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Nothing is wrong with YOUR child not wearing shoes. Millions of farm kids have grown up barefooted, as did I, all summer long. People need to stop their butting into your business, raise your children the way you want. You go Crusoe…be free! The haircut is adorable. ❤
Caruso has transformed from toddler to little boy with his new haircut. He’s so engaged with nature which is a gift that will bring brightness to his heart his entire life. Water is so powerful in our lives, wishing your hope for rain comes true soon
❤yes love Caruso's wonderful haircut. He is growing before our eyes❤. I have a question, when you were watering the garden who is that wonderful male singer that you were playing at that time? Loved the music too. Hoping for rain for you soon.
If you were raised in Africa, you ran around without shoes when you were little. You connect with the earth. To walk bare feet on grass is just amazing as well xxx
Tara, the garden is looking fantastic! I love your makeshift water system-don’t be embarrassed. You’re quite smartly using what you have (slopes, trenches like makeshift/pseudo swales) Obviously it’s too cumbersome to keep up with, but it’s a great stop gap until you figure it all out. I live in an arid climate and this is my 4th year gardening…I’m just this year getting irrigation dialed in and have finally figured out the importance of heavily mulching my beds. You can use use straw, wood chips, compost, leaf mold collected from beneath your shaded trees or any combination of these as you can find them! I’ve been shocked at just how *drastically* doing so has cut down on the frequency and amount of water needed. Best of luck! An amazing first year garden!
Love watching all the growth in the kids, on the farm and in the garden. Water is your most precious resource right now. Investing in more pipe might seem difficult but running out of water is life threatening. An irrigation system which you could also put on a timer!! Freeing you up would be so beneficial and well worth investigating. Keep on being brave and thinking big!! You are all amazing ❤
My mom had a hard time keeping shoes on me, lol. And to this day, I still enjoy being barefoot. It's peaceful connecting with nature. Crusoe and Sawyer are so fortunate to grow up like this. Much love Newbys
Crusoe looks so grown up with his little boy haircut. 💙Sawyer is also getting so big. Can hardly wait til the boys are chasing one another around your homestead. Fun video
Olá Newbys! Salamandras are so beautiful! Every year, when we clean the swimming pool, we find some so we pick them and put them in a little brook near by. Crusoe reminds me of Tom Sawyer, with his bare feet and it's amazing! The chickens inside the house... ah ah ah 😂 A kiss to all the family! Beijinhos 🌿
Hello Sofia, ah that is amazing! So glad you find them too, they are beautiful. Love seeing our little Crusoe running around on the farm. Thanks so much for watching friend, see you on Sunday. Sending you lots of love 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
Hello all, in Canada for my garden, we have put soaker hoses through out the garden (vegetable & flower beds and established plants). These are on timers, 15 min in morning and 15 min in evening. We are so conscious of water restrictions that this schedule has saved my plants through the worst sunny stretches and the initial cost of the hoses is so worth it, not to mention piece of mind when we are away. Just a thought of another option for you. 🇨🇦 good luck
I truly enjoyed this episode.: Crusoe mesmerized with the small living creatures, the water running gently trough the vegetable garden, Tara controlling fiercely the water flow, the shoots of the farm views remembering that it has been 1 year already, Tara emanated a profound inner happiness and the vegetable garden looking so elegant and full of life. Well done Newbies. 🏡
We fell in love with Crusoe in your womb and now seeing him blossomed into this stellar young boy gives us such joy! Your gardening passion is going to pay off. Your water situation confirms my lifelong conservation of our precious resource. Thanks for making my stressful Wednesday wonderful! ~Cara ❤
Ah Cara, thank you for this lovely comment. We have loved having you along for the journey. We are so glad we could put a smile on your face today 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
When I was Crusoe's age, I also kept taking my shoes off no matter how often my mum put them back on, but I took them off at every opportunity 😩 mum eventually gave up but my dad didn't like it because he thought the neighbours might think he didn't have the money to buy me shoes 😂😂😂. I still like going round barefooted 😃🌻💞
I follow several homesteads and yours is by far my favorite...a little slice of heaven on earth! Your boys are so lucky to be raised in such an amazing space!
👍🏼 without a doubt and most organized homesteaders! Everytime a problem arises there is a solution between John & Tara or when all else fails see Joao! Just kidding!
Almost didn't recognize Crusoe with his new haircut! He looks so grown-up! Thank you for showing him how carefully you considered a new place for the salamander.
Here l am at 2.30 am watching the Newbies solve problems on their farm. It gives me a great deal of peace and a happy heart. Thankyou dear friends. 🌈❤️🐨🇦🇺
A wise permaculture teacher said "you'll over estimate what you can do in your first year and blown away by the 5th year" you have set some great bones for that achievement ! Pleasure to see - well done. To reduce water use try mulching your vegetable beds with anything you can get your hands on, straw, newspaper, wood chip & to keep that compost moist put a piece of carpet or cardboard on top - mimicking the natural forest conditions where no soil is exposed and microbes happy doing their valued work. I have enjoyed and been inspired by you since your first van build and copied the rear kitchen idea in my own van. Your get up and go attitude serves you well, setting a wonderful example for your kids and some real genuine content for your online family too . 😊
Funny people would comment about Crusoe being bare foot. In so many of your videos I would think to myself “Oh to be young again and running barefoot through the dirt”. And I love his big boy haircut.
