Debt free and living our BEST LIFE - Off the grid living
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2023
- #hack, #Portugal, #Offgridlife
Come along as we share how we do it on our off the grid homestead, while we clear out our goat house, make some biodegradable plant pots while recycling and reusing cardboard and we also clear land in preparation for the hot summer ahead and make it fire-safe just in time before the deadline😁
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I cannot think of one reason why you don't have at least 5 million subscribers . I just love the videos . They way you film and the way you don't start your video's off with a practiced opening . Everything is so natural .
You are so kind Sandy x x I really appreciate this message ❤️❤️❤️
I will try those pots soon.
Awesome to hear that
I love seeing the piggies follow you around, so cute.
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Oh if I were a goat, pig, chicken, dog or cat. What a blessing it would be. To be loved, looked after and live with you two! ❤
Oh Larry x x Thanks so much ❤️❤️
I agree love abounds😍❤💕😍😘
Wonderful video
I make pots with newspaper saves time and money going to have ago with cardboard they look a lot stronger
Oh no poor guineafowl 😢
Thank you for sharing 😁
That is interesting but yes i guess cardboard will be much stronger do you make them with many layers of newspaper ?
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife about half a page folded in half and wrap it around a small jar 😁
Thank you for sharing 🐕🐈⬛🐔🐐🐖👨🌾👩🌾 your off grid life with us each week 😊
Thanks for being there to follow along Annie xx
The plant pots are a great idea - I will certainly try this!
Hope you enjoy making them 😁
Luke - thank you for putting that mask on! Happy Mother’s Day, Sarah - your ‘babies’ are blessed to have you. 🥰
Thank you x x x
Thank you to both of you for me, too. I still remember how I'll you got Satah that time you refreshed the boathouse without your mask 😔. So hooray for use PPE when air particles are flying about.
Thank you for your videos and the fantastic idea on the cardboard pots
I can't take the credit for the pots but so happy you enjoyed our video x x
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife Yes but it was a great find nonetheless. Cuts down on plastic and recycles cardboard. Great double winner!
Wishing you much success with your new trees. That's a great idea.
Thanks Grace
To make sure to gt any eggs that may have evaded the spray, we always spray again in 10 days.
Thanks for the tip Grace we will do that this week x
What a lovely video, may Larry and his girl RIP.
Thanks Ruth x x
Work work work.. Such satisfaction and loving animal family. .
Firstly sorry to hear about Larry and Penny how sad that is. Thank you for sharing week. I will be trying out the plant pot soon. Love you videos 😊
Yes super sad I thought Larry would be with us forever 😢 hope you enjoy making your plant pots as much as I did x x
I had an infestation of fleas in our travel trailer. They were EVERYWHERE! inside and out. The dogs were infested, too. I used a flour sifter to coat everything with Diatometious Earth, and it fixed the problem in a couple of days. No chemicals.
Thanks we will look into it 😁
Aw sorry for your loss of guinea fowl. Great video of you both at work, one can see the joy you get from working your farm. ❤
Thanks Sheila x x
Great spring preparations 👌 but it looks like a lot of hard work 👍🤗
Thanks Celia , clearing that goathouse is never fun but it has got to be done 😁
Oh no Larry and Penny both gone 🥺, feathers are always a delight, I use them on hand made cards, I collected mine from a friends farm, I love guinea fowl, I will miss them.
Us too , we miss the noise which is strange ..right and yes their feathers are beautiful and my friend makes jewellery with them
another fabulous video. I look forward to Monday mornings with great anticipation to see your quirky selves living your sustainable lives. I love watching you both interact with the animals and how they trust you so completely. Even Molly! 😍 I laughed a lot when you draped the fabric over her.
From Brisbane in Queensland, Australia.
I loved draping her too she is so patient with me 🤣🤣 So happy to hear you enjoyed it x x
So sorry to hear about Larry & Penny. 😢 ❤😢
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Glad you enjoyed the biltong. It's quite easy to make and, as you can tell, well worth the effort :)
Super delicious xx xThanks so much Andre ❤️❤️ It was so nice to meet you too
Great video! Loved it! Sorry to hear about your giniee fowl. I know alot have disappeared and I don't blame you for not getting anymore. I still remember the baby goat that "disappeared ", and feel sad about that. Hope y'all had a great weekend! 🙏❤🇺🇸🇵🇹⛵👣🤗
Yes Hachamama 😢unfortunately when they disappear it is hard to get closure but finding the feathers confirmed it for us with Larry and Penny
In South Africa, they salt the raw meat and hang it in a tree to dry. They also have canvas sacks with a tap on it filled with water they hang in a tree to have cool drinking water.
