Meanwhile here in Brazil we are making the opposite, turning rain forest into desert

The generator and conrete mixer vibrations will usually make snakes depart. They don't like the vibrations.

THANKS FOR THIS INFORMATION 👍

How do yall deal with the snakes on a farm/homestead?🙈 It's my biggest fear when i think of homesteading.

Your garden is so lovely and green. I always love how when you look into water and see the sky and clouds, so pretty. Colors around the dam, are amazing, Make a great jig saw puzzle to build. I learnt something from this video, never knew Almond trees got such pretty blossoms. Place is a little Haven. Keep up the good work.

The building site is taking form. Not nice to know there is a cobra on the premises. Does make one's work slower, not knowing where it could be. Need a very long pole and hook to move bags n stuff around. Take great care.

Looks like Arizona but sounds like Dununda❤

New subscriber, I enjoyed your content and look forward to watching more.

Love your work❤❤❤

How is your overwintered eggplants doing? The sandolien, klapperbos and keurtjies are beautiful!

Great job! Seems like you are restoring the desert landscape to how they were when the beavers had dams everywhere. More trees and other vegetation are really needed to help rid greenhouse gases too. Thanks!

What about snakes in a pile of rocks?

Things are developing well. But lets talk about the other elephant in the room for a moment. You have quartz on your land, and it looks like it has some nice sulfates in it. And I also thought to see some pyrite as well. And that can mean only one thing....GOLD!!! You need to get yourself a gold pan my friend. I am pretty sure that you will find gold, and at 83 dollars a gram it is well worth to do a little prospecting. I can't sleep well until I have seen you do some panning, my curiosity won't allow me. 😄Keep up the good spirit 👍

Please improve your rock much as you explained.

Thanks.. We are faced with similar issues. Dealing with drought and desertification across the Sahel we are always looking for new and innovative ways to cope with issues around water retention.

Sjoe dis darm lekker om nuwe lewe te sien na al ons harde werk. 🎉

Baie mooi video die! Julle is vinnig besig om die plek omteskep in n paradise

Altyd lekker om jou vídeos te kyk en die mooi van die Karoo te geniet en jul vordering te sien. Wonderlik hoe die dam ontwikkel in n groen paradys. Sterkte met al jul bouwerk. Sien uit daarna om die eindproduk te sien. 🏡

Beatifull.I wish i can start to develop my propart we bought 3 years ago.

Where in the caroo is your farm?

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So sad that the winds blew items away, so expensive to replace. What a let down, those people need to know how to weld. Their faults cause double work. You need a huge truck full of friends to rock up, bring n braai and everyone help fill bags and build a little on your New Home. 😄. Pizza was just the best to end any day.

Dit is insiggewend. In Suid Afrika, in die Groot Karoo, 'n Woestyn landskap word dit al amper 100 Jr gedoen op n natuurlie wyse. Ook in gebruik van 'n "hap" ploeg . Dit is dus n besonder goeie en praktiese metode om grasveld en bossie veld herstel te verseker. Dankie vir die video.

This is the United States of America Wii u standards whatever you said in metric don't understand it thanks

We must get that beehive at 4:38 deployed! And do pizza again (or braai).

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Amazing videos. Keep it up. Shocking that people do such sub standard work. Very disappointing

Wow - definitely wild winds there! I'm in NZ (in Wellington) and we get winds just like that. I'm hooked on your videos - I just love seeing you working away on this and that! It must be hard going, but so satisfying though! Just keep chipping away at things and you''ll get there.

I just *love* seeing your goats - they're adorable!

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I have no clue how somebody can mess up those welds so badly and call it good. If you have the opportunity, buy yourself a cheap AC welding machine, watch a couple of videos about welding, and practice a few times with some scrap metal. It is really not hard to learn how to weld a couple of brackets or things from regular steel that are broken. It is not rocket science. More exotic metals and structural stuff is a different story. But to be able to weld some simple stuff from regular steel can save you a lot of time and money and frustration. For the simple bush fix I would recommend a combination AC MIG and stick welder. For the MIG you van buy gas filled wire, so no need for a gas bottle, and that is best for thin material such as gates and such, but it is sensitive for the wind. However, MIG welding is almost as easy as using a hot glue gun. The stick welder is good for outdoor windy situations and thicker to very thick metal. But it is less suitable for really thin metal. Watch some videos about how your weld should look like, and how to do the prep work. The more expensive machines are able to weld with AC and DC and besides regular steel those can also weld aluminium and stainless steel and even bronze. But you do not need all that fancy stuff for the simple and most common bush fixes. Anyway, thanks for sharing 👍

Oops, unqualified volunteers are a problem. As Welding is a specialist skill.

