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Thanks for the support. It's hard to get the word out though. Most people seem to have an obsession about cutting and fertilizing grass.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing. We've got to get better at protecting our vegetables from the opossums and rabbits. I like the way that Keith @CanadianPermacultureLegacy does this. He plants some of his veggies and other delectables for the animals and then puts materials for his family further back behind the front line plantings. Check out his channel.

Thanks for the complement on our content. I'm not monetizing the channel at this point so paying for SEO will be wasted. Thanks for the attempt though.

@@EastMarshAcres Ok

And that is part of our intent. Tricia, Rachel (our daughter who lives in her own tiny house behind our home), and I are committed to moving toward Net Zero (producing as much energy as we consume) and producing as much of our own food as we can.

Yes, our pathway was partly a farmer's path, but it is still included as an official bike path with an official number. We are grateful for the interconnected pathways that are ubiquitous in the Netherlands. There is nothing like it in Canada.

@@EastMarshAcres Indeed,that is not the only difference .The size off Canada is the biggest difference.

@@jooproos6559 the size of the country is a factor as is the geography (lots of hills and other obstacles) but there is no willingness here to move in alternative directions.

I won't really know until we get the birds in it and have the whole thing out in the pasture in front of the house. I have the feeling that making the thing will be the most stressful part. After that for approx. 5 weeks we'll have to move it about 10' once a day, beyond supplying the birds with water and feed. Grass fed is the claim but most of the bird's nutrition comes from grain. They just supplement the grain with grass, dandelions, and bugs of various sorts.

Thank you for the complement. Both of parents are immigrants from the Netherlands and I grew up speaking a mixture of Dutch and English.

Not really but they do some other interesting stuff. I wish that I studied more chicken psychology along with the education stuff that I practice in my other life.

Neat. Thanks for the info.

Thanks. We're glad you liked it.

Thank you. It took some work but we seem to have secured the water, at least it's been working for the past year.

thanks but I think you sort of missed the point. If we wanted to use really good equipment we wouldn't have had the same experience. It's rough and ready, yes, but the enthusiasm and gratitude that we had for being able to do the trip and then share it is what we wanted to do.

That's what the director of the p*** movie I was in said 😥

Thank you. Hopefully you can share the variations back with us here. We are always ready to take a look at trying something new.

Thanks. You'll note that none of the videos on this channel are monetized. We aren't looking for income but we do want to share our experiences. Paying for SEO is not in the cards presently or for the foreseeable future.

@@EastMarshAcres ok, thank you

Thanks for sharing

@@EastMarshAcres it 50% water and 50% vinegar table scoop of sugar and tea scoop of salt heat the vinegar and water and sugar and salt let it cool over the cabbage place in freg.

Thanks for the clarification. I didn't know about the special municipalities.

Thank you for your comment. I love Utrecht as well. It’s a gorgeous city.

We use them in pasta dishes, on pizza, in salads, etc. Essentially, they can be used anywhere you would but tomatoes.

I knew that my Dad lived on Stationstraat when his family lived in Abcoude. This implies that the station was on that street, but it is not there any longer. The old station is now a restaurant and hotel.

@@EastMarshAcres the relentless machinations of progress!

I remember using a biking trail electronic guide on previous trips but we found that GMaps worked fairly well. It is possible to change the settings in the app so that you can take a number of different routes, not just the 'fastest'.

Thank you for the information. That helps out with the rationale for the numbering and placement of the spoor (tracks).

@@EastMarshAcres it can be helpful if you feel a bit lost in a new city :)

Ahhh...we wondered what those rooms were. Thank you for the information.

Thanks for the information regarding the rivers. My Dad has explained this to me previously but in the heat of the moment when recording I forgot all of it. Thanks also for the school information. I'm a professor of education and computer science back in Canada but haven't had the opportunity to take a look at the Dutch educational system in detail.

My Dad will like this additional information about the building of a new train station and the churches.

Yes, we noticed this behaviour when we lived in NL for extended stays (several months at a time). The bikes seen on the weekends were not the bikes that were seen during the week. How extensive this behaviour is a matter of contention though as I've seen lots of different estimates regarding the number of bikes in NL vary greatly.

Thanks for the info. It makes a lot of sense.

Another correction: it's Giethoorn, not Geithoorn. @4:10 As for the cows on boats: th-cam.com/video/5xNk47Bq9Iw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=lpMeuHk9TfSI4bUw&t=112

Next time maybe. We really weren't in shape for this one so extending it further might have made it more challenging.

Yes, we always wonder about the no helmet thing. In Canada, it has become expected for those who ride bikes (there aren't many).