I love it Crusoe doesn’t wear shoes , helps him to earth , I never wore shoes as a child in the garden and even sometimes I don’t now - better than plastic next to the skin Try and mulch the crops as much as possible , it helps to retain water better for the crops even grass cuttings The lawn looks amazing by the way , and the picnic looked so relaxing 😎♥️🌻🌟💫⭐️🌞
We were visiting friends on the Isle of Scilly and they are chicken farmers and theirs are as free range as yours. He has found that once the chickens get settled they tend to make their own nests and lay in the same place 😊
Yay on the well improvement! And don't worry about other people commenting on anything you're doing with your babies. You are wonderful parents and your children are living an amazing childhood in an idyllic setting. Oh, and Crusoe's new haircut is adorable!
From developing a perfect balance to properly form every foot's muscle, walking barefoot has endless benefits that even most high-tech shoe not only can't provide, but above all rather erodes. Seeing what you are teaching your children makes my heart smile.
I am glad that your son is allowed to be outside without shoes. It is healthy to do so. And he is so much better connected to mother earth. It is good for him to learn how does it feel to be groundet. I was allowed to be put in Nature without shoes when I was a child. And I still try to do so as often as I can. You have such a beaufiful nature arround you......
Commenting as a professional paediatric physiotherapist, you are totally right. His feet will build muscle to maintain his alignment. I see so many muscular skaletal problems in the long term that originated at the feet throwing off people alignment. Xxx
Always enjoy watching your garden grow. Your vegetables are coming along beautifully. I didn't realise how much work it would be with the watering. It gave me a laugh. Can't get over how fast Crusoe and Sawyer are growing. Loved Crusoe's haircut.
Tara and John I grew up in New Zealand and always went around with bare feet. It is also good for feet Crusoe hair cut changes him ready for the happy threes, keep on doing what you do as wonderfull patents. Tara did you cut his hair you did a good job
Have you considered using a mulch on your veg patch as a way to reduce evaporation and water consumption? Makes a big difference on my plot here in the UK (I use chopped straw). Lovely video as always.
Hello friends, Congratulations on your 1 year farm anniversary 🥳 You have made soo many improvements in only 12 months, on to the next 12 months. I hope you get some rain soon to help you with the springs, the well, the pool and garden. Crusoe should walk around the way he feels comfortable, I still prefer to not wear shoes. Anyway have a lovely week, get some rain and enjoy the farm, love and hugs to you all.
I barely recognized Crusoe with his big boy hair cut-he looks less like a toddler now😊I hope the water situation gets sorted and pray you won’t experience a drought…
My partner used to be like Crusoe and walk around barefoot. He still walks around our allotment like that at 27 😊 lots of love from a Portuguese subscriber living in the Channel Islands.
You might need to put a Dutch door (the kind of door that is split & you can just open the top or the bottom) in your kitchen. As smart as John is, he could probably figure a way to just do it with the door you already have there. If the reason you leave it open is for Crusoe & you choose to split your door, put a gate closing on the bottom part that he just pushes & the door opens. That way the chickens might not get in your house. Just an idea.
Hey Tara, there is a book that might be good for you and it’s called “ Carrots love Tomatoes “ it’s all about companion planting. 😊👍🏼 Crusoe’s hair cut is awesome 👏🏼
The map is great! It helped me understand the layout of the farm, which was a bit confusing. The garden is really coming on well and hope you've solved the problems the water.
Hello little family, beautiful capture of nature, great fun on the farm even though there were some serious water issues, those beautiful boys will have great immune systems, no cotton wool for this strong family, you make us so happy with your daily efforts and smiles, do you suppose there are other salamanders who've made the pool their home? If there are they'll need a very wet environment to relocate to if they're happy living in the pool, anyway, good luck with that, thanks for the happy half hour, cheers!!🥰😸💕👌👍💪🐔🐓🐣? 🦎🌱🦟
Hello Frances, thank you for your lovely comment friend. We will definitely look around to see if we can find any more. Thanks so much for always supporting us friend, see you on Sunday 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
Happy Farm Anniversary! You have done sooo much in the last year!! Well done! Here’s to the next twelve months! Can’t wait to see what you achieve with all the knowledge you have gained about your farm in the last twelve months 😊
Have to start off by saying, WE LOVE YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR CHANNEL ♥️ My kids grew up in South Africa, on a farm and never wore shoes. Now in the UK and still often are bare feet 😊 i agree with you, it’s the best way for a child’s feet xx
Another great episode. I really do think that thr effort you guys are putting in to the production quality from the slow frames, to the music composition etc are better than some big budget programs.
I really don’t blame Crusoe not liking shoes I love going bare feet especially in the summer, I’m a74 year old Devonshire girl . He is a tonic to me so so clever and very caring just like his parents xxx
Great parenting skills. Crusoe is looking sharp with his new haircut. Love your young family. Enjoy your channel very much. You always leave me wanting more. Lol. ✌🏻❤️🙏🏻
Hi Newbys, Tara I love to walk without shoe and my mom had the same problem with me. Crusoe has the best place to live and explore. Good luck with the well, I wish lots of rain to go your way. I love your closing video and music, well done! Stay well..see you Sunday.
Hi Iniabelle, we also really enjoy walking around barefoot. Something so relaxing about it. Thanks so much for watching friend, we can't wait to show you what we have been up to on Sunday 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
Your garden is so nice! It’s amazing for its first year. I am sure you all have worked hard to keep it going. I love how you are raising the kids to help, and learning life skills. I also grew up barefoot on the farm. Used to run across gravel because my feet were so tough. Carry on with your beautiful lives.