Very cool 😁
My loved ones..ty..xoxo 🥰🖐👍✌🤟🤪
❤️❤️ Hi Deborah
Oh I love the idea of using bottles and cardboard for making pots for planting seeds.❤
I swear to goodness Girl! When I die I want to come back as one of your goats! Or any animal of yours. Oh! Oh! If I have a say, I want to be a livestock guardian dog!! I’ll sleep outside under the stars, protect the other animals & you & Luke!! 🥰🤣
🤣You are so funny Debbie
You have the most amazing animals. Hi Luke and Sarah , makes my day to spend with you both. So much to do and then you have the incidents that come along and have to deal with them too. I commend you both for your tenacity. A labor of love. Enjoyed your video to day and learned about making the paper pots, great idea to not disturb the roots of plants. Great job.
I am so happy to hear that you enjoyed our video today Cathy x x Thank you for such a lovely message too x x
Hi Luke and Sarah! Love your videos, love your positive energy and your zest for life! Love how you treat your animal! 😍🤩
So happy to hear that you enjoy them x x
Do you think that hole where the feathers trailed in to is a fox den?
Hee, i love your sun aprons for the tomato planters.
Dirk! Molly must be over the moon 🐶😍.
Luke thinks it is a mongoose den but thankfully it has been a few weeks and none of our chickens were attacked and yes Molly is super happy that Dirk is here , as are we x x
Loved seeing the mask being used! Take good care guys!
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Thanks 👍 again 😊
I get sand fleas, flys, and gnats every summer, an easy way to get them gone, especially inside or anywhere you can power a light bulb/globe, place a large dish or tray on the floor or ground that is at least 1 inch tall, fill it with 1" of water, and add a few drops of dishwashing soap or any liquid soap, soap breaks the surface tension, place a light bulb facing down towards the water, about 8" to 12 " away from water and turn on. I use a light from an old lamp. During the night the bugs will go to the light looking for the sun, hit the light, and drop in the water. Dead!!!
Will give it go..thankyouuuu ❤️
Are you guys familiar with a product called diatomaceous earth? If not, it's a finely powdered, natural bug control. As bugs like fleas, with a hard outer shell, crawl thru it their outer covering is cut into and they dehydrate and die. I worked many years in a farm store and we sold tons of it. When my sister had chickens she mixed it in with the bedding to control mites. There's two kinds, food grade and regular. You'd want to use the food grade. It's even safe to use directly on the animals, you just don't want them to directly inhale it, or yourselves. You can use it in many different ways to control a large variety of bugs, even in the house. Anyway, research it and see if you think it would work for you.
Very nice cardboard pots. They remind me of the ones Andrea makes, (Nick and Andrea), from heavy, brown paper. I will remember both ways as I plan to start seeds early, indoors, next year. I'm also going to try using egg cartons. I'm starting my very first little garden this year. All trial and error. By next year I'll have more experience. I've learned alot from watching my chosen community of youtube homesteaders. You all are amazing!! It's funny that I live in the US and my 4 most favorite channels are from Portugal. And one each in Italy, Spain and France. 😁!!
I'm really looking forward to seeing what you can do with that little water hole the girls dug up. I so hope that it will become a viable water source for you.
See you next week. Take care!! 🥰🌿♥️
Thanks so much Meg. We looked it up and it looks great for bug control.We had tried to look for it here once a few years back, I think it might have been for our worm bin but hadn't found it anywhere but we will try and get our hands on it for next time x x And yes egg cartons are great too . I wish you the very best of luck for your garden. May your first year be full of delicious veggies . Have a great week x x
the wine bottle plant pots are a brilliant idea. i have used toilet paper-rolls, but as they are pretty small the seedlings can’t stay in very long. Depending on the season and kind of seeds, these bigger pots can be very useful. Tks for the tip.
Happy you found it helpful😁
Love your videos..❤
Thanks so much Grace x x
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Great work, Luke and Sarah!
🐖🐖: "We found water, and Mommy and Daddy made us a paddle-oink pool!" 💦🐷🏊♀️🐷🏊♀️💦
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In the USA it’s Mothers Day. So Happy Fur & Feathered Mothers Day!😍
Thanks so much x x
We're selling up in England and moving back to Portugal for a much easier back to some basics existence.
