Off-Grid Air Conditioning With Mr. Cool And Solar, Dry Pour Concrete , & Garden Update

In this video, we’re diving into the performance of our off-grid air conditioning system after a month of use. How is it holding up? Can our solar power system handle the load? We’ll give you a full update on how our setup is performing during these hot summer days.
But that's not all! We'll also share the results of our dry pour concrete project, including what went right and what needed fixing. Plus, we'll take a walk through our garden to show you how our veggies are thriving in this off-grid environment. Whether you’re interested in sustainable living, DIY projects, or gardening, this video has a bit of everything.
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[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

Discover HOVERAir X1 further: noxl.ink/It20sq HOVERAir X1-a self-flying camera to capture beautiful and memorable moments in life!

[@JohnyMac-tb6ms]

It is nice when a plan comes together. Great job Jay & Jen. 73

[@jimdelong949]

Hi Jay Thanks for showing us around again I'm happy that everything is working great. I'm not a green thumb. A friend gave me several house plants and I'm surprised they are still alive.😊

[@janreynolds3794]

The garden is looking great!

[@indianachrisUDX1313]

I grew up with a 5 digit Address! One Acre of Land. I learned at a young age that the best food comes from the Earth and Mother Nature! Very Nice what what you are doing and hope to see you reap the rewards. Peace from Northern Indiana.

[@pmartin6759]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ your mystery plant almost looks like an ornamental gourd

[@debrezo58]

Oh yes the garden is beautiful 💖💖💖

[@jjj32801]

All that hard work is paying off. Congratulations

[@ADifferentKindofQuiet]

Thanks Jay!! Your garden is looking really good. We are still fighting the deer this year, but we’ll get that back come October first! See you soon.

[@ronaalexander825]

Have you tried putting up a fishing line fence? It is working for us.

[@lauraquigley6403]

Love the drone Jen ..cool! So proud of you both. I have been here since the beginning & I can’t believe the huge transformations. The garden is beautiful Jay🙏🙏🙏Blessing’s

[@justiceleague1146]

Your garden looks great! I’m impressed with your place!

[@yvonnelucas-cessna4458]

So happy to see that everything is working out well for you guys. Your garden is absolutely gorgeous although I'm not sure about the watermelons either, but still it was a nice try. You live and learn. Have a blessed day you guys and be careful.

[@QuietCottage]

Excellent garden. Reminds me of my younger days. If you can find an old book from past days. Crockett's Victory Garden. I think it is the best book for gardening in the north country. Jim Crockett is long gone but he had wonderful advice on how to raise a nice home garden. I love to watch your garden progress. Also, I am jealous. Compost !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@kristingrounds4163]

Nice update!!!! Garden is looking great!!!

[@stephanieflansburg3459]

Birds Love blueberries!! First thing in the morning.

[@lindajames4122]

Love your garden.

[@anneduke5694]

Garden looks great. Blueberries need acidic soil. Maybe test the soil for the PH. Love ya'll.

[@ThisOffGridLife]

Your place is looking fantastic!

[@lcook0825]

Nice video. Thanks.

[@ronaalexander825]

Bury your compost in your beds about 6 inches in the fall. This will feed the worms and you get free worm castings. We put under the snow in our compost in our garden boxes all winter long.

[@BrianJMader54476]

You guys should get a few bee hives.

[@cedricbroussard8738]

Awesome video

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

Thank you

[@paperchaser9565]

That’s great..the mini drone..how did you learn to fly it? Wow! 😮 I love the flowers you planted near the cabin by the step

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

Drone is mostly automated.....has modes and does it all itself. It does have a manual mode and it has easy directions to fly it.....all from your phone

[@paperchaser9565]

@@OffgridwithJayandJen thank you

[@dirttdude]

i about broke my back digging a row of russets yesterday, close to 40 pounds Still have a row to go, so we are about 10 to 20 pounds short of a years worth, we definitely have a years worth of onions with a decent surplus, we have a huge crop of apples coming and the corn is doing well.

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

Nice work buddy.......something to be proud of for sure.

[@kevinb1112]

still waiting for that catch n cook

[@tenneyconstruction7323]

Appreciate the update. Garden looks great and should even do better next year as the manure breaks down. How nice was it to sleep in 73 degrees?

