I am always in awe of people that take risks like this and are self-taught and self-reliant. It's a stoicism that gets harder to find in our modern world. Super interesting couple.
I too was struck by her deep wisdom! It’s how I raised my children and how I truly view life! God bless this couple AND the creators of such inspirational and fun content!!!
In all of the chaos this world brings on to me in many different layers lately, your channel restores my peace, strokes my hair and pets my soul once a week. By far one of the best channels on TH-cam. Thank you, all the best and keep it going... please.
The old guy doesnt sound like he is old. He s got a very nice voice with a combo of a man and a woman. Very nice to hear. Salute to this couple for living in a very modest way and debt free
I admire these self-reliant people so much, they are incredibly brave to learn as they go. Seems like they face each steep learning curve with great joy. Amazing!
It sounds like you're feeling sorry for yourself, this is a lot of fun period as long as you can handle challenging yourself and wanting to see the world Anew every day and never be bored and be free The rewards are endless and the happiness is sincere
@@openeverydoor8879 how is the commenter feeling sorry for themselves? Because they admire others? I'd love to live like this, but I don't and I definitely don't feel sorry for myself. I'm so lucky to have the home I have.
It is really fun how you include and immerse your kids in these kinds of experiences, and how they become part of the story. Most of the people you interview enjoy explaining and showing stuff to your kids, and your kids are so naturally curious. It turns it from a National Geographic documentary into a really fun family show -- and makes it more relevant and interesting..
OMG. The man is full of energy, knowledgeable and above all smart. Yes life is all about activities. Most important activities must make you happy or else we are not living a life of its fullest.
Kirsten, you are doing THE ENCYCLOPEDIA of the alternative homes and alternative living. You, your husband and your kids are becoming a legend. Congratulations for showing us some livings out of the beaten track.
The Dirksen family has got to be the happiest most blessed of all TH-cam families. Their children are adorable and you can tell they are so happy. We need more families like this in the world. Thank you for all your hard work and sharing your travels and adventures with the world. I've learned so much from your channel. Mainly that you really don't need much to be happy in this life. **The less you have the more you have**
This video, and the other video featuring Johannes’ hermitage in the Italian alps, are both so interesting! Please continue to feature monastically inclined folks!
I feel both elated and wistful when I watch many of these videos. Elated that people have chosen to live outside the box of "normal" society and wistful that I did not know it could be done this way. This couple are amazing - seekers and learners and do-ers. Thank you as always for
I love these people. Part of me would love to live like that but can't because my husband is disabled. Thank you for letting is live thru these beautiful people.
This couple are true artists and their home and ranch are works of art in process. Great video, thank you for sharing this interest couple with us. Did my heart good watching :-)
Wow, so cool! I love to see people living their own authentic lives, not concerned with societal pressures to conform. Love seeing Western Colorado landscape too! I grew up in New Mexico, Utah, and Grand Junction Colorado, so enjoy seeing the amazing topography of those landscapes, they are like a postcard from the high desert. In their monastic lives, I send them much love and many blessings.
Awesome! My husband and I are currently rebuilding a single wide trailer that we bought very cheap on 10 acres in the Appalachians. We are using old barn wood and old weathered fence boards. We are making our own beams and have three cedar trees inside the house to support the beams. We are covering the exterior with a mixture of corrugated metal and Shou sugi ban wood siding. The floors are a mix of shou sugi ban plywood and recycled pallets. We salvaged a stainless steel kitchen industrial sink from our local school system. Our property is overloaded with river rock and we are using that for the foundation and other touches. This couple is truly amazing. Living off grid is truly the life. We lived off grid with a composting toilet without running water for 4 years...we would still live that way but are currently taking care of an 81 year old parent who needs amenities. Great channel!
I live in Miami Florida, it's impossible for you to live in a tiny home. So I decided to purchase a sailboat and living it. I've been watching your videos for over 6 years I know you inspire so many people. Please never stop making your videos. I just have one question how was the goat ice cream?
these folks are some of my favorite ever. truly inspiring. been following your channel for a real long time. much love and blessings and health to the family !
This is perhaps your best video yet, which is saying a lot, as your videos are excellent. The subject matter certainly doesn't hurt. I also love when you involve your children in the background. They add another dimension.
