1 YEAR HOMESTEAD TIMELAPSE | All We Did On Our OFF GRID FINCA IN SPAIN

[@ninemoonplanet]

One thing I learned in a semi-dry soil is to put water into the planting holes, let it sink, then plant up, water again. Plants should be firmly pushed into the soil. Hat bale mulch is a good idea in Spain. Shade cloth over new plantings should help roots develop.

[@ninemoonplanet]

You may need to plant marigolds around to deter pests, or put up bird feeders to get them to eat the pests. Lavender should grow well, they're good for attracting pollinators.

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

We soaked the bales before breaking them up & then again afterwards when we first put them in. But good idea for the second round of planting!

[@kingfisher5150]

Fabulous filming! Tremendous work! Isabelle looks brilliant in that yellow hat and green jumper- proper little Catalonian farmer!

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Thank you 💚 We’ll make a farmhand out of her yet! 😁

[@FelizPete]

It was a nice calm watch on Sunday morning in UK, I liked when you added Spanish names to different plants - very informative:) Enjoy your Sunday.

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Thank you 💚 We’re glad you enjoyed it!

[@Juanfernandez-sm8jl]

🧡🧡💙💙💜💜💚💚🤍🤍You are brave and I hope everything goes well for you all... mistakes are made at the beginning but every year it will be better. From Malaga, a big hug family.

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Thank you 💚 We hope it will just get better and better over time 🤞

[@jackierenders9441]

Waw, that year flew by! You achieved a lot already, congratulation!

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

It really did! Time goes so quickly, especially with children!

[@KimCramer-l8t]

wow, such a good job and the video is so nice! I loved the calming music. Bless you, Love, kim from Germany

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Thank you 💚 We’re glad you enjoyed the slower pace style editing and music in this one ☺️

[@conchavilela2361]

La niña es una preciosidad!!! La finca poco a poco, el lugar donde planteis hortalizas, quitad alguna piedra, añadid más sustracto, y las ramos picadas con la máquina, como teneis chimenea guadad la ceniña es muy buena para la tierra, las borras del café, cascaras he huevos, le dan calcio a la tierra y poco a poco esa tierra será mas fertil. Os deseo lo mejor desde Galicia. ❤️

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

¡Gracias por todas las útiles sugerencias! También tenemos una "granja de lombrices" (worm farm?) y la hemos estado usando como fertilizante recientemente 🪱

[@joannesmith7889]

Looking good guys, here’s to the year to come

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Plenty to keep us busy…! 💚

[@101life9]

The farm is looking very good. By next year, it will look even better. Awesome job you did 👏 👍

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Thank you. Hopefully it will just keep getting better and better with time ☺️

[@MrKronta]

Hi, I am new here and I like how your video is done. Well done! I don't know if someone wrote here about planting trees in semi-arid areas. I planted more than a hundred trees in a similar location (not so arid) and there are important rules: after planting remove all branches, and just the trunk remains. Remove all fruits first two years. Water less frequently with larger quantities (20 liters at least every time). You must reduce nutrient consumption, and increase water intake under the roots - it is the way trees would better survive. I wish You the best of luck from the Czech Republic. Jaroslav

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Thank you for sharing all that really helpful information! It’s always nice to get extra advice. Especially from people who have been doing something similar! 💚

[@alisonearll2474]

Amazing editing and summary of the year on the farm. Thank you.

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Thanks. We’re glad you enjoyed watching it ☺️

[@barbarakloise6790]

Hi if you guys put up some sun screen material above your crops it will help you a lot and you will use a lot less water and there won't be so much heat stress on your plants. The sun screens are worth the investment. Maybe you could build some type of ground pit lined with plastic to help you hold more water when it gets really hot/dry in the summer.

[@shedboy18]

Great video, beautiful baby ❤ good luck ❤ merry Christmas ❤

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Thank you. And to you 💚🎄

[@pausaumell3761]

Hello, what a beautiful project! I hope it will be super good. For the olive trees to have more yield you have to leave one or two branches of the strain to have more olives.

[@CondeAlberto]

Well done. I am sure the video does not show all the hard work you guys have put in. Good editing, very enjoyable to watch. Thank you.

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Thank you 💚

[@CatHaywood]

Great video, thank you and good luck with the next year ❤❤

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Thank you 💚

[@adnanjaradat825]

Wonderful work

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Thank you 💚

[@schweizermadel3810]

Thank you for sharing your wonderful journey!

