you aren't feeling it as much just do vlog snippets of what's going on that week. This means you won't have to think of a whole idea each week. Love the videos
I love the whole "share a meal" Idea. 7 Families on the land means each family is responsible for one day's worth of meals. I can't imagine only having to cook one day a week! What a wonderful idea!
For your Q& A:
1) Hi Krita Are you also from the Netherlands? If not, where are you from? Bonus question , how did become involved with Project Kamp?
2) For passive income, consider Cork Trees? Just know once you plant them it’s illegal to cut them down. Suggest NO eucalyptus trees as that is a major contributor & accelerant for fires in Portugal.
3) For sustainability, will you be getting chickens? Eggs, good insect control, and guinea fouls are actually good guard/alert systems! Just ensure you build a Fox proof shelter for them!
Love your channel & meeting all the folks who come help. Thanks for doing it.
We have used pigs to clear Blackberries. pigs are rooters. Brambles will return thicker every year, unless you remove the rootball.
I saw people usually use goats
@@ygreq my friend purchased to pigs, he also got electric fence and would put the fence around the area he wanted cleared....month later move them to the next area.. and organized at the end of the job.. and goats are great as well, but if you want the job done once pigs are the way to go, clean they want to eat the root, where goats do a lot of pruning...any way you go it will be a new lesson....Cheers
@@ygreq goats are great for clearing them back. But to the original comments point. Pigs have a different feeding style which includes Digging out the roots. Pigs are a more long term solution
@greggwalker9375 very true! It's also understanding the nature of the blackberry/ raspberry cane cycle. Hard pruning away the mother cane after it's first year of production and allowing the baby canes to take over on a trellis for the next season is how it's cultivated professionally. They also space them apart considerably for growing time. The soil is already saying it's agreeable to blackberry & raspberry. Harvesting the wild grown thorny varieties and then letting pigs do their work so that thornless varieties can be planted in a reasonably managed system seems most sensible. The layers of dead & live brambles matting the forest floor are a fire hazard but are also serving as shelter for wildlife. Not sure how much of that they should remove. It's the last thing builders consider, if at all, where will the squirrels, owls, snakes and racoons live now that you're displacing them. Be kind to those neighbors too.
What happened to episode 27? I'm loving the video's and the whole idea of it and your wholesome attitude great to watch ❤❤❤
Goats!!!!!! You need goats - they eat anything and will keep areas already cleared trimmed down and then let them loose into the brambles patches.
I love how you saw value in growing fruit plants and have blackberry brambles everywhere. I highly recommend making preserves or jam. Could ship world wide or sell locally.
An option to repurpose your alien/invasive Australian Blue Wattle/ Silver Wattle (Mimosa) trees is to make a small charcoal tank, and as you cut them down, turn the wood into charcoal which you can sell, (or use). This is being done very successfully by a number of small communities here in South Africa.
Woo chips compost greatly into soil fertility
You should really consider this and also consider whether you can collect charcoal from the remains of the fire damaged trees as you clear the land. Love the videos.
Fresh charcoal would also be a great filter media for the water.
Personally I recommend using the charcoal on your own land, I noticed massive difference in my gardens from using inoculated charcoal. Simply mix charcoal in any nitrogen tea, urine, compost, the charcoal takes up the nitrogen and slowly releases it. Of course you tube has information
You are lucky to have good neighbours who understand community and hard work from the past. Maybe in the growing season get advice from them to grow potatoes and onions and garlic in the ground so you have some food to offer your volunteers!
Flies inside- make screens with a door in big screen sections that will work around the kitchen and other workspaces.
Get rid of the most of the rampant growing blackberries and keep some on a spot where they grow the best and keep them under control.
There are also different species without the thorns. They grow just as fast and might keep back the one with thorns! They also make great jam and very simple to make.
@@BenVeenstra Yes I know, but that are the cultivated varieties. And yes again they are a wonderful source for jam.
Maybe they can plant a couple of grape vines and let them grow over the top of a simple "roof" over a terrace to provide shade. I can see a constrution made of the invasive trees that have to go.