Love the cartoon of your family. Makes smile and the song is fun too. The way you are bringing up your boys is wonderful they are very lucky. Keep up the good work.
Walking barefoot is not only the best for your feet, it is also the best method for earthing/grounding and it's effects on your health in general and especially your blood.
I grew up in middle Georgia and always played outside without shoes for the greater part of my childhood. To prevent Crusoe from picking your much needed fruit and vegetables, maybe put a red sign out that discourages or teach him to STOP or not to pick.
Meus queridos É uma salamandra muito comum em Portugal elas vivem em áreas húmidas. É muito lindo ver como vocês educam os vossos filhos principalmente Crusoe . Adorei ver a horta e sua rega kkkkkkk Nome para galinha : Britney Obrigada pelos vídeos MARAVILHOSOS que vocês partilham conotações
I'm sure you've named the black chicken by now but I thought of Mumsa--it kind of rhimes with Sudsa and Budsa! There's so many moments in this episode that I really enjoy! I truly loved everything about the necessity of finding ways to irrigate, John managing the plumbing of the well (like a pro), Crusoe's haircut! It's all lovely content!! Thank you for sharing with us!
Salamandra para as crianças não são muito perigosas para crianças tão pequenas? Tomem cuidado que vem o verão e os escorpiões (também se chamam lacraus) começam a aparecer. Beijinhos 😘 de Lisboa ❤❤
I think it is an amazing life for little ones being able to runaround bare foot…… your boys are having and are going to keep on having a wonderful childhood.
I'm chuckling at the concern, at 82 remembering how in rural/small towns all kids ran around in summer barefoot. Our soles got tough, can't imagine our parents being concerned.
Your vegetable garden is growing so rapidly and beautiful!!! It transport me to my childhood at my grandparent's farm. Even the irrigation system, is the same 😂😊 - old school, but works. It's lovely that Crusoe dies not wear shoes...
Crusoe with his haircut 🥰 With a blink of an eye he's gonna be a handsome young man. Walking barefoot actually is grounding and connecting with Mother Earth 🌎 love you 🙏💚
In my experience, It’s good to be connected to earth through our bare feet - there’s a natural current that helps with our our own bio current - called grounding. As a kid from Africa, I didn’t wear shoes for a long time. My daughter was the same. Actually some kids get really sweaty feet quite easily. So airing them helps to ensure they don’t develop problems. I agree Tara - kids going barefoot does help with proper development of their feet. When Daisy started going to high school she had to wear closed toed school shoes with laces, she started develop problems in her feet - they weren’t very supportive school shoes and she had to have physio and inserts. We both still take our shoes off every chance we get. Love the names of your chickens!! I miss having sadza - yummy! Nothing like eating it with your hands with some beef and gravy. Hope you get the water issue resolved soon.
Love that Crusoe walks and runs around bare foot. I’ve always hated wearing shoes since I was a child and will take them off at any opportunity. I’m the mother of a 21 yr old gorgeous girl now and it never did me any harm at all.
These are getting serious farming videos! ahaha I love it! And thank God for the rain these past days and the rain to come on the next few 😊 PS: I love that all of you go barefoot on the soil, thats beautiful and there is absolutly nothing wrong with that! I can imagine the connection it creates with earth, amazing! 💚
Hi lovely family! Love the names for your chickens. My suggestion of a name for the black girl chicken is Huku. (Tara, you know the meaning). Hugs from the Abrantes family near Peniche xx
I cannot believe it’s been a year! Those videos of you uncovering everything, naming Robinsons rock, all that bamboo, it seems like just a few months but wow what you’ve done in that time ❤ And I was not enjoying John working on that well, I was getting nervous for you! 🥴🥴🥴 Also, “wowwee Daddy!” - my heart! 🥹
SO much has happened in the past year Chesca and Ben! Can't actually believe how much we have managed to accomplish. I was not enjoying the well work at all! We are following along your journey too friends, looks amazing! Thanks so much for watching 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
I’m giggling as I watch this imagining the comments you’ll most likely get about chickens on your kitchen counter. 🤣🤣🤣 Very satisfying to see your garden growing!
Love the new song and graphics! I taught my girls to lay eggs in the nesting boxes by putting fake eggs in them. They just knew when it was time to lay, that's where they should lay them. And...barefoot is healthy!
I'm older and I still walk around in bare feet and it feels great! Great garden watering system! My Dad used this system years ago!!! You know here in B.C. Canada we're lacking water big time and this is supposed to be a rain forest! The world is changing and I have to say it's a bit scary. My gosh, Crusoe is so well spoken for his young age. I love his big boy hair cut!
Oh my God. This blog is incredible editing and storytelling. I am in love with the Newby's. In the blink of an eye, the boys grow so fast. I am home from hospital but I have a long painful healing ahead of me. I can't sit down. I can't sleep well and stand most of the time. You guys give me hope strength, and courage to be strong and keep my faith. God Belss you all.❤
Thank you so much for your lovely comment Peter. We are all sending you lots of love and hugs friend, hope you feel better soon. Thanks so much for watching 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
I love love love your family and the excitement each day of finding new and exciting ways to live your life and your children are just beautiful and such such a wonderful family. I just want to let you know how much I enjoy watching you guys every day.
The ending with the animation is perfect. Wow Tara your garden is growing fast. Crusoe looks like a little man with new haircut. Thanks for making a great hump day.
