the tree guy (i didnt hear is name) was so knowledgeable and interesting, i could have listened to him talk for hours, love what he is doing to repopulate the native trees and thinking ahead to create fire breaks. love this channel and what you guys are trying to do
Kinda funny listening to Germano, due to us removing the european trees and puting in australian trees. He did get the fact that the aussie trees love a fire, and the mimosas pop up super quick, hand around for 15-20 years, then die out... giving cover for the bigger gums to come back and grow more brush ;)
ya, the mushrooms do an incredible amount of chemical work to transform minerals into useful compounds that organic life can make use of! they're a great contributor to soil building.
A trick we do in Dallas Texas are in know wherever in Texas. Take your acorns take some paper towels newspaper or something stick your acorns all through the newspapers. Then lay it all flat you know like 2 or 3 pieces of newspaper down lay a layer of 8 corners down and then lay 2 or 3 pieces of newspapers on top of that and then wet it real good to wear the newspapers all wet. Then what you do there after that is you wait until they start sprouting? Then you can plan of and whatever so will you won't and then you'll have really nice trees come up but my deal is. I plan them in a plastic tube and then when they come up and keep getting bigger once they get almost too big for the tube you cut the 2 ball problem. And some people use the tubes that you can get for trees that they automatically curl up around the tree and you just slide them on a small tree and they'll eventually grow and they'll expand around the tree without hurting the tree
Love what all y‘all are doing… I think many people are watching and learning and they are going to do this also… You guys are creating a beautiful, kind and gentle space where everything thrives. So impressed! 🌀❤️🌀
You can plant those acorns like you would grow vegetables, in a straight row. They grow straight down and are therefor really easy to replant on the desired location. I was really surprised how strong those oak seedlings are.
So true, good to have acorns from as many sources as possible for genetic diversity. Fruit crops as well would readily replace all the pest species over time. Even the pests are beneficial for cover and fences as the takeover happens. Its great to see that there is a way to make the land recover with a strategy.
Love what you're doing. I like it when you walk around your property. I've watched all your videos and am envious of all of you. Have a great time doing what you're doing. And thank you for bringing me along for the ride. 😃👍☺🌟⭐👍
It you want someone knolegabel in mushrooms to identyfy them you also need to show the root and underpart of the mushroom. Your neghbors are farmers so there is bound to be soms one there to show you. Porchini and canterel are eazy to identify when you are shown by someone knoligable. This was a very educative input. geest comment from Bobby
Parabéns ao Germano e família pelo trabalho de reflorestação! Tenho o mesmo objectivo numa zona do concelho de Mação… muito seca e rodeada de eucaliptos…
You guys should fabricate a recycled plastic helmet for your neighbor who helped with tree education, to protect from falling nuts, as a thank you (and new product in the bazaar & tutorial/plans. I could see that easily produceable and useful for many others.)
When planting soak the hole with plenty of water , gently push in the new shrub and press the soil around it and water again … gives the trees the best chance to root … 🙏☘️😘
On 1:04 turkey tail, medicinal mushrom, double check thought, but I'm pretty shure. Used to improve inmune system and to reinforce chymotherapy effects
Superinteresting to see the offgrid process evolve! Another way to store energy might be to put a bigger watertank higher up, perhaps on the container. When there is sun, the water is stored high up and when you want to shower you dont really need the pump anymore!
Consider a water tank installed up hill for future...that way your pump only needs to pump water to the tank during the day and at night you can rely on a gravity feed from the tank instead of battery power.
Nice update. I LOVE my CERBO GX. I can monitor my system from anywhere with an internet connection and makes changes if needed as if I was standing in front of it. Doubling the battery bank is great.. Now add more panels..
You can grow willow by cutting sticks off and putting them straight in ground without growing the root in water first. I've seen people grow garden deviders by pushing sticks in the ground in a row and then when they start to grow you can weave them together to create a sort of growing fence or narrow hedge.
By taking the green shoots at the ends of a willow branch, pulping them up and making a slurry you can put that around the roots of other plants and promote those plants to grow better root systems. There is an enzyme in willow that promotes root growth.
