For the flies issue, I found a solution personally when planting various aromatic plants of which they feel repelled. I suggest building around the living areas raised beds of basil, cloves lavender, mint, salvia, and rosemary. I find these plants perfect as bug repellents and they make great companion plants for trees and the soil. Water purification might also be an issue or composting areas. There are plants that can help naturally with the process of water purification also. Hope you guys figure out an appropriate solution that suits you.
In regards to flies. The plants with the most powerful smells are the best at deterring flies. Lavender, mint, rosemary, catnip, sage...all of those should be planted all around your main housing areas and gathering areas. As an added bonus, you can use almost all of these for cooking!
@@ProjectKamp try to add tansy and hang dry plants around. Also add some bait like undrinkable wine, old beer or (if you have them in Portugal) red toadstools sprinkled with sugar :D you have some livestock around? anyway best luck an thank you!
For keeping away flies, gnats and midges (airborne pests) use lavender (Lavandula angustifolia), citronella (grasses), lemon eucalyptus (shrubs and trees), or patchouli (Labiatae mint). Steam distillation and mix with coconut oil to apply on skin. Also hang lavender around food or work areas as deterrent. Hope this helps. Information from DöTerra oils.
A suggestion for the hot water p̶r̶o̶b̶l̶e̶m̶ challenge: Look into a biomeiler as an addition to the electric boiler. This is basically a huge compost heap filled with wood chips (nice way to get rid of some mimosas) that composts over a period of two years and creates heat in the progress. After two years you're left with high quality compost and can refill the system to start a new cycle.
For the hot water, you can use an insulated tank and make a frame with black hose serpetine inside connected both ends to the insulated tank, it will heat water using the sun... look for AQUECEDOR SOLAR DE AGUA
I don't know what (or if) bats are native to Portugal, but if there are any, look at setting up bat boxes to lure more of them to live on your land. They'll feast on the flies!
On the fly issue: Try to identify the locations where the flies lay their eggs / hatch from. The compost would be one possible location. If so make it a closed box that catches sun during the day. Increasing the temperature improves the composting process and makes it less habitable for the flies. Temperatures up to 65°C are OK for composting.
LOL yeah, that look at the 'compost pile' was sad... i say with compassion and a wish to help. Making a compost pile... isn't as easy OR AS COMPLICATED as one might imagine. But you've gotta get the basics right, something which obviously hasn't been accomplished yet at the Kamp. This mislukte/failed compost pile could well be the source of the flies. Answer: cover it all with sawdust/woodchips. Basics: if you're composting living/raw materials, it's a different story, but if there are cooked foods or animal proteins on the surface, you're asking for problems. Use the same layer for the toilets for the compost pile. And maybe surround it with fly traps like the one i linked to above. Also... chickens. You guys need animals to help deal with the environment. Seriously: sheep, chickens, goats [for clearing the forest], even hogs for maintaining the forest floor [and ideally miniature zebu for cattle]. Still so much to be said. I've done my homework and would be glad to help. namaste
Yeah, saw that one. Amazing. But, methinks, not along with the ideals of the Kamp. Gold Shaw Farm also tried using chickens and mentioned that they maybe just didn't have enough, but the Kamp doesn't even have bovines, so what's up? It could be the neighbours; it could be still-standing waters [also a mosquito hazard]. Flies are not normal, not natural, not healthy; they are a symptom of a systemic problem and should be considered as such.
I have been following this project from the beginning and being portuguese I can only feel happy to have a group like yours taking care of our land and our older people (although indirectly, you do). I`m finishing some burocracy regarding some funds I`ll be getting and once I do, you can count on a nice donation towards your project. Might be somewhere between a tractor, brand new pick up or even financing most of the big ruin. Who knows... but the best thing for you is to do like you said in the video, not counting on any big donation and just plan as you go with whats`s coming.
I think the pond "air raider" was meant to be a "pond aerator" 🙂 This is a device that comes in many forms but its job is to recirculate the water and inject oxygen into it to improve water quality.
LOL yeah, that was hilarious. Obviously, the person meant aerator, i.e. something to put air, i.e. oxygen, into the water. If you're not a native speaker, such things might slip by. Oh, you Dutch... Rare jongens die Hollanders ;-) [yes, i am bilingual.]
Glad you said it cause I was going to otherwise. Aerator is the best option for there pond/rivers. They can see change just in a week for the most part.
Inderdaad, rare jongens die Nederlanders. Oh, speaking of "rare mensen." When discussing looking for legacy funding donors, calling a potential donor "weird" may not be a great idea. Een raar mens met te veel geld, to a weird person with deep pockets, isn't exactly flattering, nor does it translate well.
For water you could use solar collectors which is similar to solar panels. It heats water to 50 C⁰ and if its not hot enough then use electricity to heat up. Keep up the good work!
Heres a couple of tips 1. HEAT: air movement make sure you're making the most of the passive ventilation with you're openings for buildings in the most optimum wind direction, if it's still too hot try evaporative cooling and 2 Flies: Plants help a bit, also encouraging insects that eat the flies. But in hot areas you really need to build screened verandas with some kind of thin mesh. 3. Hot water: A temp move could be could be a change to all of the biomass wood that you might not need.. For future a biodigester to make your own gas on site from waste
Flies: Growing up in Australia agree you need screened verandas and large fans to keep the air moving. Fans are very energy efficient. Food needs to be put away quickly and everything cleaned down. No compost piles near seating areas. Open water sources need to be covered. Citronella lamps/candles also help.
Unfortunately I have no money to give you directly, but I've watched every single of you guys' videos (multiple times), always give a thumbs up and usually leave a comment, to hopefully appease the algorithm. Keep up the good work. Groetjes uit Nederland.
For the hot water, maybe said already, but black plastic tubes, like maybe PVC from recycling, set on a black tarp that has water slowly flowing through. You just need a simple pomp, or hand loading a big bucket (maybe with an antique manual pomp? Those live forever!) at the top that would slowly empty in the dark tarp/roof and pip system and fill another tank that should be at least lukewarm? And if not warm enough, one may pump the water back up for another cycle of harvesting heat from the plastic. The issue obviously would be plastic leeching? You know those questions.
I’ve heard of a biogas solution that could work for your camp. There’s products such as Home BioGas where your compost will create a natural gas that can in turn be used for cooking or potentially heating water. Maybe look into it!
