The luckiest and happiest animals ….Albi and Joau snuggling on the bed ….warms the heart ….thank you for sharing them with us ❤️❤️😻😻

I am so very glad that I found your channel. Your cinematography has improved so dramatically overtime and I am so enjoying the peaceful nature of your artistic vision. Your videos calm me… and make me yearn for a simpler life. And I keep thinking that your animals are living a fantastic life. They make me smile and have a really good laugh. Thank you.

Mayonnaise making! Use the yokes and add the oil very slowly. Just have a thin string of oil poured into the yokes you are whisking. Whisk the eggs by themselves to start then add the oil slowly. Flavouring can be added once you have your mayonnaise to a good consistency. You can add your whites after you have got the yokes and oil to emulsify, once again add them slowly as you whisk

You are very dear people. I love what you're doing with the land and how you treat the animals who share this world with you. I'm enjoying what you share with us. Thank you.

I would like to thank you. For saving that dog. Diogo. I remember your tears as you insisted he was a 'sweet, sweet dog'. I've been watching. I see his joy as he bounds after a stick. Even the cats like him! I love him too. Not only is he sweet he is a GOOD dog. A very lucky dog. So thankyou, you have made the world a better place. Oh, that sweet sweet, good dog. Lucky dog. Diogo

@FrankieOffGrid

6 ай бұрын

He’s an absolutely superstar! 🐕

@suedale1865

5 ай бұрын

Thank you a great video of your garden vision I admire the calmness in all you both do Fur & feather babies are precious & fit perfectly together 🐾🐾🐈🐕‍🦺🐈🐕🐈‍⬛🐓❤❤❤ Have you thought of having a couple of donkeys help keep the grass down if not own but help to pasture them ?

@LeeLee-ct2vv

5 ай бұрын

Diogo the best doggy ❤

I love your resourcefulness, taking and reutilizing the excess of the land! Necessity is the mother of invention!!!

Great job on the new garden bed & extremely resourceful making your own little woven walls! I love all of your animals-they are just so loved by yourselves & lovely to watch. Central Victoria Australia 🇦🇺

@user-ti4gj3kl5y

6 ай бұрын

Very well said. Gold Coast Queensland Australia 🇦🇺

@lesleygraham5927

6 ай бұрын

southeast of Melbourne Australia

@lisajones1036

4 ай бұрын

Peregian Beach, Queensland

You are such a 'Calming' person 😊 and i love all of your clips of wild life and your own precious little cats and dogs ❤

Goddammit I love that crazy Diogo!! Also...I love how you both are prepared to tackle things you might not be expert in...my daughter taught me FAIL means First Attempt In Learning ...keep up the great work !!

Congrats on reaching over 40,000 subs very well deserving, l have followed your journey from the beginning and have watched your videos many times, they have helped me more than you know, thank you so much, l look forward to see where 2024 takes you, many blessings to you both and your animal family ☺

I proper love the way you guys connect with the land and your animals.

Watching your videos is so peaceful and fun at the same time. The uniqe moments with your pets captured on film and the intentional filming of all things 'nature' are equally balanced and present to viewers in a true poetic manner. I treasure every minute of your vlog. Thank you for sharing it.

Diogo A Loyal friend indeed, always by your side after you rescued him

A good garden digging fork would be great to turn over those beds. Very quick and you could turn in that manure nicely! :)

When peeling your hard boiled eggs, let them cool, crack the shell all around and use a teaspoon between the shell and the egg. It makes it so much easier and you get all the egg. Your salad looks yummy and I'm so impressed with your mayo making. I'm learning along with you, your tips are so helpful. I wish I had paid more attention to my mum. She was a great cook and gardener.

💜 flossy hair girl. Making use of materials nature provides, way to go. Like the use of your new drone. Diogo has turned out to be as lovely as Frankie, the cats such charecters too.

Loved your garden and food preparation and above all your soft voice! I am a mother of two young girls your age! God bless you! ❤🎉

Wonderful vlog, such an escape from "normal" life in the Uk. Squeezing the lemons had my tastebuds going! You have a fabulous lifestyle but it's certainly not an easy one x

I am inspired to do a wattle edging around one of my beds with prunings from my dogwood. Nice and long and flexible! Happy 2024

👍Lovely garden plans and great progress! We admire your hard work!❤ Diogo really jumps like a kangaroo 😅 Thank you for sharing your tips and ideas! 💖🥰💗❣️

❤ to all.