Something like this; ruclips.net/video/k_-yxJMHAhc/видео.html&ab_channel=Kayla-TheHillsideHomestead
Sound like you are organizing a kibbutz. Studying how they are organized may help avoiding pitfalls of a self sufficient community. 👍 😎
You can always split a project up into several parts. Gives you more time and keeps the audience interested by wanting to see the end result.
I was told to expect trees to grow their first 3 years like this: Sleep, Creep, Leap. First year they don't do much. Second year they grow a bit, and the third year they really begin to grow quickly. There are some exceptions to that, but it's pretty accurate.
Depending on the elevation of the highway from your property, the best thing to stop road noise is a dirt bank. Make it 6 foot high and slope the banks 45 degrees in each side. It bounces the sound upwards and absorbs the rest. But only works if your level with the road or slightly below.
In the UK, we call those brambles, they make great jam, they can be trained like vines.
There are some herbs that repel flies and are useful for cooking, basil, lavender, rosemary, mint.
Catnip, repels mosquitoes, but might attract cats lol
Blackberries are awesome! I always go around town picking blackberries and make home made jam.
i plan to grow them in the near future in my big garden so i can use them to make jams, mead etc. Even maybe a blackberry beer.
Other future plan is to build an old sheep/goat shed into our house and i want to use only recycled and reused materials for the build.
Look into a permaculture food Forrest would be an idea. Enjoying your journey ❤️
I've started to enjoy Mondays a lot more, since you started posting your videos :). Thank you for sharing your adventure!
May I suggest looking into forest gardening, an old grow system that is recently rediscovered. Lots of benefits and your land is ideal. People density on land was said to be a family per hectare. Hope this helps and wish you every success with your fantastic Project Kamp
Thank you for the playlist it was the first thing I looked for and it’s encouraged a more thorough review your videos
And I absolutely respected you from precious plastic (of which I’m starting building a plastic shredder but it’s waiting in line after a wood chipper which these videos helped drive home my need for a more robust chipper rather than just shred my garden waist
Eucalypts have deep roots, which is why they are planted in arid areas, but they take a lot of water. Better to get rid of them gradually.. As to fruit trees, try growing them with other species to give them shelter until they become established, like your Sarah and Nuno do. There is a lot to be said for mixed cultivation.
I’ve been watching you Project Kamp videos since #2 after RUclips recommended it to me but I had no idea about your other channel and had my mind blown when I realised you’re the Phonebloks guy.
Might I suggest fly-screens for your workshop? You can get a screen for your door that is two sections that hold together with magnets to make it easy to enter and leave.
Would like to know what kind of precautions you are taking in regards to wildfires. This might be something to keep in mind from the beginning (choice of trees, balance of density and open spaces, Escape routes and water access)
Hey that was my comment?? Too bad, she's beautiful! And not afraid of hard work!! You guys are doing a great job!
Question: How far is the top of the mountain to basecamp? They make a device called moca (cable to ethernet) That will travel up to 5000 feet. They sell these in pairs. So with the WIFI with sim card router, you can purchase direct burial coax RG6 cable. So the weather wont destroy the cable. I have personally installed one that went to 4800 feet away (which is almost a mile). At basecamp you will have a moca device, and at the top of the hill another moca device. Plug each end of the RG6 cable per directions on (basecamp and mountain) Have solar panels on mountain. Back at base camp, put a small wireless that has the ability to be put into AP mode. In short, you will get internet down in basecamp, while using the Wifi Router Sim device at the top of the mountain. You will have a 1GB connection from top of mountain to basecamp. Check Amazon for the moca Trendnet Ethernet over coax adaptor. 116.00 USD. If you need any help at all, I would GLADLY give you any of my experience of doing this. I have been a computer store owner for over 28 years.
Good q&a honest straightforward answers. I've been binge watching this channel only. No idea about your previous (concurrent) exploits on your other channel.
I'm really enjoying the journey so far but I feel as if a horde of people from your other channel are going to show up at any moment and turn things into a fucking nightmare.
💕Make the kitchen house ground floor into a canned goods storage a💕Grow produce that others are not growing USE YOUR OWN PRODUCE TO FEED YOUR HELPERS💕
I also struggle with an abundance of brambles on my land. Two tips I can share:
1) make jam for the whole year. I call it ‘sweet revenge’. And since you are Dutch, like me, you gotta like the fact that it’s free 😃
2) a tractor and a flail mower make it very easy to manage the overgrown areas. If you mow twice a year, it will turn into grassland.
