It took 6 months but we FINALLY did it! | SELF SUFFICIENCY ON OUR HOMESTEAD
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Hi, we are Harriet and Mauro and in February 2021 we bought an abandoned smallholding in Castellón, Spain. In these videos we share our life as we restore and improve our little stone house, learn to grow and preserve our own food, and bring our 4 acres of farmland back to productivity.
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It’s great to see the two of you working and problem solving together! With Santi as your manager, of course.
So nice to have a community of friends.
Harriet, you are a force of nature! Great progress on the land.
She truly is a Warrior
Little by little you’re expanding your dreams of a functional farm. Keep up the great work. Even though sometimes it seems endless, you just take it one project at a time. Look how FAR you both have come. ❣️👍🏻
Great video nice to have such great friends to help 🇬🇧😊
Way to hang in there guys... it's not easy to have such patience with tedious projects that you've never done before. you should be super proud of yourselves 💞
Mauro I was cheering you on the entire video ~ you did a great job 🎉
Harriet your tenacity never ceases to amaze me. And your community of friends are amazing! You all super lucky lucky to have each other🎼 ...and we all are lucky to be part of it🍀
Santi,You are living the "Good Life!".
yay! how nice to see your friends coming together to help. what a great accomplishment
Cómo me gustan tus videos Harriet!!
I agree, you should be proud of yourselves. This was hard work and you are amazing to push through obstacles! Feeding friends to help with a project is rewarding for everyone. ❤🎉🎉🎉
Yes, exactly, rewarding for everyone. I guess it's a sign of community. Yay, everybody.
Awesome! that was a big project. It looks great! Congrats! And that Pizza. You bet I'd be there for some Pizza and wine. :).
Allow yourself grace. I have found each project comes with their own unique challenges and mistakes 😊. Lovely to see Santi enjoying himself and wanting to help😂. 👏👏👏for all the friends who came to help ❤. Great seeing the flocks in their new home
Yes, I really enjoy watching the three of you working and learning together …. You guys are hilarious sometimes😂….you make a Great Team and have fun friends 😊 GREAT WORK YOU GUYS! From Colorado USA
It’s lovely to see you all coming together to help each other 😊❤
A job Well done 👍🏼 and thanks to all the helpers.
As I have commented previously hard work but the best life.🙂🙂🙂👍👍👍
She just yanks the posts out of the ground concrete and all and says...."oh this should work!" You are a little badger, or bear, or something 😘!
To save cement, add soil 1/2 way to bottom of hole after placing fence in , then place cement on top of soil.
If it's SOOOO satisfying to see a finished project for us, I can only imagine how it must be for you! I enjoyed the process, too, with so much loving action among spouses, children, doggies, chickens, and friends.
Is it weird that I clapped 👏🏼 at the end?? (I would have been standing, but I had a sleeping dog on my lap 😅) Awesome job to all involved! Ps. Can't believe our Santi is basically walking already 🥹
❤ madre mía cómo trabajáis, me gusta veros como todo fluye, felicidades y vuestro hijo maravilloso de bueno y decirte que está grandísimo ❤
Oh wow, happy for you all and the 🐥 🦆Yay donkey and the 🐑 more planting ... Soon.❤️🙏
Community building at its finest!!!
Wonderful! Enyoj the feeling of completing a difficult task ❤
Hooray for the new chicken/duck yard!
It’ll be fine, she says. Haha. That’s exactly what I always tell my husband on our projects. Congratulations on completing all the fencing. It looks great!
I admire your willingness to revisit projects and amend/upgrade earlier work. Your fencing looks great. Here in the US it is so commonly used for residential lots that the tensioning hardware is very simple and logical. What you've done is an enormous job and it looks excellent.
Love watching Sante playing and having such a ball.❤
Thanks for your vid 😇💗💗💗love and bless you guys 😊good work on the chicken coop wow you made a big one 👍🙂
So great to see that people came together in the end to help you. Its all looking great. wonderful progress.
The fencing looks amazing. The group of friends you have are invaluable and it's always such a treat to make a day out of it and eat together. Awesome job.👌❤️
I hope the big deposit becomes Santi’s playpen 😊
He is going to be a fun handful and containment with an active toddler will be a fun time 😎
Wonderful job! So happy for you!
Enhorabuena a los tres, lo habeis logrado al final. Santi tiene toda la pinta de ser un cachondo, es una monada, y con todo lo que está viendo seguro que será un manitas de mayor. Sois unos padres maravillosos. Harriet, Mauro, y Santi, gracias por compartir vuestro proyecto ❤.
So happy for you getting such good helpers
Friends sure made that job easier. What a huge area you flock now has.
Looks great! super work everyone! Ducks and chooks look super happy!
Thanks for sharing ❤😊
This is so cool! Love continuing to see the progress since having subscribed after your viral 2022 video!
What's up with the 3 toilets by the wood stores? Also, when I store water, I always add in chlorine bleach (not the kind with scents added). Basically, you are creating chlorinated water like it comes from a tap. It prevents growth of algae.