I just love this video, following you along as you do the everyday activities of your homestead! I especially loved your woven raised garden bed which though it took a lot of work, gathering, trimming and weaving the branches, was made from the materials of the things around you and therefore free. The peaceful picture of Diogo and Albi sleeping on the cardboard while you worked on the walls of the raised bed was so sweet! As always your choice of music is superb, so relaxing! Thank you!

Happy New Year, Carissa and Iwan! I really like the wattle fences. The gardening plans are a good idea. The potato and egg salad looked delicious! See you next week❤❤

Your "B" roll photography/videography is truly beautiful girl!! Loved this video very much

Happy new year guys. Hope you both have a fantastic and fun year

@FrankieOffGrid

6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year to you Andy! Hope you and yours are well!?

@theshedrepairguy2413

6 ай бұрын

All good thanks. I'm arriving in faro 2nd Sept until 6th and staying in lagos if you fancy a round of golf 😅😅

@FrankieOffGrid

6 ай бұрын

Ahh would love to! Bit of a mission but we’ll see how things are!

As usual, beautiful ❤ great shots and composition, loved the fire salamander

Did you upgrade your camera? My contribution towards your NY resolution. I’m in Japan and the banking laws are very restricted, but I’ll look into a creating a Patreon account to support you guys monthly. Happy 2024. BTW: The new pink wardrobe looks fantastic. Highlights your youth a beauty, no disrespect to my man Ewan. And the turtle neck and chain is elegant. Nothing wrong with being beautiful and off grid, especially in your youth. -Best wishes

@trudymcghee3255

6 ай бұрын

What a lovely comment 😊

@patbuckley4039

6 ай бұрын

What restrictions do banks put in Japan?

@Marcus-george

5 ай бұрын

@@patbuckley4039 Many in regards to online banking. Their intentions are good. They want to protect their citizens from scams , fraud and other financial nightmares we’ve all read about.

Happy Birthday for your channel. I love your woven garden fences.

My mother made egg mayonnaise every Xmas for what we called Russian salad (potatoes cubed, gherkin chopped, ham chopped, peas and carrots.) It is an art to making this mayonnaise and the critical part (according to my Mum, died this year aged 90) is to use only egg yolks (I used the whites to make pavlova) and then drizzle the olive oil in very slowly while beating it on high with an electric mixer, so the volume increases. You taste test it throughout and add lemon juice and salt to your liking. This has been a ritual in my family for 60yrs. Love your videos and the animals.

A less fatiguing way, to prepare new beds, is to Cover area with compostable cardboard, newspapers, or the like. Then cover It with mulch or Compost. And that’s it!

@FrankieOffGrid

6 ай бұрын

It’s a great method but you need the compost.. which is either expensive or time consuming and we haven’t managed to produce enough yet unfortunately.

Hi Clarissa, tip for the mayo: don't put the egg white in it Yolks only and pour the oil in slowly at the beginning so it doesn't curdle. Pour the oil until the mayo is quite thick then add the lemon juice and it will thin a bit. Only add a bit of lemon juice.

a wee tip for growing taties hen, turn the soil in the ground over dig the spade in about 10 inches & get the soil loosened then get your taties in the ground now you`ll get a good harvest come September.

really enjoyed the video. I love how you both show the joy of living with pets. I am so looking forward to watching your garden grow.

I add the lemon juice after the mayonaise has emulsionated. In spanish we say "para que no se corte" ... so it doesn't get cut. I dont add vinegar but i do put in a garlic clove.

Love the Wattle. English use those in gardens; as well. Happy 2024.

I enjoyed this visit❤. The new garden bed and woven fence look kind of elegant like you. Was the potato salad tasty? Looked yummy. Hugs to all the animals.

Congratulations on 42k subscribers well done and a happy new year May all your dreams and wishes come true 🍾🥂💫

You have started my 2024 in a much needed relaxed state. We used to have a black kitty from Jordan that my daughter brought back to the U.S.A., I completely fell in love. He ended up getting fibrosarcoma from a rabies vaccine on his neck. Miss him so much and to look at your black kitty warms my heart. I love all my fur babies, including grand ones! Anyway, thanks for all you do and looking forward to watching you all for many years to come ♥️.

Great video ! Looking forward to your plan and garden of 2024 ! Thank you for sharing 👏😀❤️

Your videos are calming to my soul!