This reminds me of my grandparents home in Mexico. I loved their ingenuity growing up but for others this was just considered poor living. So idk how to feel about this one. There was so much shame growing up this way. Glad times are changing and people are being praised now for living in this manner.
Any mention of frugal, anti-consumer living and you get a load of insults hurled at you. I was called a scrouge for suggesting kids receive only three Xmas gifts. I wonder how many low quality gifts end up in the trash before the next Xmas.
I understand completely. They had children when they started this life and only after 17 years did they start building the attached home that took another 7 years. While their children likely learned wonderful lessons in self-sufficiency, they also probably had to do without a lot of things other children had. ( I don't mean expensive toys and video games, but the basics of say new clothes for school each year. Maybe a bike etc.) Thank you for your honesty. I sometimes think this lifestyle is romantized to the point that people forget how tough it can be and children never get to choose their circumstances. But hopefully these college educated people gave their children the greatest gift, an education. With a real education their kids will have the option as they did to decide how they want to live.
I've lived in a monastery, I miss that kind of pace and loneliness :) this video made me realize I miss my retreat cabin, I'll have to make myself one.
This couple are inspirational. I feel like there are lessons learnt from watching this and definitely things that could be adopted and integrated into my life for the better. Will watch this again and take notes. I love how open your kids are to new things. 🙂
It's amazing to see how your kids have grown. I'm reminded of one of your earlier episodes - the one where you took off on the road in the VW Westfalia - the kids were so little then. Besides the years of inspiration and entertainment you have provided for your viewers, you must have an amazing archive of family movies I'm sure you will cherish forever. Thanks for exploring the lives of these interesting people the world over. Keep up the great work!
So interesting and inspiring. I'd love to do something like this one day. Did anybody else feel like the gentleman's voice totally didnt go with his body though?? Couldnt get over it!
I was expecting an entirely different kind of "dugout".😉 But when Evan explained what he does there, I thought of my little meditation/ditty I got when sitting by a camp fire one evening. It goes like this: "Thank you for the sacred space Between the words, To hear the voice of my soul." Loved their home and all their projects!💗💗💗
This is what I can imagine is a life well lived, actively doing what they felt was the right way for them, instead of spending their lives waiting for retirement to then do what they always wanted to do in their lives. They are amazing people.
I especially like the Howard's conjecture that physical fitness would ideally be productive activities. It reminds me of the exercise bikes that charge batteries used to power the home.
They have the "daily grind" for flour, laundry, juice...great to see someone "later" in life, I always wondered how some of the earlier alternative places managed aging. Inspirational.
How many Kirsten Dirksen videos have I watched now? I think they are my favorite series on TH-cam. There's one, the adobe house in Santa Fe, that I have watched numerous times. But every one of these videos is simply fascinating. Thank you for all of them.
I love this channel! It seems as if covering self sufficient homesteads is a journey along side those who built their journeys in the form of a homestead. Their process leaves me with them on their journeys as much as the artful way you do your visits to them! Thank you for sharing your and their journeys!
I love what you've done. There's a Lady in Ireland you'd love. Colette at Bealtaine Cottage has done something similar all on her own! I'm making plans to do the same at 67! Blessings to you smart people.
Thank you for sharing this inspiring spiritual journey! What a Zen gift these individuals have created for themselves. One of my favorites. I really admire them.
'Monastic Rhythm'.... this is exactly what me and my wife were talking about today but struggling to articulate. Very timely, enjoyed it a lot. Thanks!
This was fantastic! Expanded my ideas about what my future could be like. Also their eldest daughter is so tall now! Lovely to reflect on the kids when they were small.