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No wastage to any outbuildings, As your farm grows, animals move and that building becomes another home for something else, and so your farm gets bigger and stronger. So enjoy watching all the dogs together, so well behaved. You really did a very good job with the posts. What a beautiful way to end the day, a roaring fire. A moment well deserved.

One learns a lot by watching your everyday chores spent on the farm, Baby goats are so darn cute and bouncy. Just want to hug them. Just a daring thought, ever thought to maybe build with your bags and other parts with cement blocks. However long it takes, it will become your amazing castle.

Not to worry about your home taking long to build, you are only two and it is very hard work. Hopefully a truck of guys will turn up and give you a helping hand. Your seeder is great, with that thunder in the back ground, lovely rain to water the seeds. Love your videos, never stop making them. 😄

This is fantastic! It seems like we struggle. With loads of the same problems. So glad I found this channel. Looking forward to learn more from you

Had a little wood house. Now upgraded to a 6x6m brick house. All the respect for trying an earth bag house but block and brick was just a better option for me. Hope to have bore hole soon but also need my septic system as im still in composting toilet mode. So much expenses so little funds. Lol

I dug out a huge pool (25ft deep) I used Visqueen to line it as it was cheap and a friend advised me to use it. You can get it from the builders merchants. It’s used to go under concrete slabs. It has to be completely covered by dirt out of the water to keep the sun off it. That was 20 odd years ago and it’s still 100%.

Why would you want to destroy 100 year old wagon trails?

If I was still younger I would have loved to visit such a great place.

Check out Tiny Shiny Home for their earthworks. They are in Arizona which is a similar climate, and they got a really impressive system down for building. You'll also want to consider a wider surface area tamping.

Real loved this video, Nice's aerial shot's of the land and the plans for it. Interesting you plan to have people stopping there in the future. Great that you are holding onto the water and have plants starting to grow round it. Now that you know you can retain water there, maybe start planting fruit trees and others around it or on the spill way. Also a few mentions as the land is full of slate, maybe using that along with the clay you have on the land and straw to build your house. Sound like would solve your material problem and would be very strong and long lasting. Or another mention clay bricks. Be interesting on your thought, as you be the one doing the hard work. Anyway nice to see how you are getting on , take care.

I'm so mesmerized by the wonderful landscape of South Africa.

ANOTHER WONDERFUL VIDEO. Thank you for sharing your thinking and progress. Do you have any additional thoughts on mud bricks formed in a trapezoidal mold so you can maintain your round house design. I thought that was a pretty good solution - and I see other commenters suggesting local materials. I did come across a good method of chopping straw to appropriate size for adobe bricks. A cheap electric chipper does a good job on dry straw quickly. Much easier to work with adobe when the straw is more or less uniform length. Always love updates on goats, the progress on your new kraal and the lake. Perhaps by the next update the goats will be moved in to the new krall. 🌻👍

You've got so much slate flat rock, make a house like the Boers did in the old days. Slate stacked and mortared with clay, plastered with clay. They were bullet proof, they are warm in the karoo winters, they are virtually indestructible too. You have so many resources around you, I don't know why you going the labour intensive route of bagging soil and compressing soil. You can even take a look at old Portuguese houses, check out some of the videos from OK Portugal he has a whole series of houses for sale, all built with rock, and lime mortar Ek stem met @neelsscheepers8841 daai huise is gebou om te hou, en dis baie soos steen en cement gebou, net met klip en klei van die omgewing, baie ou huise van die boere oorlog tyd is met lekker duk sinke bedak. Lekker warem in die winter viral as daar vuurplek ingebou is, en baie koel in die somer viral as daar stoep heel om die huis is. I think bagging is alot of work vs return when you have all that stone around you

Miskien moet jy kyk na hoe die ou mense in die Karoo gebou het met klip en klei toe hulle nog met skape getrek het van somer veld na winter veld. Iets soos n Hartbeeshuis, klei, strooi en klip.

NZer here - I love your videos! All of this work would be hugely satisfying! Hard work, sure, but when you sit down at the end of the day and think what you've done (both on the day and in recent weeks), it must be a great feeling! I love seeing the goats - they're always funny! Keep up the great work!