Willow is amazing. I got given some rods and whips (sticks) many years ago that had been pollarded from the side of the River Avon. I was in a hurry when I was given them (unexpectedly) so chopped a slit trench with a spade alongside our allotment garden shed and just whacked the willow into the ground (making sure they were the right way up) and roughly heeled them in. This is on *very* sandy soil, so I didn't hold out much hope for them, but they were free so nothing lost if they died. A couple of buckets of water to get them going and then I let them fend for themselves over winter. I now harvest 10-15ft long rods every December from these trees, which also provide shelter for the shed and keep it cooler in the summer. I get a *huge* amount of rods and whips every year, more than I need for structures on my plot. Last year my neighbour took a load of rods and wove a fence for her plot, which is itself now alive and growing, and in previous years I've given material to local craft groups and hospices for weaving. The smaller whips are are also handy for weaving into Christmas wreath formers. ;-) One warning though: don't plant willow close to where you plan to grow crops, as they'll extract every drop of moisture the can from the soil. Great for dealing with wet and boggy areas though.
True, I once fenced off my veggie patch with willow branches as fencing posts. Within a month they started to develop shoots . Little did I know in the beginning.
Just an observation, it seems that the support for the batteries is bending a bit with all that weight. You could give some attention before any disaster like having those expensive batteries all over the floor :) Keep up the good work...
I had to giggle at Germano talk about the Eucalyptus tree stumps being an warren for rabbits. In Australia the rabbit is a pest and for you the Eucalyptus and the Acacias are a pest.
Here are willows with a heiht up to 20m and they could be 200 years old and basket-willows , where you can harvest the young shots every year to make baskets . Greetings from Hamburg
I am not an expert on trees but I do know Willow trees like be neat a plentiful supply of water eg stream. When pollarded they make useful supply of wood for the garden. Supports for plants etc. Great video especially the guy with his land. Would like to see more from him in the future.
Hey! I live 20 minutes from you guys too :D in Sevilha (Tabua). My family and me are also working on regenerating land. We should get to know eachother!!
begin to look for tree species that will be able to cope with climate change in the next years my father helps in a french organisation called "Terre-de-Liens" and they have to plant 18 km of hedges 5 to 10m wide. they looked very closely the varieties they are planting and took a mix of more southern trees mixed with local trees able to live on dryer land (their project is near Clermont-Ferrand in the middle of France)
climate change? as in this type of ever changing atmospheric conditions as it has always been, or the fear mongering nonsense mainstream media has on endless repeat, claiming some non-existent 97% "consensus" among climate scientists who are 100% sure it's carbon dioxide? (whenever there is talk of a consensus like that in science something is not right, it's like there would be a consensus on gravity being caused be gravitons, or light is a wave only not a particle or vice versa) i'll tell you, for all they know and all their best guesses put together, there are no verifiable models they have to back up that claim. for example, 2 huge volcanoes erupting in the wrong place, or the natural milankovitch cycles doing their thing, or the sun doing it's thing (grand solar minimum) could end this interglacial period, and you don't want to live in a glacial period, btw technically we are living in an ice age since 2.6 million years. if we look at the data, we can see a few things very clearly: 1. CO2 rise follows temp rise by 600-2000 years (so CO2 has not been the reason for temp rise historically) 2. the cycles of glacial and interglacial are abrupt and we are now on the verge of a big cooling, it's doubtful our CO2 emissions could stop the natural cycle which might have started already or might take another few centuries, depends on what the real reasons are for these extreme shifts.. 3. they keep saying it's getting warmer, compared to when? they compare to pre industrial times, pre 1850, which happens to be the end of a shorter cold period, the little ice age, with lots of growing glaciers in the alps, long cold winters, short growing seasons, in short a hard time with frozen rivers in w europe.. things change, climate has always been changing and extreme weather, droughts, cold periods, wet periods is just the normal on this planet, psychological manipulation among humans sadly also seems to be normal, fear is a strong motivator, but knowledge and our ability to find out the truth regardless is unstoppable.. cheers from a rainy belgium (first rainy year in a decade)
can't see anyone commenting about the mushrooms so hopefully you see this! the first mushrooms look like a shaggy parasol but i would need to see the stem better, the mushrooms at 1:02 look like turkey tails which are valued for medicinal reasons 1:18 look like orange bolettes but i would need to see the underside of the mushroom to confirm that. pretty sure the mushrooms at 1:24 aare not edible but they also look quite decayed so i can't be sure on those either. love what you all do, you're living a dream i always had!