Hello love your project keep it up! About the flies I remember my childhood in Portugal I was always annoyed by the flies but my cousins living in the village just got used to live with them. That's my advice getting used to live with them (also create shelters to attract bats and froggies that will eat some of them)
As an Australian (somewhat an expert on flies) I recommend the use of fly screen walls to enclose outdoor areas. Unfortunately fly traps can't control an entire continent of flies as much as i wish they could. Also use insect repellent. 👍
With all the mimosa trees that you have around there build yourself a roof and place it above the outdoor shower then place the solar water heater on top most of the solar water heater should be able to use recycled materials
YALL ARE GENIUS WITH YOUR CONTENT, DIRECTING THE VIDEOS, EDITING, CAMERA POSITION, I love everything bout the projects I observed ever since have been here never afor a sec saw any bad negative comments... "KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK"
Some suggestions: 1) look into rocket stove mass heater for water/space heating - better to burn wood than fosil fuels. You can put the ash back into the ground for soil improvement 2) invest and start improving soil using swales, plant fruit forrest, ground water improvement. 3) direct solar heating of water using vacuum tubes/concentrated solar - not via PV. amongst others.
spot on. they have so much wood to burn and the ash is great fertilizer. solar heating is very very effective as well. about 70% of house hold in Israel us solar heating. and last one is using hydropower during the winter. getting a long pipe from the lagoon to the lowest point well give an extra boost to the power supplies.
Water heating with the sun: My grandma just had a 30-meter black painted water pipe laying on the ground under the summer sun - was enough for one shower per couple of hours. That was in Russia in not so warm summer - should be way more effective in Portugal.
A comment for the algorithm, plus a couple of suggestions for the challenges/problems. Lots of pungent plants that flies hate, plus loads of bird and bat boxes. Definitely screen your kitchen, dining areas and bedrooms/vans/tents, plus make some portable frames hung with mosquito netting for when you're sitting working or relaxing outside, plus some fans. Aerating plants for all the lagoons, ponds, lakes you have, so the algae has less opportunity to establish. Borrow or allow neighbours to graze their sheep/goats, but definitely pen goats into a particular area that you want fully cleared! This way, you don't have to own the animals, your neighbours will be happy that their livestock have another area to graze, plus you get a little extra fertiliser! If you can afford it at some point, a stump grinder would hopefully not only get rid of all those stumps sticking up (with the added hazard they have of tripping, or falling directly onto one), but also of reducing the possibility of regrowth, especially from brambles and mimosa. Again, if/when you can afford it, a few more water storage tanks that can be filled in the rainy season, and either left in case of fires, and/or used for irrigation of the useful plants and trees you have/will be getting. I don't know if this is a possibility, but is an actual irrigation system possible? By this I mean burying those irrigation hoses around trees and gardens, and/or creating individual watering systems such as those used by some people, where they sink a bottle or some hosepipe directly by a plant and pour the water down them, so that it ends up quite a way under the surface, nearer the roots, and is much less likely to evaporate. I know my comment is a year later, but hopefully someone notices and and/or you've already implemented some of these.
I stumble upon your channel when I was watching van life and off grid living, I'm never disappointed. This is like a real life version of Managerial Simulation games. Gather resources, build compound, keep your community contented and healthy, all that's left to tick off the list is fight a boss!
This project is so amazing. I love watching your progress and am a little jealous. I enjoy your community setting; it is wonderful to see so many young people from different places and languages able to work together and accomplish such a huge undertaking. It is understandable that you want to take time off from filming however it would be nice to watch your community year-round. Also, would love to see some of the B roll of your videoing if it is funny! Please continue to be safe, have fun and I look forward to the next video!!
Gotta say, I have been following you all for about 1,5 years for now, and Javier's editing has leveled up the video quality! Even though Javies might not be filming everyone, his way of editing is quite pleasing to the eye and ear. I'm REALLY looking into applying for video support next year, and I feel like the way of editing that Javier applies, and your general way of living really attracts me a lot. Hope to get in touch once you are looking to expand your video team again! Until then, good luck from you all and kind regards from The Netherlands!
Wasps help against flies, if there is a wasp around there is no fly, check it out. And those sticky papers. Just keep replacing them it really helps reduce them. Maybe come up with a DIY sticky strip like collect tree hars and mix it with some fish oil or so in a hot pan and spread it on a paper or plank.
FLIES-there are many DIY fly traps on the internet. They work really well. Make bait and put in containers with small holes and trap them. Black plastic works especially well. On our farm we trap many many of them every day.
I think the money issue more generally raises the question of the long term sustainability of the project and whether it can be seen as a viable 'lifestyle' approach going forward. Given your main revenue streams seem to be Patreon and TH-cam, and you have relied on both your own capital to buy the land and big donations to build the infrastructure, I continue to wonder whether this is sustainable beyond the existing Project for those who don't have access to those revenue streams. I do appreciate that it's not the sole motivation for the Project, and it's producing some good results for other aspects of sustainability (e.g. environmental and ecological sustainability), but might it be something which might be addressed in a later video?
Love what you guys do. Brings me joy to watch such a nice way of living while I work my mundane office job and go home to my crappy inner city apartment lol
maybe burning moxa rolls for the flies (mugwort)they last pretty well and repel insects. Not too expensive. Also large sheets of fly paper wrapped around bins, you need to do this until the fly reproduction cycle is interrupted and the levels drop. best of luck. love the videos
A few ideas you may find useful? 1) How about bio gas? I'm sure that's been thought of and maybe eliminated already. 2) You need someone with a farming background who knows how to build, repair, grow stuff and maybe tend livestock (how about goats, they eat anything thorny...) and a few sheep to keep them company as you have pasture. Chickens and ducks and maybe rabbits. 3)Possible use for all that mimosa wood is maybe charcoal if suitable. 4)Solar hot water panels can be made easily and used to reduce your gas bill. 5) A 50 year old tractor can still be made to work and could be found locally. There is probably one in a barn somewhere unused and donated. Just a few ideas to be getting on with. Good luck from rural France.
Fireplace with water connection you can burn the mimosa in it and use it to heat the water. Clear plastic bags filled with water can help against flies in sunny places. Or Flygold is chemical against flies can be sprinkled as a powder or dissolved in water and painted on surfaces, is used in the neighborhood in cowsheds
If they don't want to use gas, I doubt they'll want to release even more oxygen by burning wood, they mentioned something like that in their video on baking
Good job folks. Wish I wasn't tied to my job. I would love to take a summer to come help out.. Sadly bills need to get paid here. Otherwise I'd be on the next plane.. Love this project. Keep the videos coming!!
for the hot water, try the outdoor black tanks that is heated with the sun. You can enclose it in a structure with a glass and this will heat up your water during the day and it should stay hot for a long time!
I really love your videos. They inspire me a lot for a future community I want to be part of in France. I like the honestly of your videos and also the transparency of what you experience. Just 2 questions: - 1. What is your main goal of the project? How do you see it in 5 years? - 2. Why don"t your produce biogas yourself for the future? Looking forward for your next videos. Dan
Let the sun help heat the water: Life Uncontained has a "Solar Batch Water Heater" video with howto. Basically black water bottle in a reflective room with window to the sun => hot water.
I watched the recap of season 1 and instantly fell in love with this project: I watch all the remaining videos in the last week and will for sue support this as my first Patreon project. Great job guys!
We have the same problem with flys in the arizona desert. We take care of a few spiders, where ever they choose to call their home and we also put out home made fly traps everywhere.
