Project Plan: Land, House and Outbuildings on Our Small Farm in Portugal - #2

[@nancibishof6462]

Perhaps one of the escape ladders made of chain and bars that hooks over a wall would work for clearing the well. Its nice that you have a bedroom in the house now and are at a stage at which you can work to develop the food crops and on the house. Its a long haul project but you will have a fabulous place when all the work is done.....except for the never ending maintenance of both home and gardens.

[@motttta]

10:30 - "For some medicinals and other herbs" 😎 gotcha. Haha

[@MAKEDOGROW]

😂 I can imagine what you might be thinking, but we’re actually referring to things like calendula, camomile, echinacea etc 😀

[@annekeolivier9646]

The fruit trees you have in Portugal is exactly the same types we have in South Africa 😊

[@judiehavard4903]

Dehydrated orange slices are great to decorate for Christmas. And used with cinnamon sticks. In the South in the USA people used to paint the tree trunks of many trees. Using a lime wash paint. Up about 4-5 feet to help keep the ants and bugs from eating into the tree. I don't see but a few doing it anymore. But some are rediscovering this. Some of all your concrete debris can be used for a French drain around the house. Keep the bread oven that wood be wonderful.

[@dont_say_my_name]

On our farm in Kamchatka we also planted potatoes into close rows and didn’t water it, just like your neighbors :)

[@mariolys442]

Dehydrate the citrus peels ! They have a ton of uses ! Also perhaps a digestor to make bio gas !

[@BritishAnts]

I want you to name a the boy chicken Sean after me! 😂❤ i love chickens and Bantams! ❤

[@jwestrik9308]

If I may suggest 2 fruits to plant that did really well when I lived in the north west of Spain (Asturias) and which I miss the most since moving to Ireland. 1-Passion Fruits(not passion flowers!!!!). We grew it from seed in pots and planted it against some fences and in the second year already produced a big harvest of expensive high value fruits which keep very well. We harvested them even through winter. These are expensive fruits to buy in the shop and we had 50kg of it! 2- Pineapple Guava or Feijoa. These produce unique tasty and fairly large aromatic green fruits. Both of these are not affected by birds and once established keep on silently producing big crops. We did plant Pineapple Guavas in our land in Ireland in sheltered areas, but I am not too sure we will get fruit out of it. We live in hope. We mainly stick with apples, pears, Medlars, Quinces , cherries and plums. And all the soft fruits We had to leave hundreds of fruit trees behind when we left Spain, and planted about 1 hundred in the last 2 years. So still early days.

[@davidds1001]

Possibly those pear trees are perry pears for making perry cider.

[@johanlarsson9805]

Figs, olivs, tangeriens, appleas, pears. nectarines, lime, oranges, mandarin, peach... that is amazing, combined with growing vegetables you hardly need anything else :)

[@vincentminor1638]

Just found your vlog. Excited to see your progression. ❤🌹🌹🌹

[@markduncan6690]

Looking Good Kylie!

[@philomenalear3488]

Nice to see you again, I have missed seeing your vlogs. Love from Australia. (Canberra.)

[@stephengneri2136]

Dont know the history but am really enjoying the vlog. TY.

[@ankiking]

How come I didn’t know you were over here now! Luckily I recognized Kylie in an image that came up on YT! Happily subscribed!

[@sophieb86]

I like you guys. Practical & real- not too much fluff

[@vickyoakes4584]

A big endeveor but a lot to look forward to and learn. Keep it fun and enjoy the process. Thanks for sharing.

[@gecoimbra3612]

I'm 🇵🇹, and proud for what you have done in your property. Congratulations and welcome to beautiful 🇵🇹. Take your time.

[@peggystutz8522]

Your place is my favorite of the rehabs I have seen in a long time. Excellent.

[@lindakurtz2653]

With all the tree maintenance you’ll be doing, you might be interested in watching Stefan Sebkowiak. Ifyou haven’t already found him, he is an orchardist in Canada who manages his commercial orchard with permaculture principles. You mentioned several trees that don’t produce good fruit-if you find you can’t improve the quality of the fruit, he uses the well established trunk and root system as the basis to graft good tasting fruit to it. Love watching your videos.

[@chronicfish]

I missed you guys so much!!

[@joelmunoz8219]

We been watching your wonderful videos from Redondo Beach California. We love your project.

[@markduncan6690]

Very Impressive! A very relaxing walk around!

[@lisascenic]

I live in a very similar climate and have taken many classes on fruit tree pruning. What I’ve learned is that one should remove no more than a third of the tree every year. Likewise, be cautious about chopping trees too low (like your nectarine) because you’re liable to cut below the grafting line and end up with inedible root-stock.

