I Bought A Degraded Forest In Texas... Here's Why

I bought an abandoned woodland in Texas, meaning I found the cheapest land possible that was rural and close to a major city.

[@the_it_clown]

Omg I hope one day Paul Plantu’s nature reserve is open to the public for tours, I’d love to learn more about the native plant species 🌱

[@JosukeUrameshi]

dude this is my dream! just having land and making it my own little nature preserve. so excited for you! ERF IS MAH PLONET! 🌏

[@user-rr4wg6dh6f]

Wouldn't people be disruptive with touring?

[@JosukeUrameshi]

@@user-rr4wg6dh6f who said anything about giving tours? it would be for me only

[@Hayley-sl9lm]

Living vicariously through you bro. You should connect with Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't, he is in Texas and maybe he can help you ID some of the rare plants you might have there. I'm so glad you were able to bring this land under your protection & stewardship, now it will have all of the benefits of your interest.

[@victorevans6639]

Joey from crime pays is awesome! A collab would be awesome

[@jonathannavarro2865]

Yes That would be a good collab

[@terrenetherapeutics]

Love Joey! Great suggestion! ~ Patricia

[@erikad1497]

As a native Houstonian, this makes my heart happy!

[@jonathanmiranda9400]

6:37 "life aspirations fulfilled on a budget" you said it all paul !

[@sharabenson]

I just discovered your channel tonight when looking up Tangerine Crossvine and haven’t stopped watching yet. I’m so happy to have found you! Honestly, my other favorite gardener is Laura from Garden Answer- your channels couldn’t be more different however you both share a unique way of teaching and genuine love of what you’re doing. I’m so excited to go along as you do what you do to this new property. Congratulations!

[@michellepollino4986]

Congratulations! I’m happy you got the land that you wanted. I can’t wait to see what you create on your new land. I will be watching.

[@anaisabeldelrio6902]

I love this! You saved this space from developers. The animals are so displaced, hawks, cyotes, and rabbits wander in our neighborhood because the cow pastor and forest behind us became apartments and houses 😢 ( houston- alvin area 😢)

[@Kymo883]

What a great project, look forward to the transformation 😊

[@michaelbrady2307]

Awesome bro! That's the dream, having a piece of nature you can keep preserved. Happy for you dude, and I hope to have the same one day.

[@MagicalZach]

Good luck brother keeps us updated with the natives you plant and the ones you remove

[@melonywilson7630]

Just hearing you talk about your property and your plans and your smiles is everything. You are so happy and we are happy for you. Do your thing I'm just happy to watch more upcoming videos. Your joy is everything. 🎉Congratulations

[@ivanrodriguez268]

I hope you preserve all those trees and native palms!

[@darklighter2838]

Congratulations, happy to be a part of your yourney!

[@Lou_Mansfield]

so glad you'll restore it for migrating birds and native pollinators. you can make your own trail in it. or a off grid tiny house thing. or your own campsite. plus a permaculture food forest section. put some rain barrels or well/pump. a mini Miyawaki native forest. etc

[@The_Savvy_Satyr]

I'll wager that your son will have a magical childhood on such a great wooded area.

[@terrenetherapeutics]

So excited to follow this journey! ~ Patricia

[@foragingandurbanfarmingatt4745]

Inoculate some logs with mushroom spores! Plant native foraging plants! Excited for you!

[@margievaughan2456]

Congratulations I’m happy for you & proud of you. It’s so refreshing to see a young man with your interest and determination & work ethic instead of setting in front of a computer game all day. I find your channel so interesting & will definitely follow the journey.

[@caranwysong3065]

Congrats! Can't wait to see your progress!

[@rickyt3961]

congratulations! This is going to be exiting following you through this new journey.

[@michellemakeupandnails]

I love watching you do & learn on your channel, really love your videos so much

[@rebekahwells3737]

We live between Houston and Galveston. Can’t wait to watch the transformation! Maybe you can do tours one day.

[@kerijohnson8781]

I can’t wait to see how it turns out! I’ve got 3 acres in Nacogdoches and don’t know what to do with this place, I don’t even know where to start. I’m standing by waiting to be inspired! Keep up the awesome work I’ve learned a lot from you homie

[@kareharpies]

Check out Flock Finger Lakes channel for inspiration. They have a video where they planted millions (yes, you heard right!) of bulbs into their prairie. Very cool land restoration/homestead channel.