Myelin from sunny Florida you two with your fur babies bring peace to my soul. It’s so lovely to see the ever ending love that Diogo has for you. A tip for boiling eggshell wait until the water starts to boil then add the eggs once they’re done shock them with cold water it will make pealing much easier. I wish you all the best for 2024. Love you both and you fur babies.

Fabulous video! I always look forward to Saturdays. I’ve learned so much from your gardening and have been taking notes. By the time I move to Portugal I shall be well versed on gardening in central Portugal! Thank you for sharing your journey. Struggles and all!

Mayo recipe: 1 yolk, mustard ( good size tablespoon) and oil. Mix the yolk with the mustard and slowly incorporate the oil. If your mayo is not homogenized add more mustard. The key is to add oil slowly. Good luck 🍀.

The willow you showed on your dog walk can be easily propagated and makes a really cool living fence ( you can weave it) It grows really fast and the leaves are good for feeding sheep and goats. I saw it on youtube : )

@AmusedPineTrees-wh1ed

6 ай бұрын

You can plant two offcuts, long ones and tie them together at the top to make an arch, they will grow and are very pliable as to how you want to weave your living willow.

Morning Carissa and Iwan! May you have a wonderful garden of not only bountiful courgettes haha. Love the idea oh woven garden beds! Beautiful video.

He He,, that was a long video :-) Looking at the thumbnail,, it look like it was too long for Carissa to keep it all in 🙂 (I know it was not so,, I just found it amusing) Very best of 2024 to the both of you.... (can you say that? or is my old English teacher spinning in her grave,,humm)

One Egg yolk, dash of white wine vinegar and pour in the room warm oil real slow (drop by drop) be patience 😅

Thank you a great video of your garden vision I admire the calmness in all you both do Fur & feather babies are precious & fit perfectly together 🐾🐾🐈🐕‍🦺🐈🐕🐈‍⬛🐓❤❤❤ Have you thought of having a couple of donkeys help keep the grass down if not own but help to pasture them ?

Your home is looking amazing and the hard work you have put in is clearly evident in the progress you both have achieved. Love watching your videos. Clarissa, the mayonnaise - you need to add the oil VERY slowly at the beginning, just a drizzle so that the emulsifier in the egg can hold onto the oil. The first addition you did was too fast! Then as it thickens, you can add a little faster. Did you add powdered mustard (I couldn’t see!) as this acts as an emulsifier as well. Good luck with the next batch.

Very nice work on the garden!! ❤️🥰

I am so impressed with how far you two have come with your projects! I remember when you began and the place was in terrible condition! Oh my, how things have changed with all the hard and loving work you have put in! Happy New Year to all of you (including all your fur babes)! Millie, USA

Love the fire salamander! Looking forward to seeing all of the things that will unfold on your property this year.

@earlray72

6 ай бұрын

And really love how Diogo and Albi supervise your work in the garden.

Ola . Espero que tenham um ano de 2024 cheio de saude e muitas coisas boas. Gosto muito de ver os vossos vidéos. Ja tive a oportunidade de vos cruzar 2 vezes. Na proxima vez vou dizer um Ola. Tem um bom dia. 🌷

Oh the perfume from the wattle flower is like pure heaven

When you want to make mayo from start, first thing you need is two egg yolks, one raw and one boiled! Mix them well, and then start to add oil, but not olive oil, try sunflower oil, or if not, any oil that's tasteless! And then add mustard and just a little bit of lemon juice! if your mayo gets ruined, add a few drops of cold water and mix for a while until it's good again!

Another video with so many lovely moments. My favorite: Diogo and Albi asleep on the cardboard as you built your wattle fence. I love how the garden bed turned out. I’ve been wanting to do something similar. We’ll see how it holds up in the tropics. 😬

Love a good wattle ❤ fence that is.

Have a very blessed 2024 to both of you and all your furry and feathered members of the family.

Just a thort....cover your baby broccoli with plastic bottles to start. Lids off at top for rain. Great mini glass house n protect from pests while young.

luv your videos. hint ; carrots fork because of too much fertiliser. sow seeds mixed with sand in a jar and add radish seeds. the radish come up much faster & thin out the carrots when u harvest...cheers simon.

In the U.S., wattle fences are most often made with willow branches. I would guess you have willow trees growing along rivers, streams, etc. You can also use willow to make gates, furniture, all kinds of things. Cut fresh young branches. Bend to the shape you want and it will dry that way and be quite strong.

diogo looks great!! very healthy looking and big!

