Clearing a Centuries worth of Bramble growth on our abandoned Garden! Offgrid Ireland
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ต.ค. 2024
- Hey Everyone
When we purchased our fairytale cottage there was over half an acre that we couldn't even access as it had become a bramble farm.
The land had been abandoned for over a hundred years before us moving in, so the Plant had plenty of time to get comfortable and put down roots...
In this video, we show you the beginning of us clearing of the mountain of blackberry bushes and revealing the field that is to become our forage garden.
We have still kept plenty of brambles on the hedgerows as I'm very fond of homemade bramble berry pie and it was here first; We're just making space for us all.
Thanks for Watching!
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May I respectfully ask why you called it the potato diaries? It’s a very loaded name, especially for an English person. It’s not that I’m trying to be inflammatory but the potato famine was a very traumatic part of Irish history. There was plenty of other food available when the blight hit the potato crop. The problem was that the people were indentured labour and couldn’t afford the grain that was grown by their own hands, it was owned by the landed gentry and shipped out of the country for profit. The population of Ireland went from 8 million to 4 million. 2 million men, woman and children died and 2 million left. The use of the name even if you’re of Irish heritage(?) is insensitive. Inter generational trauma is real and healing comes through recognition and awareness. I’m half Irish half English myself and whenever someone says ‘potato’ when I talk about my Irish heritage I chose to educate them on the history as it’s racism. It may be unconscious but that doesn’t make it acceptable.
Now you know, would you consider changing the name?
Here is a doco on the subject th-cam.com/video/4nL_RsAjxhg/w-d-xo.html
Hi Seoirse,
The last thing we want to be is insensitive. We'll happily change the name, knowing that it might cause harm.
I'm (Shannie) Cornish, & my homeland has its own history with English oppression- though- Who doesn't. We've learnt a lot about the great hungar since our move, and we're horrified to learn that there was enough food, but it was being imported out. That's certainly not how it's taught in English schools. 🙄 The name originally came from our household nickname. We refer to ourselves as the three potatoes, but I can absolutely see how it might be misconstrued. Thank you for your comment - it would be great for other people to see it & learn too 😊
@@GreeneDiaries wasn’t taught in Irish schools either. It’s crazy, it’s hidden history.
I’m down in Waterford.
Please upload more, I’d love to watch this. But no offence to the commenter above Irish people don’t do victimhood, I think all nationalities have a bloody history. Id like to think the English and the Irish are good friends now.
@@GreeneDiaries Thanks for that I appreciate your acknowledgement and action taken! It makes sense now you've explained your nickname. Good luck with the renovation, I look forward to seeing the progress :)
@@goaskalice83 Good to hear your perspective and agree with the optimism and cheerful nature of the Irish. I also think inter-generational trauma find it's way to be expressed on all people and the solution is discussion and awareness
Im in NW England of Irish Desent and I can see why my family settled here when they left Ireland, the landscape and weather is exactly the same. I wish you every happiness as you go through your journey. Many blessings from Lancashire
We have bought a place on the N17, in Co Galway. We love Ireland. Good luck on your project.
Same street different counties!
Thank you for your well wishes! 😀 Good luck to you as well
We also have a place a couple of miles off the N17, in Mayo. We are also off grid and doing our old cottage up. Been here for just a few months, so very similar to yourselves. Good luck to you.☘️
@@Greenandwild Good on you, little by little you'll get there. Mind,hasn't the rain been fierce today! Take care 🙂
@Heart and soil Good luck to you too! It's so nice knowing there are others near by 😀
@@Greenandwild th-cam.com/video/32-WdYOeJLk/w-d-xo.html
Well done, guys! Love your videos! I want to know what the building is?! Lol, so exciting untouched ground!
Love it!! We’ve just sold our house in the UK and are planning on doing exactly what you’re doing very soon!
Had you thought about getting in a pig (or two)? When we had a similar property in western France our farmer neighbour over wintered some pigs in our field and woods so that when we went back in Easter there wasn't a bramble (or acorn) in sight.
The pork tasted good too!
Lot of work for you both, but you have made a really good start. What stunning surroundings. Best wishes from Susan in East Yorkshire.
Brambles! Bain of my life near our cottage, but I let them ramble in our "food and fuel forest" (2000 trees in so far), as brambles are tree nurseries. The cut out the light for grasses and buttercups etc, but saplings can come through.
We've left them in the woods on the other side of our property! Great to know they're good for the trees!
Great little watch! Keep on keeping on 😊 Maybe try a sharp scythe to clear?
Great Idea! We thought about a Scythe for the grass area as that's also very long . Thankyou for Watching :)
Don't harm whitethorn bushes .the fae will be angry..peace and love Billy from Ireland 🇮🇪
Would goats be helpful in clearing all that overgrowth?
The west of Ireland is a miserable spot at the best of times. Oliver Cromwell famously declared 'Go to hell or to Connacht'. But fair play to you for taking on the challenge. Ireland needs more people like you.
Cromwell the devil, he was a mad killer set loose on Irish soil to inflict torture and death on the Irish people..
In the EU they now say to Hell or to UK as the Anglo Colonial Fantasy has ended. It is most likely this will also include the people from the UK who live in Ireland as they erase the Anglo Colonial Fantasy from the world.
A few goats would clear the land for you by feasting on those brambles.
A Lady who lives near you created a beaut of a forest there. - An Irish Pagan Life - th-cam.com/video/awRFq3nk1Lw/w-d-xo.html
Is There Another Story? (baby trees)
Bealtaine Cottage
Wouldn't it be so much better if it was possible to burn the brambles?
Just put some goats on eating the brambles
Hmmm! where oh where is "the cottage"?
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A digger would have scraped that clear in a morning.