Great work on planting trees. However I think you'll get less success just throwing acorn seeds around. If you save milk cartons or other bio degradable containers (old socks will work too) and cut them down to cup size then fill them with soil and over winter the acorns in your shed you'll get a much higher yield of seedlings. Then just plat the whole container in the ground per seedling. Re you water cylinder, that is the right way to think of water, as a battery. Hooking a cylinder up to your inverter is not a difficult matter, just read the documentation carefully, it should be explained there. Eventually you'll want to upgrade your cylinder to a Solar capable one like a MixEnergy one, however in the short term you can simply upgrade your current Cylinder's heating element to a AC/DC capable version. You should be able to find a direct replacement current element that fits into your tank. Then the AC side goes into your timed switch and later your inverter relay, so it only comes on when the tank gets below a specific temp at a specific range of time, and the DC side is directly connected to a set of solar panels (You may need to invest in 2 or 3 panels just for water heating). In this setup what happens is that direct sun heats your water when there is sun as the DC element can run straight from the panels without any other electronics involved. If the water gets below a set temp (meaning there has been no sun for some time) and its between n and m time of day, then your AC side kicks in and draws from your batteries, however as there should be some residual heat still in the water this draw will be lesser than in a standard element configuration. Setting up your cylinder like this should save you between 30 and 40% battery use, as water heating is the largest draw on the system. Here is a video of a kiwi guy doing this exact workflow so you can see what I am talking about th-cam.com/video/r7g-27AXFEg/w-d-xo.html. I hope that helps.
@@EastLondonKiwi Its not all leafs that can be used, and i dont remember seeing any of those about the placeon any of the videos. I have seen, however, when they built the thunderbox, putting a roll of shit tickets on the wall ;)
Just enjoying watching you! And Feeling connected to you and blessed to know that there are people with similar thoughts! Now it’s a good time to start a compost or raised garden bed, if you are interested in these.
Yes...the Eucalyptus trees are reliant on fire to regenerate...as are a lot of other Aussies species like Whattyl and Banksia's. And yes, their roots do go for quite a distance because they are constantly searching for water.
I love your videos and what you are doing on your land. I would love it if you could identify more plants, even the common ones and/or animals. I’m in Northern New Jersey in the states and love learning about other habitats. Thanks so much. All the best.
I'm seeming several eco-homesteading channels based in central Portugal popup in my feed. It would be really cool to get collaborations going including sharing links. You could share mutual cross links between channels.
I really enjoy your updates. Hope it all works out for you in winter. Did you think about the tempertaure of your batterypack ? Guess it will be quite cold during winter in the wooden "container".
Tree stump removal: Cut the bottom out of a metal drum, set it over a stump you want to remove, and start a fire in it. The fire is contained and will burn out the stump. No machinery is needed.
Je kan met je overgebleven energiemookmwater naar een hoger niveau pompen in een soort watertoren, ao moet je pomp niet alrijd draaien maar bv alleen om water naar een hoger niveau te pompen en dan werkt de zwaartekracht voor je
🙏 thanks for the nice update! If you find time, can you share more about the solar power statistics? Very interested in the battery 🔋 upgrade and the water heater, which consuming a lot… And how you get along with it… Thanks for the kool updates!!!
I’m sure you have organised something to help you with mushroom recognition and harvesting by now but just encase.. there is a great book called ‘edible mushrooms’ by Geoff Dann, also tells you what ones are not good! In the words of the forager Alexis Nicole ‘Happy Snacking! don’t Die!!’ 😉
Consider to build a small hydro-electric-sytem at your "river" for the winter-month like the chanel "Kris Harbour Natural Buildings" It is working great for him.