I've been watching some of the first videos, the changes are impressive, I loved the neighbour interviews. Fantastic. When you think you haven't gone far it's worth looking back to see how far you have come .
About the flies, I am from Québec where there are many bitting mosquitoes. I would suggest having at least one space with screen walls. The dining area would seem to be a priority because food attracts flies and it would be a much more relaxing space to eat. And since there are so many flies in your area, the kitchen should have screen windows for hygiene concern. And maybe also a resting area where it would be nice to read a book without being bothered. Here screen comes by the yard, and it is stapled to a simple wood frame. A screen door is also installed. I know that in Europe, its not common to have screened windows and doors, but it is a simple thing to built and should not be too expensive although I dont know the price of screen in Europe. Here we have screen made of fine metal wire and I think there is also one made with fibre glass. In Quebec, most houses in the country have such space. Much more relaxing!
I made my own hot water boiler that I fired with wood, it was very efficient and easy to build. Just use a propane powered hot water tank that’s has a chimney down the middle and remove the propane burner on the bottom and place it on a old wood stove. I used 2 pressure relief valves to be sure and built a shed around it that we used as a sauna.
Love watching your videos from here in Japan! Hot water problem- two ideas. First, coil a garden hose in a large compost pile that is built all at once. The water will heat. Longer hose means more hot water storage. You can also use this to heat a bathtub of water with a thermosiphon. Intake lower than input. Insulation and a cover helps keep it warmer. Second idea- Japanese style firewood heated communal bath. Heat a large iron/steel tub with firewood. Dip water for washing off from the tub, and after you are washed and clean, you can soak in the tub. You defintely have a lot of Mimosa firewood. Keep up the good work- and please, wear helmets and harnesses!
I've seen some other people mention it but for flies, my best recommendation would be pungent plants that are indigenous to the area. What we do is hang rosemary and lavender up to dry in the windows and when it is dry put them in little sachets anywhere, we make most things we use but there's also some great natural mosquito + fly repellents to put on your skin which I would also recommend.
Hi there, great stuf all over 😁 hot water: buy a solar collector. Not plate but with heat pipes. Works extremely well up (or should I say down) to 10 degrees. As long as the sun shines. In series the gas boiler. But it should be a modulating type (adapting to incoming water. And now you are down 95% on gas 👍🏻
It is quite easy to propagate many plants using a process called "Air layering". If you Google that term you will see many articles and videos on that. It will give you basically a clone of the tree it came from. Some plants eg citrus can take a long time to bear fruit after propagation. With Air Layering you get a seperate plant that is the same age as the tree it came from so you can get fruit as soon as the new plant is strong enough to support the fruit. I do my air layering using the branches that I plan to prune anyway, so maybe people who live where you are have trees that they plan to prune that you could air layer. Potentially you could get many "Mature" (albeit small) plants in your first season.
FLIES! Stink jar traps combo with green sticky paper. 1 set in sun, 1 in shade. The TH-cam "Few Acres Farm" has done experiments with combo. Good Luck!
Re flies there is an inexperienced youtube farmer who greatly reduced the fly population bothering his cattle. He had posts that he put fly paper around and changed out regularly. It looks like he caught them by the thousands. Also, when I wS growing up we brushed some white stuff on the exterior of the barn.( LIKE A VERY WATERY WHITEWASH)
My ideas for the hot water: Now your using electricity from PV cells. Which make sense. I assume you heat it up directly with an electric boiler. You could use a heat exchanger instead. That would still use electricity but far less (at least factor 2 to 3). Positive side effect you could cool down something with the cold side of it. (Maybe the kitchen container?) Second suggestion: you have a lot of wood from the Acacia trees that you have to chop down anyway. That wood could become a fuel for hot water production. Still CO2 neutral.
I agree, a heatpump / heat exchanger is much more efficient. It could also be used in combination with other solutions such as solar thermal, bio gas and wood stoves.
For the hot water problem look for a "bailarina a lenha" . It is a type of hood stove, but it allows with little wood (the remains of your hood projects or forest cleaning) to heat up a lot of hot water in a short time. It's easy to install and was used a lot in Portugal in the past, so you might get lucky and find second-hand ones nearby.
In Australia, we call them chip heaters because you only need wood chips to run them. Coiled up high pressure polypipe works really well. Mount a few coils on the roof.
Keep up all the good work. I think your videos will get so much better, since you are always trying to improve things. You're super proactive. I have seen massive improvements already.
I have only just came across your channel, slowly binge watching everything. I think what you guys are doing is wonderful and hope to do something similar on a smaller scale one day, keep up the good work :)
I have watched all your videos and love the content, I live in nw Montana, USA. I am 78 and loving all the content that I have seen keep up the good work admire you all.
Hey guys. Regarding the sheer amount of flies... this has been a recurring theme around the country this year. Might be weather related (less precipitation) but there were even some articles in national press (Publico). Maybe you could invest some time in a project to develop better traps for them? Maybe made from plastic? Just a thought. Bats, as was referred by someone else, it's also a great idea. They tend to eat their own weight in insects every day. Regarding the heating... You have a lot of firewood. You could install some firewood boiler? Heating up water filled radiators and byproduct would be water heating? Air pollution should be minimal and yet you would be finding a great use for all of those Mimosas. Regarding the funding for the community center... Maybe the city hall can provide some aid? If the project is deemed as a public interest they can either fund it or provide you with machines and personnel for some tasks. Maybe even involving some local schools? Just some random thoughts. I'm not sure I've seen this in your land, but you could also get some IBC tanks (or something bigger) to gather water from your roofs. One can never have too much contained water (floodings are something else). Also... a question... Do you have olive trees? Do you harvest them and are self sufficient in olive oil? Keep up the good work (even if we're near the end of the season).
If you burn/smolder small branches of rosemary bushes it will make a very large area without mosquitoes, flies and no see ‘um’s. We had huge rosemary bushes and I could keep my 40 foot by 40 foot deck overseeing a pond free of all flying creatures. All it took was a small branch smoldering in an ashtray. Cheers!
Just back to this channel, love it. For flies problem, try hang a transparant plastic bag, filled with clear water, on the place you need Like kitchen table, or food place.
Love your team spirits reminds me those innocents souls in children s play ground getting on with each other without paying attention to where each one of you is from great feeling.
You can buy fly bags it has rotting solution in them and the flys go in but can't get out or you could use vinegar in a jar but clingfilm/food wrap over the top with holes init just big anoth for the fly to get in
Hi ! I have been following you with the start of season 2 , watching your videos and appreciating your innovations and hard work . I love what you are doing and wish you all the best . A big shout to the whole group .
I am British AirLine pilot, retired in Northern Thailand, traditionally here, locals plant lemon grass plants all around close to the house, to avoid mosquitoes and flies. I don’t know if it works but they have been doing it for generations.love your channel, and watch with interest.best wishes to you all.
