Uncovering Hidden Gems on Our Abandoned Land ❤️
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- Опубліковано 1 гру 2022
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Uncovering hidden gems on our abandoned land
#Abandonedland #Offgrid #offthegrid
In this video, we'll be uncovering hidden gems on our abandoned land. Using a strimmer to clear the brambles we uncover old terraced walls and amazing natural features our land has been hiding from us. This is a hard job but such rewarding work that makes us appreciate all the natural beauty around us. We also share the goings-on on our farm
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I love the idea of a giant turtle emerging from the ground 🐢
If you put together a wood frame that’s slightly taller and wider than your cape gooseberry and cover it in clear plastic you can put it over the plant and it will stop it getting frost damaged. It won’t really change the temp but the frost sits on the plastic instead of the plant. Works for anything you can’t move inside. I forget the name for it, maybe a cloche? Someone here will know!
Thanks for the tip , hopefully we will have time to try that before the frost kills it
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife it should cope with some light frost a couple of times ok.
Wobbles is doing so well because she had wonderful farm parents :)
Oh, what a disappointment for Luke about the car maybe nick will help with the car ..... maybe 💖
Nick has his hands full , we will find a mechanic soon hopefully and unfortunately, Wobbles took a turn for the worse yesterday😢 ,I am still keeping positive but honestly it doesn't look good
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife sorry about wobbles. It is amazing how much you care about the animals. Nick per vids seems pretty busy ...thank you for responding :)
My first thought of the rock jetting out of the ground looked like a whale to me. lol. Closer look maybe a turtle. Luke seems to be doing better which is good. Enjoyed your planting garlic and the animals as always. Hope you get your car back soon. It can make things so hard for you go get what you need. Thanks for sharing.
Happy you enjoyed it Cathy
Watching the goats follow Luke down the trail 😂.
Amazing land you have, love all the rocks.
The boulder looks like fun for Frankie off grid 😆
What a difference when you clear the land. Alot of work for sure. So happy to see you helping another animal on your land.
Taking care of the animals is our responsibility from the beginning of time.
Not everything is disposable. To just consume and throw in a land fill.
Love you 2 and your hearts.
Yes and it can be so hard .Wobbles seems to be getting worse unfortunately , she still seems like she is not in pain ,only makes a noise when she wants a drink but can't stand on her feet anymore and wobbles even more than ever. It is these decisions that are the hardest. 😢
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife oh my heart. I will pray for healing miracle. We need a miracle 🙏
Hi guys found your channel I love the thought of Portugal your pigs Maggie and pepper are fabulous and the goats the little chicken seems content enough she's fine looking forward to the next video greetings from Australia
Amazing! Brilliant vlog!😃 So chock a block with treats i'm watching again 😄. srsly, i feel like *i'm* open loads of prezzies 🎁🎁🎁. We so appreciate your sharing Luke & Sarah's Off Grid [real] LIFE❣
You were right on time with your frost prep! do you chop up your frosted salad/cruciferous leaves and toss then in a ziplock for your freezer? lucky! super locally-grown organic frozen veg! beauti job on your sprouted garlic & planting. Sweet little Wobbles is getting stronger thanks to your Mommy Sarah magic🌟💖.
Your rain dance (omg so so cute! 🥰) and film of St. Nick reassembling the digger engine can stand alone as a short of amazingness 👀.
Aw, sorry about your car not being fixed 😔.
The terraces you uncover as you clear huge sections of your land are surprising and beautiful. Your baby pine forest and boulder way is wonderful. Oh, Iwan might like to have a go at Turtle Rock. (I thought it looks like a 🐢's head too.) Looking forward to auger bramble destroying footage 😄! Wow, you can see vestiges of how your uncovered fields were partially planted as groves, used maybe for grazing or growing.
Can Maggie wear a tracker?
So happy you enjoyed it so much . as soon as Luke uncovered that boulder that is exactly what I said ."i wonder if Iwan would be able to climb up it " but there aren't too many places to grab onto but then again we know nothing we will have to ask him😁 About Maggie not sure I don't really want to put a collar on her because she might get stuck in a bush and hurt
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife Right you are about a collar -- anyway, another viewer maybe on Cindy's said pig don't have necks anyway so a collar would constantly fall off. Nvm being harness trained. Maybe if she ever requires an ear tag, somehow affix to it a light metal engraved plaque "Maggie" with your contact info?