It will be interesting to see your winters I live in san antonio texas USA, we had our first winter storm since 1985. It snowed 12 inches , last year it snowed for a week temperature went to 0 1 night and stayed below freezing the whole state of texas shut down , we are not equipped for snow LOL
When you start sprouting it from the water and then you need to for the next week's you need to water it a bit more than you would usually so that it could adapt to the soil
Good work, nice video. Try and get a "Feild guide" for your region for mushroom identification. Also see about joining some mushroom club if close by or some neighbors that know there stuff. I would only/mainly forage the best of the best (porcini, chanterelles, black trumpets, lobster, etc). Be very careful with mushrooms eh
Hi, if you are still getting excess energy after heating the water have you considered pumping water to your highest elevation to take advantage of gravity and rely less on the well pump during times of less solar charging?
Basically you put it in a bucket on the floor for a couple of months and then get it back and see how many are creating roots and plant them. It's labor intensive but seems very effective
There are some useful apps that let take a picture of mushrooms and try to guess which type it is! But don't take the result for granted, it could be dangerous haha
There are fungi guides online. I think all those you showed are edible but PLEASE check. Very few 'mushrooms' are poisonous but some are lethal in small doses.
Great video, especially the part on native trees and also hot water tank/solar. I have a question about how much roughly you paid to transport the containers as I'm thinking of doing the same and would be interested in the rough cost for a budget. Thanks
Hello. Is it possible to have the contact of Germano? I would like to donate some native tree saplings . If you are interested I would like to donate some for you as well.
Check out Learn your Land here on YT he’s so knowledgeable and great at explaining. You definitely can’t take any chances with mushrooms. I know someone who made one mistake, just once and they died.
Brambels brambels brambels! You know you can keep cutting, its going to take a month a year just to take them down like the ammount you have. Yiu can do 4 things about it. 1 burn them down. 2 spray them down. 3 get in heavy machinery and have that dig down and remove or flip the soil. All sucks. 4 is get shockwire, demark the arrea and put 3 or 4 goats in after cutting most down
the tree guy (i didnt hear is name) was so knowledgeable and interesting, i could have listened to him talk for hours, love what he is doing to repopulate the native trees and thinking ahead to create fire breaks. love this channel and what you guys are trying to do
His name is Germano.
thanks. And he has waaaay more knowledge to share. He is a very geeky guy!
Upvote the comment. It might convince him to start a channel ;-)
Yes please, create a TH-cam channel please
Kinda funny listening to Germano, due to us removing the european trees and puting in australian trees. He did get the fact that the aussie trees love a fire, and the mimosas pop up super quick, hand around for 15-20 years, then die out... giving cover for the bigger gums to come back and grow more brush ;)
Do projects like Germano’s family qualify for any grants from the Portuguese government? It seems like they are doing really vital work 🌳
It’s amazing what neighbors accomplish when they work together.
It’s good having so many mushrooms around. They are a good sign of a thriving ecosystem and good soil.
It means: The recycling machine still works! 👍
ya, the mushrooms do an incredible amount of chemical work to transform minerals into useful compounds that organic life can make use of! they're a great contributor to soil building.
In a way you learned quickly what happens to resources in overpopulated areas. That was an important lesson.
I love the banana mushroom!
Thank you guys! You all are a true inspiration.
Sending my love from Australia!
A trick we do in Dallas Texas are in know wherever in Texas. Take your acorns take some paper towels newspaper or something stick your acorns all through the newspapers. Then lay it all flat you know like 2 or 3 pieces of newspaper down lay a layer of 8 corners down and then lay 2 or 3 pieces of newspapers on top of that and then wet it real good to wear the newspapers all wet. Then what you do there after that is you wait until they start sprouting? Then you can plan of and whatever so will you won't and then you'll have really nice trees come up but my deal is. I plan them in a plastic tube and then when they come up and keep getting bigger once they get almost too big for the tube you cut the 2 ball problem. And some people use the tubes that you can get for trees that they automatically curl up around the tree and you just slide them on a small tree and they'll eventually grow and they'll expand around the tree without hurting the tree
Thank you for educating people about HOW to care and restore the land. We need lots of folks like you!!
This community is still practicing a good culture of helping each other
Talk to your neighbors they know what ones to eat 👍❤️🇵🇹❤️
Rita, you are a natural on camera. Your voice is very pleasant and soothing.
Love what all y‘all are doing… I think many people are watching and learning and they are going to do this also… You guys are creating a beautiful, kind and gentle space where everything thrives. So impressed! 🌀❤️🌀
You can plant those acorns like you would grow vegetables, in a straight row. They grow straight down and are therefor really easy to replant on the desired location. I was really surprised how strong those oak seedlings are.