[@MAKEDOGROW]

I know that’s what a lot of the books and classes say … but we cut a plum to the ground, it’s completely regrown and gave us 8 plums this year. So seems that conventional wisdom is not always correct in all contexts

[@lisascenic]

@@MAKEDOGROW check for evidence of grafting before you chop to the ground a lot if root stick grows wonderful trees and unpalatable fruit!

[@zaraninguem8677]

All I can say is go talk to the locals, they will teach you what to do with all the trees, like harvesting the tall trees, they also know the men that does it all, they super helpful and cheap

[@susancollado5290]

💕Found you by accident💕2 things 1 As you have so much fruit maybe veg you should get yourselves a Food Dehydrator this way the food can last up to 6 months or longer when you need to use this dehydrated food just add it to water or whatever your cooking💕2 You should Lime wash the trunks of your trees to protect them from bug larvae diseases & the sun especially in winter when the temperature drops at night💕A mobile chicken coop is called a chicken tractor & you’ve got to give it a name like Chicken palace or Yolk City💕

[@mariajuliacarvalho1604]

You guys are awesome!!!!

[@michaelkante490]

Hallo, I am from Germany, I found your videos in youtube and I am pleased about the story, and your own way going straight ahead wirh a big plan, to create your own life. And the most important Thing is for me, that I could understand most of your explanations, and So that you can take me with you on your journey. I stay tuned, a huge project. I wish you all the best. Stay healthy and Good Luck on all your ways.

[@billdavis3957]

If you have chickens you will need a rooster. Roosters crow hundreds of times a day - night as well as day. It drives most people crazy. There is a collar that can be put on the rooster that causes no harm and reduces the volume of the crow by about half. Consider locating the coop far from where you sleep and far from your neighbor's so a war does not break out.

[@sonyagair1219]

The Orange tree's are beautiful 😍

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Interesting

[@rudymazar8666]

Best wishes . We are 65 yo and made the full time bush change from the city of Brisbane in 2017 ..part time before...44 acres , 1 acre vineyard 3 rural tourists cabins fruit orchards , olive orchard , chickens , vegie patch. All done by us in the last 20 years . Love it !

[@MAKEDOGROW]

Amazing!! 44 acres is a lot, puts our 1 acre to shame 😂. I suspect we’ll be buying more land when we get this piece under control

[@BuenavistaRuralClub]

I too have 240,000 square M (59 acres) and I am 62 yo. My farm house is 150 yo and a ruin. The farm land is over run by 3m high blackberries. I think having a big, hairy goal(s) is really important. You Tube is my greatest challenge. Making sure I film not just work and build. Toby TobyOne Tenerife

[@alvinbryant8893]

Hi from California I lost track of you guys until you populated my phone super glad to see and listen to you.

[@storiesfromthecascina]

re-watching this old episode of your adventure and feeling so reassured that in march 2022 you were planning to be living in the ground floor by christmas 😄 at least we're not the only ones who are a bit optimistic sometimes 😅 it's a good reminder that progress always feels slower when you're in the middle of a project and that from the outside it looks like an amazing amount of work done.

[@cheryldoorbar7187]

I love the kitty photo-bombing every scene.

[@alexandragraham5917]

I miss watching you renovate the house

[@MAKEDOGROW]

We’ll have an update soon .... things are very slow going at the moment. We share small updates on Instagram/FB if you happen to be there

[@pastevens2577]

Delighted to have found you again.

[@britttreu721]

Greetings from Copenhagen Denmark 🇩🇰. Love What you do

[@BrendaQuinnCanada]

Chickens will love love love your compost pile

[@konstantinospil1025]

The motto of this year is "next year"!!!

[@angelaprovencher7150]

So much to do and little time to do it ..lol.. What you call a walk behind tractor , we call it a tiller in the U.S.A. When your potatoes start growing hoe more dirt up on the plant keep doing this as it grows , it's suppose to produce more potatoes . As far as your pear trees go, I would take out the big ones and let the younger pear trees grow , that way you can keep them pruned to the height that you want them to stay at. The fuzzy stuff on the bark of your trees is a fungus , I was told that you have to scrape it off (don't scrape the bark of the tree just the fungus) and wash the tree with dawn dish wash liquid. Chicken pen can get smelly so might want to put them a way from where you will be spending your time outside. We also put hardwire for the top of the pen to keep predators from getting in from the top (the whole pen was made with hardwire) . I'm so happy that y'all are back for our viewing. Love seeing what all y'all are doing.

[@LCamp-cr7fs]

I am so glad that I found someone who looked like Kylie on the thumbnail and went to check it out. Apparently my subscription didn’t carry over to the new channel.

