Uncovering MORE Ancient Stone Terraces and Canals on our Off Grid Homestead - Time-lapse
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- Опубліковано 29 бер 2024
- #simpleliving, #Portugal, #Offgridlife
So many of our land's secrets are still hidden from us on our off-grid homestead after 6 years of living in this beautiful place. We are slowly Uncovering Ancient Stone Terraces and Canals as we clear land to find these gems and to make it more fire-safe.
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At some point in your land's history, someone truly loved it. The system of terraces & canals demonstrate that love. What a gift for you two to discover.
Oh yes , the secrets our land is uncovering are just so amazing
Wow! Your land gets more and more beautiful the more it is cleared. Such wonderful rock formations and an unbelievable amount of hard work all those years ago to create those Lavada's. Well done Luke and Sarah! I hope Peppa gets the hint to stay in the goat barn!
Thanks so much and no Peppa did not get the hint ,i will tell you all about it in Mondays update ♥️
I really enjoyed this episode. You and Molly are so funny 😂. Lots of hard work, but you are uncovering an absolute wonder.
So happy to hear that❤️❤️❤️
Another catch up with the little piggies.. fabulous!! All the work you are both doing is great , it's a joy watching you and your animal family!!😂
So happy to hear you enjoy our video Nicola
Your land is looking beautiful.
Take some time to rest Luke.
Molly is the most loved dog ever.😊❤
When I look at time lapse, I often think how nice it would be to work in 30 minutes what would normally take a week. 😂
It would be so very nice 🤣
It´s umbeliavable how cute the piglets are. Its so nice to watch them ❤
Yes, it truly is remarkable how you both work in the land with all your animals ... love watching all your achievements no matter how big or small you bring me joy...❤ thank you guys x
Thank you for this lovely message x x this makes me very happy
Hi Luke and Sarah, what beautiful land you have! It is amazing to see the terraces, channels and the gorgeous trees you are uncovering.
All the clearing of the land around the stone terraces is so impressive. Sarah, you are becoming a super gardener! The piglets are so adorable. 😍🇨🇦
In Belgium, we mostly eat asparagus white. It is a true delicacy! You make a mount of soil at the base of the plants, so the shoots grow under the soil. You then dig them out when they are ready. Due to the lack of light, they don’t turn green, and stay white and soft. You eat them with a white sause, or a lemon sause or make creamy soup of them.
Sounds super delicious
I LOVE your expressed appreciation for all that you have🙏
Aw thanks Dana❤️
What a great job you've done. It's like archeaology from a bygone time.
Wow, thank you!
It just gets more beautiful!! 😄👍!!
That breakfast Luke prepared looked absolutely divine 😋.
It's going to be complete piggie chaos when you have the two families together and will be SO much fun to see.
Take care!! Happy Easter!! 🥰
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Happy easter to you too x x
The asparagus is amazing. Best video ever. All my favorite chores I used to do here on our 12 acres in Texas.
I am so happy you enjoyed it so much x x
Those wee piggies are so confident when they are out & about, wonder if that’s the wild boar in them. You should do a calendar of drone shots of your lovely boulders.
That is a great idea❤️❤️
the fields looking better and that breafst looks fantastic
It is so wonderful seeing you both enjoy your land. Hopefully pigs want to nest before birthing and Peppa stays safe in the old goat barn. x
Those piglets are growing so fast, and cute. Sarah your asparagus looks so good. Luke is doing a great job of clearing the land and making it look more open. Hope Pepa has her babies in the new place where they will all be safe. Rupert tickles me being on her back and walking down her face to get on to the ground. He will miss being around her when she has her babies. Clearing you land has all kinds of great surprises. Thank you both so much for sharing these videos. Love your videos.
Peppa and Rupert really have a special bond❤️❤️
Luke, have you considered building one or more ram pumps (google them, dead cheap made from plumbing parts and no power needed) within your canals to divert water where it is needed, either for immediate use when the canals are running or to fill an old bath-tub or small pond for use when the canals dry up in the summer?
Luke your Portuguese reading is spot on, I'm so impressed 😁 breakfast looked super delicious 😋🤤
Thank you! 😃
Such beautiful land for such beautiful people and animals. Your videos are uplifting and full of good energy.
Wow, thank you
You two are truly amazing, such hard work but the reward is a delight to behold. Big Rock Farm could not have better custodians. Baby piggies are growing away & like all your animal family it’s a good life to be sure. True respect 🙏❤️xx
Wow, thank you! X x
Holly is adorable and that smile cracked me up…… this is a very fun video………….