I'm not an expert, but I'd think that when local ecosystem rebalances itself - they'd be dealt with by the natural predators (unless they try to attack from the neighboring territories after) I'm not sure how they behave :) Might take a while, but with all the fine work you are doing to restore the land there is hope. Would be nice if something repelling can be planted in the meantime, if such thing exists.
We have the same flies in Texas. Sugar Water Sticky Traps work pretty well for control of a specific area. For the hot water issue, consider a really high setting for the temperature and lots of insulation. Then, an automatic timer that drifts down the temperature setting to where it’s only lukewarm overnight. Additionally, a wood stove could take the place of Gas and also provide heat for cooking as well.
Project Kamp you are all so inspiring! Water heating: there are already some good ideas in the comments.. If it's a sunny day, your solar will be fine. If its a cold cloudy day, a wood fired water heater would be cheap to operate- you seem to have a good supply of muscle power and lots of wood! Hopefully you can find an old wood fired hot water heater for cheap or free! In the future it might even be worth looking into a woodchip-fired boiler to use for large space heating, I know its not carbon positive but its carbon neutral at least! Flies: Here in Australia we have a lot of flies. The best control i have found way is barriers- if you can get shadecloth and hang it over the doors/down the edges of verandahs that will help a lot to keep flies out of certain areas. I have used "shoo-away spinner" type devices over food prep areas and found them really useful to keep them off food, but not the humans unfortunately.
Flies actually hate lavender so you might want to try planting lavender around your property. It could help Bringing other insects wich eat flies. Also add ponds and let frogs into your property. The plant basil also has a smell flies do not like, plating these or leaving the leaves on smart places could help. And at last, the old fashioned fly tape wich attract flies. I hope this helps!!!! good luck facing your challenges;))
Great videos, I really love the new way of getting the video, having the group film themselves. The quality has really improved. As for heating water, how does Project Kamp feel about burning wood? You have a lot of wood you are cutting, could you heat water with a wood burner? It isn't good for the smoke it is releasing and I know you are trying to use the wood for projects. There are also water heating systems that use solar. Where you run the water through panels and let the sun heat it up. Wouldn't help much when it wasn't sunny, but could cut down on the amount of gas used. Now that I know that making comments helps out in addition to watching, I will make sure I comment on all videos from now on. LOL
HI, great content, glad to see the project going well and growing!!. I have an idea with the fly problem. Put a cup of something really sweet , like honey or sugared water in a cup and place it out of the way, maybe multiple cups, and this way, the flies will attract to the cups and not on you!!
Thank you for sharing Project Kamp. Flies - only solution I know of is fly screen to keep them out of an area and a fly swatter! Development money - try government grants and charities like lottery. Air raider - is spelt wrongly should be aerator . Google pond aerator. Hope this helps.
I haven't seen an update to the hot water situation but wanted to add a comment, plus helps the algorithm! We moved to Bulgaria in 2022 and within a year we had solar hot water installed - a very basic system with a big tank and the tubes fitted on the roof of our bathroom building, under 1000 Euros installed. But I bet you super-resourceful folk could do a DIY version probably from repurposed materials, I mean the water sitting in the garden hose lying on the floor is too hot to touch!
for heating up water: 1) you could use the cut down mimosa to heat up the water, depending on your build you could achieve a rather high efficiency. but i guess it wont reach the efficiency of your electric or gas burner. I am thinking of a simple clay-stove and a water tank. Heat it up before everyone showers. 2) you are composting but you are not planting any food if i understood correctly. you could use food waste, forest waste such as trimming of trees and feces to produce biogas for heating. thank you for this season, cannot wait for april!
Have watched all your vids from the second season after watching the 1st yr in review - great stuff (except for the compost pile), keep them coming! For your fly issue: Big flys scare away small ones so for one week each of you could wear multiple sets of glasses on your face and instal translucent wings on your backs, that should scare them away. If it doesn’t work at least you will have had a good Halloween costume. Good luck
I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms.
Hahaha! OMG I made it into the video! :D Thank you for all the inspiring content!
You’re a legend🤣
@@brendansharp4856 not at all. Just doing what little I can to help out :)
i'll respond here so they hopefully see it. Some ideas for fighting the flies: th-cam.com/video/pFHJJOdOzK8/w-d-xo.html
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For the flies issue, I found a solution personally when planting various aromatic plants of which they feel repelled. I suggest building around the living areas raised beds of basil, cloves lavender, mint, salvia, and rosemary. I find these plants perfect as bug repellents and they make great companion plants for trees and the soil. Water purification might also be an issue or composting areas. There are plants that can help naturally with the process of water purification also. Hope you guys figure out an appropriate solution that suits you.
In regards to flies. The plants with the most powerful smells are the best at deterring flies. Lavender, mint, rosemary, catnip, sage...all of those should be planted all around your main housing areas and gathering areas. As an added bonus, you can use almost all of these for cooking!
we already have all of them in Basekamp! Maybe we need..more.....
Chickens. Trust me.
@@angelad.8944 yep, agree
@@ProjectKamp they do sticky paper stuff that attracts the flys and they get stuck to it i use them in my polytunnel they work really well
@@ProjectKamp try to add tansy and hang dry plants around. Also add some bait like undrinkable wine, old beer or (if you have them in Portugal) red toadstools sprinkled with sugar :D you have some livestock around? anyway best luck an thank you!
Consider using Mimosa for charcoal production. Either to sell or to use for your own cooking to reduce use of gas. Love this channel. x
For keeping away flies, gnats and midges (airborne pests) use lavender (Lavandula angustifolia), citronella (grasses), lemon eucalyptus (shrubs and trees), or patchouli (Labiatae mint). Steam distillation and mix with coconut oil to apply on skin. Also hang lavender around food or work areas as deterrent. Hope this helps. Information from DöTerra oils.
Alternatively, rub over dining table.
A suggestion for the hot water p̶r̶o̶b̶l̶e̶m̶ challenge:
Look into a biomeiler as an addition to the electric boiler. This is basically a huge compost heap filled with wood chips (nice way to get rid of some mimosas) that composts over a period of two years and creates heat in the progress. After two years you're left with high quality compost and can refill the system to start a new cycle.
Yeah, this is really the best! ****
For the hot water, you can use an insulated tank and make a frame with black hose serpetine inside connected both ends to the insulated tank, it will heat water using the sun... look for AQUECEDOR SOLAR DE AGUA
I don't know what (or if) bats are native to Portugal, but if there are any, look at setting up bat boxes to lure more of them to live on your land. They'll feast on the flies!
Get air in your pond and add fish that will help with mosquitos if you have any.
And also GUANO! 👀
Love this comment, i live in an area with some bats and the mosquito/fly ratio is really low
Bats are everywhere flies are not flying around at night for bats to eat 😂😂
Yesss perfect! ***
And maybe some praying mantis for the table
Javier is an awesome video-maker! + You can tell he likes music, i love his music selections for the episodes! 🙌🏻✨
Pre-heat your water with radiators on the roof this can be a supplement before the electric water heater.
