living a simple off-grid dream! 'summer In full glory!'

[@kdf525]

Love the name of your channel!

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Thank you!😄

[@neutonrenda2303]

I love learning how to preserve everything in different ways, the internet is a wonderful resource for it.

[@101life9]

Indeed. It is a free learning center of pretty much everything 😅

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Yes! That's where I get allot of inspiration from to

[@juanitahamlin8478]

I wish I had not waited until I was retired to live off grid. God bless your journey

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

At least you still did it! Some people never get to that point!

[@juanitahamlin8478]

@@leavingbabylonfamily yes, and in my defense, tried to talk my husband into it and he said no and then he died. I married again and talked him into it. In fact, before we moved he told his doctor we were moving off grid to live in a tiny cabin and she asked him what his wife thought of it and he said it was my idea. ha ha mostly hear women do not want to. I am feminine but it was my dream even in high school, reading Mother Earth News magazines instead of Glamour

[@neutonrenda2303]

Have you tried making yogurt yet, it's much easier than cheese and it's a really great breakfast with fruit. I used to make it every three days to keep the culture going. I would have to buy a tiny tub of Bulgarian yoghurt to get it started though.👍

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

No I haven't . Need to look into it . The problem is I don't have loads of milk. I always need to collect milk for a few days before I can make a cheese. So I need to choose, either use it for cheese or for something else . At the moment I'm sticking with making cheese, and getting my recipe refined

[@SuperBotanica]

All seeds have now been manipulated in such a way that the taste of fruit and vegetables is changing more and more. The original colors of many old vegetable varieties no longer exist. Everything is bred in color, is becoming sweeter, and the bitter substances that warn of taste, such as in spinach, Brussels sprouts, kale, etc., have almost been bred out. In some cases, the seeds or even oat flakes, for example, are sprayed with glyphosate to speed up the drying process. The more colorful and prettier the packaging, the worse the contents.

[@101life9]

Especially USA. Agriculture and food production are being "poisoned"

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Yes I know that is true, but around here you still find some old varieties or some organic seeds from small companies but yes most vegetables lost most of their nutrients throughout the years of breeding for bigger and more sweet vegetables, wich is sad..

[@zacharyneufeld3854]

That's one hell of a garden! You got me beat! I've got bush beans, tomatoes, and potatoes, purple and Yukon gold. Not near as much as I'd hoped for this season. You my friend are doing GREAT 👍 One day after I retire, I'd like to live more simple and a quieter life.

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Thanks man! Thats lovely! Yeah same here, i hoped for loads more, but i am happy with everything i get..I try to keep my garden going this year, so I get some fresh veggies year round.. Hope you find that quiet simple life soon!

[@nicolebury2743]

Nice harvest. Be blessed.

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

🙏 thanks

[@ClaudiaGanzazarolli]

Fico feliz com seu progresso. Sua horta está linda, sua escolha foi certa. Parabéns!!!!!

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Ola Claudia! Muito obrigada..você é muito doce, obrigado pelo seu apoio

[@RealOutdoorLiving]

You have a beautiful place and beautiful gardens the simple life is truly the best life we are slowly going off grid we bought a beautiful piece of land way away from everything and started to build our off grid homestead it’s a lot of work but it’s all for your self. I just found your channel and looking forward to seeing all the videos

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Happy to hear that! I hope you have a wonderful journey into the off grid lifestyle

[@jeanetteharris2211]

You are a very special, impressive young man. Good job! All of your hard work is paying off with peace and tranquility. Many blessings of Mother Gaia to you.

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

I don't think I'm very special, but thank you very much 😊! Much blessings and love

[@neutonrenda2303]

Thanks for sharing.👍

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Your welcome! Thanks for watching

[@regtitch5200]

That meal looked amazing! I could taste it from here. I've watched you from your beginning and you have come aloooong Way! Blessings to you, your animals and your beautiful abode. 🙏 x

[@neutonrenda2303]

It's so great seeing you preserving, so many people don't even try and ended up having to buy so much more off season. Once your cellar is done you'll have a great place for it. Are you also going to try jar meat?

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Yes can't wait to fill up that cellar. Will be a good feeling get it full with my own food

[@ExploringHabit]

What a great life , I'm envious.

[@joannadrawe6654]

Great harvest and a good life!😊

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Yesss, thank you😁

[@grandmasstories3418]

Hey! You look much better with your hair tied! And it's probably more comfortable in the heat.... I bet you would look really handsome with short hair too..... 🙂. God bless you and your animals and plants, land and house and creek!

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Thank you 😊 , don't worry the hair is staying 😅

[@adamosman7284]

Three walls and a rood ,is a thing you can only in paradise!!