So true, good to have acorns from as many sources as possible for genetic diversity. Fruit crops as well would readily replace all the pest species over time. Even the pests are beneficial for cover and fences as the takeover happens. Its great to see that there is a way to make the land recover with a strategy.
I really like this guy he’s a legend keep the native trees 🌲 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏✊🏻
Your journey is really enjoyable to watch vicariously.
Each video is interesting and I like the flow your videos have settled into.
Plant willow near the water they don't mind getting their roots wet and grow very fast ❤
Love what you're doing. I like it when you walk around your property. I've watched all your videos and am envious of all of you. Have a great time doing what you're doing. And thank you for bringing me along for the ride. 😃👍☺🌟⭐👍
Dave's wife is wonderful! She brings a lot of positive and happy energy to the scene.
Why are you assuming they are married or even a couple?
@Bertus I figured that but I couldn't remember her name. Anyway, they may as well be married.
It you want someone knolegabel in mushrooms to identyfy them you also need to show the root and underpart of the mushroom. Your neghbors are farmers so there is bound to be soms one there to show you. Porchini and canterel are eazy to identify when you are shown by someone knoligable. This was a very educative input. geest comment from Bobby
So cool that you found Germano, it's one thing to have locals that tell you do this, do that, and another thing to have someone that can explain why!
Parabéns ao Germano e família pelo trabalho de reflorestação! Tenho o mesmo objectivo numa zona do concelho de Mação… muito seca e rodeada de eucaliptos…
You guys should fabricate a recycled plastic helmet for your neighbor who helped with tree education, to protect from falling nuts, as a thank you (and new product in the bazaar & tutorial/plans. I could see that easily produceable and useful for many others.)
When planting soak the hole with plenty of water , gently push in the new shrub and press the soil around it and water again … gives the trees the best chance to root … 🙏☘️😘
On 1:04 turkey tail, medicinal mushrom, double check thought, but I'm pretty shure. Used to improve inmune system and to reinforce chymotherapy effects
Superinteresting to see the offgrid process evolve! Another way to store energy might be to put a bigger watertank higher up, perhaps on the container. When there is sun, the water is stored high up and when you want to shower you dont really need the pump anymore!
Consider a water tank installed up hill for future...that way your pump only needs to pump water to the tank during the day and at night you can rely on a gravity feed from the tank instead of battery power.
Nice update. I LOVE my CERBO GX. I can monitor my system from anywhere with an internet connection and makes changes if needed as if I was standing in front of it. Doubling the battery bank is great.. Now add more panels..
Currently 3:45am. I ran into one of your videos around 1am, haha I’ve quickly become obsessed with this idea, and I’m loving the idea to document it!
You can grow willow by cutting sticks off and putting them straight in ground without growing the root in water first. I've seen people grow garden deviders by pushing sticks in the ground in a row and then when they start to grow you can weave them together to create a sort of growing fence or narrow hedge.
By taking the green shoots at the ends of a willow branch, pulping them up and making a slurry you can put that around the roots of other plants and promote those plants to grow better root systems.
There is an enzyme in willow that promotes root growth.
@@ryanmcewen415 cool, l did not know that!
Willow is amazing. I got given some rods and whips (sticks) many years ago that had been pollarded from the side of the River Avon. I was in a hurry when I was given them (unexpectedly) so chopped a slit trench with a spade alongside our allotment garden shed and just whacked the willow into the ground (making sure they were the right way up) and roughly heeled them in. This is on *very* sandy soil, so I didn't hold out much hope for them, but they were free so nothing lost if they died. A couple of buckets of water to get them going and then I let them fend for themselves over winter.
I now harvest 10-15ft long rods every December from these trees, which also provide shelter for the shed and keep it cooler in the summer. I get a *huge* amount of rods and whips every year, more than I need for structures on my plot. Last year my neighbour took a load of rods and wove a fence for her plot, which is itself now alive and growing, and in previous years I've given material to local craft groups and hospices for weaving. The smaller whips are are also handy for weaving into Christmas wreath formers. ;-)
One warning though: don't plant willow close to where you plan to grow crops, as they'll extract every drop of moisture the can from the soil. Great for dealing with wet and boggy areas though.