We are so glad you love the animation at the end Marjorie, so do we! Thanks so much for watching and for constantly supporting us, it means the world to us 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
As always, I started off with a huge smile, and I ended with one. The boys are so absolutely adorable. Girl, please, I ran all over the hills and woods in Alabama barefooted. My moma couldn't keep my feet in shoes either. Just calm down, " Karens". Stay safe and do not work too hard in that garden, it looks amazing. See y'all in the next one!!!!!!
You have the watering system absolutely right! Eventually you can build a system of gates and weirs perhaps. I live in New Mexico where water is scarce. Those farms along side the Rio Grande have ‘water rights’ overseen by a community administrator, who schedules a rotation of weekly flooding of properties. They open and close sluices along the ditches fed from the main river. The farms have developed ‘waffle’ gardens. Keeping the water in channels. So you see, you’ve mastered an ancient watering technique with your system. PS local farmers generally get away with flooding the whole garden once a week - maybe that’ll simplify it for you.
Happy Wednesday, Friends! 🌞 You'll most likely find an egg in a shoe if your hens have access to your kitchen! 😛 So glad the 'well cover' will have a lock on it soon. Well done, John!!! I think your 'tunneling' of water to your crops was ingenious, Tara!!! 👏 See you on Sunday! 🍅🥬🍎 Lots of HUGS, Mikio 🙂🏡💚
Happy Wednesday Mikio, so sorry to hear about your broken finger! That is not nice but we are so happy you are okay. We are going to have to have an egg hunt everyday haha Thanks so much for watching friend 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
Give caruso his own garden and some seeds i enjoyed that as a child and even ate them at lunch or tea and not straight from the garden as dad said it would be lovely surprise for everyone to eat my veg. Even now as an adult im amazed that the seeds i sew grow
Ahhh the joys of childhood outdoors. I use to walk barefoot all the time and adopt little criters 🙈 I think we all go through that phase. My greatnan had free roaming chicken, but she built nests for them in wood boxes full of hay. They need to be protected (not exposed) and higher up to make sure something (like a fox or prey birds) doesn't easily reach them and gets into the habit of eating them. That could be a fun new project. Maybe put a couple in different places where they hang out the most? You need to put some food in there for a bit, to get them to notice them I think. And check their over night "house" for eggs too 😅
Crusoe has so much to teach Sawyer..the adventures those 2 will be one adventure after another. I went barefoot from the time I could walk, and still do at age 68..I have the healthiest feet..never any medical or structural problems..Go Crusoe go!
Connecting with the earth through grounding has so many health benefits. It improves sleep, reduces pain, inflammation and stress. Improves mood and emotional balance, immune system, heart health. It promotes healing in the body. Since they created rubber soles instead off leather or wool, we have been disconnected from earths free flowing electrons. Get back to earth u guys, by doing some earthing just like Crusoe 🥰
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Bioverse is a proper noun.
Garden's coming along well
Cool vlog...the chickens will find the salamander
Gorgeous footage of the bumblebee around the fennel (?) btw.
Nothing is wrong with YOUR child not wearing shoes. Millions of farm kids have grown up barefooted, as did I, all summer long. People need to stop their butting into your business, raise your children the way you want. You go Crusoe…be free! The haircut is adorable. ❤
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Totally agree
I agree! Who would ever post a comment like that? Feet to the earth is one of the best feelings! 😊~Cara
Agree 💯 he is grounding. We should all be grounding more. 😊
Absolutely! My son is 22 and was raised barefoot outside. His feet have always been strong and healthy.
Caruso has transformed from toddler to little boy with his new haircut. He’s so engaged with nature which is a gift that will bring brightness to his heart his entire life. Water is so powerful in our lives, wishing your hope for rain comes true soon
He has hasn't he Michelle! I thought the exact same when he had his hair cut ❤️❤️❤️
❤yes love Caruso's wonderful haircut. He is growing before our eyes❤.
I have a question, when you were watering the garden who is that wonderful male singer that you were playing at that time? Loved the music too.
Hoping for rain for you soon.
He’s such a little man now!!!!
Crusoe looks gorgeous with his haircut!
Thank you Maria ❤️❤️❤️
...and he's lost all his baby-fat and looks all grown up!
If you were raised in Africa, you ran around without shoes when you were little. You connect with the earth. To walk bare feet on grass is just amazing as well xxx
I couldn't agree more Anne ❤️❤️❤️
My sister never hardly wore shoes growing up ,even now ,I dont ware them much ,only time I do is when we have to go town ,
I was raised in Connecticut and in the summer we were barefoot quite often. Nothing like running barefoot on newly cut lawn!
New Zealand also.
I am amazed how he can prance around barefooted! I agree, YOUR child and YOU can raise him quite well … most likely without any help from us lol
Tara, the garden is looking fantastic! I love your makeshift water system-don’t be embarrassed. You’re quite smartly using what you have (slopes, trenches like makeshift/pseudo swales) Obviously it’s too cumbersome to keep up with, but it’s a great stop gap until you figure it all out.
I live in an arid climate and this is my 4th year gardening…I’m just this year getting irrigation dialed in and have finally figured out the importance of heavily mulching my beds. You can use use straw, wood chips, compost, leaf mold collected from beneath your shaded trees or any combination of these as you can find them! I’ve been shocked at just how *drastically* doing so has cut down on the frequency and amount of water needed. Best of luck! An amazing first year garden!
