#11 Building Our Homestead Dream From Scratch: 2 Year Off-Grid Time Lapse
A 2 year Time Lapse of everything we've built and renovated on our 4 acre homestead so far, this is our journey to becoming more off-grid. This is a big one, we hope you enjoy it!
We are Grace and Ryan, we bought a multi-generational small holding in Somerset with an aim to live the old school off grid good life. Think organic home-grown veg in our no dig raised beds, too much DIY, cooking outside over the fire and most importantly, making the most of time with family and friends.
Here is a two year timelapse of our off-grid homestead journey so far, including keeping chickens, our vegetable garden, getting solar panels, renovating our abandoned shed into a log store, decorating an outbuilding, hosting a wedding on our land and having a baby.
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A very soft and gentle look at your lives so far, a great way to bring people upto speed and then tempt them to watch more, very well done.
@thelittleholding
7 ай бұрын
Thanks so much, really appreciate it John 😌
That is the cutest chicken house I’ve ever seen!!!
I am so glad to have found your channel in my feed. It is also nice to find some homesteaders in our own country. May I congratulate you on the birth of your son Arthur and so sorry you lost your first set of chickens. Foxes are a nuisance just watch the chickens as they can also attack in the day. Though I do see next to the chicken house you have a covered chicken run, I reckon that is why the previous people enclosed the run. You have a beautiful piece of land and you have done so much in two years you can be very proud of yourselves. I have never seen a bee hive like that and honey being tapped immediately from a hive. Would love in a future video what type of hive it is and how it works. I wish you, Ryan, Arthur and your parents the very best for 2024 and for all your ideas and business ideas to work out successfully. I look forward to watching your adventures. Have a lovely day.
Nice film! Love that you planted trees on the same year you’re son was born. That will be a forever touchstone. That was a magnificent fox! Be sure to wrangle the chickens every evening! 😂
@thelittleholding
Жыл бұрын
Didn’t even think about that, will be so lovely for Arthur to see them grow with him 😊
This was so fun to watch and a great way to learn about your homestead 💛🥰🙌 wishing you guys so much success in 2024 on the farm!
@thelittleholding
5 ай бұрын
Thanks so much Laura, I’m so pleased you liked it 😊
Such a calming and beautiful video. I loved every little bit of it. I cannot wait to see more of what your lovely home has to offer. Wish you all the best. Sending love from the Czech Republic 🇨🇿
@thelittleholding
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Monika, this comments made our day! -G,x
I absolutely love your new content! It feels calming and beautiful but also really hopeful 🥰 love all the composting chat because we’ve started composting too 🙈
Beautiful property
Great video Ryan and Grace
@thelittleholding
6 ай бұрын
Thankyou 😊
ah - I've followed all along but this was a great summary and had some wonderful insights too. I'm still soooo jealous of the bees and honey lol
@thelittleholding
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Kev, I really enjoyed making it. Makes me even more motivated to capture every bit of it, feel so lucky to be able to have so many memories to watch back on. -G,x
@KevLowe-TalkingS---
Жыл бұрын
@@thelittleholding 😃
I luv a good recap video. 👍👍👍👍👍
Such an emotional, beautiful journey. I feel lucky to have been able to follow along!
WOW that amazing sharing I love it so much thank you friend
Wowww this is amazing! Your little boy is so lucky.
I love this,u guys are living amazingly ❤️
@thelittleholding
6 ай бұрын
Im so pleased you enjoyed it, welcome to our tiny corner of the internet 😌
Love seeing everything you've done! Especially love seeing your vegetable garden bloom as we are working on our this weekend, so I'm excited to think what it will be like in years to come ❤
@thelittleholding
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much guys, you inspired us to do a recap 😊. Can’t wait to see what you have planned for your veg garden!!
Can't believe it's been 2 years! So useful to have this video to see the timeline so far😊
@thelittleholding
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Anna! I really enjoyed editing it, but wish I had documented more, there was so many things we did that I never filmed. Motivation to document even more! ☺️
This is beautiful! Congratulations on your new journey!
@thelittleholding
7 ай бұрын
Thankyou 😌
So beautiful. Much love from Ghana
@thelittleholding
7 ай бұрын
Thankyou 😊
keep it up , good luck . from INDIA
I see more hives in your future along with personalised labels…for sale!! I adore real Honey! It is so good for our bodies. 👍👍👍👍👍👍. Loved watching and I have subbed. 👏👏👏💗👏
@thelittleholding
Жыл бұрын
I think you might be onto something there, we certainly are tempted!!
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I can’t believe it’s been two years already!!!
@thelittleholding
Жыл бұрын
I know, time really has flown by!
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Love it … chickens are forest animals. Please plant them some trees they will feel much happier if they have some cover from birds of prey
@thelittleholding
7 ай бұрын
Great idea! There is one tree, an undercover area and a rosemary hedge but I love the idea of more trees! -G,x
Greetings and Salutations I had a idea of a homestead Turned into a $15,000.00 SAUNA BARN I named it #Burnstead Good Luck Thanks 😊
Why don't you have a few sheep, to maintain the grass? You also get meat out of the deal as well, when the time comes.
@thelittleholding
7 ай бұрын
You’re right it does make sense but there are a few reasons why we haven’t . First of all we have no real knowledge about having sheep so it would be a massive learning curve which currently we don’t have the time to put into to learning about (as of yet). We then have plans for the land (glamping, hosting feasts etc.) but just haven’t done it yet and the sheep could disrupt these plans.. And finally our land just isn’t set out for them currently. When we first moved here we actually let a farmer use the land for her sheep to graze on and we quickly learnt that meant that our newly planted trees were not going to survive and that our fences were in very bad condition. Saying this, it is a great idea and we do want to have more animals in the future, we just want to do it gradually and not overwhelm ourselves with too much to learn or do. If you watch our newer vlogs you’ll see we’re currently in the process of converting a horsebox into a food van. So we just have to prioritise what we juggle and how. 😊
@southernfriedkiwi7726
7 ай бұрын
@@thelittleholding Fair enough. It's all about balance. Keep abreast of the goings on in the world though, especially the ominous push to restrict farming in Europe. Food security is going to be a very big deal, very soon. As I understand it, part of your reason for buying this property, was the realization of how quickly your "normal" life could be taken from you.
You often mention " Little Holding" how little is Little./??
@thelittleholding
7 ай бұрын
By Little Hholding we are referring to the fact that it’s not quite a small holding. We only have chickens and bees, so didn’t feel like we could quite call it a farm or small holding (plus those names were probably taken too). The land itself is 4 acres, before hand we had practically no garden so this ironically feels pretty big to us to be honest!
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@thelittleholding
7 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! 😌
Hi. I love hat automatic honey harvester bee hive .. can you tell me where to get one please😊
@thelittleholding
7 ай бұрын
It’s by Flow Hive - they have some great videos talking all about it. You still need to know all about bees and inspecting the hive but it makes harvesting super easy!