I absolutely love seeing you uncover the amazing new terraces and finding the old lavadas (id' be so tempted to give them a good clean out! The little piggies are just so adorable!
Those terraces are beautiful! How exciting! Well done
Beginning at At 6:50 - where does that water go?
You need a nice long handle pitchfork with 4 or 5 tines for picking up brush to put on the fire. Much less bending at the waist.
At 6:57 one - You have many Holm oaks that are growing in clusters. You will want to start culling the duplicate stems this coming winter, Prune one duplicate stem a year until you are left with only one - best of the best on ~ 7 meter centers.
At 26:34 it appears you can harvest 4 to 8 nice garden stakes from the willow clumps one a year. Use the pollard or coppice method. This is also a great location to harvest "live stakes" to plant in other damp spots on the property. You will always have a supply of nice straight garden trellis/lattice/stakes available.
Thanks Steve again with very helpful tips😁The water from the canals goes into the river , we do have plans for the water ..many plans🤣 but we also are super busy in many areas so everything will done eventually once we are ready and have sufficient funds to tackle them😁❤️
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife Thank you for the reply! I did not realize you have a river on or near the property. That is really great! So you have access to water that you can pump to irrigate the top of your land with your 4 GEL batteries+ as time and money allows. That's WONDERFUL! What a tremendous resource!
I think that Big Rock Farm is perfect! I wish I could travel there and see it in person.
Thanks Zanna❤️❤️
Beautiful place you have. Yummy asparagus. 😋
Like your boots😊
Excellent work guys, well done . Those piglets are going to become little big devils , I recognised those stripes as soon as I saw them in the first video they appeared in. Thank you for sharing the video.
Oh yes, they are already proving to be a handful😁
Great job on the land clearance. I find it so comical that you have a pig with a chicken riding on her back. Maybe that rooster was a racing jockey in his last life. 🐓
🤣🤣 maybe.. all i know for sure is he just loves Peppa so much
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Awesome!
Your land Sarah and Luke is getting more beautiful as each season goes by. Molly is such a delightful dog, just love her. Sarah your asparagus looks delicious.
Thank you for such a lovely message ♥️♥️
Amazing! Clearing all that land, so satisfying! PS: Not sure if you can do anything about it, but your videos are quite dark....I can change the settings on my screen which helps. Big Rock Farm...I love it!
I cant see that they are particularly dark is it throughout the whole video?
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys, good work guys big smile on my face.
Awesome
I loved your asparagus lesson! And that you can eat them raw, and wear wacky boots: one red, one yellow - magnificently crazy and wonderful. But maybe the asparagus & eggs recipe wins ...
Definitely a 5 star breakfast❤️
What an amazing property. I am wondering if Portugal has topographic maps available for your area? It would be a way to “see” the landscape.
Very nice spot👍👍🇨🇦❤️
Thanks 👍
Stupendous reveal. Good work you two.😊 Your joy is infectious ❤
It’s just such an inspiration to watch people living off the land and thriving, it’s just more of a reminder of how we were meant to live ✨ wishing you a fruitful & abundant growing season x
So happy to hear you enjoy our videos ❤️❤️
Bellissimi !! ma cuanto lavoro ! Bravi voi due.
Hi Luke and Sarah,
When I heard the name of your farm I thought of the old Burl Ives song The big rock candy mountain. Have a look on UA-cam, maybe you could get your singer/musician friend to record it and use it as your theme tune.
The clearance work looks great but watch Luke doesn’t become addicted.
Really enjoying your videos, keep up the good work.
I am pretty sure we cant use that song for copywrite reasons but i love that song😁
Huge piles of ash to put on your garden .great job clearing the terraces .
So nice of you
What a fantastic job you are doing! Great to see the terraces and canals ! This farm - The Big Rock - is amazing! Thanks for sharing this to us! Hope you a Happy Easter! ☀️🐥💚💛❤
Same to you Susanne❤️❤️
You are very pure. 😃👍
Love Big Rock Farm, perfect name! So beautiful...
Thanks Linda❤️
What a chef!! I just love the Timelapse!!!
Glad you enjoy it!
Fresh asparagus yum. And definitely with lemon❤
Oh yes so delicious with lemon and garlic
I wonder how long it took to construct those waterways? Beautiful landscape. Hard but truly rewarding work. You will sleep well now after "breaking" yourself in on the first week! The piglets are hilarious :)
We are definitely having great night sleeps😁
And random question to those also living in Portugal: how's the situation with fireworks in you area? Here in the Minho it has started again: salvos of fireworks, several times a day - from early morning until late at night. It probably is organised as it's always the same sequence. We'll be moving to Estremoz in May and I hope there are less fireworks happy there. And funny thing: our animals (cats and horses) don't even flinch. It's us (non-portuguese) humans being annoyed by it.