[@Sassyspectical]

Congratulations 🎉 I’m excited to follow along on the journey.

[@Antsinherpants]

Bro been watching you since you got them the Oreo 6’s from the thrift. It’s amazing to see you grow to this!! Got me into thrifting and now into plants for the last two year!! Keep it up!!

[@matt.endlesscourage]

I wish you all the best with this new endeavor Paul! I think your plan sounds wonderful. Excited for all to come with this!

[@MJArt13]

Your land is beautiful. Congratulations!

[@jwh1997]

This is great, Paul. I can't wait to see what you do with the property.

[@JaydonLandworth]

That's huge! Congrats, stoked to see what comes next

[@Bluesage2024]

Congratulations!!!!!! You are amazing!!!. Thank you for taking us with you on your journey. I have a notebook ready for your Planet Plantu class to begin. I am sure we will learn so much watching you restore the amazing land to its wild life refuge. Thank you for what you are doing.

[@kellycarroll6829]

love the plan! migrating birds are so wonderful! blessings and peace to you and your project. 🌲☮🕊

[@user-rr4wg6dh6f]

I'm excited to see what you do with this forest.

[@randalllevy5307]

Such an amazing idea. You're just the 1 to tackle this.

[@nippolitica]

Another great video, Paul. You have been such an inspiration to me as I planned and then picked up my home in Japan, which is in the same zone as you. I made the same decision regarding what I could afford and have definitely spent "truck money" on my house and land. Renovations will begin soon and the total amount is looking like only $130K all in. I've saved back money for retirement.

[@michellemoeckel4770]

Awesome! Looks a lot like our acreage. So much potential.

[@demeterkristin260]

Congratulations🎉 so happy for you😁🌳🌱🌲

[@charlesdavenport4640]

Can't wait to see how it turns out!

[@antonenero]

Good luck the journey Paul ❤❤❤ ...I follow your journeys🌿🌿🌸🌸🌸🌸

[@christylou28]

what an exciting project, can't wait to see your progress with this!

[@rubytrujillo4199]

OMG goodluckk! I can't wait to see how it turns out!

[@sjustice3487]

I'm excited to see it come together!

[@thecollegepicker]

Great purchase dude, land and growing eatables is so underrated.

[@ydmf2]

Exciting! Congrats bro! ✊

[@mishkybishky]

Amazing!! Can’t wait to see what you do

[@monicavaldez2369]

Congratulations!!

[@johnpaskell4431]

I will for real come down there and help with any tree work you need there.

[@catiepower3550]

Heck ya!! That’s how you do it! Please share the journey.

[@Treegrower]

This is awesome! Congrats on getting the land. I can't wait to see what you have planned for it. You are living the dream I am jealous!

[@Hipporacle]

How fantastic! Congratulations!

[@danielvelez4001]

U could build a tree house ❤❤😂😂😂

[@paulplantu]

FACTS

[@300blkreepin]

Way to nail down those aspirations young man.

[@allenslater9234]

So happy for you!

[@northeasthardytropicals541]

This is cool as hell man. This is going to be an awesome project for years to come.

[@BrandonChapin]

Cant wait to see whats to come!

[@spookyduzit]

Im sure your creativity will create a nice environment to share. Anxious to see it in the works

[@MonoiLuv]

Congratulations!

[@jujuray169]

Congrats dude! You'll kill it whatever you do...🎉

[@joak.vintage]

This is sick! Can't wait to see what you do with the land! And I gotta say, very impressive 'dialogue', not that much cutting in the edit and yet the talking is consistent and informative without a lot of filler words - not common on youtube.

[@bh300]

Love the property. Bro! 🌴

[@WarriorofSunlight]

Man, what you’re doing for your local ecosystem is amazing. I can’t even imagine how different the world would be if everyone put as much effort into protecting and restoring nature as you do.

[@mrdakotameeks]

Excited to see it happen!

[@jeffreyrossi5084]

Great news! At one point you need to put up a diagram of the property so we can see the areas you're working on as they happen. I would think treed areas are hard to come by in Texas. I see your new property as upgraded not degrading since it starting to revert back to its original state.

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

Can't do better than starting off with words from Bob Marley! Love from Jamaica :)

[@DicksonClaim]

Im here for this project!

[@kathytravis9256]

Way to go Paul!!

[@glendanavarrete1618]

You are amazing😊

[@bile897]

This sounds godly, this is what i want to do. Can’t wait to see the outcome!