You can implement it by putting pipes on a piece of metal and glue it on the backside of your PV panels.
And of course, paint it black. Also, insulate your water tank and all the hot water pipes so you are not wasting heat to the air.
Ill write something down for the algorythm. Love the videos always looking forward to a video every week! its so cozy and nice to watch
On the fly issue: Try to identify the locations where the flies lay their eggs / hatch from. The compost would be one possible location. If so make it a closed box that catches sun during the day. Increasing the temperature improves the composting process and makes it less habitable for the flies. Temperatures up to 65°C are OK for composting.
Yes! Finally someone (including the presenter) first identify the source and working outward!!!
LOL yeah, that look at the 'compost pile' was sad... i say with compassion and a wish to help.
Making a compost pile... isn't as easy OR AS COMPLICATED as one might imagine. But you've gotta get the basics right, something which obviously hasn't been accomplished yet at the Kamp.
This mislukte/failed compost pile could well be the source of the flies. Answer: cover it all with sawdust/woodchips.
Basics: if you're composting living/raw materials, it's a different story, but if there are cooked foods or animal proteins on the surface, you're asking for problems. Use the same layer for the toilets for the compost pile. And maybe surround it with fly traps like the one i linked to above.
Also... chickens. You guys need animals to help deal with the environment. Seriously: sheep, chickens, goats [for clearing the forest], even hogs for maintaining the forest floor [and ideally miniature zebu for cattle].
Still so much to be said. I've done my homework and would be glad to help.
namaste
the compost looked green/nitrogen heavy - more carbon will diminish attraction of, and habitat for flies.
Your videos have been great lately, really fun to watch. Nice to see so much being done, can't wait until season 3.
Gold Shaw Farm has a whole video about how he made his homestead completely fly free.
Yeah, saw that one. Amazing. But, methinks, not along with the ideals of the Kamp.
Gold Shaw Farm also tried using chickens and mentioned that they maybe just didn't have enough, but the Kamp doesn't even have bovines, so what's up?
It could be the neighbours; it could be still-standing waters [also a mosquito hazard]. Flies are not normal, not natural, not healthy; they are a symptom of a systemic problem and should be considered as such.
I commented just now with the link to the Gold Shaw Farm video.
The amount of crossover between Morgan's videos and these guys is pretty awesome to see lol
I was thinking of that video also - hahaha
I just made a comment inspired by that video too😂
I have been following this project from the beginning and being portuguese I can only feel happy to have a group like yours taking care of our land and our older people (although indirectly, you do). I`m finishing some burocracy regarding some funds I`ll be getting and once I do, you can count on a nice donation towards your project. Might be somewhere between a tractor, brand new pick up or even financing most of the big ruin. Who knows... but the best thing for you is to do like you said in the video, not counting on any big donation and just plan as you go with whats`s coming.
I think the pond "air raider" was meant to be a "pond aerator" 🙂 This is a device that comes in many forms but its job is to recirculate the water and inject oxygen into it to improve water quality.
LOL yeah, that was hilarious. Obviously, the person meant aerator, i.e. something to put air, i.e. oxygen, into the water. If you're not a native speaker, such things might slip by. Oh, you Dutch... Rare jongens die Hollanders ;-)
[yes, i am bilingual.]
Glad you said it cause I was going to otherwise. Aerator is the best option for there pond/rivers. They can see change just in a week for the most part.
Inderdaad, rare jongens die Nederlanders. Oh, speaking of "rare mensen." When discussing looking for legacy funding donors, calling a potential donor "weird" may not be a great idea. Een raar mens met te veel geld, to a weird person with deep pockets, isn't exactly flattering, nor does it translate well.
Good example of recent solar install of pond aerator. Life Uncontained YT channel - BUILDING OUR OFF GRID OASIS | Our Finished DIY Pond Aeration
Pond aerator would also disrupt the bug larvae from turning into swarms of new fly
For water you could use solar collectors which is similar to solar panels. It heats water to 50 C⁰ and if its not hot enough then use electricity to heat up. Keep up the good work!
Heres a couple of tips
1. HEAT: air movement make sure you're making the most of the passive ventilation with you're openings for buildings in the most optimum wind direction, if it's still too hot try evaporative cooling and
2 Flies: Plants help a bit, also encouraging insects that eat the flies. But in hot areas you really need to build screened verandas with some kind of thin mesh.
3. Hot water: A temp move could be could be a change to all of the biomass wood that you might not need.. For future a biodigester to make your own gas on site from waste
Flies: Growing up in Australia agree you need screened verandas and large fans to keep the air moving. Fans are very energy efficient. Food needs to be put away quickly and everything cleaned down. No compost piles near seating areas. Open water sources need to be covered. Citronella lamps/candles also help.
I am honored to support you as a Patreon member. You provide terrific content and I think we should all support you however we can.
Unfortunately I have no money to give you directly, but I've watched every single of you guys' videos (multiple times), always give a thumbs up and usually leave a comment, to hopefully appease the algorithm. Keep up the good work. Groetjes uit Nederland.
For the hot water, maybe said already, but black plastic tubes, like maybe PVC from recycling, set on a black tarp that has water slowly flowing through. You just need a simple pomp, or hand loading a big bucket (maybe with an antique manual pomp? Those live forever!) at the top that would slowly empty in the dark tarp/roof and pip system and fill another tank that should be at least lukewarm? And if not warm enough, one may pump the water back up for another cycle of harvesting heat from the plastic. The issue obviously would be plastic leeching? You know those questions.
You should look at wood fueled aga (Stoves) You can burn the mimosa wood for free, and cook food, heat space and heat water with a back boiler.
I’ve heard of a biogas solution that could work for your camp. There’s products such as Home BioGas where your compost will create a natural gas that can in turn be used for cooking or potentially heating water. Maybe look into it!
Totally what I was going to suggest. It could at least be used for cooking so the only place you would need tanks is for hot water.
Hello love your project keep it up! About the flies I remember my childhood in Portugal I was always annoyed by the flies but my cousins living in the village just got used to live with them. That's my advice getting used to live with them (also create shelters to attract bats and froggies that will eat some of them)
Concerning the flies: The goldshaw farm has a pretty good video where he tests out a bunch of fly traps and compares their effectiveness.
As an Australian (somewhat an expert on flies) I recommend the use of fly screen walls to enclose outdoor areas. Unfortunately fly traps can't control an entire continent of flies as much as i wish they could. Also use insect repellent. 👍
Put up birdhouses for insect eating birds..
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With all the mimosa trees that you have around there build yourself a roof and place it above the outdoor shower then place the solar water heater on top most of the solar water heater should be able to use recycled materials
YALL ARE GENIUS WITH YOUR CONTENT, DIRECTING THE VIDEOS, EDITING, CAMERA POSITION, I love everything bout the projects I observed ever since have been here never afor a sec saw any bad negative comments... "KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK"
Some suggestions:
1) look into rocket stove mass heater for water/space heating - better to burn wood than fosil fuels. You can put the ash back into the ground for soil improvement
2) invest and start improving soil using swales, plant fruit forrest, ground water improvement.