I love this stuff & what a place they've created that's grounded in practicality & wellness. I bought a 70's trailer in the former city/town of Charlotte, on Haida Gwaii. Fixed it up with help of an artist with spruce root for holding my 1" Copper Pipe curtain rod over the living room Bay window, with a view of the Charlotte Harbour & bay, one block from the grocery store. We removed the screened vents above the kitchen & bathroom to get a larger window area for a sheet of ice crystal stain glass in the bathroom & a sweet smaller rendition of my view. Inset a beautiful red-brown streaked on pale inner pith of the Spruce root for support, when exiting or entering bathtub/ shower with a twisted, strong & long slender handle. The baby poop yellow tub had a rusted front, so with White pine planks we covered it. Then built a 4 inch shelf flush with the top of the tub. We foraged for the last bits of sea-worn tree limbs, where the tree & limb meetdisguise
You always give us very interesting videos, but this is my favorite ever! I wouldn't enjoy this lifestyle (or at least, not unless I had a partner who would enjoy it with me), but watching this interesting couple show off what they've built over decades was extremely interesting and entertaining. I also enjoyed seeing your beautiful children. P.S. I love the great room!! I like having everything together in one big room, it makes a family closer.
Thank you, thank you! What a beautiful, breath taking glimpse of an enlightened couple. The Howards are simply exemplary. Uplifting and an inspiration!
Doing nearly the same thing! We bought a property cheap with a rundown mobile home. Still have the mobile home, but we’re also just starting year 2. Foundation of the new house is nearly done. Wife has become quite adept with hand washing our laundry. Didn’t bring our washer/dryer, got gifted one (with intent of paying later) only to find out the hose didn’t work. Just recently got a grain mill. Its become an every other day thing, we’re baking more now than when we just bought it pre-ground. I love what he says about manual labor and appropriate technology. I’d rather spend a bit of extra time using a tool that’ll last decades, can be easily repaired and passed down. Than buy a time saving tool I’ll need to replace every few years.
@@barnabyvonrudal1 by washer you mean water bin or tub. In our case we have 2 galvanized tubs but also mostly use a bath tub. And yes we have the same looking hand wringer they do. We wrung them out by hand for about a month and got so many blisters! Plus every time we hung the clothes and by that time it was in the hallway using some cup hooks the previous owner had placed near the ceiling, it’d drip for the 1st hour making us have to watch our step or dirty towels to clean up the mess. Repurposed an old falling apart fence which conveniently had 2 posts tall enough to make a clothesline outside. You can guess how many people we spotted slowing down and staring at us as we hung our laundry in the middle of the winter. It works perfectly fine btw :D dragging wood fence posts set in place with concrete isn’t fun! Even more so when you have to dig it up later as you stupidly put them in at a 90 degree angle. Angle them away from each other, and place a board in front of the posts under the dirt.
@@barnabyvonrudal1 around 2-3 days. Its called sublimation. This last time she brought out clothes she had to come back in and put on gloves it was so cold out, by the time she got back out they had started freezing in the bin.They were very stiff, but a few hours later we were noticing some of them swaying in the wind, suggesting they had shed most of their water and were not frozen solid anymore. We did have to bring in a sweater the following morning it was nearly fully dry up to around 6” from the bottom where it was still very wet. So it does take twice as long as during the summer, summer time if you don’t collect them around sundown, you won’t be able to collect them in the morning, the condensation (morning dew) makes it so you have to wait till around noon or so.
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Really loved what they're doing here, caring for every detail and seeing it as fun and experimentation, not only hard work.
What an absolutely imspirational, focused, intelligent and free-thimking couple these two are!! Their home is friendly, energetic and peaceful.....what a joy it must be living and loving life here! Thanks to all of you for sharing this amazing home with us....Peace to all...♥︎♡♥︎♡♥︎♡♥︎♡
I was brought up on the saying, "If you want to know how to do something, get a book!" I can still remember my mother telling us this every time we asked her how to do something. I'm now 71 years old, bought my very first home (a mobile home) in as-is condition. I have learned every step of the as-is renovation! Thank you for sharing! It helps me to know that while it may take me awhile to get my home completed, I'm on the right track!
I really love how these people live 👍 I especially liked the video of the monk in Italy, living on the mountain. I was hooked 👍 I crave this peaceful existence.
one of the greatest channels there is! ❤ thank you so much, I love all your beautiful videos. I've been following since the kids were tiny, they are so big now! ❤
Wow Dr. Evan…I love your new house! What a great video! We just moved to a farm and are settling into a simpler life closer to nature, animals, rhythms of the seasons and the sun. You’re an inspiration!