Fazenda de Grandes Rochas
I may have missed this- is there a reason / benefit to breeding the kune pig with the wild boar? I so admire you both and what you have accomplished.
No the only reason they got pregnant by wild boar is that they decided not to wait until we got them a kune kune gentle man and decided to take matters into their own hands 🤣
AMAZING. WELL DONE
Massive amount of work
Great job
Thanks a lot!
Super 👌 , really enjoyed, thanks again 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Tendrían que limpiar por dentro también el canal que encontraron
Your land is beautiful, well done with all your hard work .Shame to seeall the chem trails in the sky I see on lots of Portugal programmes, getting as bad as the UK .
You two have every reason to be joyful 😁your Big Rock Farm is beautiful!! 🤩 Ngā mihi nui from Aotearoa/New Zealand (it’s Autumn time here 🍂)
Thank you! 😃
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Google James Hunt for breakfast of champions....it means something completely different in the UK....lol
I sympathise with the weeds and brambles...we hate them! Tummy rub for Molly x
🤣🤣 super funny
Transplant the olive trees to the area you want them in, if they are close to other trees
Great idea
The deeper you plant Asparagus and layer with soil as it grows the tenderer it will be. Do you can?
Thanks
Okay....I think I still have to wait for a year or two... before I get massive asparagus like you Sarah 😅 the land looks amazing Luke... do you think that some pieces of walls, could be leftovers from previous homes? You know...with all the canals and the big ruin and so... like a tiny village on its own 🤷♀️ it won't be long before the piglets will get stuck with their heads in the fence 😅
No they are just terraced walls😁😁
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I would say it is definitely time for you to get the digger fixed , to lessen the hard work that you are doing . Surely it makes sense ????👍👍
Luke has ordered the parts it needs .We do want it to work more than you do believe me🤣🤣
Its so wonderful exploring the cleared land with you!! The Chipmunks are c acting more like pigs when they eat, it's so funny! I just lol!! Your land is really beautiful! Have you thought about putting some of the ashes in your garden? I think the new piglets will be born with the chickens. But I'm probably wrong! HAPPY EASTER!!! ✝️🙏❤🇺🇸🇵🇹⛵👣🍍🤗
Yes Melinda I have started putting ash in the garden😁 I cant wait to share next weeks episode about Peppa's birth experience
@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife I knew it! I knew it! I just felt it!!! So happy, I would do a happy Dance but my Sciatic nerve is still playing electric shock up and down my Rt ankle to my arse!🤣🤣🤣🤣
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but that's the app you don't install through the app store but as a downloaded apk file? Last year I constantly used the website because the app would crash and it took forever every time because apparantly the website was too busy. (and added bonus is that you can use the translating add on of the browser as I am still poor at reading portuguese.)
Hi, I am from Queensland in Australia. Are there snakes where you are?
Yes but I think only 2 venomous ones.. vipers.
The piglets are going to be a trouble if they get into your garden...have you got homes for them ,before the next ones come? Roasted suckling boar... If you ever watched Quinta Fonte Pippa you will know what destruction they have brought to Alex's fields.
One of our neighbours wants 3 of them😁
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife Great
As someone who's moving to Portugal to own land I have looked at the fire regulations and registration but I've seen and heard of rules of grass being below 200mm and land cleared by a set date. How do these rules effect you when you haven't been able to clear the land until now. Also once it's cleared do you have to then keep it cleared in future years.
You don't have to clear all of your land. 50metres around your house and 50 metres away from the border if your neighbour has a house within 50 metres of the border and also I think 20 metres(might be 50) if your border touches a sealed road. Our land was cleared around where we were living the first year. There are big fines if you don't do it.
Thankyou so much for the info and time in replying. Love the videos and your energy.
That Kebtec web site is pathetic. and there is No pricing. You have to 'request a price"?? I was really interested in getting one of those mini chainsaws.
Wow how right you are. It didn't used to be like that. Give me some time I will contact them. They do sell on amazon too but I could nt find the mini chainsaw I was using. I did find a newer 5 inch model on there though. I will Contact them to see if they will send me one so I can test it out
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Thank you so very much x x It would be awesome if we reached a wider audience so much appreciated Lee
Thank you so very much x x It would be awesome if we reached a wider audience so much appreciated Lee