Post your questions below for next week Q&A!

I'm just chipping in my 2 cents; animals will be useful for manure if nothing else. The water stats commonly cited include "green" water – that is, rainwater that would have fell anyway, with or without animals. Of course grain-feeding and factory farming is unsustainable, but keeping small numbers of animals that live off the land will provide you with plenty of bio-available nutrition and protein – important for the type of work you're doing – without too many carbs in the mix. (Beans and lentils are a good source of protein – but they have many more carbs, which could lead to feeling bloated). Even if you don't go for meat, keeping for instance ducks or chickens to help with slug/pest problems could be an organic way of pest control – with the added benefit of eggs. There's a reason why no indigenous society has gone completely vegan – and that's due to the absolute wealth of nutrition in animal products.

If you want to, try looking into aquaculture! It can be done in tandem with traditional crop-growing – for example, flooding rice paddies in Asia to keep weeds down and raising carp in the paddies – the carp would produce waste to fertilise the soil, while the farmers could get the benefits of carp AND rice.

Either way, I don't think it's as simple as saying "all animal products are unsustainable" or "go carnivore". I think like all other sources of food, there are sustainable and unsustainable ways of going about raising animals – but unsustainable methods can be avoided. Don't throw the baby out with the bath-water and all that.

Either way, I'll continue to watch and support the efforts here; as someone who binge-watched these vids and is only now up to date, it's been amazing seeing the progress you've made.

https://www.greenamerica.org/what-regenerative-agriculture and the associated Q&A at https://www.greenamerica.org/green-americas-live-qa-kiss-ground could be useful.

team tonecas <3

a sabedoria popular!!

Don't feel guilty for not being vegan guys – plenty of people work in regenerative agriculture where animals help improve the land rather than take away from it. Unless you're doing it for an ethical reason, I don't think there's any reason you can't also follow in the steps of some of the awesome homesteaders out there.

You should become vegetarian

food suggestions .. explore local traditional cuisine .. cook from scratch …omnivore ( that might end up being 85% vegetarian 15% meat as it is in my mediterranean climate.. California.)

No animals have to die if u r vegan and it's better for a good healthy life.

Have you considered raising a small flock of chickens for eggs?

I'm 96.3% carnivore and I find at least 3 waterfalls per day.

Great vid guys. Really hope you stick around for years to come. Fantastic to see all the neighbour's so welcoming n accommodating for the project. Must be special for them to see a bunch of young ppl trying to revitalise the area

Go hunting or fishing. Holding chickens for meat and eggs is a blessing.

loved the interview!

I would suggest maybe getting a goat, they produce delicious milk, are great company, don't need too much looking after if you get a more wild species and they love to eat the prickly and invasive plants. They are used often for wildlife restoration programs. I love your video's, you people are amazing!

How did you get to the idea to do this?
Btw you inspired me to also plan to do this in the future.

I like to eat 3x the meat, so vegans who think they are helping, are doing it for nothing!

This is my favorite episode so far. I enjoy learning about the large projects, but it is great to learn more about the people in the camp and the day-to-day happenings in the community. It's so different from my urban lifestyle, and I find it fascinating.

What a wonderfull man!
It would be nice to see the lagoon sometimes.

Q: where can we send you solutions for your challenges (eg: flies) and/or web sources for land management?

LOVE the neighbor! And I love that the older people around you all respect you. They know what hard work is and they know hard workers when they see them. They know what decency is and recognize that in you. Well done.

Y'all have so many wild edibles, I'm sure you already know that. The issue is the amount of labor it takes to process all the grasses and other edible greens and roots, my suggestion would be to look into "wine" making out if all your wild edibles, it's fun and motivating for everyone, including those who don't drink since they can have the prefermented juice.

Can u please post videos more often? :))) it’s amazing project!

I grew up where we lived off the land while living in a town. Hunting, fishing, gathering wild edibles and gardening. The local bakery took care of baked goods. Store supplied milk, eggs, butter, etc. The staples predominantly. The rest we grew or gathered or harvested. Canning, making jams, etc. Canned fish was wonderful with tomatoes from the garden. Today, retired and living in the city, I still buy a side of beef annually, chickens and eggs from the farm, fish directly from fisherman, etc. I grow vegetables in my condo in a spare bedroom using the kratky method. I believe that eating local is more important than carnivore or vegan. Local food has the energy of the area where you live.

Another Video of your neighbour playing his Accordian, perhaps a local concert. I guarentee you will have some local talent in your volunteers and amongst your neighbours. I was fascinated to hear about the Abandoned Land.

Use neighbors goats to eat brambles.

I love how you all live life to the fullest <3

Nem sempre é assim… mas isto é Portugal no seu melhor!
Melhor video até agora!
Parabéns
Abraço ao Senhor Tonecas! Obrigado

This country is Portugal?

This was a very very good video!!

Tonecas máquinaaaa!!!

Obrigado Sr. Tonecas. Muita saúde. Obrigado Rita

Middle is the balance in life. Just go with the flow of your gut

Just a tip…if you are swinging back and forth on how you eat…its not VEGAN. It's plantbased. If I were young I would be joining you !! I love this chanel and what you are doing SO VERY MUCH

Király vagy, Ági! Always nice to see hungarians in different international projects 🙂

This has brought tears to my eyes! The interview with Tonecas was beautiful and has made me even more determined to learn Portuguese so I can really converse with our neighbours ❤️ and so interesting to hear your thoughts on eating vegan. Thanks for sharing xox

I LOED THIS EPISODE! The Interviews were BEAUTIFUL!

What a nice man

season food is the best eat what is around you i live like that never a problem

Crew ?

I love what your doing and especially moments like these when you connect with the local people around you- Your neighbour is a legend! Another interesting focus might be to study the local wildlife, and report back what you find… please keep up the amazing work 🙂

Tonecas seems like a really great guy. All the interviews you do with your neighbors are really lovely, and it’s great to hear how they’re perceiving the project and your influence on the land and the environment around it.

I have to dislike this video, because of the vegan" chef".. To be a chef, you need to master all aspects
of commercial cooking. 🙁 Otherwise, I love all of your vids)

Such a profound encounter you had with Tonecas, a special human being. I ‘d love that all human kind could act and talk the way he does. The world would be so different. Thanks for sharing

I love the new cook. I would love to visit..

When I saw the stone/brick walls around the waterfall, my mind couldn't help but go to "alternate history" channels which I watch just for fun. One thing they talk about are structures that are hundreds or thousands of years old that no one today knows how they got there. When Tonecas said that his family went back on the land over a hundred years, and his great-grandparents said the stuff was older than they could know, it just blew my mind. Same when he was talking about the former village on the site. So much history is still getting lost. Makes me think of the hundreds of abandoned villages in Italy.

I wish more people were like Tonecas very nice man! Thank you for sharing his story.