This was so interesting. Your kids are having a wonderful experience visiting all these homes and lifestyles. It will be interesting to see if their future home is influenced by any of these homes they visited in their youth.
Exactly. My middle son used to love bike riding so that's what we did. Sometimes a10 hour day. On one of these trips we ended up in a little town by a lake. He loved it so much he bought a house by that Lake that looks like a little log cabin when he married his sweetheart of 10 years. What children experience can effect their life decisions later on. I'm so glad I made all that memories with him so long ago.
Watching this video was time SO well spent - I loved it! I love the wonderful homestead they've built, and I love them, too. Thank you so much for this! It seemed your kids enjoyed this, too... 😊
It is a joy watch a happy man. Thanks for a story of this industrious, prosperous and playful family whom express love transparently with the heart in hands
I am always in awe of people that take risks like this and are self-taught and self-reliant. It's a stoicism that gets harder to find in our modern world. Super interesting couple.
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Couldn’t agree more :)
Not sure being stoic is part of it but I agree with the rest of what you said!
Isn't it more of a "risk" to just follow society norms and wake up one day full of regrets?
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"Do we know what we're doing? No, you get books, you read directions, you ask questions"
That's a pearl of wisdom
I paused and wrote it down!
I too was struck by her deep wisdom! It’s how I raised my children and how I truly view life! God bless this couple AND the creators of such inspirational and fun content!!!
I find it funny that they never mentioned using the internet once lol only books
In all of the chaos this world brings on to me in many different layers lately, your channel restores my peace, strokes my hair and pets my soul once a week. By far one of the best channels on TH-cam. Thank you, all the best and keep it going... please.
Try the bible. Its great!
This phrase said by Evan brought me well-being: "certain patterns of how we discover truth, those dynamics are the same or similar throughout history"
And another quote of Evan: "that is the space of all spaces ,where i am most me"
The old guy doesnt sound like he is old. He s got a very nice voice with a combo of a man and a woman. Very nice to hear.
Salute to this couple for living in a very modest way and debt free
I was wondering his voice sounds quite feminine. Why do you think that might be?
I admire these self-reliant people so much, they are incredibly brave to learn as they go. Seems like they face each steep learning curve with great joy. Amazing!
It sounds like you're feeling sorry for yourself, this is a lot of fun period as long as you can handle challenging yourself and wanting to see the world Anew every day and never be bored and be free
The rewards are endless and the happiness is sincere
Certainly shows what a good team and partnership can do together!
-Adam
@@openeverydoor8879 how is the commenter feeling sorry for themselves? Because they admire others? I'd love to live like this, but I don't and I definitely don't feel sorry for myself. I'm so lucky to have the home I have.
Perhaps just more aware of the insanity in society than most folks are.
It is really fun how you include and immerse your kids in these kinds of experiences, and how they become part of the story. Most of the people you interview enjoy explaining and showing stuff to your kids, and your kids are so naturally curious. It turns it from a National Geographic documentary into a really fun family show -- and makes it more relevant and interesting..
agreed, I like how everyone in the fam is chill and curious and respectful
I look forward to their future selves. They’ll be well rounded, thoughtful, idea- filled citizens.
I agree
OMG. The man is full of energy, knowledgeable and above all smart. Yes life is all about activities. Most important activities must make you happy or else we are not living a life of its fullest.
Kirsten, you are doing THE ENCYCLOPEDIA of the alternative homes and alternative living. You, your husband and your kids are becoming a legend. Congratulations for showing us some livings out of the beaten track.
The Dirksen family has got to be the happiest most blessed of all TH-cam families. Their children are adorable and you can tell they are so happy. We need more families like this in the world.
Thank you for all your hard work and sharing your travels and adventures with the world.
I've learned so much from your channel. Mainly that you really don't need much to be happy in this life.
**The less you have the more you have**
This video, and the other video featuring Johannes’ hermitage in the Italian alps, are both so interesting! Please continue to feature monastically inclined folks!
Yes indeed!
Agreed! Well said. 💖
I too am really inspired by monasticism. I loved that Evan tries to follow a monastic rhythm. This was a fabulous video to watch. Thank you.
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Our peripatetic friend, Johannes! loved him too.