3) direct solar heating of water using vacuum tubes/concentrated solar - not via PV.
amongst others.
spot on. they have so much wood to burn and the ash is great fertilizer. solar heating is very very effective as well. about 70% of house hold in Israel us solar heating. and last one is using hydropower during the winter. getting a long pipe from the lagoon to the lowest point well give an extra boost to the power supplies.
Water heating with the sun: My grandma just had a 30-meter black painted water pipe laying on the ground under the summer sun - was enough for one shower per couple of hours. That was in Russia in not so warm summer - should be way more effective in Portugal.
A comment for the algorithm, plus a couple of suggestions for the challenges/problems. Lots of pungent plants that flies hate, plus loads of bird and bat boxes. Definitely screen your kitchen, dining areas and bedrooms/vans/tents, plus make some portable frames hung with mosquito netting for when you're sitting working or relaxing outside, plus some fans. Aerating plants for all the lagoons, ponds, lakes you have, so the algae has less opportunity to establish. Borrow or allow neighbours to graze their sheep/goats, but definitely pen goats into a particular area that you want fully cleared! This way, you don't have to own the animals, your neighbours will be happy that their livestock have another area to graze, plus you get a little extra fertiliser! If you can afford it at some point, a stump grinder would hopefully not only get rid of all those stumps sticking up (with the added hazard they have of tripping, or falling directly onto one), but also of reducing the possibility of regrowth, especially from brambles and mimosa. Again, if/when you can afford it, a few more water storage tanks that can be filled in the rainy season, and either left in case of fires, and/or used for irrigation of the useful plants and trees you have/will be getting. I don't know if this is a possibility, but is an actual irrigation system possible? By this I mean burying those irrigation hoses around trees and gardens, and/or creating individual watering systems such as those used by some people, where they sink a bottle or some hosepipe directly by a plant and pour the water down them, so that it ends up quite a way under the surface, nearer the roots, and is much less likely to evaporate. I know my comment is a year later, but hopefully someone notices and and/or you've already implemented some of these.
I'm so glad that you have multiple cameras! That will be amazing for recording all the things going on around the camp.
I stumble upon your channel when I was watching van life and off grid living, I'm never disappointed. This is like a real life version of Managerial Simulation games. Gather resources, build compound, keep your community contented and healthy, all that's left to tick off the list is fight a boss!
Nothing to say - i realy enjoy my monday evenings with your positivity!❤
This project is so amazing. I love watching your progress and am a little jealous. I enjoy your community setting; it is wonderful to see so many young people from different places and languages able to work together and accomplish such a huge undertaking. It is understandable that you want to take time off from filming however it would be nice to watch your community year-round. Also, would love to see some of the B roll of your videoing if it is funny! Please continue to be safe, have fun and I look forward to the next video!!
Gotta say, I have been following you all for about 1,5 years for now, and Javier's editing has leveled up the video quality! Even though Javies might not be filming everyone, his way of editing is quite pleasing to the eye and ear. I'm REALLY looking into applying for video support next year, and I feel like the way of editing that Javier applies, and your general way of living really attracts me a lot. Hope to get in touch once you are looking to expand your video team again! Until then, good luck from you all and kind regards from The Netherlands!
Wasps help against flies, if there is a wasp around there is no fly, check it out. And those sticky papers. Just keep replacing them it really helps reduce them. Maybe come up with a DIY sticky strip like collect tree hars and mix it with some fish oil or so in a hot pan and spread it on a paper or plank.
It's great to see Dave a bit mote again. So proud of the progress on the kamp this season 👏👏
FLIES-there are many DIY fly traps on the internet. They work really well. Make bait and put in containers with small holes and trap them. Black plastic works especially well. On our farm we trap many many of them every day.
I think the money issue more generally raises the question of the long term sustainability of the project and whether it can be seen as a viable 'lifestyle' approach going forward. Given your main revenue streams seem to be Patreon and TH-cam, and you have relied on both your own capital to buy the land and big donations to build the infrastructure, I continue to wonder whether this is sustainable beyond the existing Project for those who don't have access to those revenue streams.
I do appreciate that it's not the sole motivation for the Project, and it's producing some good results for other aspects of sustainability (e.g. environmental and ecological sustainability), but might it be something which might be addressed in a later video?
I am following Dave since preciousplastic project. Hope to see you overcome this money issue asap and replace your vehicles 🙏
Love what you guys do. Brings me joy to watch such a nice way of living while I work my mundane office job and go home to my crappy inner city apartment lol
Why don't you volunteer for season 3, I'd say you would be welcomed with open arms. Anything is possible. Good luck.
I hope Dave feels like a brother to everyone. Dave seems so brotherly! Hope you all have a great rest of the season!
maybe burning moxa rolls for the flies (mugwort)they last pretty well and repel insects. Not too expensive. Also large sheets of fly paper wrapped around bins, you need to do this until the fly reproduction cycle is interrupted and the levels drop. best of luck. love the videos
A few ideas you may find useful? 1) How about bio gas? I'm sure that's been thought of and maybe eliminated already. 2) You need someone with a farming background who knows how to build, repair, grow stuff and maybe tend livestock (how about goats, they eat anything thorny...) and a few sheep to keep them company as you have pasture. Chickens and ducks and maybe rabbits. 3)Possible use for all that mimosa wood is maybe charcoal if suitable. 4)Solar hot water panels can be made easily and used to reduce your gas bill. 5) A 50 year old tractor can still be made to work and could be found locally. There is probably one in a barn somewhere unused and donated. Just a few ideas to be getting on with. Good luck from rural France.
Fireplace with water connection you can burn the mimosa in it and use it to heat the water. Clear plastic bags filled with water can help against flies in sunny places. Or Flygold is chemical against flies can be sprinkled as a powder or dissolved in water and painted on surfaces, is used in the neighborhood in cowsheds
I agree with the clear plastic bags filled with water. Hang them in many different places and yes especially in sunny places
If they don't want to use gas, I doubt they'll want to release even more oxygen by burning wood, they mentioned something like that in their video on baking
Good job folks.
Wish I wasn't tied to my job. I would love to take a summer to come help out..
Sadly bills need to get paid here. Otherwise I'd be on the next plane..
Love this project.
Keep the videos coming!!
for the hot water, try the outdoor black tanks that is heated with the sun. You can enclose it in a structure with a glass and this will heat up your water during the day and it should stay hot for a long time!
I really love your videos. They inspire me a lot for a future community I want to be part of in France.
I like the honestly of your videos and also the transparency of what you experience.
Just 2 questions:
- 1. What is your main goal of the project? How do you see it in 5 years?
