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Learning new skills for building our own home, off grid living in Central Portugal 🌱🐓🌻🥚

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Learning new skills for building our own home, off grid living in Central Portugal 🌱🐓🌻🥚

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Beijinos e abraços,
Carissa, Iwan, Frankie & Albi

Carissa, Iwan & Frankie decided one night over a bottle of wine that moving from North Wales to Portugal would be a good idea. Within a month they were on the road to Portugal to find the perfect piece of land to call their new home. We picked up Albi the cat along the way. Subscribe to follow our journey as we turn an old stone barn into our home, and learn the ropes of looking after a piece of land to make an abundant garden and one day, our very own winery.

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  1. Hi guys!! It's great you put Project Portugal's link below.. What might help is if you put one of his videos on your end page of this video .. Or others. Here in USA YouTube we have that option. I'll put mine below for example

  2. Hi, I hope you're both doing well?
    I have a couple of questions about your roof that you installed in a previous video.
    What are the name/mark of the roofing that you used and do you have a website address for them.
    How do you find the roof with the rain you had recently?
    I've never seen them where I live in France and just wondered if I can get them here or have them imported.
    Many thanks

  3. Your white cat always makes me think of vanilla ice cream with caramel on top. Our chickens loved coming in the house and they would clean up any crumbs that went unnoticed however, they'd often leave us warm cookies before we hurriedly ushered them back outdoors.

  6. Its called 'Cegonha' (stork) or 'Picota' , piece of engineering' left by the north African Moors/ Saracens ,when they invaded the Peninsula Iberica (Portugal/Spain) after the Romans left . around 1000 years ago . St. Nick always ready to help . Thanks for the video .

  7. Now the chickens have found the Vege garden you have 2 choices if you want to grow stuff. 1…. build a fence to keep them out, OR 2.. build a fence to keep them out…… Same goes for everything they find that you want to keep alive. The only other alternative is build a fence to keep them in the area you want them in.

  9. It is looking good and very typical. I don’t know how is the climate where you are, but when I was in Lisboa and Coimbra the winter was terrible cold and humid. Lisboa has very strong and constant windy rain. My umbrella was never strong enough, I lived near the airport, so in the capital the work was strong and also an old city. Lot of things involved in it. Coimbra, a very old and famous sea work which made the university famous. The older part of the city also typical about rocks were a foundation needed for walls and such. I was impressed by the constructions of very old areas typical of European history. So I can really see how challenging it is to adjust to the work to be done. Your farming is becoming so adorable and pleasant …and a determined couple makes it happen …your place is so adorable 🥰😉💝

  16. When the time comes in your finances, can I recommend you buy yourselves a small quad Ute. We moved onto 10 overgrown acres, we bought a fairly old second hand Kawasaki mule with a tow bar and tipper. I can honestly say, apart the very battered digger we also bought, it has been THE most useful piece of kit we own, If you can also buy the small trailer for the back, it would save you all that hard work of wheelbarrow running. They can be registered for the roads too and the terrain they deal with is great.

  20. It was great to see the wall build and helping Nick get his foundations in – I’d already watched both in Nicks video and it’s nice to see it from the other side so to speak. G,ad you’ve now mastered the well too!😆

  24. I so enjoyed your cute little critters. Nick is such a wonderful neighbor. So knowledgeable and willing to share his talents. Love the scenes of your land, set to such lovely music.

  28. Because pond scum and algae are living organisms, they are rich sources of nitrogen that break down quickly in the compost pile. Using pond scum as fertilizer also incorporates important nutrients, such as potassium and phosphorus, into the compost.

  30. Love the new wall, love you pair and Nick & Andrea helping each other out, love the piccotta (sp?) use. But I can't decide on a favourite between hearing the crickets or seeing Iwan's genuine pleasure at eating a bacon butty with brown sauce! That sent me in to the kitchen to make one

  34. You almost got the picota technique, good job! Next time, try to quickly flip the bucket upside down when it's near the water, with a sudden movement. This is easier to do when there's only a tiny piece of rope attaching it to the long stick, because it gives you better control of the "flip"

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