He needs to find someone that wants to keep pigs or goats in a fenced in area that needs work.
LOVE this video. Dave Hakkens you deserve a Nobel prize for how you are transforming all aspects of life for so many people, through Precious Plastic and now Project Kamp. This Q&A just hit home for me how sincere and generous you are with your brilliance. Thank you!
Maybe, yous could develop your own organic citrus/citric acid? spray line to keep the flies off?! The locals would probably enjoy the young enthusiasm & renewed entrepreneurial spirit!
Buy or rent some goats for the blackberry bushes. They'll eat em quick, thorns and all.
"We are prototyping a more sustainable way of living"
What does that mean?
"Have no ideia"
Tanks for the honest answer.Hope you find out someday.
Anyway, its being entertaining, and you sure are doing no harm, on the oposite. Good luck.
I lived on a farm and a small hill cut off the nearest phone tower completely. 4 metres up was beautiful signal. (Don't ask how I figured that out, long story.) Anyway. I got a 6m USB extension cable, a piece of 40mm PVC pipe 4m long, and a drink bottle. Taped the dongle outside the pipe ran the USB cable down to a hole at 1.5m up, cut one end off the coke bottle put it over the dongle and taped it loosely. Stood that up outside the window attached with two hoop clamps, left me almost 2m USB cable inside to connect to the laptop. (UNPLUG THIS IN THUNDERSTORMS. Just in case.) But I had my Internet that way for a year, and that's how I met my wife, too..
Road noise: plant several rows of trees parallel to the road. If you grow trees for timber you can harvest down the track.
Especially cyprus trees which resist fire and are green all year.
@@veronicabalfourpaul2288 eucalyptus is a invasive species in Portugal, and a huge fire risk, definitely not the tree to recommend.
Raspberries and blackberries grow like weeds. Not a bad problem to have.
We are planing on getting goats to keep the land clear, harvested nearly a kg of blackberries in the last couple weeks though. You're a great role model thus far, great work.
Aloha from Hawaii. I think you guys need proper equipment. Machete, can knife, lopers, and proper attire. Work boots, jeans and long sleeves. Basic stiff and All not very expensive. Your avocado tree will eventually shade the other plants and nothing will grow underneath. Take care and lmk if you come to Hawaii.
*cane knife
Hi,get some pigs fence off some rough land and they will clear it then eat them,and chickens eggs and meat chicken poo is good for you veg patch,get a hemp licsence and grow the future
Good job answering questions, you don't know what you don't know, the whole idea of being there is to find out.
I am not question asking person but I like giving suggestions if you get your kitchen up and going you should get your garden and other things in the same area but keep your livestock far away but for now you need person with structural knowledge to access on what is good with the structure but I have seen I would eliminate the gable ends of the structure
Would you build a larger solar field? Could you supply your neighbors in exchange for vegetables, labor, etc?
There are ways to keep blackberry/raspberry patches under control so you can enjoy the berries in the summer, so if you can keep one little patch under control anc get rid of the rest….you will have some berries to harvest….providing the wildlife doesn’t beat you too then…😅
You're living the dream!!! This is forest fires season in Portugal, and since your land already experienced a big fire before you purchased it, be sure to keep things safe.
Thanks for the great video and the super honest q&a. Really liked your thoughts on sustainability, been thinking about that quite a bit while we‘re building up our Precious Plastic workspace, good inspiration. Looking forward to next week.
Thanks for answering my question! Sounds like you have a long, multi-year project on your hands - I hope it all works out for you all.
I love this channel. Great work and very inspiring!
Super nice, interesting video. Love the transparency. It’s going to be a long ride, thoughtful, never dull, and a success.
Just put some mosquito nets for the windows and a loose net (don't know how to call it) for the entrance for taking care of flies. ;)
Maybe you could do tourism, like bell tents, and maybe cabins etc. And tour guides of the land around..maybe alpaca/lama to go on a treck carrying the luggage and then camp out.
You guys are awesome! Please never end the weekly videos!!
I find it so exciting to watch your videos!!
Such great project!