True, I once fenced off my veggie patch with willow branches as fencing posts. Within a month they started to develop shoots . Little did I know in the beginning.
Bravo gente nova Portugal precisa de Vos OBRIGDO mil vezes por tratares assim do meu querido Potugal
Great battery improvement for the winter. 🙏👍🏻🤘🏻
Just an observation, it seems that the support for the batteries is bending a bit with all that weight. You could give some attention before any disaster like having those expensive batteries all over the floor :) Keep up the good work...
You can also stick the willow cuttings directly into the soil, the deeper the better, 40cm more or less. Then you dont have to transplant them.
I had to giggle at Germano talk about the Eucalyptus tree stumps being an warren for rabbits. In Australia the rabbit is a pest and for you the Eucalyptus and the Acacias are a pest.
I kept looking at that pile thinking about the decent fires that could be had with each stump :D
Here are willows with a heiht up to 20m and they could be 200 years old and basket-willows , where you can harvest the young shots every year to make baskets . Greetings from Hamburg
I am not an expert on trees but I do know Willow trees like be neat a plentiful supply of water eg stream. When pollarded they make useful supply of wood for the garden. Supports for plants etc. Great video especially the guy with his land. Would like to see more from him in the future.
Hey! I live 20 minutes from you guys too :D in Sevilha (Tabua). My family and me are also working on regenerating land.
We should get to know eachother!!
You got everything u all need In that one plot of land! Awesome!
begin to look for tree species that will be able to cope with climate change in the next years
my father helps in a french organisation called "Terre-de-Liens" and they have to plant 18 km of hedges 5 to 10m wide.
they looked very closely the varieties they are planting and took a mix of more southern trees mixed with local trees able to live on dryer land (their project is near Clermont-Ferrand in the middle of France)
climate change? as in this type of ever changing atmospheric conditions as it has always been, or the fear mongering nonsense mainstream media has on endless repeat, claiming some non-existent 97% "consensus" among climate scientists who are 100% sure it's carbon dioxide? (whenever there is talk of a consensus like that in science something is not right, it's like there would be a consensus on gravity being caused be gravitons, or light is a wave only not a particle or vice versa)
i'll tell you, for all they know and all their best guesses put together, there are no verifiable models they have to back up that claim.
for example, 2 huge volcanoes erupting in the wrong place, or the natural milankovitch cycles doing their thing, or the sun doing it's thing (grand solar minimum) could end this interglacial period, and you don't want to live in a glacial period, btw technically we are living in an ice age since 2.6 million years.
if we look at the data, we can see a few things very clearly: 1. CO2 rise follows temp rise by 600-2000 years (so CO2 has not been the reason for temp rise historically) 2. the cycles of glacial and interglacial are abrupt and we are now on the verge of a big cooling, it's doubtful our CO2 emissions could stop the natural cycle which might have started already or might take another few centuries, depends on what the real reasons are for these extreme shifts.. 3. they keep saying it's getting warmer, compared to when? they compare to pre industrial times, pre 1850, which happens to be the end of a shorter cold period, the little ice age, with lots of growing glaciers in the alps, long cold winters, short growing seasons, in short a hard time with frozen rivers in w europe..
things change, climate has always been changing and extreme weather, droughts, cold periods, wet periods is just the normal on this planet, psychological manipulation among humans sadly also seems to be normal, fear is a strong motivator, but knowledge and our ability to find out the truth regardless is unstoppable..
cheers from a rainy belgium (first rainy year in a decade)
Intersting info, thanks Yann. I'm in France so will look them up.
Wonderful episode full of useful information. Things really coming together well done all!
can't see anyone commenting about the mushrooms so hopefully you see this! the first mushrooms look like a shaggy parasol but i would need to see the stem better, the mushrooms at 1:02 look like turkey tails which are valued for medicinal reasons 1:18 look like orange bolettes but i would need to see the underside of the mushroom to confirm that. pretty sure the mushrooms at 1:24 aare not edible but they also look quite decayed so i can't be sure on those either. love what you all do, you're living a dream i always had!