I feel both elated and wistful when I watch many of these videos. Elated that people have chosen to live outside the box of "normal" society and wistful that I did not know it could be done this way. This couple are amazing - seekers and learners and do-ers. Thank you as always for
Kirsten, how do you continue to find these amazingly inspirational people over and over again? Great work! Love your channel!
if she told, everyone would start doing it right?
To be able to live in peace and be Blessed by the work of your own hands and ingenuity with your loved ones... Priceless!!
I love these people. Part of me would love to live like that but can't because my husband is disabled.
Thank you for letting is live thru these beautiful people.
This couple are AMAZING. they certainly need to teach HUMANITY a thing or 3. Incredibly beautiful couple. It's an honor to have met them. Thank you
Hello dear ,how are you doing?
This couple are true artists and their home and ranch are works of art in process. Great video, thank you for sharing this interest couple with us. Did my heart good watching :-)
How life should be lived. They both have such vigor, very wise and creative. Living their dream. They will be forever young.
then why do they look old?
@@stevenbarton5949 Because age isn't determined by sight - the way idiots weigh out stuff. Thats why.
Wow, so cool! I love to see people living their own authentic lives, not concerned with societal pressures to conform. Love seeing Western Colorado landscape too! I grew up in New Mexico, Utah, and Grand Junction Colorado, so enjoy seeing the amazing topography of those landscapes, they are like a postcard from the high desert. In their monastic lives, I send them much love and many blessings.
Awesome! My husband and I are currently rebuilding a single wide trailer that we bought very cheap on 10 acres in the Appalachians. We are using old barn wood and old weathered fence boards. We are making our own beams and have three cedar trees inside the house to support the beams. We are covering the exterior with a mixture of corrugated metal and Shou sugi ban wood siding. The floors are a mix of shou sugi ban plywood and recycled pallets. We salvaged a stainless steel kitchen industrial sink from our local school system.
Our property is overloaded with river rock and we are using that for the foundation and other touches.
This couple is truly amazing. Living off grid is truly the life. We lived off grid with a composting toilet without running water for 4 years...we would still live that way but are currently taking care of an 81 year old parent who needs amenities.
Great channel!
Sounds interesting, are the three cedar trees living?
Before I continue watching the video I want to say that I really enjoy your videos.
Thank you!
Yeah, me too. So many interesting people/buildings.
Simple life!
I live in Miami Florida, it's impossible for you to live in a tiny home. So I decided to purchase a sailboat and living it. I've been watching your videos for over 6 years I know you inspire so many people. Please never stop making your videos. I just have one question how was the goat ice cream?
@@FishingwithCristina I'm curious as well as to how it tastes.
I learned how to wring clothes like that as a child. So lovely to grow up with a great grandmother
Wow! How many times did you have put it through the wringer many times?
Have to say, this life style isn't for me. However, I'm so impressed with this couple, their passion and unending pursuit of learning and growth.
Weakling
It is wonderful to see people that understand you bring meaning, health, and happiness to your life when you create it for yourself.
Love this episode. Thank you for sharing these people’s stories. It’s truly inspirational.
these folks are some of my favorite ever. truly inspiring. been following your channel for a real long time. much love and blessings and health to the family !
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This is perhaps your best video yet, which is saying a lot, as your videos are excellent. The subject matter certainly doesn't hurt. I also love when you involve your children in the background. They add another dimension.
Such determined to be selfless and joyful, amazing inner tenacity. Wonderful. Thank you for this.
So relaxed. That's what I'm talking about. Gotta make the moves that make u happy inside. Smart moves with animals, solar, etc. Wow. Good work
This reminds me of my grandparents home in Mexico. I loved their ingenuity growing up but for others this was just considered poor living. So idk how to feel about this one. There was so much shame growing up this way. Glad times are changing and people are being praised now for living in this manner.
appreciate your honesty.
Michelle 🕸 Everything has beauty, bur not everyone sees it. Confucius 😍
Being self sufficient is not being poor... it is the ultimate luxury
Any mention of frugal, anti-consumer living and you get a load of insults hurled at you. I was called a scrouge for suggesting kids receive only three Xmas gifts. I wonder how many low quality gifts end up in the trash before the next Xmas.
