I want to see more of Luke’s mom with Luke walking through History of the entire estate. Hope to see more of your parents home. Your mother is insightful and quite entertaining to watch her segments.
Julie, your videos are not just popular because of their interesting content, it is mainly due to your great personalities. ... Thank you for explaining about the decline of the aristocry due to cheap American wheat and new high taxes. That is new information to me.
Cooking - historical recipes? Using historical cooking tools? On that amazing stove in the kitchen? Absolutely!! Honest review of how it tastes, sharing the recipe, would be amazing!!
I like the cooking episodes, but the main reason we follow your channels is due to the fact we have one of the oldest homes in Indiana, 7th generation, 200 years and although we share many of the same issues maintaining a large family property (on a much smaller scale for us of course only 200 acres) we're all the time siphoning ideas from you guys on what to do. So, that's very interesting to us.
My husband and I took a trip from our home in Southern Ontario, by Lake Erie and drove through Northern Ontario and drove across Canada to Calgary Alberta. Along the way, we saw moose, deer, black bears, coyotes, foxes, otters, pheasants, quails, eagles, different types of hawks, pararie dogs and we even saw a lynx!! I never thought I'd see a lynx in the wild! It was a wonderful trip. Canada is such a beautiful, diverse country. I love watching the way you're bringing back some of your natural diversity at Mapperton.
Thankyou for the very interesting update July and Luke. Great to hear that the Government is backing these fantastic rewilding projects with Mapperton involved to work towards restoring the landscape and biodiversity 👏❤️
The cooking is such fun! Particularly enjoyable to see Luke's parents involved as well! Perhaps they have special family recipes connected to happy memories to share with us? ❤
Julie is such a high energy lady her enthusiasm has kick started me to begin creating, redecorating, and getting old treasures out. Thanks for the inspiration. 🤗
I just discovered both channels and I totally agree. I've been on a binge watch and it has definitely sparked my creative juices for my home and property. I've been consuming my energy on the daily, mundane stressors in life long enough. I've already thought of some exciting room transformations and dared to share them with my husband, (which led to a wonderful, animated discussion of new visions!) Your energy is a source of motivation, no doubt. My passion for the history you're surrounded by is off the charts. I hadn't known much about English peerage until I became addicted to Outlander series which sent me researching. Thank you for sharing your life with us as an American Viscountess! Your hard work is keeping the past alive. *Edit PS- Wildflowers, nature, wildlife, gardening are my other passions. I love spotting birds and butterflies that are nature's way of validating what time of year it is.
Love your mugs!!! You both are so knowledgeable, and often Luke sounds like a professor. He is also so knowledgeable. PLEASE MORE COOKING EPISODES, you both are charming to see together in those episodes!
I Vote for Luke’s fundraiser for now. That is structural and is very very necessary for daily living. Tapestry to me is fine if you have funds for beauty. To me it makes more sense to fund projects that structural issues are sound. I hope many will support Luke’s efforts !
So good to hear that the British government is doing something sensible and wanting to restore nature 👏 🙏🏻 In South Africa the cabal has got its very evil claws firmly clenched and the establishment is destroying land and mountains and even beaches for concrete buildings and roads. It's horrific to witness 😢😢
All topics you discussed are of GREAT interest! Vintage recipes, especially for holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas! Autumn inspired soups, with foraged ingredients. Christmas Pudding (also known as Plum Pudding) which, to Americans, is more like a steamed cake in a sealed mold, with ingredients like suet, currants, and doused with brandy and set on fire for presentation! A smallish holiday recipe booklet with line drawings of Mapperton's treasures! Literally photographs of the vintage handwritten recipes on one side, and the type-written 'translation' using either metric or imperial measurements for US cooks on the facing page! A filmed batch of cooking sessions with the recipe booklet being available at the end of the year would be fabulous! If we could purchase a chunk of stone for the stone repair, what a way to raise money! Then get a piece of 'rotten' stone in a raffle for the lucky 50 or so participants remade into bookends! Imagine having a piece of a 500-year-old stone from an Elizabethan era Tudor manor house in your bookcase! What a conversation piece! The tapestry restoration is calling me! The rewilding project and recreating a wetland area to deal with storm runoff! Golly! I am imagining an entire university barracks using Army-like tents to house students and volunteers to work on the stonework and rewilding, and tapestry restoration! What a grand group of diverse projects! Something literally for everyone! Despite all the work and cost, your lives of maintaining and restoring your estate sounds so thrilling! I do realize, however, there may be days or weeks it can be so overwhelming that the last leaky roof may send you into orbit! Every project counts! All are important, and we all want to see you all succeed! Bless you all for taking on these tasks!
The photo on the front of the book that looks like Chicago is most likely the "White City" during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair). There's a fascinating book on it along with a serial murderer called "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America." True story and fascinating history!
There's not clutter, you have so much history of Mapperton and English information. I think it's really neat learning about now and the past. Love it! Keep informing us.