Your compassion with Wobbles is heartwarming
Unfortunately she is not looking to good today 😪
Lol 😂 Maggie eloping.
Luke’s sense of humour. 😅
The land is looking great - you guys have been working hard.
Can’t wait to see the progress. 😊
🌷Sam
Thanks Sam you will see a huge chunk cleared in next week's episode x x
Nick is a fabulous mechanic. What an inventive brain and dexterity supreme. Isnt it great that it is not 40°C +?
He really is and the weather right now us perfect x x
Make Comfy Tea…white buckets, comfy leaves, cover good with water, put on lid, wait at least 30 days then feed your garden plants..
IT WILL STINK
Stir at least once a week😊😊😊
We do that often and have a few videos on it too😁
Wow! You guys certainly had a busy week! Congrats on all the land clearing. It was funny to see that even Timmy was having fun with it 😂👏🏽You have got frost before me and I am in the UK! The frost will be good for the garlic to form bulbs. I agree with Luke on Turtle Rock. It really does bear a striking resemblance. Have a lovely weekend❤
It is crazy that we got frost before you..this morning we got a layer of ice on the goats water outside
Ice! Wow! I see why you have to be taking tender plants indoors. My aloe vera is still outside. Planning on taking it indoors over the weekend.
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love you guys.
Bravo, Maroco!!!!!
Sir Nick is doing a great job on the digger engine👏🏽. Is problem impossible for him to solve? He is such a star❤
He really is
Love your compassion
N8ce
Beautiful land ❤️
Such courage guys alot if work keep at it
Your videos showed up on my UA-cam feed. I am a subscriber from project Portugal. I have to say you two are amazing! Such hard dedication and love of the land and animals. I am now a new subscriber to your channel. I have to catch up on videos. Hopefully your car situation will get better. I will be praying blessings over you.
That is awesome Leonor ,we are happy to hear you have joined our youtube family too .I hope you enjoy the catch up❤️
Agree keep her alive 👍👍👍😘😘😘
Hi, thank you for the Information and video, please stay safe and happy.
Dear Sarah and Luke . I've been following your video's for some time and love to the love you have for each other and for the animals . Seeing you work out all the problems with such good energy always with a smile.
I've finally arrived to Portugal for two weeks, and I'm in Porto today , planning to rent a Campervan today.
Can I come to visit you?
Nili from Israel. 😘🌸😘
Hi Nili Message me on Instagram or send me an email 😁
Very cool turtle head rock ❤❤❤❤ incredible
Yip definitely a turtle 👍sorry sarah ❤
Just love your podcast I know the struggle you face when clearing land I used to have a smallholding just over an acre and it is such hard work but you will get there! Love the pigs they are great for clearing land but make such a mess 😊 looking forward to following your progress😊
Thank you xx
Great video
Love the new rock I would call it chelpeep 😂😂
Thank you for sharing 😁
Glad you enjoyed it , didn't get the chelpeep bit though😁
chelonian ( synonym ) turtle 🐢
peeper ( synonym) toad 🐸
Chelonian peeper rock 🪨
It’s ok I’ve been ill and I think my brain over did it 🤣😂🤣😂
@@daffs0 🤣🤣
👍
It's the front end of a submarine doing an emergency surface manoeuvre!
Love watching your progress xx
So happy to hear it x
Cracking video, love the handsome bloke doing the engine🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
he is the talk of this episode❤️. A HUGE THANK YOU to that handsome bloke🤣🤣
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In South Africa we let the Cape Gooseberry die down in winter give it a good prune and cover with a good mulch and watch it grow back in spring
*off to prune it now! 😀❤️
So lovely to discover the makes of previous generations. We cleared 2 hectares of brambles about 5 years ago and made a giant compost pile with them , left them for a year to decompose and then used them as mulch in the garden. Good luck xx
That is a great idea x
Sara you just keep up the great care for your kids. People who don't have animals don't understand. After the work and love you gave to the pigs you got this
Thanks x x x She has taken a turn for the worse but I am not giving up
Comfrey is excellent for citrus and you can make a salve for sore joints or muscles but the root is even more potent. It has a deep tap root so you won’t kill the plant if you take some root. Put the leaves at the base of citrus or better still plant near the citrus.