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Thanks for watching!

[@ilonakatalindako-tolman5545]

Wonderful new moment 🥰🤗💝💯👍💫🎄

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Thank you 😊💚

[@davidstoddard9160]

From watching so many videos of so many people homestead the biggest issue seems to be water. I wonder why so many more people dont build a dam to hold water, when it finally does come, to eliminate the problem of lack of water in their future.

[@jbyrd2516]

Well done with your start on the regeneration of the land and tree/food planting. Can you share your permaculture plans with us, its sometimes a little difficult to work out where the plantings and buildings are. Amazed at how much Isabel(le? has grown in the time. Regards from Australia.

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Yes that’s a great idea. Maybe we can use some drone shots to give some perspective and describe the areas a bit 🤔

[@csilviageo]

Amei rever toda a jornada de vocês. Vocês são inspiração.❤❤❤

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Obrigado. Estamos felizes que você tenha gostado de assistir 💚

[@juanp.m.7524]

I liked the overall feeling of the video, but not the cutting of the baby pine 4:25 😪🌲

[@Tarassio280]

I am waiting for the event. 😊

[@ayadHsny]

اشتركت في قناتكم مجددا ❤انا من سوريا اعيش في تركيا وسنعود لبيتنا بعد تهجير دام لأربعة عشر سنة🎉

[@louisemaree2704]

What an awesome family & project. Sometimes is very hard to hear you because of the music ❤😊

[@kathleencollings7021]

What happened to the wooden structure you built on the land?

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

The cabin? It is still fine and we use it for storage mainly at the moment. We plan to finish off the last bits next year because we would love to introduce Isabelle to camping and sleep up there sometimes. We have moved across the cooking stove, but need to make it a bit more child friendly in there before we stay overnight.

[@gillgoode7470]

Really enjoyed the video showing all the ups and downs. Growing food and farming is not easy! I’m in Portugal and growing things here is VERY different to the UK. Summer is very difficult and shade is needed for many veg. Growing from autumn through to late spring is easier. Also the months of drought followed by very intense rainfall is difficult. Can you utilise some more rain-catching methods on your land eg swales, ponds etc?

[@phildooley_CADResources]

As a fairly recently hooked subscriber.... to see that overview is brilliant. You have both come along so far and so well. Great to see. I have so many questions too but wont bombard you with everything ha ha Did I see 1 of your earliest videos where you harvested possibly a half a bucket of Olives and were going to try fermenting them? If I didnt dream that... how did you get on with those? Is the Fire Ban applicable to the use of Petrol Powered tools? And honestly lastly but not least.... am sure you have both thought about and done this, but once the IBCs run low/empty.... do you rinse out the Silt/sediment that gathers at the bottom of the tanks? I just think that would be a nightmare if any of that got in to your irrigation sustem and started blocking lines? I swore I would keep it short but apologies.... just great to see how far you both have come along and just reminded me of questions I had from your very first video

[@LittleSpanishFarmstead]

Loved this! ❤

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Thanks Harriet ❤️

[@AntoinePiruleiro]

At Spain we need more trees.. Please dont cut a tree each winter for home deco.. Nice land!

[@RogerPalli]

Looks like Garraf area ;) Benvinguts!

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

We’re further down in the south of Catalunya, in the Baix Ebre region. But likely the terrain is very similar along the coast. It’s not that far away. ☺️

[@RogerPalli]

Even better! Looks like you found a really nice spot 💪🏼

[@ashleyreeder3511]

I am not familiar with these growing conditions therefore very interesting. The music drowns out the verbal. May you have great success with your adventure.

[@mohammadalam7536]

Lovely progress

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Thanks 💚

[@AlexAlex-vx3le]

We're in Spain?

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

☺️ We live in the south of Catalunya; the Baix Ebre region.

[@AlexAlex-vx3le]

@SmithsdaleFarm I live in Granada I have farm in the mountains ☺️👋

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Oh lovely! Congrats ☺️

[@edgarfio86]

Nice video! Looks like Serra de Llaberia or Pàndols?

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Thank you. We’re not too far away from both of those. We’re in the Baix Ebre region.

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Ha very close, we are between the two!

[@xavimorper9285]

Hey guys, i can give you some piece of advice for growing olive trees. By the way , in which área of Catalonia are you located, i supose in the south,

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Yes please share any advice you have 🙂 We are in the South, in the Baix Ebre region.