Love the historical/hysterical cooking shows you have done. Dishes from bygone eras are fascinating especially with the families personal connections. You could create another channel and invite family members and other families with historical recipes to create them together!! You two are a stitch!! The whole family is a pleasure to learn from! Keep up the good work, the education, and sharing your dedication as well as the love you all share for one another! You are doing a great service for the future, allowing history to unfold while creating the history of the future!! As long as it brings you joy, and builds relationships, priorities have to be managed of course! Thanks for all that you each do! Additionally I am fascinated about the rewilding, especially involving the other 53 plus land owners, talk about a legacy for the future of your entire community!! Brilliant!! Restoring habitats and creating an ecologically sound and biodiverse ecosystem in your broader community, highlights even more reasons for people to come visit and stay in the area to participate in the community and Mapperton. Creating more places to stay and participate for those outside of the area, and educating locals on how to build the wild-land spaces!! You could have glamping locations spread thou out the entire community rewilding areas, along with possibly more places to stay on these community acres that essentially create more earning opportunities for everyone to flourish. Expanding to yet another channel, Luke could do a version similar to what Julie does for Historic Homes. Luke could have another channel that focuses specifically on the participating land owners from the area, and following along, documenting the process essentially creating a public play by play of the entire behind the scenes process. Creating an audience of people specifically engaged with the desire for nature rehabilitation, and eventually it could show other geographic areas as they are rewilded creating and sharing how things evolve and change based upon the last experiences.. This is a great opportunity to showcase how the funds from developers are being used for resource building and conservation. You could also feature the developments that fund each particular area or project, giving acknowledgment to those making this possible, albeit a forced situation, you could improve perceptions and perhaps facilitate relationships, started by a law forcing developers to pay a rewilding tax, but you have the opportunity with each area that is built out, to not only connect each development to a specific project or parcel of land being rewilded, for people to see as they visit, and digitally, but to invite the inhabitants of each of these developments whether residential or commercial, to essentially by in and visit what their development has created, along with empower them if they so choose, to come up with community building events in their own area that collect funds year after year or perhaps volunteer a week out of the year to help their rewilding “child” grow and flourish!! The land owners could go give presentations each year to the engaged developed area participants.. the possibilities are endless!!! Way to go!!! Diversification with connected community driven participation!! What an example this will be having engaged over 53 land owners!! Imagine also mentoring these same land owners how to engage the broader community and the developments that made these options possible!! And include all of this in the channel, which could become the playbook across England, but other countries as well. Whether publicly funded or privately. Reconnecting the urban populace with the wild land they now have “ownership pride” in what they are ensuring thrives, even though their name is not in the deed.. Imagine having the developers out to see what they have made possible!! Along with the residential and commercial inhabitants of the developments! They could all be invited to the parcel to witness, participate, and feel great about what these funds and or continued funding, have made possible. Create tangible and intangible connections. Publicize with your channel the acts of these developers, as if they were not being forced by law to contribute financially. While at the same time creating public support for the law and the absolute necessity of it by explaining how transformation of these lands into a natural state benefits the land owner, the developer, the community of people and corporations that will inhabit these specifically taxed areas. You each have tremendous opportunities at your fingertips!! Regardless of how you go about it, I have faith that you each are forging a road that will in the future, become legend!! Congratulations!! Your diligence, resiliency, thankless amounts of time and devotion are paying off!! Letting the Love of what you each do for the space and place guide you will be your North Star!! Cheering you forward!! ✅ You’ve got this!!
Could we please see you cook some of your favorite meals? Also, maybe Julie can show her favorite British recipes and Luke his favorite American recipes.
Perhaps an invitation out to King Charles to come by for a walk-about on Mapperton. I understand he is very interested in conservation and wilding. You thoughts?
I really enjoy your cooking videos. I would love to see more foraging! Such beautiful countryside and such abundance. And then fun to see what you make from the forage stuff.
So excited about every video that you both post! Also love The Italy videos! This is one of the best TH-cam channels ever! I love all the aspects of all the different projects that you both do, and particularly love those cooking sessions, so my vote is more of those, please, lol. I do wonder, based on Luke’s comment on having limited time together: when and how do you manage to maintain your healthy marriage, how do you manage to carve out the all important “together time”?
Luke and Julie cooking? Absolutely, you seem to have so much fun together, love the ones you've already done. Thank you for keeping us entertained with your wonderful, informative and fun channel xxx
Hi l always enjoy your family tea times. Very impressed with Julie’s dissertation work and tapestry kit idea and upcoming book. I would like to see old fashioned fabric or prints on crockery maybe modernised and sell them on tea towels, journal and cushion covers. Luke l laughed with your crestfallen face, lm interested in your important biodiversity work and old masonry work. Maybe you could get ladies knitting and cover stonework in some pretty crochet designs (seen them on tree trunks). Big Yes to more cooking shows. I appreciate ones where learn something unusual. All best x
I would love to see Mapperton foraging videos, and cooking videos where you use family recipes and family heirloom cooking tools! That would be so much fun. Also, do Alberta's letters or any other historic family letters mention dishes that they enjoyed, or games or other pastimes that they liked in the past? You could learn how to play 18th century card games or 19th/early 20th century parlor games over the winter holidays, for example.
I love anytime you two are together on camera. I am really enjoying these tea times, your banter reminds me of my husband and I. I love both restoration ideas with the stone and the tapestries. Without the stone you have no building.