- 2. Why don"t your produce biogas yourself for the future?
Looking forward for your next videos.
Dan
Let the sun help heat the water: Life Uncontained has a "Solar Batch Water Heater" video with howto.
Basically black water bottle in a reflective room with window to the sun => hot water.
I watched the recap of season 1 and instantly fell in love with this project: I watch all the remaining videos in the last week and will for sue support this as my first Patreon project. Great job guys!
We have the same problem with flys in the arizona desert. We take care of a few spiders, where ever they choose to call their home and we also put out home made fly traps everywhere.
I've been watching some of the first videos, the changes are impressive, I loved the neighbour interviews. Fantastic. When you think you haven't gone far it's worth looking back to see how far you have come .
About the flies, I am from Québec where there are many bitting mosquitoes. I would suggest having at least one space with screen walls. The dining area would seem to be a priority because food attracts flies and it would be a much more relaxing space to eat. And since there are so many flies in your area, the kitchen should have screen windows for hygiene concern. And maybe also a resting area where it would be nice to read a book without being bothered.
Here screen comes by the yard, and it is stapled to a simple wood frame. A screen door is also installed. I know that in Europe, its not common to have screened windows and doors, but it is a simple thing to built and should not be too expensive although I dont know the price of screen in Europe. Here we have screen made of fine metal wire and I think there is also one made with fibre glass. In Quebec, most houses in the country have such space. Much more relaxing!
Agree 100%
I made my own hot water boiler that I fired with wood, it was very efficient and easy to build. Just use a propane powered hot water tank that’s has a chimney down the middle and remove the propane burner on the bottom and place it on a old wood stove. I used 2 pressure relief valves to be sure and built a shed around it that we used as a sauna.
Works great but unfortunately no woodfired stoves allowed in summer here.
@@trucknomadsdotcom9731 not even with a spark arrester? How about a rocket mass heater?
I tell all of my granola friends about this project. You guys are doing great work and I love your videos!
Love watching your videos from here in Japan!
Hot water problem- two ideas. First, coil a garden hose in a large compost pile that is built all at once. The water will heat. Longer hose means more hot water storage. You can also use this to heat a bathtub of water with a thermosiphon. Intake lower than input. Insulation and a cover helps keep it warmer.
Second idea- Japanese style firewood heated communal bath. Heat a large iron/steel tub with firewood. Dip water for washing off from the tub, and after you are washed and clean, you can soak in the tub. You defintely have a lot of Mimosa firewood.
Keep up the good work- and please, wear helmets and harnesses!
I've seen some other people mention it but for flies, my best recommendation would be pungent plants that are indigenous to the area. What we do is hang rosemary and lavender up to dry in the windows and when it is dry put them in little sachets anywhere, we make most things we use but there's also some great natural mosquito + fly repellents to put on your skin which I would also recommend.
Hi there, great stuf all over 😁 hot water: buy a solar collector. Not plate but with heat pipes. Works extremely well up (or should I say down) to 10 degrees. As long as the sun shines. In series the gas boiler. But it should be a modulating type (adapting to incoming water. And now you are down 95% on gas 👍🏻
I realized that i have kept up with every episode since #1 for like almost 2 years now every week like clockwork
awesome
Thanks!
It is quite easy to propagate many plants using a process called "Air layering".
If you Google that term you will see many articles and videos on that.
It will give you basically a clone of the tree it came from.
Some plants eg citrus can take a long time to bear fruit after propagation.
With Air Layering you get a seperate plant that is the same age as the tree it came from so you can get fruit as soon as the new plant is strong enough to support the fruit.
I do my air layering using the branches that I plan to prune anyway, so maybe people who live where you are have trees that they plan to prune that you could air layer.
Potentially you could get many "Mature" (albeit small) plants in your first season.
Thanks for the update, I am sure there will be Sponsors who will embrace your project .🙏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻🙋🏻♀️🇦🇺
One thing people do for flyes: hang transparent bags with water. From a beam or something, were sun hits it. It seems to stress them and they go away.
Refractive-index of water in an approximately spherical shape (hung up transparent polyethylene bags, filled with water). 100% legit.
FLIES! Stink jar traps combo with green sticky paper. 1 set in sun, 1 in shade. The TH-cam "Few Acres Farm" has done experiments with combo. Good Luck!
Chickens!!!
@@slimmesim Ducks!
Re flies there is an inexperienced youtube farmer who greatly reduced the fly population bothering his cattle. He had posts that he put fly paper around and changed out regularly. It looks like he caught them by the thousands. Also, when I wS growing up we brushed some white stuff on the exterior of the barn.( LIKE A VERY WATERY WHITEWASH)
My ideas for the hot water:
Now your using electricity from PV cells. Which make sense. I assume you heat it up directly with an electric boiler. You could use a heat exchanger instead. That would still use electricity but far less (at least factor 2 to 3). Positive side effect you could cool down something with the cold side of it. (Maybe the kitchen container?)
Second suggestion: you have a lot of wood from the Acacia trees that you have to chop down anyway. That wood could become a fuel for hot water production. Still CO2 neutral.
I agree, a heatpump / heat exchanger is much more efficient. It could also be used in combination with other solutions such as solar thermal, bio gas and wood stoves.
For the hot water problem look for a "bailarina a lenha" . It is a type of hood stove, but it allows with little wood (the remains of your hood projects or forest cleaning) to heat up a lot of hot water in a short time. It's easy to install and was used a lot in Portugal in the past, so you might get lucky and find second-hand ones nearby.
In Australia, we call them chip heaters because you only need wood chips to run them. Coiled up high pressure polypipe works really well. Mount a few coils on the roof.
Keep up all the good work. I think your videos will get so much better, since you are always trying to improve things. You're super proactive. I have seen massive improvements already.
I cant wait for the community center to be restored
I have only just came across your channel, slowly binge watching everything. I think what you guys are doing is wonderful and hope to do something similar on a smaller scale one day, keep up the good work :)
Cant wait for the season 2 aftermath. Previous one destroyed YT algorithm, so let's hope that the future one will blow up too.
That's how I found this project in the first place!
I have watched all your videos and love the content, I live in nw Montana, USA. I am 78 and loving all the content that I have seen keep up the good work admire you all.
Hey guys. Regarding the sheer amount of flies... this has been a recurring theme around the country this year. Might be weather related (less precipitation) but there were even some articles in national press (Publico). Maybe you could invest some time in a project to develop better traps for them? Maybe made from plastic? Just a thought. Bats, as was referred by someone else, it's also a great idea. They tend to eat their own weight in insects every day. Regarding the heating... You have a lot of firewood. You could install some firewood boiler? Heating up water filled radiators and byproduct would be water heating? Air pollution should be minimal and yet you would be finding a great use for all of those Mimosas. Regarding the funding for the community center... Maybe the city hall can provide some aid? If the project is deemed as a public interest they can either fund it or provide you with machines and personnel for some tasks. Maybe even involving some local schools? Just some random thoughts. I'm not sure I've seen this in your land, but you could also get some IBC tanks (or something bigger) to gather water from your roofs. One can never have too much contained water (floodings are something else). Also... a question... Do you have olive trees? Do you harvest them and are self sufficient in olive oil? Keep up the good work (even if we're near the end of the season).