Thanks for these helpful tips x
Looks like a turtle to me :) . But from some distance there seems to be a cross ' carved out '. Anyway, beautiful kingdom you have there!
nice rock - Punta Tortuga -
for the frost on your vegy garden you should build a DIY heating system - can go few ways about it - a solar heated and fire heated (small stove fire ) - basically you run a bunch of small diameter pipes in the rows of the garden - can be baried maybe 2 inches deep - old copper line for gas should be the best but copper is not cheap - i guess a plastic / rubber will be fine - since you probably won't get the water that hot -you only need to warm up the area -15 degrees not boiling - the small stove heats up a coild of (copper pipe ) that feeds the hot water and circulate it through the garden then cools down at the ends comes back gets warm etc - you could most likeley keep it for few hrs untill you go to bed then i believe it should keep the frost off (maybe put small stones under the pipe that would soak up the hit and stay worm a bit longer)- there are few video's on that on you tube that explains it better than i just try to explain not very well - any way good luck with the digger engine hope it works
i like it Punta tortuga 😁About the heating We have this idea for our sunken greenhouse when we move to the ruin it is just not worth all the trouble right now.
Maalin wanaagsan saaxiib Luke!!
Good day to you too
winch the root out, put a strop around the largest part of the root and pull them out.. you have a power bank engine hoist would do the job, or a come along hand winch.. doing a grand job! its looking good,,
or could put pigs in that area! they normally dig up roots.. good luck..
You need to find an old-school mechanic, the kind that works on cars without computers, not the kind that just plugs in modules & testers. Hard to find there, I imagine. I've heard stories of terrible building contractors too... fly-by-night scammers. 😑😒
Fingers crossed we will find one soon
Such progress on the land, with the digger engine, the garden. Too bad about the car.
Now I can’t undo the image of Molly running away to elope with a wild boar 😂😂 awesome land clearing,great video, sorry about your car 🚙☹️
Great work! My 2 cents: you should think of investing in a tiller (magna tal-hart). you can till the mulch into the land, increasing the organic material in the soil which will decompose and fertilize the land. You could also incorporate the ash into the land as a fertilizer if you burn the brambles. It would also make farming the land easier, preparing the land for sowing seed/growing veg. Tilling the land also aerates, accelerating aerobic organic decomposition of vegetable material. Also would recommend constructing your burning bushes over the base of the trees you fell. This kills the rootstock and prevents it from re-emerging in the future(if that's your intention anyway). Cheers
Thanks for the tip😁
Awesome video !!! Just noticed Pepa and Magie are growing nicely 😊 and garlic is looking nice… ready for next year. So nice you are taking care of wobbles and no she is gone be fine… in 6 months you probably have to rename her to Usain Bolt but then she probably will get a gender crisis so Usina Bolt….. is that even a female name ? 😉 And wow Nick doesn’t mess about on the digger engine… So Sarah just do some more rain dances and the engine will be fixed in a week. And Luke one tip on cutting brambels at that speed when you see “welcome to Spain” you can stop 😉
Yes the girls are going to be so big when you get here 😁 wobbles is female but her health has been deteriorating unfortunately but I will not give up unless i feel it is really hopeless. and no Nick does not mess around he is awesome and Luke is clearing land like a machine you wont recognise the place🤣🤣
You are a great caretaker Sarah, Luke and all your furry kids are very lucky ❤ the land gets beautiful every single time. I'm very curious about the outside kitchen and how the ruin will end-up 🤔 I think it will also be a nice surprise 😮 Nick is doing an amazing job on the digger engine, but thankgod for Andrea's tiny hands 🤪 big hugs
❤️❤️Thanks Carole , yes Nick is a blessing ❤️❤️the outdoor kitchen work is slow for now but it will go fast once the digger is working and Luke can lift up those massive logs with a strong machine
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife and if the weather is on your side too 😉🤞
Ask Nick to help with the car, he is the best.
Nick is doing so much already 😁we will find a mechanic soon
Try UA-cam we had issues with our golf's not starting sometimes for years, no one could fix it, turns out it was a fuse, not the coloured one but that work with the computer, it was a very easy fix that apparently no one else could do 🤔
ua-cam.com/video/pGOUn0PBVB8/v-deo.html this ! I'm not sure your cars symptoms but maybe this helps
FYI. NICK and Andreas address is coming up with a 404 issue. Could there maybe be another. I know he does beautiful work. Last year sometime I saw Cindy and Gina over there learning how to place stone. His front archway he was working on and patio was/is beautiful.....I just forgot there names.....I'll do a search! FANTASTIC VIDEO GUYS!