[@dolphin7607]

So glad you re-branded and came back. Love to know why one day but great to see you again.

[@fabiola925]

Yeah I am so confused! But glad to see you two back.

[@cbwmama8461]

Hi -- A friend was told the grapes grown next to his house on a trellis -- making a shaded sitting area near his kitchen -- were normally table grapes not wine making grapes in Portugal. He was told the sugar content was different and they made terrible wine. He was told to only hard prune them once every 20 years -- leaving 10 to 12 buds on them -- but not to expect a decent harvest until the 2nd year after that hard pruning.. To keep them under control, he should cut back any invasive canes in the winter that were going into his eaves. He was told that they were for eating but could be made into juice or jelly/jam and even raisins (if they were seedless). The old Portuguese housewives would empty their dish water at their bases because they require more water than wine grapes.

[@MAKEDOGROW]

Some of ours near the house are definitely wine grapes, but not all

[@joanneflanigan1276]

Well guess who just popped into my KZbin feed! Have missed you sorely! I want those 15 years of homeifying your land, so happy you are back ;-)

[@barbararankin5038]

Thank you so much for this video. Just found your channel and look forward to more. Toronto, Canada

[@enikoisrael7180]

Greetings from Sukoro, Hungary! I'm so glad to see you! Missed you guys a lot! Your devotion, your hard work, your sence of humor ALL of it! I had been following you since you were hunting for property. Good luck in your venture and I'm looking forward to seing your progress.

[@ScaseFacetime]

Me too! Keep going 😁

[@tiagocruz4156]

You desperate need some nitrogen fixation trees and shrubs, And a small lake :)

[@helenahungarian1863]

Én a szomszédból, Székesfehérvárról, kísérem figyelemmel.

[@rudymazar8666]

You are doing sooo much ! it took us 20 years to do stuff ! People who said why the progress is slow don't have a clue !!Congratulations !

[@blackmonday738]

You guys did yr homework for sure, Wow what more could 1 want. I take my hat off to you both! Sadly i want life like so, but i lost my spouse and been lost ever since. But my youngest and me so wanna leave the city, maybe it came with age and mostly its a eye sore any more, ya know rat race. I just wanna live the rest of my life in peace with my kid and enjoy Gods greener lands. Don't feel i can do it alone thow. I'm happy for u guys!💝

[@skylandparkportugal]

Greetings from the South of France. We follow a number of KZbinrs restoring farms and properties in Portugal, as we're looking for land there ourselves (but for a totally different project). It's really great to have you back.

[@maresab3650]

So many exciting plans. I love seeing your progress. Just one thing to consider re chickens - from my own "mistake". We bought unsexed chicks and meant to rehome all roosters once we could identify them, and keep 5 hens. But ended up keeping one gorgeous boy because he really was too lovely. Once hens matured 5 were too few for him and he really battered them to the point that some of their backs were completely featherless. He was rehomed and even our neighbourhood was sad to miss his crowing. It has taken the hens 5 months to be completely covered with feathers again. We were told by various farmers that 1 rooster needs at least 8/9 hens. Our chickens were free ranging and have a lot of space so that was not an issue. Maybe something to consider? (Or get a bantam rooster with full sized hens)

[@howard922]

Tried having a drink every time you said “...but not this year” now having to sober up, we’re only 15 minutes in! 😁

[@MAKEDOGROW]

😂🤣😂 Imagine if it had been us doing the drinking!! That would have been an interesting tour 😃

[@luce]

I kept checking your last post hoping for an update and finallyyyy found this account. You guys helped me so much throughout the pandemic with your attitude and content. Big hug!

[@MAKEDOGROW]

😍

[@zedalis]

i am significantly older than you two, but to me it seems that you've made remarkable progress from when you started. I was so pleased and relieved that you've come back to YT in another guise. Thanks for the overview.

[@SimpleLifePortugal]

So great to see other people picked Portugal to start a sustainable life :)

[@catarinatorres6378]

Is that the “not our cat”? So sweet! Always following you! Great plans! Let is be peace, health and Strenght! Força 💪

[@MAKEDOGROW]

That one is our cat. The “not our cat” has actually moved to the coast with her family, was very sad ☹️

[@tucker476]

Can you have strawberries...... My best wine I make is strawberry wine!!!

[@MAKEDOGROW]

We have some experimental strawberries growing .. they seem to love the winter (which is a little crazy to us). Will definitely give strawberry wine a go if we can grow enough :)

[@martinwyke]

Have you considered planting some nut trees to add to variety, some are nitrogen fixing.