[@paperchaser9565]

Hi…when I try and grow watermelon, I take a bag of manure, cut out a square area in the bag..put the plant in the bag and water every other day. I get some great watermelons..

[@ronaalexander825]

What zone are you in?

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

Nice

[@BradBowler-u1i]

Looks great.

[@SandraCrockett]

Thanks for brining us along for the update. Love your videos.

[@denniscote686]

You can bury a plastic garbage can halfway in the ground, and cover the other half with hay, for a root cellar. Bury your produce in hay inside the barrels.

[@travishodges5179]

I got a midea 12k btu window ac/heat pump for 500$, works just as well as my mini split for cooling, uses 750-790 watts on high also. Says it works down to 40f on heat, but hey it was cheap enough

[@ineverhadthemoney7857]

well show me,-- this HOVERAIR X 1 //looking it up now .

[@stevenhawk7751]

Jay I am sorry if those coins gave you bad luck with the cement

[@ineverhadthemoney7857]

greatest thing since the wheel is solar ele panels from sun light and Mini Split air 700 watts //outstanding time to live .

[@ronaalexander825]

Our dog eats our raspberries 😂 Raspberry leaves make a delicious tea!

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

Our pups do too, lol

[@davidwolfe7777]

Are you telling me there isn't any little creeks or ponds you could go for a couple hours every now and then? I know the farmstead comes first.😊

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

We have beach days every so often

[@vonheise]

I read about some picture shortfalls of the Hover X1 and that they came out with an X2, but when I tried to buy one, they were nowhere to be found. It had so many improvements but it supposedly came out last fall, then gone, couldn't find an explanation. Do you have any contact information you could provide? I have a Mavic 3 and Mini 4 pro, but like the safety and indoor use safety but don't want to too much of a drop in photo quality.

[@paperchaser9565]

Where do you keep your bird seed for feeding the birds?

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

In a tote in the barn

[@ronaalexander825]

You can eat sweet potato leaves! Yummy!!

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

Thanks for all the tips.....really do appreciate it my friend

[@ronaalexander825]

Watch out for cow manure with Grazon in it. Always ask.

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

I saw something about this on deep south Homestead......but I forget the problem it causes.

[@ronaalexander825]

@@OffgridwithJayandJen The plants don't fruit. They look great and then die. Sometimes they don't get past seedlings. And it is bad for your intestinal tract.

[@scottperry5571]

Use blueberry special fertilizer and your blueberries will thrive.

[@katrinagauld5177]

Is that mini split wired to 220v or 115? Oim not of grid bug thst mini split might be perfect for me but I don't want to have 220 wired if I don't have to.

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

115 my friend......20 Amp breaker and you are good to go......no 220 required

[@anietahurler4014]

sauber

[@shawnmcquillan3874]

Why don’t the deer eat everything? The deer ate all my stuff plus the flowers 🤷‍♀️

[@rebeccabandy1160]

Just a suggestion....extend your garden next year....and don't plant everything so close together. You have the right recipe....now put it in a much bigger space for your vegetables.....!

[@LilYeshua]

You need chickens and chicken fertilizer

[@richardgreen5602]

Blueberry bushes NEED acidic soil.....cow manure and other than blueberry fertilizer (acid specific) will Not work...I know as I have a small blueberry patch.

[@anietahurler4014]

Mach das nur fertig wenn ich komme das es warm ist und ein Kühlschrank der muss voll sein und ein warmes Bett schön weich soll es sein grüßt euch ihr Lieben .

[@ineverhadthemoney7857]

thank God I was getting bored

[@thomasschafer7268]

😅😅😅besser mal das Haus richtig gedämmt. Dann braucht man auch keine Klimaanlage und kann den Strom sinnvoller nutzen!!👎👎🇩🇪

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

This comment makes no sense.....all homes get Hot regardless of the amount of insulation. Unless they are built in ground.

[@cindyscarlett707]

Looks great ... How about introducing some fruit Trees ...... Apples , peach 🍑, pears 🍐..... Mulberry trees ... Few fruit Trees maybe..