If you burn/smolder small branches of rosemary bushes it will make a very large area without mosquitoes, flies and no see ‘um’s.
We had huge rosemary bushes and I could keep my 40 foot by 40 foot deck overseeing a pond free of all flying creatures.
All it took was a small branch smoldering in an ashtray.
Cheers!
Air raider made me laugh out loud :D Try an aerator, to put air bubbles in the water.
Just back to this channel, love it. For flies problem, try hang a transparant plastic bag, filled with clear water, on the place you need Like kitchen table, or food place.
A problem summary video occurs every 10n + 8 videos where n is the video number.
that sounds more clear 😅
Love your team spirits reminds me those innocents souls in children s play ground getting on with each other without paying attention to where each one of you is from great feeling.
Flies: put out jars of vinegar + dish soap. They will die, but not all of them. But, it will remove many. It's worked here, at least.
This is a good idea but instead of a dish use a trap. Few flies get out of the trap.
I know a similar recipe for fruit flies, with apple juice + vinegar + dish soap. Don't know if it would work here too.
You attract more flies with vinegar than honey, contrary to what we usually think!
You can buy fly bags it has rotting solution in them and the flys go in but can't get out or you could use vinegar in a jar but clingfilm/food wrap over the top with holes init just big anoth for the fly to get in
I love watching your videos. It looks like you have so much fun working together on your project
In the next Q&A, can you answer these questions as a group so we can see everyone laughing together?
Hi ! I have been following you with the start of season 2 , watching your videos and appreciating your innovations and hard work . I love what you are doing and wish you all the best . A big shout to the whole group .
A Rita é a calma em pessoa, adoro-a ❤️
I am British AirLine pilot, retired in Northern Thailand, traditionally here, locals plant lemon grass plants all around close to the house, to avoid mosquitoes and flies. I don’t know if it works but they have been doing it for generations.love your channel, and watch with interest.best wishes to you all.
I'm not an expert, but I'd think that when local ecosystem rebalances itself - they'd be dealt with by the natural predators (unless they try to attack from the neighboring territories after) I'm not sure how they behave :) Might take a while, but with all the fine work you are doing to restore the land there is hope. Would be nice if something repelling can be planted in the meantime, if such thing exists.
We have the same flies in Texas. Sugar Water Sticky Traps work pretty well for control of a specific area. For the hot water issue, consider a really high setting for the temperature and lots of insulation. Then, an automatic timer that drifts down the temperature setting to where it’s only lukewarm overnight. Additionally, a wood stove could take the place of Gas and also provide heat for cooking as well.
For your fly problem I cam recommend you check out the video "how a farmer won a war against flies" on YT :)
Project Kamp you are all so inspiring!
Water heating: there are already some good ideas in the comments.. If it's a sunny day, your solar will be fine. If its a cold cloudy day, a wood fired water heater would be cheap to operate- you seem to have a good supply of muscle power and lots of wood! Hopefully you can find an old wood fired hot water heater for cheap or free! In the future it might even be worth looking into a woodchip-fired boiler to use for large space heating, I know its not carbon positive but its carbon neutral at least!
Flies: Here in Australia we have a lot of flies. The best control i have found way is barriers- if you can get shadecloth and hang it over the doors/down the edges of verandahs that will help a lot to keep flies out of certain areas. I have used "shoo-away spinner" type devices over food prep areas and found them really useful to keep them off food, but not the humans unfortunately.
Flies actually hate lavender so you might want to try planting lavender around your property. It could help Bringing other insects wich eat flies. Also add ponds and let frogs into your property. The plant basil also has a smell flies do not like, plating these or leaving the leaves on smart places could help. And at last, the old fashioned fly tape wich attract flies. I hope this helps!!!! good luck facing your challenges;))
For the fly problem try fly tape and planting some mint and lemon trees. They naturally repel bugs and can be used for things like tea or lemonade
Great videos, I really love the new way of getting the video, having the group film themselves. The quality has really improved.
As for heating water, how does Project Kamp feel about burning wood? You have a lot of wood you are cutting, could you heat water with a wood burner? It isn't good for the smoke it is releasing and I know you are trying to use the wood for projects.
There are also water heating systems that use solar. Where you run the water through panels and let the sun heat it up. Wouldn't help much when it wasn't sunny, but could cut down on the amount of gas used.
Now that I know that making comments helps out in addition to watching, I will make sure I comment on all videos from now on. LOL
Really cool to know that a fellow from Brazil is participating on kamp !
Thanks for posting and sharing. It was very nice to hear from everyone.
Love to you all. Keep up the great work!
good luck, really enjoy the community and projects, love from UK
I also have nothing to say, but I appreciate your content, and I love following along with the progress.Here' to helping with the yt-algorithms.
Im glad to see your videos are keeping you guys running, Thanks for the transparency.
HI, great content, glad to see the project going well and growing!!. I have an idea with the fly problem. Put a cup of something really sweet , like honey or sugared water in a cup and place it out of the way, maybe multiple cups, and this way, the flies will attract to the cups and not on you!!
Thank you for sharing Project Kamp. Flies - only solution I know of is fly screen to keep them out of an area and a fly swatter! Development money - try government grants and charities like lottery. Air raider - is spelt wrongly should be aerator . Google pond aerator. Hope this helps.
I haven't seen an update to the hot water situation but wanted to add a comment, plus helps the algorithm! We moved to Bulgaria in 2022 and within a year we had solar hot water installed - a very basic system with a big tank and the tubes fitted on the roof of our bathroom building, under 1000 Euros installed. But I bet you super-resourceful folk could do a DIY version probably from repurposed materials, I mean the water sitting in the garden hose lying on the floor is too hot to touch!
for heating up water:
1) you could use the cut down mimosa to heat up the water, depending on your build you could achieve a rather high efficiency. but i guess it wont reach the efficiency of your electric or gas burner. I am thinking of a simple clay-stove and a water tank. Heat it up before everyone showers.
2) you are composting but you are not planting any food if i understood correctly. you could use food waste, forest waste such as trimming of trees and feces to produce biogas for heating.
thank you for this season, cannot wait for april!
Have watched all your vids from the second season after watching the 1st yr in review - great stuff (except for the compost pile), keep them coming! For your fly issue: Big flys scare away small ones so for one week each of you could wear multiple sets of glasses on your face and instal translucent wings on your backs, that should scare them away. If it doesn’t work at least you will have had a good Halloween costume. Good luck
love all your videos and your transparency about all the inner workings both of youtube and of the camp. take care!
Ciao! With warmer weather there are of flies. We had tons in Italy this summer too! Tomato and cloves helps