Nice update and inspirational as usual. We are heading South next week, getting settled and opening shop. Be welcome for a cup of coffee soon :)
Hi David,
I am an architecture student soon to be an architect, Ive been following project camp since the first vids from the main channel (precious plastic).
Wanna help make/design the kitchen in the a virtual setting to see the possibilities of what soon to be the kitchen..
All I need from you is some measurements. That is all.
Kind regards,
Mo
sounds cool. maybe go to out discord?
@@ProjectKamp I am in it already..😅😅
Nice to see the progress and hear your thoughts on the project! Still don't know what projects are going to come out of there, I've been very curious about the cross between technology and nature, like in aquaponics, permaculture, 3D printing, alternative building methods, etc. Any thoughts on anything in these directions?
Unfortunately don’t have much time to spare, but have been thinking about applying to help 😋. I'm a software developer, amateur woodworker / tinkerer and have an electrical engineering background.
PS.: The black berries are a pain, but they are so yummy and make such nice jam!!...
help us develop our community platform! This will be the software backbone of Project Kamp
platform.onearmy.earth/ :)
LOL. Every TENTH video from the 8th, we show you our problems. Dang Math!
insulate the container on the exterior 6:53 ; install mosquito nets
They keep saying flies. I'm wondering why no mosquitos with the pond and swamp that have no fish. Here in Texas we had so much rain there was a bumper crop of mosquitos this year. Thankfully, more dragonflies than I have ever seen are around now. I got to see one drop eggs into water, and I'm seeing all the stages as they grow up. Any mosquito larvae that seems too big, I screen out--the dragonfly larvae need to eat though.
A bund is what will block the road noise...this is a huge bank of soil. Trees alone will not stop the noise. Amarilla;)
Great videos, thanks a lot. Really liked your comment on farming and sustainability/competition, this is very true.
This irritant plant is called ''SILVA'' name equal to the most common surname in Portugal equivalent to your Smith in England, and the fruit is called ''AMORA'
I'm a photographer that could help out with the time lapse. I'm also good with computers. I'm not a pro at editing but I might be able to help with that as well. The 4g antenne should be a separate antenne on the outside and connected to a "normal” router. I'm building my own camper can right now. When it is finished I could come over. 4 to 6 weeks it should be done.
And it seems no one got the "Italien girlfriend" joke :D I did Mattia is a the Italien guy. LOL
Thanks for the update! Take care and keep going!
Plastic is made from hydrocarbons. This compound off gases during the life of the plastic product. Long term exposure is detrimental to one’s health. Recycling plastic is not the solution. Best to avoid plastic products. For example plastic clothing (polyester, poly blends, nylon, etc) when washed, their lint is deposited in our water supply which eventually we ingest .
I heard running water help lower the sound. Or try a wall with insulation and more insulation and a thicker wall. Or try planting more trees or having more hills
Planning is easy if you prioritise your projects.
You can you use a bug net or screen for keeping insects out or setup an insect trap
You should put your other channels in the channel section of this channel page. It would be nicer to find your other stuff.
Flies taste like black pepper, we have a wild foods festival here in nz hokitika, mmm flies on toast. You can get a hat with mozzy net like the Australian farmers use for outside work.
Hey, I'm Brandon from Jamaican I love what you guys are doing. Is it possible to visit/ join you guys to LEARN?
Have you thought about hydro electric to power the kamp ?
LIVE WITH THE HIGHWAY SOUNDS I GROW UP BY HIGHWAY SLEEP GOOD AT NITE
like flughasenstrafe suggested, you can buy a 4G router with an external antenna port and buy an seperate antenna which you can mount on the outside of the container. Those antenna's normaly have better range, so your reception should even be better ;) GL
Many of these LTE/4G Hotspots even work on battery, so they are easily movable.
Go for an indoor router with external antennas. And make sure your router gets regular updates. The one you were showing does not. I myself fall in this trap 4 years ago. no updates ever since.
Yes, an outdoor 4g antenna that connects to a ”normal” router on the inside. That's the way to go
as long as the router works you really don't need firmware updates... I have a LTE router (with external antenna) that is over 10 years old.. still works perfectly despite no updates for 7+ years. And if you are thinking security, don't trust your outer with something as important as internet security.