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

We a whole orchard down by camp. Apple, plum, pear, and hazle nut. All on the young side still....but coming along slowly

[@cindyscarlett707]

@@OffgridwithJayandJen Great job ... Your place is Beautiful !!!! You both compliment each other in your life..... Just love the location and the view...... It's absolutely beautiful..... It's fantastic to see people becoming independent from all the chemicals in our processed foods ..... Do you have chickens ? Live stock ? For protein? Goats for milk and cheese...... ???

[@rayv7010]

My Grandfather was a dairy farmer and the garden was massive and spectacular! He spread manure on his fields, too, and the corn, which was fodder for his cows, were like 10 feet tall. The man was a magician with his crops, his pastures, his fruit trees, garden and more food that he and our grandmother could consume so the extended family was feed from Abuelo Urbano's Finca.

[@brendahogue5487]

Jay love and enjoy your videos. May the lord bless and protect you and Jen and working on the homestead

[@cturner9356]

What’s the coupon code for the little drone?

[@joellacecil7474]

Your mystery plant looks like a gourd

[@scottanderson2980]

its called a spagetti sqash after you cook them whe you scape it out it looks like spegetti strings

[@db.mc2]

God Bless 🙏🏻 Jay and Jen 🫶🏻 Appreciate you always my friends!

[@Hillbilly007-yd9gu]

Nice Garden.

[@DavidRobinson-mx6cl]

Awesome job guys !!!!! 😊🙏4❤️

[@lorettaandjasonoffgrid]

Nice drone Jen! I love the follow me option. The sales guy that convinced me to buy the DJI Mini 2 was mistaken when he told me it had follow me option. Boohoo. I'll work with it for now but will maybe upgrade to this little pocket sized one. Very cool!

[@loucinci3922]

Enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing

[@debbiefaber1224]

Pine needles by the blueberry and raspberry plants. Cow manure is a wonderful thing... horse manure too. You can put the manure out in the fall in the garden . Come spring turn the soil and plant. You can pinch the new growth on the tomatoes plants. They like used coffee grounds and banana peels.. Happppppy Canning

[@alicianneboyle2443]

Thank you for the update on your beautiful garden Jay & Jen. Cow manure that's an excellent idea. I grow in totes bc our ground was a junkyard before we bought it and let me tell you it's not the best yard but it's now ours. I kid you not every time it rains I'm constantly picking up metal and glass. I would just love to get a dump truck load of manure and dump it in the yard and grow a garden the easy way. My garden this year grew a little bit of vegetables but my zucchini & yellow squash didn't do so hot. Anyways besides all that my hubby and I like to live off the land we love to go looking for wild edibles and it's mushroom season. Which it's chicken of the woods 😋 boletes 😋 oyster mushrooms 😋 and hen of the woods 😋 oh gosh those are great in green bean casserole heck yeah & cauliflower mushrooms which are ok. Other than that yeah 👍 I'm thinking about getting a drone like that one that Jen was describing about that was so cool how it followed her ❤️ you guys are really doing really great living off grid 👍👍👍 I'm really proud of yinz. I love watching you guys yinz are our kind of people "down to earth" 😁 well take care see yinz in your next video and hope to see fiddle fart too lol

[@Chirita008]

Great stuff!! I have checked out Barb's garden and it's more like a mini supermarket. She's got just about everything under the sun and it's beautiful! I thought you might be going to also show us what went wrong with the hose pad concrete pour. You mentioned that for some reason that didn't go as well as the others. Everything you've done has been great, so it's hard to believe something didn't turn out well. Not your fault of course, must have been faulty materials. 😉

[@garydavis786]

I think your garden is telling you to Ex P A N D. It almost looks like your garden owns you instead of you owning it with all the work to look after it. But, gathering your own food from your garden is priceless! That little drone really looks neat and it is sure compact! Keep having fun.

[@ronaalexander825]

You may need to add Berrytone for your blueberries. Make sure that your soil is acidic. My blueberries took 3 years to produce. Mine are in 18qt tubs per plant. That is their forever home, making it easier to amend the soil.

[@3hwoodworks]

Great update video…awesome garden. Do you guys can and freeze vegetables etc? Assuming you have freezer in the barn. Thanks!