I understand completely. They had children when they started this life and only after 17 years did they start building the attached home that took another 7 years.
While their children likely learned wonderful lessons in self-sufficiency, they also probably had to do without a lot of things other children had. ( I don't mean expensive toys and video games, but the basics of say new clothes for school each year. Maybe a bike etc.)
Thank you for your honesty. I sometimes think this lifestyle is romantized to the point that people forget how tough it can be and children never get to choose their circumstances.
But hopefully these college educated people gave their children the greatest gift, an education. With a real education their kids will have the option as they did to decide how they want to live.
I have goosebumps hearing their own narrative mirrors mine. Thank you all sincerely.
I've lived in a monastery, I miss that kind of pace and loneliness :) this video made me realize I miss my retreat cabin, I'll have to make myself one.
Amazing! How long did you live in the monastery?
This couple are inspirational. I feel like there are lessons learnt from watching this and definitely things that could be adopted and integrated into my life for the better. Will watch this again and take notes. I love how open your kids are to new things. 🙂
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Me too 😊
It's amazing to see how your kids have grown. I'm reminded of one of your earlier episodes - the one where you took off on the road in the VW Westfalia - the kids were so little then. Besides the years of inspiration and entertainment you have provided for your viewers, you must have an amazing archive of family movies I'm sure you will cherish forever. Thanks for exploring the lives of these interesting people the world over. Keep up the great work!
So interesting and inspiring. I'd love to do something like this one day. Did anybody else feel like the gentleman's voice totally didnt go with his body though?? Couldnt get over it!
I absolutely love it when she says "we fly by the seat of our pants!" These two are fantastic, my kinda style... Well done!
I was expecting an entirely different kind of "dugout".😉
But when Evan explained what he does there, I thought of my little meditation/ditty I got when sitting by a camp fire one evening. It goes like this:
"Thank you for the sacred space
Between the words,
To hear the voice of my soul."
Loved their home and all their projects!💗💗💗
Hello dear , how are you doing?
What a great episode ! Love how this couple are in tune with a hands on working of life , and what great shape they are in !
This is what I can imagine is a life well lived, actively doing what they felt was the right way for them, instead of spending their lives waiting for retirement to then do what they always wanted to do in their lives. They are amazing people.
I especially like the Howard's conjecture that physical fitness would ideally be productive activities. It reminds me of the exercise bikes that charge batteries used to power the home.
I enjoy Kristens videos so much. She has enhanced me and my grandsons life 10 fold.
They have the "daily grind" for flour, laundry, juice...great to see someone "later" in life, I always wondered how some of the earlier alternative places managed aging. Inspirational.
Awesome this man and his wife have found the fountain of life, they have so much life force energy. This was a real treat to watch thanks for sharing.
I always love the interesting ideas of home/shelter/life that you bring to us. Thank you.
How many Kirsten Dirksen videos have I watched now? I think they are my favorite series on TH-cam. There's one, the adobe house in Santa Fe, that I have watched numerous times. But every one of these videos is simply fascinating. Thank you for all of them.
Your children are really growing and you and your husband are providing them an education that few can even comprehend, bravo.
I feel good. Thanks for another brilliant story and all my respect to this wonderful couple.
I love this channel! It seems as if covering self sufficient homesteads is a journey along side those who built their journeys in the form of a homestead. Their process leaves me with them on their journeys as much as the artful way you do your visits to them! Thank you for sharing your and their journeys!
Fantastic! I’m from Colorado and the area you built your home is one of the most beautiful areas in the state.
This is one of the best of the Videos you have made...and that is saying a lot.
Your children have been blessed in growing up this way.
I love what you've done. There's a Lady in Ireland you'd love. Colette at Bealtaine Cottage has done something similar all on her own! I'm making plans to do the same at 67! Blessings to you smart people.
Dirksten family, thank you for all your videos. I consider your work to be very important!
Been following you for about 4 years and I have to say this is my favorite vídeo.Incredible human beings ❤️!
Thank you for sharing this inspiring spiritual journey! What a Zen gift these individuals have created for themselves. One of my favorites. I really admire them.