I find fans disturb flies, might want to try that? and mosquito nets on your doors and windows
Strongly consider engaging a competent permaculture designer to assist you in getting a handle on how to most effectively utilize your ten hectare holding.
Peace.
I would suggest to also dedicate part to re wildering and to trees with large co2 storing capacity and for future building materials
Plastic brick house, hell no. Please don't poison the area like that.
Flies don't like a strong breeze so try using a fan to keep them away
wind chimes to mask road noise
Mikrotik directed external ant 4/5G LTE modem is quite a powerhouse.
Hi, try to install and outdoor antena for the 4G router, hi use it and works fine, or install a box on the top of the container, you have several options to connect an antena to the router, some you can connect to the RJ 45 port.Cheaper than an outside 4G modem, and less complicated to configure the access to the net provider (Vodafone,etc...) Keep up the good work!
Show us some more of that awesome van! Is it 4x4??
here ruclips.net/video/xOq4OWf8ecI/видео.html :)
Spikes plants are called here in Tasmania Australia black berry bushes I have heard them called brambles in on RUclips in Portugal and France.🇦🇺🙋♀️
Y’all need to make a precious plastics mold for a “matamoscas” (a fly-swatter).
Make and sell Jam. It lasts ages and could be a local income at the market your friends go to to sell produce.
Blackberries. They make excellent jam.
I was kid we eat them like candies, we call them in Portuguese "Amoras".
Get over those damn highway sounds, dude! :-D
I think his neighbor Nuno has the right attitude. Libertines who mean to be purists would swear off mattresses, electricity and all medications deviating from natural remedies. Dreams of a Kamp in perfect quietude would mean giving up all connections to civilization, as if a deserted island. Imagine what kind of problems would that entail?
How else can Kampers arrive with relative ease, containers be delivered, connection with the internet, local culture (yummy pastry + washing machine) and egress from the threat of wildfires be achieved if not for these highways?
I live high on a hill with a highway nearby. It tends to echo off the hills, noticeable during rush hour winter mornings and summer nights when the windows are open. A bend in the highway with a 30mph change in speed sets off the inexperienced truckers using air brakes (very loud). The globe is moving toward electric cars, but tractor trailer delivery systems I do not see working out well in the short term due to power requirements and battery limitations of tonnage & effective range. Someday, just not today. The view, flood proof and local conveniences made it more tolerable. My wind chimes help a lot and secondary benefit become the alert bell for severe weather on the way.
Have you thought about using a small water turbine as an extra source of electricity?
Since you have a lot of blackberry bushes in your land, could you dig them up with roots, transplant them in a row with sticks to support for easier harvest in the future? I used to go to u-pick farm in late spring and it is so easy to pick them. Just an idea 😂😂.
That is impossible because this an infestation plant. It's a plague in land
@@jcarlosfig
It can be a control cultivation and not an infestation.
Yes indeed however this plant is a real hell because it develops and grows underground for many meters. No matter how hard you try it never disappears and infests all the ground around it and many meters more.
can i purchase one of the patches with an simple moneytransfer ´cause i don´t can use patreon. Would be very nice if it gives a way for me to get one of them.
combine Apple cider vinegar and a small amount liquid dish soap a natural way to trap flies that works
UBNT or Mikrotik equipment.
Check cellmapper for closest towers and bands. Choose directional LTE/4G product according to bands. Connect that to omnidirectional outdoor WiFi. LHG 4G + Omnitik maybe.
Amazing blackberries :) keep up the good work.
I am bummed that you guys ain’t a couple. I enjoyed the thought of her being your partner
I use a indoor 4G router with an extern antenna. The router can be for example a TPlink 4GLTE router and cost you about 80-120 euro, The external antenna is a double Yagi 24 elements that must be pointed out to the local 4G transmitter. With this construction i can have good internet with 20-40Mb/s while i live about 9 kilometer from the 4G pole.
On your videos I don't hear any highway sounds. My urban food forest in Berlin is not far from a street. We lived in Cape Town and Sydney close to the ocean for a while and we just imagine that we hear the waves 🌊 and we're close to the beach 🏖🏝 Now I realize how noisy it is only when I listen to my videos.