@@EastMarshAcres its a few things combined. in my opinion at least. proficiency is one most kids learn to ride a bike at the age of 4/5, at six they ride indepently of their parents to school, at 8 they are able to do little tricks and speed through forest trails, at 9 they can maintain a wheelie indefinitely. and when they reach the age of 12 it has become second nature or like an extension of your body. like what would happen if you start riding cart at the age of 4/5, you become a proficient car racer. i rarely fell or crashed my bike after my preteens. and since everybody is proficient and has vast experience riding a bicycle, traffick is more in tune with cyclists. also cycling is not a statement or a political thing as it can be overseas ( as in US), thus it will not enrage or trigger people in cars, which help keep accidents down. infrastructure is maybe the biggest reason. i mean, how unsafe have you felt riding a bike on those streets? while cycling in a pretty unfamiliar country with its own traffic rules that deviate from home? i thought you did allright without to much exciting traffick moments. third reason, tuff love. falling and getting bumbed and burnmarks comes with the territory. i.e. every kid here will, at one point, try to steer crosshanded.....(seriously, dont try it!) that is a learning experience. get that tooth trough your lip, or those stitches in your knee. help learn the boundries of bike physics. there will be very little life threathning accidents on a sepparated bike lane or the inner city bike streets with a max of 30. most routes are sepparated from higher speed traffic nowadays. its like keeping our kids on their bikes in all weather circumstances, you try to wrought resilient clear minded adults out of them! which is hard enough without them being whiny about every little scratch they pick up in their life. it helps them socialize and keep their tiktok heads grounded with reality! dutch parent: "sure you can dance, sure you can sing and get 100k followers on your tiktok insta snap account...but can you get your behind on that bike and to school? now! yes it rains, yesterday it hailed! so what? "

@@eelco_de_haan I agree with the infrastructure and higher value for biking in NL. In Canada, there is barely any infrastructure anywhere and providing infrastructure is almost always a municipal responsibility. This is typical in Canada where distributed responsibility is the norm rather than the exception. It's built into the constitution of the country. There is also very little respect given by car drivers for bike riders. I have had numerous close calls riding city streets. On the other hand, in my experience, bike riders here are not always observant of traffic conventions, codes or laws. Finally, I still think that wearing helmets is a good thing. We wear them here and when we return to NL for an extended stay, we'll bring and wear ours. The reason? Regardless of tough love, our heads are incredibly fragile and easy to damage. Regardless of how proficient the rider is, accidents can and do happen and it is difficult and/or impossible to recover from most brain injuries. I, personally, won't go there.

@@EastMarshAcres first off, not rying to be a smart ass, just very dutch. so my apologies in advance if i am being too direct and blunt;) but i have read a few research papers that ultimately have led to the conclusion it, in fact, is not securer than without. depends of course on many factors, but if you check most boxes, biking is one of the most safest ways of transportation. as helmets can give a false sense of security, which could lead to more reckless behavior through that false sense of security. which touches another point; it has limited protection. also when you take into account the questionable quality standards it has to pass to be a "bike helmet" by local regulation. do they genuinely protect you more when falling at bike speeds? droping of your bike it's the same force when running and tripping ....i don't run with a helmet, or do a steeple race in protective gear. if your speed biking or riding a pedelec, sure! would be very sensical to wear a helmet at 50 mph but those are quality helmets that start at 200/300 dollars. most "bike helmets" that are targeted at recreational cyclist are just barely sufficient, but a great way to make money on bike regulation. regulation that is on itself subpar, as it is treated as a side thought in most countries. in all my 45 years i know only of one bike fatality in my neighborhood, that was when i was 11 and a woman got hit at night by a drunk speeding car. and there no helmet would suffice.. infrastructure helps more than any helmet, like not sharing the road with high speed traffic you have to adjust to on your unprotected bike. i saw enough footage of bike accidents in NA, where a helmet wearing bicyclist is tossed meters in the air because he shares the road with an enraged driver driving a 60 mph car in his back wheel... yeah than i understand you don't dare ride a bike without. even though a helmet would do near to nothing in such a situation. if we follow that notion of taking away all "unnecessary" risks, we could argue that wearing a helmet in a car would also need to be instituted by law asap. this is not canada, not the states, this is another country, thus with another culture and other set of values than in NA, so we see things different, react slightly different, and give value to whole other things we consider important. here we have a long tradition of riding bikes and using it as a valid main form of transportation. our infrastructure is designed to be able to do most daily business on bike, public transportation or by even by walking. as it tends to give more freedom and QoL to people. why would we keep those helmets off if it would be such a risk? it would be very counter effective to get people on bikes, when people left and right die off due to brain damage after bike accidents. people would barricade the streets and protest. also wouldn't our biker death toll be rising instead of lowering, since we stepped back of the Americanization of our infrastructure since the 80/ties? we don't build car centric suburban islands that are barren of services, shops and leisure areas for a reason. i like to don't have to worry too much when my kid bikes to school, playground or to friends. and yes our children walk and play unsupervised, on their own, sometimes even miles away from their home. also something we thought was important. while overthere you get childcare visits for being a bad parent.... so again culture difference, just another way of doing things. finally, if we would implement that, we loose a lot of people riding bikes that still do now. i.e. "oh no i am not wearing a stupid helmet, i take the car". or "i can't pay a 100$ helmet just for riding a bike. i rather buy a second hand car for 500$" and all that green and limited space has to e plastered with apshalted roads for all those cars..... not even accounting the rise of health issues if people stop cycling.....before we know it we are on par with North America on the obesity scale! and thus would kill x times more people than if we just keep helmets off! so ultimately it is pragmatism originated out of humanism; what has the most effect without the least drawbacks for our society, and still keeps citizens safe. our solution in this regard is no helmets.