[@olledahlquist3784]

Sorry! Lately to much product placement for my taste. Good bye!

[@suezaple4950]

Hey folks , love your wee Hoverair camera Jen looks easy enough to use not big and bulky. Nice to hear everything is working well , garden is epic you'll have lots of veggies for over winter , you seem to be all good for solar and water wise that is awesome ! . Have you ever thought of getting some chickens for fresh eggs , ( you could sell some nothing like fresh eggs.). You two have come a very long way .

[@johnkirby6547]

Hi guy's the garden is doing very well. Hopefully the blueberries will start going too. They are next on my list to try growing..

[@daveh7137]

That garden is amazing!! Congrats!

[@alinedoyle4914]

Just trim the tomato plants back, get more fruit on the rest

[@shawnmcquillan3874]

That’s a ‘gord’ the kind they use in fall, ornamental, not for food I think

[@scottanderson2980]

Those are the peppers peter piper didnt pick lol

[@campjefferson8947]

Summer Squash is 2-toned.

[@canajian]

🖐😎👍

[@ineverhadthemoney7857]

lol no cow poop //to funny

[@cstone6267]

Great garden!

[@BrendaHewitt-y1w]

❤😊

[@anietahurler4014]

wo sind die ganzen Blaubeeren ich denke die tragen Früchte

[@melinda5777]

Enjoyed it all! Blueberries in Maine are grown on the ground and they use a special rake to harvest them. Down here the have bushes(there not as good). I couldn't see yours. You can use string to tie the tomato and cucumber plants to your wire trellis. I would thin out the suckered and some of the bottom leaves for air flow. Just a suggestion. Nice to see everything! I need to start a KZbin channel! That drone is...... yes! Some of my friends have gotten 2-4 electric bikes!! And camouflage cameras with night vision that detect movement and record! That would be great for Y'all!✝️🙏❤🇺🇸☘🍍🌻🤗

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

😊👍

[@katrinagauld5177]

Horse manure. My cucumbers grew produced dome and made a bunch of baby ones then turned yellow and is dying. The squash and pumkins are fine just odd

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

Huh....maybe something else? Too dry or maybe nothing to pollinate them?

[@paperchaser9565]

Blueberry likes coffee grinds from what I’ve heard. On your enclosed porch, do you have windows in there or screens?

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

Clear vinyl windows

[@sheilaeish]

Great video wondering are you going to paint the cabin and house.

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

We want to...but we have been procrastinating

[@ronaalexander825]

I dehydrate my carrot tops and add them to soup all winter. They taste like carrots.

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

Very cool

[@DBarnim]

Jay were you able to repair the sun tracker on your post mount solar array?

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

Yes, it was just an actuator issue. I actually think it was just frozen originally, but I broke it during inspection. I replaced it and it works perfectly again

[@philrodger2716]

where your cucumber plants . you have too many side shoots mate. just have the mainclimber. and you will get more flowers.then after about 2 months after you have made one main shoot. let another grow. you will get a load more. to many side shoots takes too mutch goodness out of the plant and will not grow big cucumbers, been growing them years mate, my dad tought me as well. love the garden. phil

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

Huh, I have never tried that. Thanks for sharing

[@philrodger2716]

try on a couple. it will work.

[@cue881-yo7kz]

Your gardens are going great! Keep an eye out for more used solar panels. Put more panels on that mini split. It's going to start to cool off in the next few weeks and that mini split is going to be worth its weight in gold. You may be able to run it during the day and only need a fire at night. Stay safe and God Bless. Get in touch with Signature Solar in Texas and see if they can help you out with some EG4 batteries. Can't hurt, right?

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

We have actually been chatting with them....no progress yet....but maybe in the future

[@cue881-yo7kz]

@@OffgridwithJayandJen Let's keep our fingers crossed. It would be great to get two of the EG4 5,000 watt batteries. The key is the solar. Even in the winter you could run a Pelonis disc furnace off some panels to supplement the mini split. ( I get the Pelonis furnace used off eBay for about $45.) God Bless you both!

[@MoonbeamCamp]

We use the carrots leafs in soup or even stews, garlic scraps are delicious too, you have a fabulous garden!!