[@florentinalily]

ps tip for egg boxes... don't use straw or hay otherwise you will have a problem with red spider mite.. I always get my bedding from schools and the odd office that shred paper and are glad to be rid of it. Diatomaceous earth is great for a little sand bath. Top tip for worming is harkens pigeon wormer (just need to keep off the eggs for a week after dosing) . Hope you don't mind me chipping in! Love your vlog and your ethos and most definitely will keep watching. Thankyou both x

[@janeycollins3618]

Great to see you back. We are in the process of selling family home on 5 acres (with orchard, vegie patches, etc) - now you've come back and I am doubting my decision. You get the enthusiasms running again. From Southern Highlands, Oz.

[@pattywest1]

Being a farm girl myself, I love how you garden & process your home-grown fruits & veggies. I’d like to add how impressive your words on the house are. 👏👏

[@garykoblitz4932]

Welcome back. One of my favorite project couples. I look forward to new content now that you have accomplished some apparent obligatory review of the past.

[@christinetrewin9717]

Yay coffee and a tour!! We are finally getting some chickens this spring, after moving from our Farmhouse we gave away all our dozen Poule. And now we’re settled in our new home a chicken tractor has been ordered ! To say I’m excited is an understatement. They will be moved around to utilize all the grass area and under the trees when it’s very hot in summer.😍😎🇫🇷

[@MAKEDOGROW]

I have a similar plan for my chick-mobile. I’m not a fan of most of the tractor designs I’ve seen so will design something from scratch. Really hoping to improve the soil health in the vineyard area with help from the girls 😃

[@jimdickenson9855]

I think that's the first video where you haven't been slogging your guts out. Can't wait for the next episode in you ongoing projects. I just really like your style

[@MAKEDOGROW]

You didn’t see us the day after we shot that video 😂. (ps. french drain is in after hauling 3 cubic meters of river rocks 😳)

[@lindamorrow7573]

Yay...you're back.. .all the best ....your enthusiasm is encouraging me to get off my butt....👍👍👍👍👍

[@suzanneribas3746]

You can make orange jam, and also cascos de naranja ( hooves of orange) which is sweet, usually oranges halved, hollowed out, the exterior whole rind is used cooked with sugar, then usually canned or jarred in heavy syrup. You cannot have enough oranges! If you put the fresh rinds in water and put them in a blender and strain it is the best cleaner and bug spray and even a dip for pets. For using lemons there is always the limonchello the liquer the Italians make and I imagine the process can be applied to other citruses. If you cannot use the fruit you can give it away to a neighborhood orphanage and get the kids to pick them and get a bit of fresh air in the process. You have even made me want to go back to the family homestead in Torderas, Barcelona and see if I can live there if the part of the family that is using it approves.

[@leahsdreams]

So so happy to found you two again!! I was concerned something happened with the land documents, or a divorce, or many other crazy ideas. But I'll assume it's a copyright issue with youtube... Very glad to be enjoying the journey once more~.

[@Alfablue227]

Great to have you back!! So glad you are well and keeping busy. You are a breath of fresh air in this dark period of history here in Europe.

[@loream]

I'm very happy to have found you again. Welcome back!

[@lesleysmith8300]

So glad to see you guys back on form. I feel complete now 🤣🤣🤣😸😸🦤🦤

[@luminyam6145]

So so happy to see you back! As my grandmother would say, you are a sight for sore eyes. Great video, glad to see you both doing well.

[@bobyonker3100]

Still very impressed with how much just the two of you have accomplished. Maybe when you get into the house you can get some volunteers to assist since you already have the tent area set up. Best wishes for all your future endeavors.

[@vwrockstar21]

Love it.

[@celiasnyman2885]

I'm overly delighted to see a video!!!

[@flofudge8680]

Can’t wait to see you do more on the house. Delighted all your hard work in the garden is successful. Look forward to seeing more from you. Bravo!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@footplate0]

Greetings from sunny Cyprus. As your chicken coop will be close to the compost heap how about letting the chickens scratch/feed and poop in your compost heap. The chicks will lover rummaging through the compost eating all the bugs also eating anything that tries to grow in you r heap. Chicken poop activates the composting process quicker for you, so that you will be able to use it quicker. So glad your back and the "jobs to do" list seems to have fallen on fertile land as it has grown to something huge. Thanks for posting

[@markt.3685]

Grateful for the tour. Also, enjoyed some of the less project oriented things, like the cat seeming to show up as the tour moved around, and the idea that Guy looked up to locate the boy chicken that was "still in the air" ... lol. It looks like quite the start has been made, and seems as if the projects are going to keep folks busy for quite some time in the future. Best of good fortune as this develops, and I look forward to seeing your progress, congrats!