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Love watching all the growth in the kids, on the farm and in the garden. Water is your most precious resource right now. Investing in more pipe might seem difficult but running out of water is life threatening. An irrigation system which you could also put on a timer!! Freeing you up would be so beneficial and well worth investigating. Keep on being brave and thinking big!! You are all amazing ❤
I love hearing Crusoe saying Wow wee to the amazing things he is seeing and doing. Absolutely precious.
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I do too!
My mom had a hard time keeping shoes on me, lol. And to this day, I still enjoy being barefoot. It's peaceful connecting with nature. Crusoe and Sawyer are so fortunate to grow up like this. Much love Newbys
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I feel inner peace and psychological comfort when I see you, and I also like your cousin❤
We are so happy to hear that Zahi, thank you for watching friend 💧😊❤️🏡🇵🇹
Crusoe looks so grown up with his little boy haircut. 💙Sawyer is also getting so big. Can hardly wait til the boys are chasing one another around your homestead. Fun video
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Olá Newbys!
Salamandras are so beautiful! Every year, when we clean the swimming pool, we find some so we pick them and put them in a little brook near by.
Crusoe reminds me of Tom Sawyer, with his bare feet and it's amazing!
The chickens inside the house... ah ah ah 😂
A kiss to all the family!
Beijinhos 🌿
Hello Sofia, ah that is amazing! So glad you find them too, they are beautiful. Love seeing our little Crusoe running around on the farm. Thanks so much for watching friend, see you on Sunday. Sending you lots of love 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
Hello all, in Canada for my garden, we have put soaker hoses through out the garden (vegetable & flower beds and established plants). These are on timers, 15 min in morning and 15 min in evening. We are so conscious of water restrictions that this schedule has saved my plants through the worst sunny stretches and the initial cost of the hoses is so worth it, not to mention piece of mind when we are away. Just a thought of another option for you. 🇨🇦 good luck
I truly enjoyed this episode.: Crusoe mesmerized with the small living creatures, the water running gently trough the vegetable garden, Tara controlling fiercely the water flow, the shoots of the farm views remembering that it has been 1 year already, Tara emanated a profound inner happiness and the vegetable garden looking so elegant and full of life. Well done Newbies. 🏡
We fell in love with Crusoe in your womb and now seeing him blossomed into this stellar young boy gives us such joy! Your gardening passion is going to pay off. Your water situation confirms my lifelong conservation of our precious resource. Thanks for making my stressful Wednesday wonderful! ~Cara ❤
Ah Cara, thank you for this lovely comment. We have loved having you along for the journey. We are so glad we could put a smile on your face today 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
When I was Crusoe's age, I also kept taking my shoes off no matter how often my mum put them back on, but I took them off at every opportunity 😩 mum eventually gave up but my dad didn't like it because he thought the neighbours might think he didn't have the money to buy me shoes 😂😂😂. I still like going round barefooted
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I follow several homesteads and yours is by far my favorite...a little slice of heaven on earth! Your boys are so lucky to be raised in such an amazing space!
Yay thank you so much friend, we love having you join us on our adventure 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
👍🏼 without a doubt and most organized homesteaders! Everytime a problem arises there is a solution between John & Tara or when all else fails see Joao! Just kidding!
Almost didn't recognize Crusoe with his new haircut! He looks so grown-up! Thank you for showing him how carefully you considered a new place for the salamander.
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Here l am at 2.30 am watching the Newbies solve problems on their farm. It gives me a great deal of peace and a happy heart. Thankyou dear friends. 🌈❤️🐨🇦🇺
Thank you for sharing your early morning hours with us Jill 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
Nice haircut Crusoe. Looking a bit older. Adorable
A wise permaculture teacher said "you'll over estimate what you can do in your first year and blown away by the 5th year" you have set some great bones for that achievement ! Pleasure to see - well done. To reduce water use try mulching your vegetable beds with anything you can get your hands on, straw, newspaper, wood chip & to keep that compost moist put a piece of carpet or cardboard on top - mimicking the natural forest conditions where no soil is exposed and microbes happy doing their valued work. I have enjoyed and been inspired by you since your first van build and copied the rear kitchen idea in my own van. Your get up and go attitude serves you well, setting a wonderful example for your kids and some real genuine content for your online family too . 😊
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Funny people would comment about Crusoe being bare foot. In so many of your videos I would think to myself “Oh to be young again and running barefoot through the dirt”. And I love his big boy haircut.
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I love it Crusoe doesn’t wear shoes , helps him to earth , I never wore shoes as a child in the garden and even sometimes I don’t now - better than plastic next to the skin
Try and mulch the crops as much as possible , it helps to retain water better for the crops even grass cuttings
The lawn looks amazing by the way , and the picnic looked so relaxing 😎♥️🌻🌟💫⭐️🌞
Thanks for the suggestion Angela, will definitely keep that in mind 🦶🏼🌱❤️😊🙏🏼🇵🇹
The lizards need to be in the spring box!!!
They keep the water flowing👍🏻
Dont put screens over your pipes either
Get one of those perforated irrigation water hoses and you can just place it where you want in the garden!
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We were visiting friends on the Isle of Scilly and they are chicken farmers and theirs are as free range as yours. He has found that once the chickens get settled they tend to make their own nests and lay in the same place 😊
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Yay on the well improvement! And don't worry about other people commenting on anything you're doing with your babies. You are wonderful parents and your children are living an amazing childhood in an idyllic setting. Oh, and Crusoe's new haircut is adorable!
