HOMESTEAD in the MOUNTAINS | Young couple creating an OFF-GRID paradise | Building a fence
Food Forest Part 1: Turning our ABANDONED LAND into an OF...
Recently we planted our first food forest. A masterful step forwards for our homestead, a thing of dreams soon to be a luscious forest, laden with fruit, berries, and everything our family would need to survive. However, just like everything we try on this mountain, it all started to go spectacularly wrong when the mountain beasts decided to descend up it and create destruction. The jabali dug up all the small trees, broke down terraces, and used our apricots as scratching posts.
Week in week out we’ve been trying new methods to keep them out, then this week, the straw that broke the camels back, the mouflon broke in and nibbled the branches off pretty much every tree in the forest. We have had enough, the mountain beasts are about to get a serious shock, we’re going to build a proper fence, we’re talking galvanised steel posts, tensioned steel, fancy expensive fasteners, concrete, something that could stop an elephant.
We’d love to get this fence sorted before the spring rains to ensure our food forest gets good growth and we can start to feed ourselves from it sooner rather than later.
As a side note, we’ve had an intense month. As many of you know a wildfire destroyed a large part of our valley, and we broke our one and only hard drive during the evacuation, which we’ve been getting fixed in Madrid for the past few weeks. Thank you all for being so patient with us, we’re so grateful to all of you for watching our videos and supporting us.
0:00 Intro
02:27 Robbie draws a picture of the future
03:26 Emilia explodes a water pipe
04:51 Digging holes for the posts
06:09 Aligning the posts
11:28 Creepy vegetables
12:53 Concreting the posts
15:16 Hiding in the Land Rover during a storm
17:55 Emilia welding a gate
22:02 Baby mouflon eating Emilia’s flowers
26:24 Installing a culvert
30:07 Moving some old trailers
34:32 Attaching the first bit of fencing
41:29 Robbie gets bitten by another spider
43:16 The swifts have arrived
45:04 A glimpse at next episode
With your support we can keep these videos coming every week, even small donations make a big difference to our video production:
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Our story:
We are Emilia, Robbie & Sage, we left our city lives behind and moved to the top of a mountain in Spain, to live off-grid. We’ve spent two years alone, renovating an old stone house and restoring the abandoned land. Join us as we continue to build our off-grid homestead, and become self-sufficient from the land.
Business enquiries:
[email protected]
#offthegrid #abandoned #offgrid #offgridliving #homestead #homesteading #renovation #restoration #stonehouse #tinyhouse #wilderness #diy #alone #Spain #permaculture #organic #organicfarming #farming #foodforest
Recently we planted our first food forest. A masterful step forwards for our homestead, a thing of dreams soon to be a luscious forest, laden with fruit, berries, and everything our family would need to survive. However, just like everything we try on this mountain, it all started to go spectacularly wrong when the mountain beasts decided to descend up it and create destruction. The jabali dug up all the small trees, broke down terraces, and used our apricots as scratching posts.
Week in week out we’ve been trying new methods to keep them out, then this week, the straw that broke the camels back, the mouflon broke in and nibbled the branches off pretty much every tree in the forest. We have had enough, the mountain beasts are about to get a serious shock, we’re going to build a proper fence, we’re talking galvanised steel posts, tensioned steel, fancy expensive fasteners, concrete, something that could stop an elephant.
We’d love to get this fence sorted before the spring rains to ensure our food forest gets good growth and we can start to feed ourselves from it sooner rather than later.
As a side note, we’ve had an intense month. As many of you know a wildfire destroyed a large part of our valley, and we broke our one and only hard drive during the evacuation, which we’ve been getting fixed in Madrid for the past few weeks. Thank you all for being so patient with us, we’re so grateful to all of you for watching our videos and supporting us.
0:00 Intro
02:27 Robbie draws a picture of the future
03:26 Emilia explodes a water pipe
04:51 Digging holes for the posts
06:09 Aligning the posts
11:28 Creepy vegetables
12:53 Concreting the posts
15:16 Hiding in the Land Rover during a storm
17:55 Emilia welding a gate
22:02 Baby mouflon eating Emilia’s flowers
26:24 Installing a culvert
30:07 Moving some old trailers
34:32 Attaching the first bit of fencing
41:29 Robbie gets bitten by another spider
43:16 The swifts have arrived
45:04 A glimpse at next episode
With your support we can keep these videos coming every week, even small donations make a big difference to our video production:
- Patreon: Patreon: LadyandtheOwlMan
- PayPal: https://paypal.me/ladyandtheowlman
Instagram:
Instagram: ladyandtheowlman
Instagram: nakedmarmite
Our story:
We are Emilia, Robbie & Sage, we left our city lives behind and moved to the top of a mountain in Spain, to live off-grid. We’ve spent two years alone, renovating an old stone house and restoring the abandoned land. Join us as we continue to build our off-grid homestead, and become self-sufficient from the land.
Business enquiries:
[email protected]
#offthegrid #abandoned #offgrid #offgridliving #homestead #homesteading #renovation #restoration #stonehouse #tinyhouse #wilderness #diy #alone #Spain #permaculture #organic #organicfarming #farming #foodforest
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