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Thank you for your kind comment! It really is a beautiful place and we're so grateful to have found a new life here for our family! Hope you enjoy our other videos too! 🧡

@@ladyandtheowlman I will. Hope the best for your family and all your projects go ahead. Best of luck!!

Thank you Marcel, that's a really lovely thing to say! It's great to have you on this journey with us 🧡

Thank you for watching and supporting us, so happy you enjoyed this episode 🧡

Thank you so much Arthur, you're a true hero, your support is very meaningful and we will not forget it! 🧡🧡🧡

Thank you Arthur for your motivational words! We really appreciate all your comments and support for our little family! Thank you so much for being a TH-cam member as well you're too kind! 🧡

Gràcies pel teu comentari Miquel! Estem molt agraïts de tenir-te en aquest viatge amb nosaltres! Lamento saber que TH-cam no ha estat traduint els teus subtítols, has provat de fer clic a "Configuració" i "subtítols" quan estàs en un vídeo, pots seleccionar el català? Si no, farem tot el possible per afegir vídeos futurs, si us plau, seguiu comprovant en el futur! 🧡

@@ladyandtheowlman Ja he provat i el català no surt

Thank you Alvaro! So happy to hear you're enjoying our videos! Your support means the world to our little family! And we can see you're subscribed too - thank you!! 🧡

Thank you Basilia for your lovely comment! And thank you for supporting us by not skipping the ads, it helps us out a lot! It's great to have you on this journey with us 🧡

Haha that's a great idea Richard! The owl man - well it's a long story but Robbie went through a hard time a few years back and found a love for making homes for owls, and they made him feel better (one day we can explain more haha)! 🧡

@@ladyandtheowlman Well I can certainly relate to that. Had 10 years of hell which has completely drained my spirit but I find solace with the local waterfowl when I can. And cat companion.

Thank you so much for your kind words, we're so grateful to have wonderful people like yourself supporting our little family, it really does mean the world to us! 🧡

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Hola Juss & Moon! Vivimos en la montaña entre Alicante y Valencia, a 760 m sobre el nivel del mar, a unos 40 minutos de la costa. Muchas gracias por ver nuestro video y apoyar a nuestra familia! 🧡

Wow thanks so much for watching them all, it really helps our channel when everytime you watch a video so thank you Richard! It's so nice to hear you enjoyed them all as well, we're never sure if people like watching older episodes. Yes we need to just do each project the best we can then one day maybe it will all come together into something beautiful like our friends house... although living on a farm i'm not sure our house will ever look like his haha, we always need to be able to get a dirty old tractor or a wheel barrow full of horse manure through! And yes to fungi! This year has been really cool, after 30 years of this land being sprayed with pestcides and herbicides we've had a mini explosion of new plants popping up, mushrooms everywhere, about a billion little snails, lots and lots of frogs, it's so nice to see the animals coming back! 🧡

@@ladyandtheowlman I stole this from Wikipedia:- 'Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems. It includes a set of design principles derived using whole-systems thinking. It applies these principles in fields such as regenerative agriculture, town planning, rewilding, and community resilience'. Basically you never plough. Ploughing breaks the micro chains of underground fertilising fungi. You plant crops and around, plants that attract insects that eat insects that attack the food plants. And just let it all grow together... let the ecosystems evolve. Just an idea. Wikipedia and YT knows much more about it than I do but I thought you might like to read about it. Take care :)

And also, never tried them my self and not sure of the availability, but 'Heirloom seeds', from things like tomatoes, are seeds from the past before pesticides and sellective breeding for longevity, fast growing, toughness, etc. became a thing. Apparently these taste 10x better.

Yes you're right these seeds are great to have, we're trying our best to build up our seed bank with these so we can have more healthy veggies - there were definitely more nutrients in these old varieties!

That's interesting to read! We're definitely trying a few of these and always trying to improve our permaculture techniques! We've found it quite hard to adopt a lot of the techniques here because there is such little rainfall, or when it does fall it all falls in 48 hours then disappears! And so we have been following Geoff Lawtons re-wilding the desert videos on youtube to try and find dry climate permaculture techniques that could work better for us! All the farmers here cultivate their land (like ploughing) and they swear their trees grow 10x faster... so we're trying to prove them wrong by growing lots of deep rooted grasses! 🧡

We live in the mountains between Alicante and Valencia, 760m above sea level. People often think we live in Asturias, is our area similar?

@@ladyandtheowlman hay momentos en los que se parece. Aunque asturias es mucho más bonito. Norte. Montañas. Y mucho verde. Aún así estáis en una gran zona de España. Un gran saludo

Asturias suena genial! Nos gusta el verde! A veces deseamos que llueva más aquí, pero estamos aprendiendo a adaptarnos y encontrar mejores formas de almacenar agua para poder regar todos nuestros nuevos árboles y vegetales, para poder crear nuestro propio pequeño mundo verde. Muchas gracias por ver nuestro video y apoyar nuestro canal, ¡significa mucho para nosotros! 🧡

and tpo take remainder gorut off, use "esparto" is hay that comes in rolls(bundles)

Thank you Tief! We'll definitely look into using that special grout for larger gaps next time thanks for recommending! And will only try a few tiles at a time next time, and will look for some esparto for cleaning. We've done quite a few tiling jobs and have watched so many youtube videos on how to do it, but it never seems to work out very well for us haha! It's an advanced skill no? 🧡

Thank you Bamboo Forest Girl! He learns so much everyday it's amazing! It's easy to be patient with him because he's a good listener and very good at watching what you do an learning quietly in the background 🧡

Thank you Richard for writing us a kind comment and supporting our family! It's great to have you on this journey with us! Looks like you're very into the environment, which is of course brilliant! Yes we've been using concrete for many of our projects, and you're right, we're not super comfortable with the environmental aspect of how it is made, however wood is the usual alternative to building here, and we have big problem with termites, so you need to treat the wood heavily with toxic chemicals which felt potentially worse! And also wood doesn't last forever, whereas concrete has potential to last a long time and begin to outweigh its negative initial impact. We're definitely keen to explore natural building materials like cob in future, it will be a whole new learning curve for sure! 🧡

@@ladyandtheowlman Wow, thanks for replying, and in such detail. I totally understand, you are building things to last many lifetimes, and you certainly build things to last... over engeneering things so they last for centuries. By the way, you are both very beautiful people both inside and out with an impossibly even more beautiful son who you are doing an amazing job with. Like many say, never seen a happier baby. And you live in a ... yes... beautiful part of the world. You are VERY VERY lucky and you will just go from strength to strength. Privalidged to join your ride. P.S. Next step vegan? ;)

Thank you for saying all of that Richard, such kind words, and makes us feel grateful for where have ended up in our lives! It's so nice to hear we're doing a good job with Sage too, we are certainly learning a lot being parents for the first time! We did spend quite a bit of time vegetarian/ vegan, and maybe we will go back to this again, building my strength before having Sage it felt right to eat some organic eggs and meat, and now we are experimenting with lots of different foods, so so many greens from the garden, and as much organic as possible! 🧡

Thank you Zoraida! So happy to hear you're enjoying our videos! We really appreciate you writing us a kind comment and supporting our little family! 🧡