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From developing a perfect balance to properly form every foot's muscle, walking barefoot has endless benefits that even most high-tech shoe not only can't provide, but above all rather erodes. Seeing what you are teaching your children makes my heart smile.
I am glad that your son is allowed to be outside without shoes. It is healthy to do so. And he is so much better connected to mother earth. It is good for him to learn how does it feel to be groundet. I was allowed to be put in Nature without shoes when I was a child. And I still try to do so as often as I can. You have such a beaufiful nature arround you......
Commenting as a professional paediatric physiotherapist, you are totally right. His feet will build muscle to maintain his alignment. I see so many muscular skaletal problems in the long term that originated at the feet throwing off people alignment. Xxx
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Always enjoy watching your garden grow. Your vegetables are coming along beautifully. I didn't realise how much work it would be with the watering. It gave me a laugh.
Can't get over how fast Crusoe and Sawyer are growing. Loved Crusoe's haircut.
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Tara and John I grew up in New Zealand and always went around with bare feet. It is also good for feet Crusoe hair cut changes him ready for the happy threes, keep on doing what you do as wonderfull patents. Tara did you cut his hair you did a good job
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Have you considered using a mulch on your veg patch as a way to reduce evaporation and water consumption? Makes a big difference on my plot here in the UK (I use chopped straw). Lovely video as always.
Great idea
Crusoe is so amazing he is not afraid of anything
I would be on everybody back screaming😮❤
Love you Newbys family stay bless
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Love Caruso’s haircut.
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Hello friends, Congratulations on your 1 year farm anniversary 🥳 You have made soo many improvements
in only 12 months, on to the next 12 months. I hope you get some rain soon to help you with the springs,
the well, the pool and garden. Crusoe should walk around the way he feels comfortable, I still prefer to
not wear shoes. Anyway have a lovely week, get some rain and enjoy the farm, love and hugs to you all.
Thank so much for your constant support Anja, we love having you as part of our journey 😊🙏🏼❤️🇵🇹
I barely recognized Crusoe with his big boy hair cut-he looks less like a toddler now😊I hope the water situation gets sorted and pray you won’t experience a drought…
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My partner used to be like Crusoe and walk around barefoot. He still walks around our allotment like that at 27 😊 lots of love from a Portuguese subscriber living in the Channel Islands.
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You might need to put a Dutch door (the kind of door that is split & you can just open the top or the bottom) in your kitchen. As smart as John is, he could probably figure a way to just do it with the door you already have there. If the reason you leave it open is for Crusoe & you choose to split your door, put a gate closing on the bottom part that he just pushes & the door opens. That way the chickens might not get in your house. Just an idea.
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Wow Crusoe looks so grown up with haircut. So like his Dad I also love walking about house/garden in bare feet❤
Call the other chicken Sheba (it’s what we eat on top of the sudza), Crusoe looks so grown up with his new haircut, enjoy the rest of your week 🥰🥰🥰🥰
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Hey Tara, there is a book that might be good for you and it’s called “ Carrots love Tomatoes “ it’s all about companion planting. 😊👍🏼
Crusoe’s hair cut is awesome 👏🏼
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The map is great! It helped me understand the layout of the farm, which was a bit confusing. The garden is really coming on well and hope you've solved the problems the water.
We are so glad you like the map Jamie, we made use of a freelance artist who is amazing! Thanks so much for watching friend 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
Hello little family, beautiful capture of nature, great fun on the farm even though there were some serious water issues, those beautiful boys will have great immune systems, no cotton wool for this strong family, you make us so happy with your daily efforts and smiles, do you suppose there are other salamanders who've made the pool their home? If there are they'll need a very wet environment to relocate to if they're happy living in the pool, anyway, good luck with that, thanks for the happy half hour, cheers!!🥰😸💕👌👍💪🐔🐓🐣? 🦎🌱🦟
Hello Frances, thank you for your lovely comment friend. We will definitely look around to see if we can find any more. Thanks so much for always supporting us friend, see you on Sunday 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
Happy Farm Anniversary! You have done sooo much in the last year!! Well done! Here’s to the next twelve months! Can’t wait to see what you achieve with all the knowledge you have gained about your farm in the last twelve months 😊
Thanks so much Lesley. Your support means so much to us 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
Have to start off by saying, WE LOVE YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR CHANNEL ♥️ My kids grew up in South Africa, on a farm and never wore shoes. Now in the UK and still often are bare feet 😊 i agree with you, it’s the best way for a child’s feet xx
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Another great episode. I really do think that thr effort you guys are putting in to the production quality from the slow frames, to the music composition etc are better than some big budget programs.
Thank you for your lovely compliment James, we do work really hard on editing our episodes and making sure we are putting out quality videos 😊🙏🏼❤️🇵🇹
I really don’t blame Crusoe not liking shoes I love going bare feet especially in the summer, I’m a74 year old Devonshire girl . He is a tonic to me so so clever and very caring just like his parents xxx
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Great parenting skills. Crusoe is looking sharp with his new haircut. Love your young family. Enjoy your channel very much. You always leave me wanting more. Lol. ✌🏻❤️🙏🏻
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Hi Newbys, Tara I love to walk without shoe and my mom had the same problem with me. Crusoe has the best place to live and explore. Good luck with the well, I wish lots of rain to go your way. I love your closing video and music, well done! Stay well..see you Sunday.