Thanks so much for telling me Melinda , I have changed the link and made sure it works this time. the name of their channel is PROJECT PORTUGAL X X
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife Found it and have watched 3 videos (well this one is 53:10 minutes long. LoL. He is turning that old pig pin Into the green house!! What a wonderful idea. I told him I came over from your channel on the 1st video I watched. Hope yall have a great weekend and pray you can find some one, maybe Nick can refer you to someone in Porto or Lisbon? Just suggestions trying to help and I'm sure uou thought of it. LOL ❤️
@@melinda5777 awesome they are such lovely people you will be hooked to their channel in no time ❤❤❤❤
With your Digger 💡⚒️🤣🤣
Team Turtles 🐢 here. Looks like a giant Turtle coming up for air from a green oasis
love it
Shame you can't use the benny hill theme music for your time lapse scenes, think it would be hilarious.
I saw a video where the fowl were getting sick and lame. They discovered mites infestation.
Thanks I will check it out but i think i would have noticed mites
I think the rock looks like an apatosaurus head!
Sorry Sarah, gotta agree it looks like the head of a turtle :D Those straight lines on it looks like someone tried to split the rock ages ago eh? One of the goats looks pretty "wide" she baking? ;-)
Maybe they used it to build those beautiful terraced walls 😁I think the girls might both be pregnant Daisy and Suzies udders are both growing bigger every day❤️
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife 27:09 which one of them is in the foreground? looks "built like a tank" right there :D so exciting !!!
@@LiLBitsDK Daisy is really chunking up but Suzies udder is really big.. ❤️
I KNEW it. At 14:30, you start working very quickly. Do you use special vitamins? Please share the link. 😆 🤣
🤣🤣
I see a hwale rock....on the verge of jumping out of the water....🐋
awesome
What are you going to do with the cleared land other than fencing the border? Brambles grow back fast ! More goats to keep them down? Planting fruit trees? Olive trees? If not, clearing Brambles could be a lifetime job ! 😅🤔
We are going to plant trees and hay for the animals😁
If you hurt your self and have bruising and sore muscular aches you can crush and smash the Comfrey leaves and put this on with bandage to the aching area’s… I hope you never have to use but since you and husband work hard daily I think it could come in handy…..
Chickens don’t live very long.
Thanks for this Narice x x
Hello
Gorgeous, sexy land!
What if you piled the cuttings on top of the biggest stumps & burnt them? Would the fire & heat be enough to kill them?
The problem is it was super dense so there's roots everywhere.. if my auger doesn't do it then the digger will when it's working 🤣
Save Woobles!!! She looks 75%better than she did.
Yesterday she took a turn for the worse so not sure how to deal with her now but i am trying😢
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife terrible news. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Turtle head or dinosaur. LOL
Chemtrail above sky.
😂
A little dinosaur head a plant eater and the other one looks like a turtle head(:
watching in between work breaks. the stone, I see a whales face. :)
but I grew up long Island New York (long beach) near the ocean, I see Ocean life.
I also went to tech school Learned Welding!!!
When all those names started rolling I thought the video was over. When I later went to watch it a second time I realized it wasn’t. I love this channel but that was a bit confusing.
We started putting the thanks in the middle because of that very reason😁 too many people just click the second they see words so they leave before the episode is over and i am finding this is working better because it is the middle of something good happening and it is just 5 secs . I have been trying this out for over a month and like the results . Sorry it confused you ❤️
what are you guys doing when its those heavy rain days?
Work on the computer ,read or play games
Nick u are too much
To be just one human, i know right! 🤯
I feel bad about your car.
The rock looks like a whales head
26min seeing chemtrail all above the sky.
😂
at what point will your land be your land and no longer "abandoned land"?
🤣we still haven't been to some parts of our land yet so yes I guess it is until we have cleared it. It doesn't become unabandoned just because we purchased it. It had had no care for over 40 years
Sorry guys the land looks useless.
We absolutely love our land everything it keeps giving us , you my friend are a pessimist 🤣.have a great day😁
No land is entirely useless. You just need imagination and hard work to bring neglected land back into use...
Good job 👌!!! Do not get left behind > Promo'SM .