Cooking with the whatever you get from the estate? YES! Ancient recipes? Even better!!! All those activities with children are also really great!! And while they have fun... all the renovation you did in the house and outbuildings and cottages...I would love to see and know ALL the details. Work on rewilding is the red, supple, cherry on top of your icecream. Just LOVE all you'strive to accomplish (even when it's still research, and yet so wonderful ambitious!). My compliments! The humblest and also the loudest compliments. A beautiful project, wherever you look. Thank you!
Great catch up with you again Viscount and Viscountess in that lovely quiet archive room, love the tea mugs and your chit chatter on where you are all up to with Mapperton and the numerous projects that your are both undertaking, thought you might be sending out some post cards to all your admirers 😊 No matter what you both get up too it is absolutely fabulous and we really enjoy this chat time with you both. Hopefully Nestor has his next solo sail planned and the Artic Circle sounds great, as always take care be safe and God Bless. 😇🙏🏰🏴🇺🇸⛵️❄️🥶
Clutter at Mapperton is “HISTORY TO BE DISCOVERED”. “The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy” is a fantastic book. Where are you getting your degree? There were many heiresses who didn’t have a last name that you’d actually recognize today. They were extremely wealthy but scattered across the US not just New York.
Please don’t let it be a competition between stonework versus tapestries. It’s all for the greater good of the manor. Maybe split the funds and both goals can be achieved in phases. Take a big problem and break it down into smaller manageable problems to achieve the ultimate desired results.
Re-watching this episode. Cooking? I would love to see Holiday "themed" meals. LOVE the tapestry fundraiser idea, totally on board! Luke your project for stonework is great too.
Julie, you did not really take the ice cream seriously. I adore you. Just be serious, when you cook. Love you too, Luke . You two are INDEED A GREAT TEAM.
My late Mother would have been so interested in your Rewilding project. She was a great supporter of re-introducing Wolves into Yellowstone National Park. She was not interested in Computers but I was able to show her, on TH-cam, the wonderful changes in the Park due to the Wolves being there. The transformation is overwhelming! I can’t wait to see the Tapestries in the process of and the restored product(?). Yes, stonework Restoration is so important. I saw a Video of King Charles, when the Prince of Wales, putting his hand to “Drystone Wall” repair. It was grand. You should not look on your fund-raising as a competition.
I'm really enjoy everything that Julie discovers through all her research and discoveries. Luke thank you for restating your negative comment, about "Julie's clutter". She done an excellent and incredible job on her dissertation and research on your family. I'm glad that she spoke up on her room, not being cluttered, but organized and researched. Best wishes 🌿
Although I have not seen the illustration/picture - the classical architecture shown on the "Gilded Age/America" book is most likely the Chicago's World Fair - 1893. Fabulous exhibition halls, venue "scaping", and landscaping for that event - but all built on the cheap to accommodate budget and very constricted schedule. Therefore, majority of buildings were intended to be temporary - two exceptions now still in use became - Museum of Science and Industry and Art Insitute of Chicago.
Thank you for the update!! It is always good to hear about what is going on in your part of the world & especially at Mapperton. I would check first that cooking in the copper pot is not dangerous to your health. My mother cooked in aluminum pots & of course we all found out in our adulthood that we were loaded with heavy metals that caused health issues. I know that we have a warning not to drink hot water from the tap due to the copper pipes. Luke you need to remind Julie, that if the walls aren't fixed, then her wall hangings will not be safe in the interior! 😆 I have also wondered if it wouldn't be cheaper to put in a new driveway to your property that you want to fix up? It could just be a semi permanent one across the hills whilst you fix up the property.
I would enjoy videos on “what is this antique” where you feature items that are, for example, especially unique, beautiful, hand crafted or have an interesting history. These items might be as big as a section of a building or as small as a snuff box.
Yessss on fixing the tapestries!!! Been waiting patiently for this to happen. If you can’t renovate the farmhouse this year, then why not put those funds towards fixing the garden arbor that’s rotting? Yessss to more cooking videos. You two are great in the kitchen together. Are you still picking apples from the apple orchard and selling Mapple juice? I loved that video! I would like to see you guys make some traditional English recipes for us Anglophiles. Show us how to make a good Sticky Toffee Pudding or similar dessert.
Cooking is always a good idea. Rewilding needs a dedicated channel. Yay to the book, dissertation almost done and keeping up the good fight in spite of difficulties - the road in particular. When do you get to depart for sunnier spaces for a break?
Absolutely more cooking. So many benefits! Not to mention watching you two relate to each other, which is endlessly entertaining, and refreshing in seeing a couple make it work and respect each other.
I like the cooking and stories from Luke's mother. Also will try to donate to both the tapestry project and the stonework project! I am very impressed with the dedication and commitment you have to improve Mapperton and hearing the history of your family! 🥰
As for me, Charge on with the re-wilding ! I can't wait. A stalk is a hunt, correct ? Best idea ever and in my opinion the most important project in the whole of Brittain.