Hi Iniabelle, we also really enjoy walking around barefoot. Something so relaxing about it. Thanks so much for watching friend, we can't wait to show you what we have been up to on Sunday 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
Your garden is so nice! It’s amazing for its first year. I am sure you all have worked hard to keep it going. I love how you are raising the kids to help, and learning life skills. I also grew up barefoot on the farm. Used to run across gravel because my feet were so tough. Carry on with your beautiful lives.
Such a cute little boy with his hair cute….he’s a cutie
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Love the cartoon of your family. Makes smile and the song is fun too. The way you are bringing up your boys is wonderful they are very lucky. Keep up the good work.
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Love Crusoe's haircut!! 👍 When is it John's turn? 🤔😉
Walking barefoot is not only the best for your feet, it is also the best method for earthing/grounding and it's effects on your health in general and especially your blood.
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A whole year! A WHOLE year!! A whole YEAR!!! Yippee!! Hooray!!
Olá 👋.. fantástico ver a horta a crescer..os meninos estão muito lindos e fortes..parece q vem aí umas chuvas!!! ajudam na rega 😅..até à próxima
I grew up in middle Georgia and always played outside without shoes for the greater part of my childhood. To prevent Crusoe from picking your much needed fruit and vegetables, maybe put a red sign out that discourages or teach him to STOP or not to pick.
It may be a lot of work.
Meus queridos
É uma salamandra muito comum em Portugal elas vivem em áreas húmidas.
É muito lindo ver como vocês educam os vossos filhos principalmente Crusoe .
Adorei ver a horta e sua rega kkkkkkk
Nome para galinha : Britney
Obrigada pelos vídeos MARAVILHOSOS que vocês partilham conotações
I'm sure you've named the black chicken by now but I thought of Mumsa--it kind of rhimes with Sudsa and Budsa! There's so many moments in this episode that I really enjoy! I truly loved everything about the necessity of finding ways to irrigate, John managing the plumbing of the well (like a pro), Crusoe's haircut! It's all lovely content!! Thank you for sharing with us!
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Salamandra para as crianças não são muito perigosas para crianças tão pequenas?
Tomem cuidado que vem o verão e os escorpiões (também se chamam lacraus) começam a aparecer.
Beijinhos 😘 de Lisboa ❤❤
We will be careful, thanks so much for the concern Maria ❤️❤️❤️
What a pleasure it is to watch your channel. Thank you for sharing your experiences in Portugal
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I think it is an amazing life for little ones being able to runaround bare foot…… your boys are having and are going to keep on having a wonderful childhood.
I'm chuckling at the concern, at 82 remembering how in rural/small towns all kids ran around in summer barefoot. Our soles got tough, can't imagine our parents being concerned.
Such a Spectacular garden 🪴 your Family has planted you must be so proud
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Great on locking the well. What about when the uncovered pool is full of water and your little young explorer goes exploring?
Maybe the black chicken could be called midnight? Great haircut Crusoe.
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Your vegetable garden is growing so rapidly and beautiful!!! It transport me to my childhood at my grandparent's farm. Even the irrigation system, is the same 😂😊 - old school, but works.
It's lovely that Crusoe dies not wear shoes...
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Hiya handsome boy Crusoe, with yr new hair cut ❤️❤️❤️
Crusoe with his haircut 🥰 With a blink of an eye he's gonna be a handsome young man. Walking barefoot actually is grounding and connecting with Mother Earth 🌎 love you 🙏💚
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In my experience, It’s good to be connected to earth through our bare feet - there’s a natural current that helps with our our own bio current - called grounding. As a kid from Africa, I didn’t wear shoes for a long time. My daughter was the same. Actually some kids get really sweaty feet quite easily. So airing them helps to ensure they don’t develop problems. I agree Tara - kids going barefoot does help with proper development of their feet. When Daisy started going to high school she had to wear closed toed school shoes with laces, she started develop problems in her feet - they weren’t very supportive school shoes and she had to have physio and inserts. We both still take our shoes off every chance we get.
Love the names of your chickens!!
I miss having sadza - yummy! Nothing like eating it with your hands with some beef and gravy. Hope you get the water issue resolved soon.
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Love that Crusoe walks and runs around bare foot. I’ve always hated wearing shoes since I was a child and will take them off at any opportunity. I’m the mother of a 21 yr old gorgeous girl now and it never did me any harm at all.
You're so hard on yourself!!!! Don't be, you're doing a fantastic job as a wife and mother and now a gardener and your Dad would be PROUD!
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These are getting serious farming videos! ahaha I love it! And thank God for the rain these past days and the rain to come on the next few 😊 PS: I love that all of you go barefoot on the soil, thats beautiful and there is absolutly nothing wrong with that! I can imagine the connection it creates with earth, amazing! 💚
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Hi lovely family! Love the names for your chickens. My suggestion of a name for the black girl chicken is Huku. (Tara, you know the meaning). Hugs from the Abrantes family near Peniche xx
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I cannot believe it’s been a year! Those videos of you uncovering everything, naming Robinsons rock, all that bamboo, it seems like just a few months but wow what you’ve done in that time ❤ And I was not enjoying John working on that well, I was getting nervous for you! 🥴🥴🥴
Also, “wowwee Daddy!” - my heart! 🥹
SO much has happened in the past year Chesca and Ben! Can't actually believe how much we have managed to accomplish. I was not enjoying the well work at all! We are following along your journey too friends, looks amazing! Thanks so much for watching 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
I love that he is young and barefoot!!! Oh the joy!
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Love his hair cut so cute.