Thanks for your opinion.

Our pleasure!

Thanks for the info! I knew when we were saying it that it was wrong. I knew about BeNeLux as well but was not able to dreg it out of my head at the time. We've had a lot of experience with winds while biking in the NL. On an earlier trip with family members, we encountered very heavy winds while travelling along the N307 from Lelystad to Enkhuizen. At the end of the day we were very happy to check into a couple of rooms in the local hotel.

@@EastMarshAcres I'm used to struggling against the wind my entire life. Part of living in the Netherlands. I'm from the South myself, but have lived in the Hague for a number of years. Riding along the coast with heavy winds is something special. I can imagine how tired you were after the Lelystad to Enkhuizen trip, especially when you're not used to it.

Thanks Todd. It's coming to an end though. Tomorrow we head back home.

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Thanks Dustin.

You are so welcome

Only if the chickens escape when I have the camera rolling. We try to record projects that we are working on. Much of the other stuff occurs when the cameras are not on.

Thanks. I've already made plans to do exactly that. I'm also concerned about the loss of heat through the dryer vent itself. The house is supposed to be air-tight with the sole entry and exit for air through the Heat Recovery Ventilation system. I want the compromises to the exterior envelope to be kept to an absolute minimum.

@@EastMarshAcres Call the people who made the ERV. They probably have a solution for your problem.

The thermal wall is 8” thick around the entire house from foundation to roof. I don’t know the cost/sq ft. But we have 99 sheets @ 4’ x 8’ and with install and inflation we are paying about $40k. Talk to Glen Sakuth at Legalett for more precise figures. He has been extremely helpful.

There's nothing like old (not quite moldy) canvas.

@@EastMarshAcres It has been a very long time since I have experienced that smell. Perhaps Mike Bowen can bottle some up and bring it home with him?

With hiccups. Very little occurred yesterday and today there is no movement at all except what we are doing by ourselves.

Sounds great!

Thanks for your input. We'll keep posting as the house moves to completion and through the entire growing season in the garden.

Thank you. Sounds good.

Our walls will end up with similar specs once the thermal wall is applied. It will be interesting to see what the actual values will be. I hope to monitor the performance of the house over the next few years with the assistance of the engineering faculty of my university, OntarioTechU.

@@EastMarshAcres I wonder about the exterior finish and rainscreen attachment. AMVIC makes several formats of ENVIROSTRAP with integrated strips in wood or plastic. You could replace one layer of your EPS with a layer of Envirostrap. Its made in Toronto north of Scarborough

@@billmccance7762 We are going with steel cladding and the strapping is going on already. I haven't documented it yet but I'll post the work that has been done this week asap. The steel comes from a local supplier (Havelock Metal @ www.havelockmetal.com/) and the thermal wall is from Legalett (www.legalett.ca/), who also supplied our heated pad. www.legalett.ca/

Legalett has been doing this for a while now. We are hoping to get the heater started sometime this week. We still need to finish off some of the electrical and this will be one of the final steps. The floor has maintained a fair amount of heat but today the temperature has slipped to about 17degreesC.

Not sure how to answer your question. Here is a link to the company that did the design work for the slab and the rest of the house. www.legalett.ca/

Thanks for watching. We are also interested. I've talked to a couple of engineers at OntarioTechU hoping to get them to study the efficacy of the house over the next year. They responded favourably but the details are in the works.

Central Ontario, Canada - northeast of Toronto

For sure.

Thank you 🤗