[@shaz7605]

Welcome back. So pleased to see you. Love you guys and your content. Look forward to seeing more on your progress xx

[@pb9401]

So happy I found this channel again! I love your videos! You two are an inspiration!

[@conniearancivia7599]

So happy to have found you again. Can't wait to see your plans come to fruition. Thanks for bringing us along.

[@itsmewende]

Love all the ideas, what a wonderful homestead you're creating. I've always wanted chickens, no boys. My neighbors 2 doors down have a 1 boy, he's beautiful but man he crows all the time, another neighbor said she wished someone would teach it to tell time =^)

[@sandralnwebster3204]

Take it one day at a time! Don't overwhelm yourselves with too many pressing tasks! Get the house liveable and things will all fall into place! Bonne chance! Sandy&Andy,Canada

[@vincentput]

Try pruning the large pear tree back to a few main stems and graft it thereafter. That way you can enjoy one or maybe more varieties of pear you like whilst benefitting of the existing strong root system and established tree 😊

[@MAKEDOGROW]

That’s exactly what we’ve been thinking ... just need to learn to graft. We also have 3 large apples trees that are in similarly bad shape, and the nectarine. Might do an experiment with one of the apples so if it doesn’t work we’ve not lost the pear tree. Is there a best time of year? Assuming now as they are dormant

[@vincentput]

@@MAKEDOGROW now is the time (in Portugal) because the risk of severe frost (if that even happens lol) has passed, but new growth has not yet commenced. There are lots of videos, how-to's online and gardening/orchard books may help

[@andreacrashe9894]

Wow lots of things to do... But pace yourselves do not wear yourselves out. Will be watching every video from afar down here in Aotearoa New Zealand 😎👍👍👍🌞🏍️😎

[@MAKEDOGROW]

Don’t worry, we take plenty of downtime for drinking wine 😃

[@Knightmare691]

So glad to see you still going.

[@lorimontcalm9086]

No you never do things by half!! Impressive plans. I'm surprised you didn't show all of the work you've already done in the house, like the bathroom etc. As always, colour me massively impressed. Hugs from 🇨🇦

[@sergiorolo3721]

You could graft the undershoots with varieties that you like. Better and faster than planting a whole new tree. Lovely place you guys have 🙂

[@rachelfrees1268]

Love your living area as it is right now. Big tents are such fun. Take deep breaths and continue on.

[@melonmelonii]

Hello from Philippines! You two are an inspiration!

[@MrJeyTV]

good to see you guys again and I am excited about the upcoming projects The bread oven and the processing kitchen will be awesome But i kind of missed why you created the second channel... did you want to separate video topics or just start anew ?

[@samstevens7888]

There is another channel? Do you have the link please?

[@glenyscallaghan1195]

Yes it has been very enlightening, good to see and hear all your plans. I think you have enough to keep you going for a few years. I can’t see you leaving after that.. It is lovely chickens can only enhance it . ❤❤

[@sarakin1227]

Yay! You're back! The husband and I love watching you two.

[@irili100]

Hi there and congratulations on the beautiful farm you bought. I admire you for the hard work you do in the renovation. 1. Do you have the option of hosting a small number of young volunteers to help you with excavations and construction? 2. According to many small and large farms, when there is a shortage of space it is better to build a portable and small chicken tractor that is moved from place to place to improve the condition of the land effortlessly on your part, only the chickens work. Especially if the chickens are free during the day.

[@louisecooper4803]

Thank you for taking us on a walk around your land. Your future projects are many and varied and I look forward to watching your progress with interest and also the results of the tree and vine pruning.

[@Cherb123456]

Thank you!

[@jacsfalconer1929]

Oh my word. Onwards and Upwards good people, I'm fascinated to watch how this all develops. I absolutely love Portugal. 👍👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@hiramatangi1736]

Here I was regularly checking to see if u guys had uploaded a new video and you’d started a new channel! Thank goodness my KZbin algorithm populated a video from your new channel. Keep up the great work team 🙌

[@fionamaffeo3838]

So impressed of all that you have done and do 💕👍

[@deidrespencer5467]

Hello from Central Victoria in Australia! I'm loving your videos; your future plans; and your enthusiasm. Yes, it's a lot of hard work, but look at what the two of you have achieved already! Happy days 👌😊

[@huwtindall7096]

Kylie is looking stacked after all that digging. Could play women's rugby no problems! So much stuff to look forward to! Thanks for letting us live vicariously each week guys!

[@MAKEDOGROW]

Arm and leg muscles are pretty solid now 💪... anyone who says you cant get really fit in your 40s just needs a good drainage project 😂🤣😂