Tea Time at the Manor demands traditional English tea things, those large mugs and teabags must be thrown out! The nettle soup was one of my favourite episodes! The rewilding project is mostly what keeps me interested in the channel.
the archive room now looks so great it really turned out well after all the work you did! love the history about the grain industry from u.s.a. bankrupting the u.k. my grandfather was a wheat farmer in western canada i am sure he would have liked to be a part of that! sorry england.
i am shocked i have been watching you for the past 4 years since started during the pandemic like a lot of us did - wow - that has flown by! would like to see cooking segments for sure!
Thank you Julie and Luke for the latest update. You both look great....so young looking! Julie your skin and hair is beautiful! Love all past cooking episodes. The one a few years back with Julie making the Guinness chocolate cake was wonderful and I still make that recipe for "special occasions"!
Watching from Hart, Michigan, USA. We've had absolutely gorgeous weather literally since April/May. Love these tea time episodes at the Manor. As someone who lived in Europe for years, tea time was something I always looked forward to.
Ooh, let me ask you a question! What do old houses like that smell like? Sorry for the dumb question, but America is a preteen in comparison to a lot of European nations, so I'm curious and neurodivergent lol
Well, you can actually hear the footsteps of history in them. And the smells are interesting; not unpleasant, just appropriate for older, stately homes.
Drainage should be run underneath your Mapperton pool. Consider backfilling a trench along the length of pool wall. The side that water dam's up against. Drop a dam lining along the pool wall and bottom of that trench. Have the trench slope downward from ends to the middle to collect into a central drainage point. Run a drain pipe underneath the pool there, and preferably outflowing further downhill in a gully. Cover the L-lining bed with gravel and backfill the trench like it was never there. Aquascaped freshwater aquariums are a quick info and ideas resource. Not for the pretty aquariums, but water management approaches.
Julie, your knowledge bespeaks the extensive research you have done! You explain things so well, and you are an excellent, interesting orator. It is a shame that your county hierarchy doesn’t recognize the importance of your road. They could have accomplished a lot in 4 months….at the very least, get it started. 😳. So sad you lost your beavers, Luke, and hope your ideas to protect them work. Love from Pennsylvania, USA 💕🌷🐻
I grew up in England. My dad was stationed at RAF Lakenheath. I loved the summers in England. Not so hot that you need fans to stay cool. We would go to Kings Lynn on the weekends and stay with my Aunt and Uncle. There were time when we went and stayed on the farm with my other Aunt and Uncle. Those were the good times.
My favorite (as I have commented before) is the rewilding! The historical preservation is fascinating and gives US (humans) a valuable perspective on what has gone before and why, as well as beautiful edifices and parkland/gardens (which I admit were pretty forward looking in their own way) but the rewilding is a forward looking gift of preservation that enriches the entire earth, whether they care for historical perspectives or not (wildlife probably doesn’t ;)
Would be interested in a day in the life at mapperton. Do you have staff that cook for you or you do it all yourselves ? do you ever show private areas or live in an outhouse ( like the Earl)
Yes to Luke and Julie cooking together. I loved it.😊
I love it when Julie sets the table and Luke goes behind her and changes half of it. That is real life!
I want to see more of Luke’s mom with Luke walking through History of the entire estate. Hope to see more of your parents home. Your mother is insightful and quite entertaining to watch her segments.
Julie, your videos are not just popular because of their interesting content, it is mainly due to your great personalities. ... Thank you for explaining about the decline of the aristocry due to cheap American wheat and new high taxes. That is new information to me.
I looked into my crystal ball and saw a new T-shirt and hoodie in the Mapperton shop: "Its not clutter! It's Research!" Brilliant, Luke! I love it!
As a researcher I say that is indeed brilliant!!
yes to more cooking and more stories from Luke's mom. Enjoy your channel.
Cooking - historical recipes? Using historical cooking tools? On that amazing stove in the kitchen? Absolutely!! Honest review of how it tastes, sharing the recipe, would be amazing!!
I like the cooking episodes, but the main reason we follow your channels is due to the fact we have one of the oldest homes in Indiana, 7th generation, 200 years and although we share many of the same issues maintaining a large family property (on a much smaller scale for us of course only 200 acres) we're all the time siphoning ideas from you guys on what to do. So, that's very interesting to us.
My husband and I took a trip from our home in Southern Ontario, by Lake Erie and drove through Northern Ontario and drove across Canada to Calgary Alberta. Along the way, we saw moose, deer, black bears, coyotes, foxes, otters, pheasants, quails, eagles, different types of hawks, pararie dogs and we even saw a lynx!! I never thought I'd see a lynx in the wild! It was a wonderful trip. Canada is such a beautiful, diverse country. I love watching the way you're bringing back some of your natural diversity at Mapperton.
Thankyou for the very interesting update July and Luke. Great to hear that the Government is backing these fantastic rewilding projects with Mapperton involved to work towards restoring the landscape and biodiversity 👏❤️
The cooking is such fun! Particularly enjoyable to see Luke's parents involved as well! Perhaps they have special family recipes connected to happy memories to share with us? ❤
Julie is such a high energy lady her enthusiasm has kick started me to begin creating, redecorating, and getting old treasures out. Thanks for the inspiration. 🤗
Wow, thank you!