Great work on planting trees. However I think you'll get less success just throwing acorn seeds around. If you save milk cartons or other bio degradable containers (old socks will work too) and cut them down to cup size then fill them with soil and over winter the acorns in your shed you'll get a much higher yield of seedlings. Then just plat the whole container in the ground per seedling. Re you water cylinder, that is the right way to think of water, as a battery. Hooking a cylinder up to your inverter is not a difficult matter, just read the documentation carefully, it should be explained there. Eventually you'll want to upgrade your cylinder to a Solar capable one like a MixEnergy one, however in the short term you can simply upgrade your current Cylinder's heating element to a AC/DC capable version. You should be able to find a direct replacement current element that fits into your tank. Then the AC side goes into your timed switch and later your inverter relay, so it only comes on when the tank gets below a specific temp at a specific range of time, and the DC side is directly connected to a set of solar panels (You may need to invest in 2 or 3 panels just for water heating). In this setup what happens is that direct sun heats your water when there is sun as the DC element can run straight from the panels without any other electronics involved. If the water gets below a set temp (meaning there has been no sun for some time) and its between n and m time of day, then your AC side kicks in and draws from your batteries, however as there should be some residual heat still in the water this draw will be lesser than in a standard element configuration. Setting up your cylinder like this should save you between 30 and 40% battery use, as water heating is the largest draw on the system. Here is a video of a kiwi guy doing this exact workflow so you can see what I am talking about th-cam.com/video/r7g-27AXFEg/w-d-xo.html. I hope that helps.
Toilet rolls work well too ;)
@@MooKau_ , very true, but I have assumed the hippies on this project use lefts to wipe their bum, so loo rolls would be in short supply :D
@@EastLondonKiwi Its not all leafs that can be used, and i dont remember seeing any of those about the placeon any of the videos.
I have seen, however, when they built the thunderbox, putting a roll of shit tickets on the wall ;)
Those grapes are so pretty
Just enjoying watching you! And Feeling connected to you and blessed to know that there are people with similar thoughts! Now it’s a good time to start a compost or raised garden bed, if you are interested in these.
Yes...the Eucalyptus trees are reliant on fire to regenerate...as are a lot of other Aussies species like Whattyl and Banksia's. And yes, their roots do go for quite a distance because they are constantly searching for water.
I love your videos and what you are doing on your land. I would love it if you could identify more plants, even the common ones and/or animals. I’m in Northern New Jersey in the states and love learning about other habitats. Thanks so much. All the best.
Woow, so much good energy and a very beautiful project. Wish all the best, keep going and follow your dreams for the kamp
Good job. You can store energy using water in big tank on top of hill.
Super inspiring, keep up the good work!
I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms.
Always interesting videos guys, love it! Keep it going!
As always, totally fascinating.
Trees are the best! Great work!
I'm seeming several eco-homesteading channels based in central Portugal popup in my feed.
It would be really cool to get collaborations going including sharing links.
You could share mutual cross links between channels.
I really enjoy your updates. Hope it all works out for you in winter. Did you think about the tempertaure of your batterypack ? Guess it will be quite cold during winter in the wooden "container".
Willow trees are normally found close to water. So not sure if they survive far away from the creek.
I respect the roof tile tease.
In my area in Northern California, the indigenous populations used acorns as a prime food source.
Tree stump removal: Cut the bottom out of a metal drum, set it over a stump you want to remove, and start a fire in it. The fire is contained and will burn out the stump. No machinery is needed.
I think you will need to cut the top of the drum off too.
Je kan met je overgebleven energiemookmwater naar een hoger niveau pompen in een soort watertoren, ao moet je pomp niet alrijd draaien maar bv alleen om water naar een hoger niveau te pompen en dan werkt de zwaartekracht voor je
I have the same boiler at home! It uses a lot of energy though. might want invest in a heatpump boiler in the future!
Very cool video, cool to see everything moving along
00:45 I've been walking in a pine forest once a week, mushrooms everywhere is amazing right now.
Julie is so angelic
🙏 thanks for the nice update!
If you find time, can you share more about the solar power statistics? Very interested in the battery 🔋 upgrade and the water heater, which consuming a lot…
And how you get along with it…
Thanks for the kool updates!!!