How much bleach to add
Add 4-5 drops of unscented liquid chlorine bleach per gallon of water
You can also add 1 teaspoon of bleach for every 5 gallons of water
If the water is cloudy, colored, or very cold, you can double the amount of bleach
How to add bleach
Pour the bleach solution directly into the storage container
Wait 30 minutes before using the water
If your IBCs are 275 gallons, use 1.15 cups of bleach.
Love the music at the end
Wow... huge progress👍👍Be blessed🙏🙏
That was amazing how you did the fencing....good plan. I really enjoyed watching little Santi getting down and dirty in the dirt and grass...typical little boy and soooo cute!
Yea ! Fencing looks great, i know you both are ecstatic that its finally complete. Great job.
Excelente trabajo, felicitaciones
gran trabajo!!!!
❤❤❤ congratulations 🎉
All that hard work was worth it. Looks good.
Santi Loves being out in Nature 🍄🟫
I hate fencing. I hate tensioning (or trying to tension) wire. I don't have the weakest hands, but they aren't strong enough to make it less than a battle each time.
I hate "knitting" and "unknitting" the fence roll stuff. I do it on the ground too.
Well done you guys!
Oh wow! That was so much work! Great team work!
Wow well done the area for the chickens and ducks looks great, you should be proud that took a lot of work. Harriet you are so strong pulling that fence post out of the ground with the concrete on! Great work on sorting out the water issue, it filled the IBC tote up very quickly. Santi’s doing well with his walking and they are so interested in everything at this stage, you have to have eyes in the back of your head lol x
Those pizzas 👍👍👍👍
yours and mauros working dynamic reminds me so much of mine and my partner. him always wanting to know exactly how it's going to work and me always "it's going to be fine!" 😅
Your land is beautiful, and everything is starting to take shape. You definitely want to be ready for all the rain coming. We have 4 feet of snow here in Ontario, another snow squall today! ❤
👏👏👏 Team work
The best chickenrun ever🤩… great job💪🌟
Great job! CONGRATULATIONS 🎉
Lol, Santi is going to be a good helper as he grows up, he's watching your every move intensely.😂👍
What an amazing job done❤
Thank you for a brilliant keep fit video. That's a great bit of fencing😊
That's a big job well done to you all
Yay! It looks great!! ❤🐔
Great watch.
Santis a little darling.
See you next week
Hello guys. I think that once a year as the rain begins it's going to save you loads of hassle to clean the waterways of any debris. It's going to be collecting leaves and sand through the seasons. 👍
Great work guys!!!!!
The soil looks good
That was a great job congratulations 👏👍🌟🍀💐
Super travail a bientôt
Been sick for 3 weeks playing catch up with all of you. I missed you. From Iowa in the US❤❤❤❤
It can only get better eh 😁⭐️⭐️
Do you have a post-hole digger? If not, they are worth the investment.
Good job!!
Enjoyed video 🎉
I can't begin to imagine the yo-yo stress experience that you two must be experiencing through all of this. I hope neither of you beat yourselves up as you keep learning more and more. We're human and imperfect, and we can always figure something else out if the current plan doesn't stick.
YEA❣❣❣❣❣
With the help of friends it's much easier to get it done ✅
Hi u r both amazing😊
Just look at santi more cute by the dsy
Super !! Santi marche
You weren't necessarily wrong with the original fencing clips, it was just you were possibly thinking the wrong way about it. 😊 For example, before doing anything, slide the number of clips you need onto the wire, all of them together like keys on a keyring (one for each post). Tie the wire to the first post. Put the wire around all the posts. THEN slide the clips along the wire to each post. Sliding clips is easier than sliding wire. Even easier if you only use one of the holes. Just saying - don't be hard on yourself, there are enough people in the world willing to do that for you, and for free... 🤣
Luna was the star of this video ❤
Una or Luna?
Oona
Hi. Echt gute Arbeit ! Omg du arme, warum trägst du noch Santi auf dem Rücken? Ich glaube nicht das es gut ist, da durch die gestreckte Hüfte es vielleicht zu Veränderungen, Verformungen kommen kann, er sollte schon ruhig krabbeln und laufen lernen. Ich weiß, wenn man draußen arbeitet ist das etwas schwierig, aber es funktioniert. Grüße aus Oberfranken nach Spanien !
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Hallo,hoe zwaar is Santi. Is het niet zwaar voor je werken met hem op je rug? Groet Gunda
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Keep up the good work. I know your brain gets tired of working problems out😊
Where is Tofu?
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I enjoy watching these videos because its hilarious the amount of things done badly...
Yeah... Everything looks unfinished, ugly, messy, untidy... I don't know how you can live amongst all that rubbish.
The only thing that is rubbish here is YOU. What a horrid thing to say to someone. You are supposed to be a woman (cant tell from your photo is you are trans or not) and you should be supporting and empowering others not being unkind. Not everyone lives a luxurious life and has money to just throw at things. You need to check your attitude and think before commenting in future. I am reporting you to TH-cam for bullying behaviour.
@@AussieTracy😘