[@xavimorper9285]

@SmithsdaleFarm pruning is essential. Most of the time the best option is renew the trunk, cut down the old part and let new branches to growing. I have seen than some trees have many young truncks , leave just one. In 2 or 3 years you can produce yout own olive oíl. If you had livestock, you coul add manure. I have my finca near Lleida. I invite you to visit It and have a look in this region, thera are also many homesteads for sale

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

We just posted a video today that shows what we are doing at the moment with the trees. We are aiming to get down to one trunk but thought it would be too much of a shock to do it all at once? We were thinking to take the bulk out of it this year, then trim them down to 3 or so trunks next year then select a final one the year afterwards? Or do we just need to be more brutal and take it all at once leaving the one trunk now?

[@xavimorper9285]

There is much information in KZbin about growing olive trees. I recomend "poda Alcaudete" and "Rafael navarro

[@xavimorper9285]

Leave just one trunk, and form de tree ( formar la cruz) at 1,5 metres. In two years you Will crop olives. Most people use the tradicional way to get rid of cut branches. They burn them. It,s ecological and the quickest way

[@Melicoy]

Need to plant under shade trees. not out in the open

[@Tarassio280]

I missed something, how much does land with a house cost? 😮

[@roelofvannijen6358]

I am wondering how on earth these trees can ever be giving fruit high up the mountain. I would have done figs only, or maybe a mulberry. Or drill a well.

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Drilling a well would be more expensive than the cost of the land 🙈 but we have rainwater collection and storage, and we are adding more irrigation this year for the trees. So far most of the trees are growing quite well 🤞🏻

[@roelofvannijen6358]

@SmithsdaleFarm the difficulty is producing fruits.. they need tons of water in this climate. Been in Spain since 2006. You can try Peruvian apple cactus, cereus peruvianus. They give pretty tasty fruits. And prickly pears. The good thing you did was planting the nisperos really small, that is the best system since they need less and can adapt better. Nice to see your videos, keep up the good work!

[@Tarassio280]

How many kilometers from the sea?☝️

[@roelofvannijen6358]

Nice to watch, i think you are near me.

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Maybe. We’re in the Baix Ebre region (South of Tarragona)

[@roelofvannijen6358]

@@SmithsdaleFarm i am opposite you i guess, xerta mountains. You in tivenys?

[@Tarassio280]

It was necessary to treat the trees for pests, 😢

[@프리덤-r9h]

애기가 예뼈요 korea

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Thank you 👶🏼❤️

[@danirial6487]

quant heu creat, inclús un nen!

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Gràcies. Ha estat un treball molt dur 💪

[@eleonoramarree]

such a shame of putting music louder then your voices , have to turn volume up and down constantly. that is not fun.

[@gmalabdorhman6237]

قطع الاشجار أمر سئ ، حتى شجرة واحدة او غصن

[@jdmmortal]

Кто-нибудь скажите этим людям что с таким сильным перепадом высот, насос для перекачки воды не нужен. Плохо когда простейшую физику не учили.

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

We tried it both ways. The elevation is not actually that big. The top of the IBCs is about the same level as the bottom of the cisterna. With gravity, it took over 2 hours to fill 1 IBC tank. (1000L). With the pump we can do all 4 tanks in about 1 hour. It is solar energy, so what’s the problem?! 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@janeavery9346]

Loved the filming but dont you think it could be more engaging uf you ralked directly to the camera...more storytelling and inviting for people to subscribe ?

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

This is just a 1 year Timelapse. Our usual videos are much more like that ☺️

[@clickswiipemarketing7518]

Sorry the back ground music is much too loud I can’t hear what you are saying!

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

We have written out the subtitles (and added them in several languages) for anyone who might want or need them 🙂 Hope that helps.

[@Beejayize]

The music drowns out the commentary.

[@ErdemAltinsoy-b2r]

Warum seid ihr immer so scharf Bäume zu schneiden??? Dein Weihnachtsbaum war definitiv unnötig.. Du hättest eigentlich diesen Baum nicht schneiden dürfen.. Dieser Land scheint sehr großzügig zu euch zu sein als eurer Ursprungsland..Das tat weh zu sehen diesen kleinen schönen Baum daß du es gesägt hast.. echt traurig sowas 😢