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

🤣 I agree

[@catarinacarrasco5938]

Delicious ☺️ Enjoy the fruits of your labor 👏👏👏👏

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Thank you 😋 I will

[@neutonrenda2303]

My favourite stew or 'bredie' is green beans, but you can also pickle them with onions for saving long-term.👍

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

I love green beans! 😄

[@grandmasstories3418]

God blesses farmers!

[@Truongthikimcuong92]

❤❤❤

[@WoodsmanEarl]

I think the same, I always know I have to do this

[@CarpeDiem-lg1rn]

ik hoor je zeggen, man man man, ik denk verrek het is een hollander. Ziet er geweldig uit wat je doet . Zo zelfvoorzienend leven met je dieren (en wat heb je er al veel. Heb je ook kippen (lekker voor hun eitjes), Ook vroeg ik mij af woont hij daar nu helemaal alleen (ik hoop het niet voor je want dat lijkt mij best pittig). Waarom begin je geen kleine camping voor mensen die deze vorm van leven ook willen ervaren. Heb je gelijk wat hulp voor het onderhoud van je tuin of hulp bij het bouwen van je huis, Denk dat je zo vol geboekt zit. Succes verder.

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Hoi , dankjewel. Maar nee ben geen Hollander, maar een belg. Ja heb ook Paar kipjes rond lopen hier, Ik woon op een stuk land van een vriendin die hier ook woont, maar we hebben elk ons Leven, we helpen elkaar wel waneer nodig, maar meestal doe Ik hier alles op mijn eentje, en vind Dat best fijn zo. Ik ben graag op mijn eentje. Dus als ik eerlijk ben lijkt een camping mij een verschrikkelijk idee😅 ik geniet te veel van de natuur en de rust.. ik krijg af en toe wel bezoek van vrienden. En heb fijne Buren. Dus mensen genoeg in de buurt

[@qoriquentegallegos8397]

Thankyou for your ideas about real needs: you say we only need food, water and shelter. However, what is your opinion about relationship and friends? Intellectual exploration in conversation? For example, where I live I have very little opportunity for enriching conversation, even the awakened neighbours are not into this culture. It can be lonely and sometimes I imagine this European vibe and wish I had more of it. Then I wonder, am I also building an illusion about European culture that is not or no longer true?

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Hi thanks for your very good question! Bit difficult to give you an answer here in just a few sentences. But yes that is challenging to find intellectual conversations, but I found that to be difficult as well before I move here to... I often was surrounded by friends and loved ones , but still always had a hunger to some deep philosophical conversations, and I find that still to be the case here, however I am very happy to have some good neighbors around here with who I can have some good talks, with some of them I share common interests, wich makes talking with them fun. But still I get a hunger for deeper conversations to . I was very blessed as a young man to have met somebody who became one of my best friends, who was also a mentor to me, but most importantly who challenged me In Conversations and I challenged him back. Sadly my friend past away few years ago, he is the biggest loss I have ever dealt with, he left a void in me, wich I been searching to fill, but am now realizing that void will always be a void..I'm just Really happy with al the lessons he learned me, and sometimes I still try talking with him When it comes to friendships and relationships, I personally am somebody who loves to be by myself, but I do value having some good people close to me..However I realy don't need loads of friends, if I have a handful of Really good friends that's all I need... hope this answers your questions a bit

[@qoriquentegallegos8397]

@@leavingbabylonfamily Thankyou for your answer. In fact, the void left when your mentor passed on is a gift: it provides the voltage you need to make the jump to higher octaves and ask your higher soul fragments to descend and integrate with your 3D physical vehicle and existence here. This in turn enriches your consciousness and increases your radiance for others. He can hear you when you talk to him. The knowledge will come now without someone else filling his place. When you are older maybe you will do the same for another younger person.

[@makoke1matsuri]

Que hermosas hojas tienen las remolachas, yo me hago huevo batido y pico tipo tortilla que delicia me encantan..... muy lindo se ve todo .... vale la pena!!! sin dudas.. Saludo cordial.-

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Sounds delicious! Muito obrigado

[@allon33]

I lived in a hut in the country, like this man. I did it for 4 years, good times, rough but good; every young person should try it! 🤠 Some people would say this is #livingthedream

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

To me it's really living my dream 😄 Lovely to hear you had a similar simple life

[@marymanju4757]

Very cool homestead. What country do you live in. I have a farm w/ my children on the South Kona coast in Hawaii

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

That's really Cool! I'm living in Portugal, close to the Spanish border

[@jencoeggermont6027]

Bedankt

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Merci jenco!