I just discovered both channels and I totally agree. I've been on a binge watch and it has definitely sparked my creative juices for my home and property. I've been consuming my energy on the daily, mundane stressors in life long enough. I've already thought of some exciting room transformations and dared to share them with my husband, (which led to a wonderful, animated discussion of new visions!)
Your energy is a source of motivation, no doubt. My passion for the history you're surrounded by is off the charts. I hadn't known much about English peerage until I became addicted to Outlander series which sent me researching. Thank you for sharing your life with us as an American Viscountess! Your hard work is keeping the past alive.
*Edit PS- Wildflowers, nature, wildlife, gardening are my other passions. I love spotting birds and butterflies that are nature's way of validating what time of year it is.
Love your mugs!!! You both are so knowledgeable, and often Luke sounds like a professor. He is also so knowledgeable. PLEASE MORE COOKING EPISODES, you both are charming to see together in those episodes!
Diving pigs, lost beavers, damp walls, the tapestry weavers vs the stonemasons, all discussed at teatime - quintessentially Mapperton!
I Vote for Luke’s fundraiser for now. That is structural and is very very necessary for daily living. Tapestry to me is fine if you have funds for beauty. To me it makes more sense to fund projects that structural issues are sound. I hope many will support Luke’s efforts !
Tea time is fabulous…..Heck ya! Cooking with Luke and Julie👍🏻
So good to hear that the British government is doing something sensible and wanting to restore nature 👏 🙏🏻 In South Africa the cabal has got its very evil claws firmly clenched and the establishment is destroying land and mountains and even beaches for concrete buildings and roads. It's horrific to witness 😢😢
All topics you discussed are of GREAT interest! Vintage recipes, especially for holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas! Autumn inspired soups, with foraged ingredients. Christmas Pudding (also known as Plum Pudding) which, to Americans, is more like a steamed cake in a sealed mold, with ingredients like suet, currants, and doused with brandy and set on fire for presentation! A smallish holiday recipe booklet with line drawings of Mapperton's treasures! Literally photographs of the vintage handwritten recipes on one side, and the type-written 'translation' using either metric or imperial measurements for US cooks on the facing page! A filmed batch of cooking sessions with the recipe booklet being available at the end of the year would be fabulous!
If we could purchase a chunk of stone for the stone repair, what a way to raise money! Then get a piece of 'rotten' stone in a raffle for the lucky 50 or so participants remade into bookends! Imagine having a piece of a 500-year-old stone from an Elizabethan era Tudor manor house in your bookcase! What a conversation piece!
The tapestry restoration is calling me! The rewilding project and recreating a wetland area to deal with storm runoff! Golly! I am imagining an entire university barracks using Army-like tents to house students and volunteers to work on the stonework and rewilding, and tapestry restoration!
What a grand group of diverse projects! Something literally for everyone! Despite all the work and cost, your lives of maintaining and restoring your estate sounds so thrilling! I do realize, however, there may be days or weeks it can be so overwhelming that the last leaky roof may send you into orbit! Every project counts! All are important, and we all want to see you all succeed! Bless you all for taking on these tasks!
Thank you so much! We loved reading your comments!!
The photo on the front of the book that looks like Chicago is most likely the "White City" during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair). There's a fascinating book on it along with a serial murderer called "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America." True story and fascinating history!
There's not clutter, you have so much history of Mapperton and English information. I think it's really neat learning about now and the past. Love it! Keep informing us.
Love the historical/hysterical cooking shows you have done.
Dishes from bygone eras are fascinating especially with the families personal connections.
You could create another channel and invite family members and other families with historical recipes to create them together!!
You two are a stitch!! The whole family is a pleasure to learn from!
Keep up the good work, the education, and sharing your dedication as well as the love you all share for one another!
You are doing a great service for the future, allowing history to unfold while creating the history of the future!!
As long as it brings you joy, and builds relationships, priorities have to be managed of course!
Thanks for all that you each do!
Additionally I am fascinated about the rewilding, especially involving the other 53 plus land owners, talk about a legacy for the future of your entire community!!
Brilliant!!
Restoring habitats and creating an ecologically sound and biodiverse ecosystem in your broader community, highlights even more reasons for people to come visit and stay in the area to participate in the community and Mapperton.
Creating more places to stay and participate for those outside of the area, and educating locals on how to build the wild-land spaces!!
You could have glamping locations spread thou out the entire community rewilding areas, along with possibly more places to stay on these community acres that essentially create more earning opportunities for everyone to flourish.
Expanding to yet another channel, Luke could do a version similar to what Julie does for Historic Homes.
Luke could have another channel that focuses specifically on the participating land owners from the area, and following along, documenting the process essentially creating a public play by play of the entire behind the scenes process. Creating an audience of people specifically engaged with the desire for nature rehabilitation, and eventually it could show other geographic areas as they are rewilded creating and sharing how things evolve and change based upon the last experiences..
This is a great opportunity to showcase how the funds from developers are being used for resource building and conservation.
