Reclaiming our Land after Years of Forced Abandonment

On a remote subtropical island, somewhere on earth, you'll find our off grid homestead. We live in an old stone house, with three children, and produce our own electricity, water, and vegetables. With Shetland Geese, Chickens, Guinea Fowl, and two cats to care for, we're slowly transforming 5 acres of wild land into edible gardens. We have 15+ years of experience living this way, so we know a thing or two about how to make off grid living work through our own failures.
Ko-Fi
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00:00 The Land
03:00 The Story
08:00 Moving Forward
13:00 Tree Felling

[@jenesisjones6706]

Kudos to you both, and I wish you the best in all your endeavours. Cheers from an Aussie grandma.

[@josjewosje]

Good luck with all your endeavours ❤

[@WildGnomos]

Cheer up with the new projects!

[@Mr.Edaguirrenationwide]

Wow Amazing

[@SebDrewett]

Thank you for sharing, environmentally it's brave for you to look forward and adapt 🙏🌞 Have you spoken to Myrica farm at all? They're some successful permaculture farmers on Faial that you could probably share lots of valuable information with, from what I remember they were using certain animals to clear all the invasive Hedychium. Keep up the amazing work. I'd love to hear how the community is on Flores!

[@Mr.Edaguirrenationwide]

Good day po idol kamusta po kayo dyan idol god bless more2x blessing po idol ❤️ from Philippines

[@sicilianhomestead]

Thank you for sharing your story. It helps somehow since we are facing a very similiar problem right now (not an ex wife but a very angry neighbour who's only purpose in life seems to cause us harm...) we are still at the very beginning of a probabely legal fight. but as I can see sometimes you just need patience. well done! Can't wait to see more videos :)

[@thefarawayhollow]

I'm sorry to hear you are going through a similar dispute and hope everything turns out okay. We had a tough few years and we always just kept reminding ourselves that life has a way of falling into place :)

[@marekoybetchay]

waiting for more updates

[@uggali]

You should see what Māoris go through with the Waitangi tribunal, that process can be so traumatic families and tribes take years to heal

[@jeanettefrancis6473]

Great that you can now make plans for the future and get on with the projects. Why are you cutting down those particular trees. No criticism just wondering.

[@thefarawayhollow]

They are 'acacia' trees, which on this island are pretty destructive because they don't anchor themselves deep into the ground. In a wind storm, almost always a few of them fall down in our valley and just cause chaos. We prefer to cut them down in a controlled way, they are very invasive so we have a lot more to cut back. This area in particular is a great place for putting less hardy fruit trees in because it's more sheltered from those strong westerly winds we get.