[@chirovandenbos2339]

People are programmed robot slaves of the system thinking happyness starts with extern factors like status, money, material things that means nothing and its relativ and an illusion create by society. If your happyness depend on extern factors you will never be happy because extern factors are endless. Happyness starts inside you. Thats why a lot of people work and then buy stuff or look a certain way to create an illusion for the outside world out of emptyness.....sad. The more people around you, the more expectations, talk about others, lying, frustrations, negativity, jealousy, hate, negativity, jealousy, double standards, own benefits, judge, comparing etc..... reflection of their broken souls. Alone or in solitude you have more strength, peace, power, happyness, freedom and time to reflect and work on yourself. The here and now is where the magic happens. Be the light in your own life. And no, not feeling superior or better then others but more be carefully and awake. Blessed to you

[@RaraAvis1138]

Is it all worth it? Absolutely.

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

😄yesss!

[@bettytroyer9436]

7:45 You could make Ricotta out of the whey...

[@bryantcs0]

Did you put the root cellar in the house to protect it from animals? I’m wondering why not out of the house?

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

There's no particular reason I am building it in my cabin, but yes like that I don't have to worry about , wild boars or other little animals trying to get in

[@101life9]

It gets better from now forward. The world is screaming of great economic downturn soon..... You're ahead of the game. Keep up the good work. You're your own boss. Make sure there's food on the table and strong roof over Sil's head 😅😂❤. You got them all, I believed 😊

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Hehe, thanks! Yeah I'm pretty happy with were I am in this journey! And thanks to you and others who believed in me and wath I am doing ❤

[@Slurp.terpsz]

I'm curious to know how you started doing this did you just pick a spot in the woods and set up shop?

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

I m living on the land owned by a friend who lives on this land to.. but yeah basically I could pick any spot here on this land, which I did, and started building, with the material I found around me

[@kennygerard]

The suffering is different than the suffering in Babylon, the dangers as well. Fulljoy

[@101life9]

Sil has no rent or a little grocery bill. Other expenses? Minimal?

[@PatriciaStultz-lb6mx]

Is that salt you're putting in the beans?

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Yes

[@shahlatavakoli2084]

👋👋👋🙏🙏🙏

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

😄❤❤❤👋👋

[@isabelinhagomes9076]

😘😘😘😘🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@BeatrixBettens]

Super al die verse groenten

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Ja! En zeer lekker 😄

[@nell5607]

Hi Sil. I used to work in a dairy in a historical re-enactment centre, and, though I am kot an expert, the head dairy woman there always taught me to disturb the curds as little as possible when cutting, so as to lose as little milk protein in the way as possible. Your whey looks too milky. Maybe you could benefit from treating the curds more gently, to lose less milk? Try cutting it into squares with a sharp knife, or a whey cutter, and then hang it overnight to release the whey, rather than pressing it out by hand. Otherwise, I think you’re losing a lot of goodness. We used to feed the whey to our pigs too - they love it, even if it is just the clear stuff left over, and it is great for fattening them up.🙂 Feel free to ignore this and carry on doing it the way you feel best though - as I said, I’m no expert, just sharing an idea.

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Thanks for the tip... I just tried how I was thought by a Portuguese lady. Bug what your saying makes sense! So thank you!

[@mzbubbeline]

if you boil the whey, you get brown cheese.. i wonder what brown sheeps cheese would taste like..

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Yes! Sometimes I do that... But giving it to the pig is no waste either, that piggy is turning into some delicious bacon and pork chops 😋

[@mzbubbeline]

@@leavingbabylonfamily absolutely!! :)

[@neutonrenda2303]

Yummy!

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

😋😄

[@neutonrenda2303]

Hehehe, hearing your breath being taken while pouring makes me think of one of my jokes. What do you get if you cross a donkey and an onion? A piece of ass that makes your eyes water.😂😂😂 I'm sorry..... I can't help but giggle.❤

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

🤣🤣

[@yolanda5543]

You have a green thumb. Your garden is doing well. I guess it's true you're in the land of milk and honey 🍯 There is a youtube video by that name . God bless you 🙏

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

Hahaha, yes.. sometimes it really feels like it here, the abundance in some periods of the year is crazy . I will check that yt channel out

[@PatriciaStultz-lb6mx]

TU where are you from

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

From Belgium, living in Portugal

[@maaruz1979]

Real Rastaman

[@222mmax]

Romans 12 King James Version 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. _____________ biblegateway

[@glyphit]

Do you know about flat earth? I admire and respect highly what you are doing…I’m hoping to do the same for myself and my family…the sooner, the better! Much respect and love….OneLove >>> TRUTH!!!

[@leavingbabylonfamily]

I don't , I flatten the earth when I want to sow some seed for growing, but not shure wath you mean. I rooting for you! Hope you can take your family towards this beautiful lifestyle

[@adamosman7284]

Hello🌾🌿☘🍌🍋🍊🍉🍈🥕🥕🍎🥭🥑🍅🍅🍅🍅