Well done with the wattle border. I have seen a lot of people who have been very resourceful in making raised beds here are a few ideas that you might want to bear in mind when you are out and about. Damaged Truck and Tractor Tyres (If they are no good for retreading the tyre fitting stations would love to get rid of them as opposed to paying for removal). Old Pallets cut down and patched, Old stone sinks, Damaged galvanised feeding and watering troughs. Old concrete posts (Stacked). Small tree trunks, old roofing/siding sheets. Scrapped washing machine and Tumble drier drums. I know of a lady whohas a smallholding who cheekily went to a scaffolding firm and asked if they had any damaged planks,they had but she was happy to pay them £50 Cash and got 30 and I believe she said they were 4m long but some needed to be cut. If you have any construction projects in the area ask if they have any discarded shuttering timbers/sheets, half the time they skip them! Just a thought, you will be suprised at what is out there. Good Luck for 2024.

Great idea & great job. I have seen another youtuber do this for their garden & large ones for composting. It is all a learning process.

Oh that’s so clever Clarissa, Emma BED mattress packaging to Vegetable BED weed blocker 😂, good connection 😁, love recycling 👌🏻. Happy New Year 🥳 and May all your planting bear fruit 😁 LITERALLY. I can only assume Euan was doing the more important stuff like knitting and crocheting in shade with a cool glass of wine 🍷, man’s work is never done 😉, you now have to REALLY keep up with weed maintenance this season 👌🏻.

Someone please gift this wonderful couple powered secateurs - I can’t think of anyone who could do you a better review of the many ways using them for pruning then making brilliant use of the prunings to edge her veggie beds - or Foggies set up an Amazon wish list so we can gift things like this ? Love that you priced then discarded wooden boarding edges - fab example of making great use of what you have on the land already and great hurdles as a result

I love watching Huw! I just sat down and worked on my garden plan for this year last night. We had a really successful garden last year but I'm expanding it lol. I've never made mayo but might have to give it a try!

Truly enjoyed your video. So lovely with the varied music, relaxing watching Dogio. Could smell the coffee brewing! Thank you.

Hi, great looking turnip. I just wanted to share a family recipe as I am asked to make it every Thanksgiving. Carrots and Turnips, I am sure you can find many recipes, skin carrots, and turnips cut into 1 inch cubes boil till soft , drain, then smash add salt , brown sugar and enjoy 😋 it's like making mashed potatoes.

Happy Birthday to your channel! I have enjoyed each episode

I worry that without a fence protecting your garden it would only take one night of the wild pigs to destroy all your great work you put into the garden. Might want to get Uncle Nick to help put up the metal fencing he uses and to start putting some some block raised beds that you can add a few more each year. That would let you do a form of Hügelkultur allowing reduced watering and a more consistent moisture content in the hot summer. If you really want to provide your food on your land you need to protect it. I really enjoy watching you and all the passion you both have.

Happy New Year 🎆 and all the best for the next growing season 🍇🍆🍅🌶🥔🍠🥒🥕

Double dig, also any path that you make take the top soil out for a nearby bed first. Don't worry to much about the "rules" experiment.

Christine here, Happy New Year! Thanks for all the wonderful videos. Hugs xx

Thanks for continuing to make videos. You are one of my favorites to watch. I look forward to finding a new video on Saturday mornings (here in Oregon, USA). Best wishes!

Nearby Veggies is a great KZread channel on vegetable gardening , a very amusing Irish lady that doesn’t always have luck growing potatoes 😂 I love your channel 🙂

Clarissa you are so creative and a hard worker. Bless your new garden for the summer. I love those 2 dogs. Frankie the digger and, o my world Diogo my favorite, the explorer. Congratulations. Hope to see it grow to 1m subscribers. Blessings for 2024

Hey! You should start slowly with the oil, incorporating with the rest of the ingredients. At first add a bit, let it emulsify and then continue with the rest. Good ratio is 100 grams egg yolk or egg white to 1l of oil. Add from 40 to 100 ml of acidity, 10-12 grams of salt and some mustard. 🙂

Watching in complete jealously as I shovel our first snow storm in Reno, Nevada, as you work your garden in a t shirt! The woven fencing is hard work, but a good call, I tried that here years ago and the stakes I used were willow, and grew!! Created quite a mess digging them out😂. Beautiful video share! Thank you!