'Monastic Rhythm'.... this is exactly what me and my wife were talking about today but struggling to articulate. Very timely, enjoyed it a lot. Thanks!
This was fantastic! Expanded my ideas about what my future could be like. Also their eldest daughter is so tall now! Lovely to reflect on the kids when they were small.
You bet.
I love these little life vignettes, inspiration at its most divinely beautiful. Thank you for sharing, your perspective never disappoints.
Really wonderful! Thank you for this glimpse into their magical lives
Hello 👋 dear ,how are you doing?
This... is kind of amazing. Thank you for sharing the wonderful lives of these fine people.
I love this stuff & what a place they've created that's grounded in practicality & wellness. I bought a 70's trailer in the former city/town of Charlotte, on Haida Gwaii. Fixed it up with help of an artist with spruce root for holding my 1" Copper Pipe curtain rod over the living room Bay window, with a view of the Charlotte Harbour & bay, one block from the grocery store.
We removed the screened vents above the kitchen & bathroom to get a larger window area for a sheet of ice crystal stain glass in the bathroom & a sweet smaller rendition of my view. Inset a beautiful red-brown streaked on pale inner pith of the Spruce root for support, when exiting or entering bathtub/ shower with a twisted, strong & long slender handle. The baby poop yellow tub had a rusted front, so with White pine planks we covered it. Then built a 4 inch shelf flush with the top of the tub. We foraged for the last bits of sea-worn tree limbs, where the tree & limb meetdisguise
These are gorgeous people! Very special. Young, creative, intelligent, active, thoughtful, the list goes on. Thanks for sharing their story.
You always give us very interesting videos, but this is my favorite ever! I wouldn't enjoy this lifestyle (or at least, not unless I had a partner who would enjoy it with me), but watching this interesting couple show off what they've built over decades was extremely interesting and entertaining. I also enjoyed seeing your beautiful children. P.S. I love the great room!! I like having everything together in one big room, it makes a family closer.
Wow...I wish I was as cool and accomplished as these two wonderful people.
Kirsten thanks to you and your husband for introducing us this beautiful
People. Great inspiration. Blessings to your family🙏
What an inspiring couple. I am awe-struck by their relationship and approach to weaving values, family, Earth, and life. Thank you for this!
For people who don't know what they do, they do it quite well!
Amazing. So cool and creative what people can accomplish with time and determination.
Your videos often offer a breath of such refreshing down to earth sanity
Glad you two found the way of life that fit your philosophy. Keep on cranking.
Thanks for this edifying and empowering testimonial.
Thank you, thank you! What a beautiful, breath taking glimpse of an enlightened couple. The Howards are simply exemplary. Uplifting and an inspiration!
This couple is very young at heart.
Very inspiring! Thanks for making such good content and sharing the experiences of others for everyone to see and learn from.
Nice 👍 build hope you to are still happy and healthy
Grts from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Wonderful family the Howards ...!!
Doing nearly the same thing! We bought a property cheap with a rundown mobile home. Still have the mobile home, but we’re also just starting year 2. Foundation of the new house is nearly done. Wife has become quite adept with hand washing our laundry. Didn’t bring our washer/dryer, got gifted one (with intent of paying later) only to find out the hose didn’t work. Just recently got a grain mill. Its become an every other day thing, we’re baking more now than when we just bought it pre-ground. I love what he says about manual labor and appropriate technology. I’d rather spend a bit of extra time using a tool that’ll last decades, can be easily repaired and passed down. Than buy a time saving tool I’ll need to replace every few years.
It must be a challenging (but rewarding) lifestyle! Do you have a washer like them?
@@barnabyvonrudal1 by washer you mean water bin or tub. In our case we have 2 galvanized tubs but also mostly use a bath tub. And yes we have the same looking hand wringer they do. We wrung them out by hand for about a month and got so many blisters! Plus every time we hung the clothes and by that time it was in the hallway using some cup hooks the previous owner had placed near the ceiling, it’d drip for the 1st hour making us have to watch our step or dirty towels to clean up the mess. Repurposed an old falling apart fence which conveniently had 2 posts tall enough to make a clothesline outside. You can guess how many people we spotted slowing down and staring at us as we hung our laundry in the middle of the winter. It works perfectly fine btw :D dragging wood fence posts set in place with concrete isn’t fun! Even more so when you have to dig it up later as you stupidly put them in at a 90 degree angle. Angle them away from each other, and place a board in front of the posts under the dirt.