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I’m sure you have organised something to help you with mushroom recognition and harvesting by now but just encase.. there is a great book called ‘edible mushrooms’ by Geoff Dann, also tells you what ones are not good! In the words of the forager Alexis Nicole ‘Happy Snacking! don’t Die!!’ 😉
All mushrooms are edible, some only once ;)
My btech project was smart rerouting of power.
If i get time I’ll have a look
Consider to build a small hydro-electric-sytem at your "river" for the winter-month like the chanel "Kris Harbour Natural Buildings"
It is working great for him.
It will be interesting to see your winters I live in san antonio texas USA, we had our first winter storm since 1985. It snowed 12 inches , last year it snowed for a week temperature went to 0 1 night and stayed below freezing the whole state of texas shut down , we are not equipped for snow LOL
Please write something abaut the tee processing, and plant treatment. Thx
you could use a Ram Pump (or a "Bomba Carneiro") to pump up the water without electric power.
Lovely Rita!
Nice watching season change
When you start sprouting it from the water and then you need to for the next week's you need to water it a bit more than you would usually so that it could adapt to the soil
best episode so far! good job
Good work, nice video. Try and get a "Feild guide" for your region for mushroom identification. Also see about joining some mushroom club if close by or some neighbors that know there stuff. I would only/mainly forage the best of the best (porcini, chanterelles, black trumpets, lobster, etc). Be very careful with mushrooms eh
Hi, if you are still getting excess energy after heating the water have you considered pumping water to your highest elevation to take advantage of gravity and rely less on the well pump during times of less solar charging?
Looks like you upgraded the shower head. Nice.
For the acorns planting I saw a video that is quite interesting, I'll try and find it
Basically you put it in a bucket on the floor for a couple of months and then get it back and see how many are creating roots and plant them. It's labor intensive but seems very effective
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There are some useful apps that let take a picture of mushrooms and try to guess which type it is!
But don't take the result for granted, it could be dangerous haha
great episode!!!
Wavy Caps...Cyanescens!! Find them...enjoy them!
Get someone to give you some Porto, the homemade is like a liquor more than wine. Goes good with pizza, lol.
A week ago, a video was posted on the channel "Marty T" about using a water heater to store energy.
Hee, ik zie je net op tv bij de VPRO Tegenlicht. Leuk zeg. 😄
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There are fungi guides online. I think all those you showed are edible but PLEASE check. Very few 'mushrooms' are poisonous but some are lethal in small doses.
Great video, especially the part on native trees and also hot water tank/solar. I have a question about how much roughly you paid to transport the containers as I'm thinking of doing the same and would be interested in the rough cost for a budget. Thanks
€1800 from Netherlands to Portugal
So much fun to watch
Hello. Is it possible to have the contact of Germano? I would like to donate some native tree saplings . If you are interested I would like to donate some for you as well.
super interesting. how/where can you get the topography map of a piece of land in Portugal?
1 off the mushrooms 🍄 is Turkey tail, medicinal, look it up and harvest & dry out. 😍
1:41 Hehehe... nice one.
The video description made this sound incredibly dramatic "Learn how to restore a burned land".
Nice mushrooms 😍
Anybody else start cringing at the squeaky sounds when Dave started rubbing the charred cork at 9:30 ... It was like scratching a chalkboard 🙉
No... not really...
Huh, guess it's not common
Check out Learn your Land here on YT he’s so knowledgeable and great at explaining. You definitely can’t take any chances with mushrooms. I know someone who made one mistake, just once and they died.
Normaly death is the consequence of eating a Venomous mushroom in a mater of hours the liver is totaly destroied...no turning back
Brambels brambels brambels! You know you can keep cutting, its going to take a month a year just to take them down like the ammount you have. Yiu can do 4 things about it. 1 burn them down. 2 spray them down. 3 get in heavy machinery and have that dig down and remove or flip the soil.
All sucks. 4 is get shockwire, demark the arrea and put 3 or 4 goats in after cutting most down
Dave, does the tree guy have his own YT channel or instagram? I would like to know more please.
nope. i told him the same thing though :)
@@ProjectKamp Thanks Dave
Hi, what bush are you making the tea from? It doesn't look like a Chinese tea tree. Thank you!
Looks like Lucia lima
@@srantoniomatos Thank you!
Verbena, most beautiful tea