As a family we can't wait
I wish you all the luck in the world Carlos x x
So lovely ❤ amazing pet parents xx
Thanks Jan x x
Sorry to hear about the Guinea Fowl.😢
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys, now you can make dream catchers from your father's look it up, maybe you could buy a mulcher on the digger this works much faster to clean the land you can also mulch the brushes. Just a idea 💡. handy system to make pots I am going to make them to I use the carton now for mulch and make it wet and then make little peaces to keep the ground moisture on top of the ground works really good 👍😊. I love your channel ❤️😍.
That's a great idea Arjan😁
Wow!! That water looks so clear!!! Is it really cold also?
Not cold😁 especially the bit that has been sitting in the pipe 😁
Como fizeram os vasos? 🙏🙏Adoro os vossos videos
Who is that extremely pretty young girl on this video cover?? It's the very first time to me to see your wonderful hair almost open and I noticed with pleasure that you wear some kind of short trousers. You do look so amazingly pretty, lovely Sarah!!
The patient goats cuties, Maggie, Peppa and Molly are as always so heartwarming.
Tragic what happened to the two special chicken birds, I'm so sorry, they must have been suffering so deeply ...
❤️❤️Thank you for this huge compliment Sylvia x x I hardly wear my hair down because I feel it is always in the way.I am so happy you enjoyed this episode x x Yes it is very sad about Larry and Penny hopefully they didn't suffer much 😢
WOW! All this and how to make eco-plant pots too. I cut up a black bin bag and made little 'plarstic' liners for my little cardboard plant pots. Did you have to spray down Luke after he de-flead the goat house? We love you're videos but my wife complains that I walk around humming and whistling your catchey little tunes for days after. But don't stop! 🙂
I love that you whistle the tunes Steve❤️❤️Thank you for telling us x x Luke put his clothes straight into the wash and he went straight into the shower
I also think you should have millions of subscribers, because you two are just incredible people. Your animals are so loved and you can see how much they love you back. ❤
Wouldn't that be amazing , our big projects would be easy to do if we did 😁Thank you for this lovely message Francesca.
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I love my pallet builds. With the price of lumber you have to. Yours are probably free too like in the US
Unfortunately good pallets are pretty expensive here but sometimes we feel like we won the lottery when we come across some broken ones that are going for free 😁
Bummer...there is a great supply here.
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Is your Yurt just used for storage? An AirBnB type thing?
It's pretty much a storage space for all our stuff we brought here from back home. .. and a double bed.. we sleep there in summer as it is much cooler
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Question: I'm a Canadian born Maltese that's considering a semi-homestead lifestyle in Gozo. Is there a particular reason why MT wasn't your first choice?
Debt free is the only way to live!
Hi Silverchair. If I had to live in Malta it would be gozo as it not as developed as Malta and there is still a decent amount of 'nature'... But property is not cheap. And if you want some land it will cost millions. To put things in perspective our land is seven times smaller than my hometown of Sliema.. (population 13000)
Apart from the cost Malta is a bit overpopulated for our liking.. I do miss the sea though 😄
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife Sliema, party central, I admire your choice to move away! Thanks for the insight, your videos are an inspiration to many.
Surfs Up???? You have probably said dozens of times but What is the Yurt for?
It's pretty much a place to store all our stuff we got from back home. Just enough space for a double bed too which is where we sleep in summer as it is much cooler.
goat whisperer, pig whisperer,. .ha ha.
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What do you mean?
Are you guys using chemicals on your land and if you are why it seems contrary to what I thought you were trying to do on your land
We never use chemicals in the garden ,on trees and plants but we have used chemicals twice on our animals enclosures once to spray after Peppa nearly died of a virus and we had to protect our animals from anything that might have been lurking around and now to get rid of the huge population of fleas that were taking over our life .i don't understand why doing these things would be contrary to what we are trying to do here
Gosto muito dos seus vidios é tao boazinha para os seus porcos e cabras eles adoram você. O seu marido trabalha tanto e a senhora tambem . A vida ao ar livre é muito saudavel. Gosto muito por favor voltem sempre obrigado ❤
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Awww Assuncao Obrigadissimo ❤️❤️❤️
Lots of hard work but I’m sure it’s worth it…. Better than working a 9-5 job !!! Mehhhh no thanks
You got that right!