I’m loving the rich new soil you are creating for your garden. I remember very early on how thin and dry it looked. You should be very proud of what you have and are still achieving. Love your wicker surrounds too. Using your land to work for you. ❤️ Cheers from Oz🐨🐨

Thank you for your beautiful video again. I really envy you because here in Finland the gardening sesson is so short. Right now we have lots of know and it is freezing cold, about -30 °. Fortunately you got at least some potatoes. They need fertlizers. We use manure mostly. I wouldn't grow them in buckets because then they need more looking after. To keep the soil moist and to keep the weeds away, I add grass clippings and leaves. I also cover the footpaths in the garden with then to avoid weeds. Good luck to your garden!👍

I loved how you made your garden so lovely and your cooking. Your drawings are so nice and beautiful. I think your cat was inspecting all your work with approval. Loved the salamander. Everything was beautiful and how you produced your video is very professional and delightful.

if ever i could give a nudge of encouragement, even the leaves of the Trees are content with your works.

@ruthbowery8325

6 ай бұрын

Happy new year to you both and the fur babies xxxx💏

Happy 2024. Love that your putting picture on your myspace page. Looks very professional. With all the information you put on each page you’ll have a garden book at end of year that you can add to your shop page. Love your videos.

Great garden ideas Carissa, hope it all work out. And look how self supporting you are, i love the way how you all live there, hope to join soon. Greetings from a cold Holland

Your dirt looks very rich good for growing 😊 You have a lot of rocks on your property you could use them for raised garden beds.

Hi, i make mayo as follows: 1 egg, 1 teaspoon strong mustard (dyon). Take a fork an gently turn it together, very slowly. Put in the oil bit by bit and keep slowley turning the fork. When you have enough mayo put a teaspoon vinegar in. Or more if you like that. Maybe some salt if you like that. And some pepper if you like that. Sometimes i wil not come together. Than maybe the oil is to warm, or the vinigar or the egg. But there are many ways to make mayo!🙃 This is the way my french mother in law taught me a long time ago. I love your channel!

Hi guys, l would love to see more work done on the house. But I am really love everything you are doing. Keep up the great work 😊

Yay, similar goals here. I want to plant or harvest something every day this year. Even throwing a few seeds out for pollinator flowers counts. ❤

Hi, When you plant potatoes each year you should plant them in a different area. It help the potatoes be bigger.ove your KZread channel watched from the beginning. Steve Cane

The best thing to do is to watch you gardening, while the rain is pouring down outside… love every episode you put together 😊❤💐. What a dream to have a piece of land like yours 😇 thank you for sharing!

My favorite little family. Happy new year, the weaved bed looks amazing. Well done on your garden plan❤❤❤❤. Congratulations on the number of subscribers……

In the future I see a British cottage garden with small winding paths and places to chill out where there are small Japanese maple trees and dry stone walls. But that's a lot of work.😊

I would use some of the bags to grow potatoes in also love the new veg bed and the music is beautiful 😊

I make instant mayo from a John Torrode recipe. His was a herb mayo - delight. I use 1 whole egg, 2 reaspoons French mustard, 1 teaspoon white wine vinegar, 250ml rape seed oil or other light oil. Iblitz then add a little more oil to adjust consistency.

That potato salad looked SO good! My mother-in-law always told me that the ingredients fot mayonnaise should be at the same temperature, even leave them in the mixing glass for 20 minutes before mixing them. Your cold oil might just be the problem. And not too much vinegar. I love your channel.

21:01 😂 That wasn't your plan, but they had other ideas! But I do like it when the animals join us in the garden... even though they have a habit of standing right in the way, especially when I want to use a tool which could hurt them!

Beautiful video! Happy New Year to you both and good luck for 2024! Laura ❤❤❤

Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys, very relaxing vid guys Diego likes to be with Mamie.

Question: Are you interested in sharing the realities of living with a bucket toilet? I lived off-grid for 10 years in a small cabin without any form of electricity or running water. We now live with an off-grid solar system and generator backup (we live in northeastern US where we have low light conditions for 2-3 months of the year) with most of the comforts including an indoor flush. However, we still keep our outhouse with a composting toilet using the Humanure method along with a separate compost bin for that waste which, once broken down, is good for non-edible plants (and edible plants, but somehow we haven't made that leap!)