[@discoj7112]

This is the dream! Some people might have a dream car or a dream home, but having a huge garden to see grow and improve is even better. I think if you want to build somewhere to stay, you should put it on stilts or build a treehouse to keep things dry. 100 year floods are becoming more common than they used to be in a lot of places, so it's a good idea to plan ahead.

[@linakhoury6623]

Hi. Congratulations on your new land . You can bild a cabin and rent it to family in the summer Have a nice day .

[@buckyjennings8854]

Congratulations Señor Plantu! We bought some property north of Houston and we're trying to improve the land. We had to put cages around all the trees because the deer are vicious

[@philipmorgan6984]

Congrats, bro bro!

[@Braddy_Daddy]

Dude!!!! Congrats man

[@walkflx]

lookin forward to it

[@travisjantzer]

This is a really sweet project man. I have very similar ideas for my own land here in Oregon. Food Forest, Permaculture, etc. We also deal with deer and racoons. My dad has seen a cougar out here and about once a week we hear coyotes screaming in the valley. Good luck dude, I'll be keeping up with your progress.

[@SCR357]

Dope idea brother that is so cool

[@cromulentparty]

Damn you're so wholesome Paul.

[@martymarr8307]

Congrats

[@LilaLacktrichterling]

Awesome

[@dikanpatel9687]

Congrats Paul on your land purchase. I agree they ain't making more land and hey only one life to get your dreams. Way to go. Earth is my planet...One day I will get there too. Enjoy.

[@coltonprins5995]

Alright man, I’m all in now. When can I come birding? That Plantu eBird hotspot is going to be rad. It would be cool if you got into birding, set a baseline of species observed this year and watched the list grow year after year.

[@TheLivingBackyard]

Well.... put it that way, it is a wonderful idea 💚💚💚 if you build a cabin, make it on a tall foundation, so you can sleep in peace even in rainy season😁 CONGRATS!

[@drb996]

Find a construction company that hauls dirt and pay them to drop maybe 10 tonnes of soil/dirt and make an island. Create culverts etc to manage the water and take it from there...maybe add some goats to help with the mowing 😊

[@nicolebergelin6200]

Congrats! Try to keep all that organic matter that you need to clear on your property if you can. I bet you could inoculate the wood piles with some dope edible mushrooms.

[@tysonkturbo]

congrats dawg. show me that damn bayou

[@TekedixXx]

So I work with guys who buy and sell land, and a lot of it is in Texas. My first kneejerk reaction to your first video (I didn't comment) was that you're overpaying for the land. From my experience, I've seen a lot of lots in Texas with more buildable lots sell for less, but I checked out the area and the size and compared it to a few of my clients properties that are similar and I think you paid a generally fair price, considering how close it is to a major city. That's within 10k of other similar properties which have more features but are in worse locations. The way people get good deals on land is they either do targeted mail to people who own land or find property through the public tax records (Which isn't as reliable as you would think), and you can buy properties for 20%-40% market value, if you have the cash (No bank is going to finance an empty lot with $1,500 in back taxes).

[@samrachui6556]

i wish i could like the video a million times

[@_Mastermind04]

Proud of you thats the dream right there

[@lalaydade3364]

Awesome idea! Maybe one day you will let your subscribers come check it out. 🙂

[@wilavrilien2791]

Camp out on that bruh 💚🤙🏿

[@oh5148]

Nice

[@BWlXX]

1000% you should build a small cabin on the property. KZbinrs like bushradical or KylesCabin are both really good resources to get an idea of how long it'd take & what the cost is. You already invested a lot of money on the property so making it some place you can take your family and get away for a weekend would be the best use of land & increase the value even more

[@donnam4260]

Yiipppeeee Floods just bring more goodies to the soil from time to time❤

[@Lynxajb]

More Perma Culture. Awesome. Well done.

[@theplushfrog]

If I had a nickle everytime a young youtuber bought a few acres of land to make it into a native plant and animal reserve, I'd have 10 cents. It's just kinda cool it's happened twice now.

[@jacobogarrido17]

Bro bout to be the next bama bass Lfg!

[@dangray]

Too cool.

[@FasinFRANKclothing]

This is fuegooooo 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Ricard0_]

Congrats man. I’m sure you’re gonna turn that into a paradise. Get you a metal detector, I think you’d be surprised what you can find on undeveloped land. Also look for Indian artifacts along the streams.

[@ChinosGarden]

My goals in life