You could also feature the developments that fund each particular area or project, giving acknowledgment to those making this possible, albeit a forced situation, you could improve perceptions and perhaps facilitate relationships, started by a law forcing developers to pay a rewilding tax, but you have the opportunity with each area that is built out, to not only connect each development to a specific project or parcel of land being rewilded, for people to see as they visit, and digitally, but to invite the inhabitants of each of these developments whether residential or commercial, to essentially by in and visit what their development has created, along with empower them if they so choose, to come up with community building events in their own area that collect funds year after year or perhaps volunteer a week out of the year to help their rewilding “child” grow and flourish!!
The land owners could go give presentations each year to the engaged developed area participants.. the possibilities are endless!!!
Way to go!!!
Diversification with connected community driven participation!!
What an example this will be having engaged over 53 land owners!!
Imagine also mentoring these same land owners how to engage the broader community and the developments that made these options possible!! And include all of this in the channel, which could become the playbook across England, but other countries as well. Whether publicly funded or privately.
Reconnecting the urban populace with the wild land they now have “ownership pride” in what they are ensuring thrives, even though their name is not in the deed..
Imagine having the developers out to see what they have made possible!!
Along with the residential and commercial inhabitants of the developments!
They could all be invited to the parcel to witness, participate, and feel great about what these funds and or continued funding, have made possible.
Create tangible and intangible connections.
Publicize with your channel the acts of these developers, as if they were not being forced by law to contribute financially.
While at the same time creating public support for the law and the absolute necessity of it by explaining how transformation of these lands into a natural state benefits the land owner, the developer, the community of people and corporations that will inhabit these specifically taxed areas.
You each have tremendous opportunities at your fingertips!!
Regardless of how you go about it, I have faith that you each are forging a road that will in the future, become legend!!
Congratulations!! Your diligence, resiliency, thankless amounts of time and devotion are paying off!!
Letting the Love of what you each do for the space and place guide you will be your North Star!!
Cheering you forward!!
✅ You’ve got this!!
Could we please see you cook some of your favorite meals? Also, maybe Julie can show her favorite British recipes and Luke his favorite American recipes.
I'll watch your stone work too, Luke! Lol All the restorations are interesting.
Perhaps an invitation out to King Charles to come by for a walk-about on Mapperton. I understand he is very interested in conservation and wilding. You thoughts?
I really enjoy your cooking videos. I would love to see more foraging! Such beautiful countryside and such abundance. And then fun to see what you make from the forage stuff.
So excited about every video that you both post! Also love The Italy videos! This is one of the best TH-cam channels ever! I love all the aspects of all the different projects that you both do, and particularly love those cooking sessions, so my vote is more of those, please, lol. I do wonder, based on Luke’s comment on having limited time together: when and how do you manage to maintain your healthy marriage, how do you manage to carve out the all important “together time”?
Love your show…. I have a love of English history, manors , castles and the way you present it! Keep up the great work😊
Foraging and cooking with both of you!
Julie you and Luke are great together. Sending love and some warmer weather to you .❤
Luke and Julie cooking? Absolutely, you seem to have so much fun together, love the ones you've already done. Thank you for keeping us entertained with your wonderful, informative and fun channel xxx
I liked the cooking segments. Especially with recipes from the past. Especially in the winter - soups, breads, etc.
Yes, I agree. I love it.
Hi l always enjoy your family tea times. Very impressed with Julie’s dissertation work and tapestry kit idea and upcoming book. I would like to see old fashioned fabric or prints on crockery maybe modernised and sell them on tea towels, journal and cushion covers. Luke l laughed with your crestfallen face, lm interested in your important biodiversity work and old masonry work. Maybe you could get ladies knitting and cover stonework in some pretty crochet designs (seen them on tree trunks). Big Yes to more cooking shows. I appreciate ones where learn something unusual. All best x
I'm for Luke's team for the stonework! And I'm going to want a Mapperton stone in the mail!
Luke we support your stonework.
I would love to see Mapperton foraging videos, and cooking videos where you use family recipes and family heirloom cooking tools! That would be so much fun. Also, do Alberta's letters or any other historic family letters mention dishes that they enjoyed, or games or other pastimes that they liked in the past? You could learn how to play 18th century card games or 19th/early 20th century parlor games over the winter holidays, for example.
I love anytime you two are together on camera. I am really enjoying these tea times, your banter reminds me of my husband and I. I love both restoration ideas with the stone and the tapestries. Without the stone you have no building.
Yes please do cooking! I love the bantering of Luke & Julie! You both are funny & adorable together!
Cooking with the whatever you get from the estate? YES! Ancient recipes? Even better!!!
All those activities with children are also really great!!
And while they have fun... all the renovation you did in the house and outbuildings and cottages...I would love to see and know ALL the details.
Work on rewilding is the red, supple, cherry on top of your icecream.
Just LOVE all you'strive to accomplish (even when it's still research, and yet so wonderful ambitious!).
My compliments! The humblest and also the loudest compliments. A beautiful project, wherever you look. Thank you!