@@stephenleaf3848 sounds like fun (maybe for a few days 😁). How long does it take to dry?
@@barnabyvonrudal1 around 2-3 days. Its called sublimation. This last time she brought out clothes she had to come back in and put on gloves it was so cold out, by the time she got back out they had started freezing in the bin.They were very stiff, but a few hours later we were noticing some of them swaying in the wind, suggesting they had shed most of their water and were not frozen solid anymore. We did have to bring in a sweater the following morning it was nearly fully dry up to around 6” from the bottom where it was still very wet. So it does take twice as long as during the summer, summer time if you don’t collect them around sundown, you won’t be able to collect them in the morning, the condensation (morning dew) makes it so you have to wait till around noon or so.
Really loved what they're doing here, caring for every detail and seeing it as fun and experimentation, not only hard work.
I enjoyed every second of watching your video thank you for sharing it with us
What an absolutely imspirational, focused, intelligent and free-thimking couple these two are!! Their home is friendly, energetic and peaceful.....what a joy it must be living and loving life here! Thanks to all of you for sharing this amazing home with us....Peace to all...♥︎♡♥︎♡♥︎♡♥︎♡
Outstanding. I wish I had the opportunity to stuff like this. This is one of your best finds.
Wow- Most younger people I know couldn’t accomplish all of this let alone 60 ish people myself included. This is fabulous.
I was brought up on the saying, "If you want to know how to do something, get a book!" I can still remember my mother telling us this every time we asked her how to do something. I'm now 71 years old, bought my very first home (a mobile home) in as-is condition. I have learned every step of the as-is renovation! Thank you for sharing! It helps me to know that while it may take me awhile to get my home completed, I'm on the right track!
A beautiful film, thank you for your work.
I AM IMPRESSED AND LOVE YOUR BEAUTIFUL, INVITING HOME !!!
I really love how these people live 👍 I especially liked the video of the monk in Italy, living on the mountain. I was hooked 👍 I crave this peaceful existence.
Thank you for sharing all of these inspirational individuals ways of life with their environment
I feel like I just met my people. These are the people I would love to hang out with and help them build. So cool 😎
one of the greatest channels there is! ❤ thank you so much, I love all your beautiful videos. I've been following since the kids were tiny, they are so big now! ❤
Oof, when he said the Earth embraces him, I've felt that hug. These are officially some of my favorite people!
Wow Dr. Evan…I love your new house! What a great video! We just moved to a farm and are settling into a simpler life closer to nature, animals, rhythms of the seasons and the sun. You’re an inspiration!
Hello 👋
Thanks for sharing your inquiry into living spaces which inspire “living” in unique ways.
This was so interesting. Your kids are having a wonderful experience visiting all these homes and lifestyles. It will be interesting to see if their future home is influenced by any of these homes they visited in their youth.
Exactly. My middle son used to love bike riding so that's what we did. Sometimes a10 hour day. On one of these trips we ended up in a little town by a lake. He loved it so much he bought a house by that Lake that looks like a little log cabin when he married his sweetheart of 10 years. What children experience can effect their life decisions later on. I'm so glad I made all that memories with him so long ago.
Watching this video was time SO well spent - I loved it! I love the wonderful homestead they've built, and I love them, too. Thank you so much for this! It seemed your kids enjoyed this, too... 😊
I LOVE and respect these people so much. They March to their own drum.
Kirsten, I wanted to see the ice cream eating results and what about their kids? These people are FASCINATING......I want More Please...
What this man spoke about prayer is the truth. This was a wonderful beautiful video. Thank you. And what the couple said about being active.
It is a joy watch a happy man.
Thanks for a story of this industrious, prosperous and playful family whom express love transparently with the heart in hands
Definately an A+ couple !
Never doubt simplicity !
You find the most amazing people. Thank you.
What sweet people.
They have it right.
This is outstanding in every way.
Been watching this channel for a couple of weeks. This, by far, is my favorite.