I’m giggling as I watch this imagining the comments you’ll most likely get about chickens on your kitchen counter. 🤣🤣🤣 Very satisfying to see your garden growing!
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Love the new song and graphics! I taught my girls to lay eggs in the nesting boxes by putting fake eggs in them. They just knew when it was time to lay, that's where they should lay them. And...barefoot is healthy!
It is a beautiful, beautiful farm! What a creation. Congratulation Tara and John
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Doing a great job, don't worry about the negatives, you wouldn't enjoy the positives as much without them, God bless guys.
I'm older and I still walk around in bare feet and it feels great! Great garden watering system! My Dad used this system years ago!!! You know here in B.C. Canada we're lacking water big time and this is supposed to be a rain forest! The world is changing and I have to say it's a bit scary. My gosh, Crusoe is so well spoken for his young age. I love his big boy hair cut!
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Oh my God. This blog is incredible editing and storytelling. I am in love with the Newby's. In the blink of an eye, the boys grow so fast.
I am home from hospital but I have a long painful healing ahead of me. I can't sit down. I can't sleep well and stand most of the time. You guys give me hope strength, and courage to be strong and keep my faith. God Belss you all.❤
Thank you so much for your lovely comment Peter. We are all sending you lots of love and hugs friend, hope you feel better soon. Thanks so much for watching 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
Caruso has lost his curls😰😰love what you are doing on your homestead and trying not to use to much water and also grow your veggies.❤️❤️❤️
I love love love your family and the excitement each day of finding new and exciting ways to live your life and your children are just beautiful and such such a wonderful family. I just want to let you know how much I enjoy watching you guys every day.
Crisp looks adorable with his new hair cut..
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The ending with the animation is perfect. Wow Tara your garden is growing fast. Crusoe looks like a little man with new haircut. Thanks for making a great hump day.
We are so glad you love the animation at the end Marjorie, so do we! Thanks so much for watching and for constantly supporting us, it means the world to us 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
As always, I started off with a huge smile, and I ended with one. The boys are so absolutely adorable. Girl, please, I ran all over the hills and woods in Alabama barefooted. My moma couldn't keep my feet in shoes either. Just calm down, " Karens". Stay safe and do not work too hard in that garden, it looks amazing. See y'all in the next one!!!!!!
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You have the watering system absolutely right! Eventually you can build a system of gates and weirs perhaps. I live in New Mexico where water is scarce. Those farms along side the Rio Grande have ‘water rights’ overseen by a community administrator, who schedules a rotation of weekly flooding of properties. They open and close sluices along the ditches fed from the main river. The farms have developed ‘waffle’ gardens. Keeping the water in channels. So you see, you’ve mastered an ancient watering technique with your system.
PS local farmers generally get away with flooding the whole garden once a week - maybe that’ll simplify it for you.
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Crusoe is growing up so quickly and Sawyer too.Good luck with the watering guys 🦎🕶️🌞.
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I too grew up barefoot on a farm in Zimbabwe. Still go barefoot around the house. Love the way you raise your children. What a privilege for them!
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Happy Wednesday, Friends! 🌞
You'll most likely find an egg in
a shoe if your hens have access
to your kitchen! 😛 So glad the
'well cover' will have a lock on it
soon. Well done, John!!! I think
your 'tunneling' of water to your
crops was ingenious, Tara!!! 👏
See you on Sunday! 🍅🥬🍎
Lots of HUGS, Mikio 🙂🏡💚
P.S. Sorry I couldn't comment
at length on your last video. I
broke my finger renovating my
motorhome. Oh my. I'm fine!
Happy Wednesday Mikio, so sorry to hear about your broken finger! That is not nice but we are so happy you are okay. We are going to have to have an egg hunt everyday haha Thanks so much for watching friend 💦🌱❤️🇵🇹🏡
NICE HAIRCUT AMIGUITO. ❤
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Give caruso his own garden and some seeds i enjoyed that as a child and even ate them at lunch or tea and not straight from the garden as dad said it would be lovely surprise for everyone to eat my veg. Even now as an adult im amazed that the seeds i sew grow
Ahhh the joys of childhood outdoors. I use to walk barefoot all the time and adopt little criters 🙈 I think we all go through that phase.
My greatnan had free roaming chicken, but she built nests for them in wood boxes full of hay. They need to be protected (not exposed) and higher up to make sure something (like a fox or prey birds) doesn't easily reach them and gets into the habit of eating them. That could be a fun new project. Maybe put a couple in different places where they hang out the most? You need to put some food in there for a bit, to get them to notice them I think. And check their over night "house" for eggs too 😅
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This is the way to live - barefoot with a smile on your face! If I never had to put a pair of shoes on again in my life I’d be a very happy camper!
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Crusoe has so much to teach Sawyer..the adventures those 2 will be one adventure after another. I went barefoot from the time I could walk, and still do at age 68..I have the healthiest feet..never any medical or structural problems..Go Crusoe go!
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Crusoe's hair cut has made him look older. Oh my, his chatter is so sweet. When you're at home, you do what you do. Shoes or no. 😊❤
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Connecting with the earth through grounding has so many health benefits. It improves sleep, reduces pain, inflammation and stress. Improves mood and emotional balance, immune system, heart health. It promotes healing in the body.
Since they created rubber soles instead off leather or wool, we have been disconnected from earths free flowing electrons.
Get back to earth u guys, by doing some earthing just like Crusoe 🥰
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I loved seeing Crusoe’s new big boy haircut!
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