Thank you!!!!!!! 🥰
Great catch up with you again Viscount and Viscountess in that lovely quiet archive room, love the tea mugs and your chit chatter on where you are all up to with Mapperton and the numerous projects that your are both undertaking, thought you might be sending out some post cards to all your admirers 😊
No matter what you both get up too it is absolutely fabulous and we really enjoy this chat time with you both. Hopefully Nestor has his next solo sail planned and the Artic Circle sounds great, as always take care be safe and God Bless. 😇🙏🏰🏴🇺🇸⛵️❄️🥶
Clutter at Mapperton is “HISTORY TO BE DISCOVERED”. “The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy” is a fantastic book.
Where are you getting your degree? There were many heiresses who didn’t have a last name that you’d actually recognize today. They were extremely wealthy but scattered across the US not just New York.
Please don’t let it be a competition between stonework versus tapestries. It’s all for the greater good of the manor. Maybe split the funds and both goals can be achieved in phases. Take a big problem and break it down into smaller manageable problems to achieve the ultimate desired results.
Your Guinness cake was a hit! Yes, more. 🤗
Watching from Miami. Julie so impressed with all your research for your dissertation. I love that you keep learning 💖🌸
Your holiday kitchen projects were always fun to watch.
Re-watching this episode. Cooking? I would love to see Holiday "themed" meals. LOVE the tapestry fundraiser idea, totally on board! Luke your project for stonework is great too.
Julie, you did not really take the ice cream seriously.
I adore you. Just be serious, when you cook. Love you too, Luke
. You two are INDEED A GREAT TEAM.
Cooking as a couple! Yes!! Foraging Nice! Copper pots. All my favorites! I was also very interested in your mother's furniture Luke!
I like the variation in subject. Love rewilding and renovations and history and all your projects.
My late Mother would have been so interested in your Rewilding project. She was a great supporter of re-introducing Wolves into Yellowstone National Park. She was not interested in Computers but I was able to show her, on TH-cam, the wonderful changes in the Park due to the Wolves being there. The transformation is overwhelming!
I can’t wait to see the Tapestries in the process of and the restored product(?).
Yes, stonework Restoration is so important. I saw a Video of King Charles, when the Prince of Wales, putting his hand to “Drystone Wall” repair. It was grand. You should not look on your fund-raising as a competition.
I'm really enjoy everything that Julie discovers through all her research and discoveries.
Luke thank you for restating your negative comment, about "Julie's clutter". She done an excellent and incredible job on her dissertation and research on your family. I'm glad that she spoke up on her room, not being cluttered, but organized and researched.
Best wishes 🌿
Although I have not seen the illustration/picture - the classical architecture shown on the "Gilded Age/America" book is most likely the Chicago's World Fair - 1893. Fabulous exhibition halls, venue "scaping", and landscaping for that event - but all built on the cheap to accommodate budget and very constricted schedule. Therefore, majority of buildings were intended to be temporary - two exceptions now still in use became - Museum of Science and Industry and Art Insitute of Chicago.
Thanks for the info!!!
I hope that you have a great vacation In Italy and France.
Thank you for the update!! It is always good to hear about what is going on in your part of the world & especially at Mapperton.
I would check first that cooking in the copper pot is not dangerous to your health. My mother cooked in aluminum pots & of course we all found out in our adulthood that we were loaded with heavy metals that caused health issues. I know that we have a warning not to drink hot water from the tap due to the copper pipes.
Luke you need to remind Julie, that if the walls aren't fixed, then her wall hangings will not be safe in the interior! 😆
I have also wondered if it wouldn't be cheaper to put in a new driveway to your property that you want to fix up? It could just be a semi permanent one across the hills whilst you fix up the property.
I would enjoy videos on “what is this antique” where you feature items that are, for example, especially unique, beautiful, hand crafted or have an interesting history. These items might be as big as a section of a building or as small as a snuff box.
Yessss on fixing the tapestries!!! Been waiting patiently for this to happen. If you can’t renovate the farmhouse this year, then why not put those funds towards fixing the garden arbor that’s rotting? Yessss to more cooking videos. You two are great in the kitchen together. Are you still picking apples from the apple orchard and selling Mapple juice? I loved that video! I would like to see you guys make some traditional English recipes for us Anglophiles. Show us how to make a good Sticky Toffee Pudding or similar dessert.
Cooking is always a good idea. Rewilding needs a dedicated channel. Yay to the book, dissertation almost done and keeping up the good fight in spite of difficulties - the road in particular. When do you get to depart for sunnier spaces for a break?
Yes definitely do some cooking! I have loved all your cooking episodes. And you two are just too adorable, so it’s lots of fun
Thanks for bringing some levity at the end of your vlog to these very serious restoration considerations!
Absolutely more cooking. So many benefits! Not to mention watching you two relate to each other, which is endlessly entertaining, and refreshing in seeing a couple make it work and respect each other.
I like the cooking and stories from Luke's mother. Also will try to donate to both the tapestry project and the stonework project! I am very impressed with the dedication and commitment you have to improve Mapperton and hearing the history of your family! 🥰
Yes! Please do the cooking shows, it will be fun!
Love these teatime talks
As for me, Charge on with the re-wilding ! I can't wait. A stalk is a hunt, correct ? Best idea ever and in my opinion the most important project in the whole of Brittain.
Julie and Luke nice video regarding Aristocracy, wáter and leak.I like the history and the landnscape you and Luke explain.
