"So now I don't plant trees on my own.....I plant them with my family." As a Father myself that one line really got me..... astounding work. Thank you for showing us your journey.

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

Although adding children to the mix has definitely slowed down our projects, for us it has given it all a greater meaning really 😊 Happy New Year 🥳

Well I still remember last year's hmmm The battery bank problems. You over came that ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This year it's water looks like you have over come that too⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is the biggest inspiration about you guys, the way you work around the problem rather than throw in the towel...... And you have a young family too...... Out bloody standing.......hope your very proud of yourselves. All the very best in 2024, hope it be your year.

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

Thank you, we try to keep positive but this year has really tested us. Here’s to 2024 🍻😊

Wishing you a wonderful and less stressful 2024,you have done so well❤

Hope your polytunnel survived storm Isha. That pond will be so great for years and years. It looks lik a mud pool now, but in a few months .... It will be great. Well done! Keep at it ❤

Personally, everything is a bigger job that initially anticipated! Perhaps it is just be and that I am cursed!! Happy belated Christmas and hope you all have a fab and successful/productive 2024.

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

We find exactly the same. This job took a long time 😩 the biggest problem being that it was hard to spend consecutive days on it and get any momentum. And the weather! But it’s done and we are looking forward to 2024 and the new projects and challenges it will bring 😊

Well done on your achievements in 2023! Praying for your progress in 2024. Happy New Year from 'Down South'.

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

Thank you, Happy New Year 😊👍

You're doing great! Keep it going! Much love! 👍

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 We are so pleased to see the end of this particular project 👍 Happy New Year 🥳

Happy New Year to you too - wishing you all the best for 2024!

@The_OffGridFamily

5 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 Happy New Year to you too!

Amazing, you all are the best. Here’s to 2024👍👏👏👌

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 Happy New Year!

I always say this but I hope one day I have the courage to do what you’ve done/ are doing. Your off grid knowledge and experience is growing by the day and it shows in the videos. Happy 2024 to you all

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

Thank you, and thanks for your support. Happy New Year 🥳

Well done guys and Happy New Year. Stuart from Papa Westray Orkney

@The_OffGridFamily

5 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 Happy New Year

Just well done, a tremendous amount of hard work project focus and love of your land. You should all be very proud of yourselves. 2024 will be the year of water !!

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. We are so pleased that it’s finished. Happy New Year. (2024: Year of water🤞😊)

Hi you lot - wishing you all the very best for 2024. Those chickens have the best life in the UK I reckon!!!!!! BW Paul 🥰

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

Thank you, sending love and best wishes to you and your family. Happy New Year 😊

Wishing you a happy new year and hope you had a good Christmas x

@The_OffGridFamily

5 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 We had a lovely Christmas (though it seems a lifetime ago now!) and have had a good start to 2024 so far 👍 Best wishes for the new year

well done, what a tremdious effort you have put into this project. As you have had so much damp weather, you should be 1/2 full by now and thats with the wet months still to come. Give yourselves a big pat on the back for a job well done.

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

It’s definitely filling up but not half way yet. I think we underestimated quite how big it is and how long it will take to fill. Lots of rainy months still to come though like you say 😊🤞

From the small window into seeing your lives you are an amazing couple and parents. Living off grid is not easy, raising kids is definitely not easy. As a kid I grew up on a smallholding it was on grid but the outside jobs are still the same, I spent my childhood going to school covered in something or another from the various morning jobs but I loved every second of the freedom to explore and build camps and your children will have the same. I am now slowly heading back to the smallholding life and although not 100% off grid it will be 90%. It is a series of tough jobs one after another but they are your jobs your land and your life no other individual gets a say. I wish you every success and prey every job goes exactly to plan in 2024. You are building something amazing.

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 it’s so reassuring to hear you look back on your childhood fondly. We hope Grace and Albie do the same. Your smallholding sounds great. It is hard work but as you say it is so worth it 👍

I got all excited when Fraser said "gasifier" 😢

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

We feel your frustrations 😩 but the water has to be sorted first. Fingers crossed for 2024 - year of the gasifier?! 🤞

Your one hard worker 👍👍

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

Thanks, fingers crossed it solves the problem forever. Happy New Year 😊

@srowlands248

6 ай бұрын

@@The_OffGridFamily I’m sure it’ll be full before the new year the way the weather forecast looks. Happy new year to you and your family too.

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

It’s taking a very long time to fill. I think we underestimated quite how big it is! 😂

@srowlands248

6 ай бұрын

@@The_OffGridFamily I’m sure it will work

Wishing u a very happy new year looking forward to the gassifier if going ahead in 24 im looking at doing a solar set up in 24 using 48v batteries and a hybrid inverter to suppliment my household usage off grid set up and try and cut our elec bill just changed my wood burner from an inset single sided to a double sided yeoman devon to stop using the heating atall thats worked perfectly so next thing to hit is that elec bill i dont appreciate giving my money to the energy companies

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

Sounds really good. We are definitely hoping to get the gasifier underway this year. Fingers crossed 🤞😊

@steveroche2524

6 ай бұрын

@@The_OffGridFamily 1 job at a time in the order of most priority 1st

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

Absolutely 😊👍

Hope those cockerels start laying soon! 😅

I don’t know how you find time to do all that you do! Just wondering how big is your polytunnel as I’m hoping to get one next year 🤞🏻thank you

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

This is why it took us ages, and why we’ve been so bad at getting videos out. Just not enough hours in the day! 😂 Our polytunnel is 30ft x 20ft. It’s been a great addition and we would definitely recommend getting one 😊👍

Hi, love your content, we are currently looking at going off grid in Dorset. Can I ask did you ever manage to fill up that 10,000 litre tank?

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 yes it is currently full and the overflow caused by the rain coming off from the roof is being used to fill the pond. We have worked it so that it can be pumped either from the pond to the tank or the tank to the pond to maximise what we can capture in heavy rain 😊

@MiniLifeCrisis

6 ай бұрын

@@The_OffGridFamily would you say then, living the way you live, that you would need a 20 or 30 thousand litre tank?

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

@MiniLifeCrisis it’s really tricky to be sure, but being in one of the driest spots in the U.K. and having children, as well as the poly tunnel and chickens I don’t think 30,000 would be enough for us. This summer we had 12 weeks without rain and we had to compromise on growing food in order to ensure our other needs were met.

I don't know if this has been asked before, but why didn't you just sink a well or a borehole?

@The_OffGridFamily

6 ай бұрын

It’s a long story, involving all of those things. We aren’t close to the sea, so had a borehole installed which cost us £2k. It drew salt. We then dug a 6m well which was still salt, and then a shallow well which was also salt water. It’s been an ongoing disaster 😩 fingers crossed this is the end of it 😊

@ianhaines5788

6 ай бұрын

Makes perfect sense. Should have watched your other videos first. Good luck with mate. @@The_OffGridFamily

But how are u living on ur land without getting in trouble from planning? Needs a video… this is what’s stopping most of us

A reliable water supply no matter if you had flooding or drought in the zone would have been drilling a water well

@The_OffGridFamily

5 ай бұрын

We did this and unfortunately it draws salt. Even a 3m shallow well 😩