Cooking shows, yes! It will give you time together too. ❤️
Such fun and important projects Great job 👏
Thank you for another wonderful Tea Time. Happy Holiday time. Sending Joy, Kindness, and Love.
I'm up for whatever do!❤
In the Kitchen, with Luke & Julie!! 🙌 I would LOVE to get a stone! ❣
I love these chat sessions, too funny. I so wish we could send you some decent weather. I'm so happy
that your gloves are finally off.
Would love to see videos of you and Luke cooking. :) I am very excited about your nature recovery project!!!!
I would love to see the two of you cooking! Foraging is good as well. Such great ideas you have!
Love the mugs ❤❤❤❤❤Yes to cooking and praying the road gets fixed more quickly than expected 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
You two are hilarious in the kitchen together..yes please do more..
Loved the sandwich cook-off between you two. More cooking. The chocolate episode was hilarious!
Tea Time at the Manor demands traditional English tea things, those large mugs and teabags must be thrown out!
The nettle soup was one of my favourite episodes!
The rewilding project is mostly what keeps me interested in the channel.
the archive room now looks so great it really turned out well after all the work you did! love the history about the grain industry from u.s.a. bankrupting the u.k. my grandfather was a wheat farmer in western canada i am sure he would have liked to be a part of that! sorry england.
i am shocked i have been watching you for the past 4 years since started during the pandemic like a lot of us did - wow - that has flown by! would like to see cooking segments for sure!
Thanks a bunch!
I’ve always thought of that swimming pool as being a cement pond. 😊
I would love to watch you try out old recipies. 😊❤
Luke has definitely got Alberta's genes - can really see the visual similarity between the two.
I love when you cook together! The friendly competition is always fun!
The antique recipes would be fascinating!!
Thank you Julie and Luke for the latest update. You both look great....so young looking! Julie your skin and hair is beautiful! Love all past cooking episodes. The one a few years back with Julie making the Guinness chocolate cake was wonderful and I still make that recipe for "special occasions"!
Yes! To you two doing a cooking show! I loved the one with the chocolate ice cream ❤️
You guys are such a cute couple and so supportive of all your ideas and dreams!
This is fun! Hope your summer is going better than many who live throughout the realm and are experiencing unrest. I hope peace will prevail.
I’ve always enjoyed your cooking and foraging videos. I would love to see more. You got me to try foraging for nettles for tea and to sauté.☺️
This is such a lovely channel.
Thanks for sharing your lives with us.
Bless you.
Thank you so much!
Watching from Hart, Michigan, USA. We've had absolutely gorgeous weather literally since April/May. Love these tea time episodes at the Manor. As someone who lived in Europe for years, tea time was something I always looked forward to.
Ooh, let me ask you a question! What do old houses like that smell like? Sorry for the dumb question, but America is a preteen in comparison to a lot of European nations, so I'm curious and neurodivergent lol
Well, you can actually hear the footsteps of history in them. And the smells are interesting; not unpleasant, just appropriate for older, stately homes.
Drainage should be run underneath your Mapperton pool. Consider backfilling a trench along the length of pool wall. The side that water dam's up against. Drop a dam lining along the pool wall and bottom of that trench. Have the trench slope downward from ends to the middle to collect into a central drainage point. Run a drain pipe underneath the pool there, and preferably outflowing further downhill in a gully. Cover the L-lining bed with gravel and backfill the trench like it was never there.
Aquascaped freshwater aquariums are a quick info and ideas resource. Not for the pretty aquariums, but water management approaches.
Julie, your knowledge bespeaks the extensive research you have done! You explain things so well, and you are an excellent, interesting orator. It is a shame that your county hierarchy doesn’t recognize the importance of your road. They could have accomplished a lot in 4 months….at the very least, get it started. 😳. So sad you lost your beavers, Luke, and hope your ideas to protect them work. Love from Pennsylvania, USA 💕🌷🐻
Wow, thank you!
Lastly...(for this episode...), I think BOTH of your new fund raising projects sound amazing, and important. I would certainly contribute to both. 😊
You both are brilliant and I admire what you are doing so much. Yes to cooking segments, tapestry and stone restorations!
I grew up in England. My dad was stationed at RAF Lakenheath. I loved the summers in England. Not so hot that you need fans to stay cool. We would go to Kings Lynn on the weekends and stay with my Aunt and Uncle. There were time when we went and stayed on the farm with my other Aunt and Uncle. Those were the good times.
Love you two ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤nothing more to say !
My favorite (as I have commented before) is the rewilding!
The historical preservation is fascinating and gives US (humans) a valuable perspective on what has gone before and why, as well as beautiful edifices and parkland/gardens (which I admit were pretty forward looking in their own way) but the rewilding is a forward looking gift of preservation that enriches the entire earth, whether they care for historical perspectives or not (wildlife probably doesn’t ;)
Would be interested in a day in the life at mapperton. Do you have staff that cook for you or you do it all yourselves ? do you ever show private areas or live in an outhouse ( like the Earl)
I’m tired just thinking of all that goes on at Mapperton. Historical recipes sounds fun.
Yes, more cooking with Luke and Julie
Just get a dehumidifier to handle the damp.