Can you live in THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE?
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- The reality of living in the middle of nowhere in northeast thailand, and our rice is finally harvested…
Life in Thailand after leaving the UK.
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The rice in the supermarket is cheaper than the cost of planting and harvesting.
The quality of the rice you grow is better than the supermarket rice.
Plating rice gives work to the locals and it is worth having the knowledge ability to grow it in case of some future event.
That is the reason I am farming in Thailand. I am content if I break even but have the security of food/self sufficiency long term.
Hi Ben. We went through the old electrical hook up dilemma, where PEA wanted 140,000 baht to bring electric to our little farm which is actually in the village. No thanks we said. Pang Mak Mak ! Forward one year and PEA runs a special if you have an address, they will bring power free the first 150 meters. Yes we say, so in the end it cost us 8,000 baht. Winner winner, chicken dinner !
Would be great to share experiences over a beer! Gave up on a professional career, last in Bangkok with an airline to living in a tent for 3 months building our house and infrastructure for an 18 rai farm. We’ve just had our best rice harvest ever, keep ducks and sell all the eggs every day and have 3 ponds with too many fish to count, all from small fry. Be smart, explore all your options and plan, it can be done. Life is good here!
I like your father in law. He just likes directing operations and helping in his own way. Great video once again.
We live in nowhere also. Sakhon Nakhon is a 45 minute drive. That is ok and we do it about once a week. We have 5 Rai of land we grow rice in twice a year. After paying for planting, fertilizer,cutting and husking we get about 20,000-25,000 baht a harvest off white or sticky rice. We get more when we plant Riceberry rice which is healthy.
Don't give up on the rice! A lot depends on what type of rice you are growing, (sticky v non glutinous; traditional photo-sensitive v. modern high yielding). Half a rai of Khao Hom Mali should give you enough for the year, and your friends will love you for any that you gift to them It might be a bit difficult to get the combine to come for half a rai tho, so you might need to harvest by hand, as the people of this region have done for 1000's of years. Adding fish (Common Carp, Silver Barb) to the rice system can save on ploughing, weeding and fertiler costs and provide additional food. Have another go next year.
I do already 😂 been living off the beaten track for 10 years in Thailand. It’s a great experience … compared to BKK. Keep up the good work! We’re not as rich as you guys. but we make it work for us.
The mobile co’s sometimes move transmission sites for various reasons. Our place had good signal until one day they decommissioned the nearest transmission site serving our area. Fortunately within a year proper fibre optic cables were installed in our remote place
Nice video thanks. be interesting to see the rest of the rice journey. I also like your visits to the local shops and cafe's. Real rural life. I envy your lifestyle! x
We all feel down at times, but its good you have the love & support from Anna. Its better you send vlogs when it feels right.
Wishing you both a Very Merry Xmas & Happy New Year in your new home.
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Letting pops be the boss for the day to harvest once a year is fine. 😊
Liking how you explain "remote". There is a hospital I can see from my house in Bangkok. No way i will make it there under 30 minutes. Unless in the middle of the night without traffic 😅
My wife has about 20 acres of rice , she contracts out nearly all the work , but her family owns the harvesters, and the whole sale chemical shop so it’s swings and roundabouts,
If you understand
Peter
We are a two hr away ferry ride from the big island. And, the rice farm in USA s 30 minutes from an ok small town, one hour for all services. Yes, I love this life. And, really love watching your progress. I too am off grid, 23 years now
There is land all over Thailand I drove around the entire country before buying my condo and now the developments. I can’t understand why some foreigners do this… buy land in flood grounds or really middle of no where. You don’t need much more money to source decent land here.I say have patience and do your homework first. You need a 7/11 a PTT and Robinson at least 5 15 mins away.
And also I second your notion I can't see it being cost effective either unless it's the black rice which sells for more
Ant power is a good thing. I keep it in my wheelbarrow to use when I am working
Yes, you are right about growing rice. It’s not worth it to do in a small piece of land. Enjoy your vlog! 🙏
Hi Ben,i arrived last week in the area after 3 years,always enjoy the vids.Wat a nice place to live in that area Nong Buha Lamphoo.Yesterday i saw the donut stall at the Makro entrance wich i saw in 1 of your videos😅
I’m glad you like it here, it’s certainly not on the typical tourist trail👍
You are a brave man,not for me but each to their own i suppose...
I’ve done the same with solar but I’ve built it myself, they are actually supposed to supply electric once the blue book is issued and you only have to pay for connection to the nearest road but after living in the village and see you voltage range from 130v to 270 and turning on on off constantly I decided to just do it alone on solar. I’ve also put in in a true roughter for Wi-Fi 200thb a month for. 20mb unlimited
Internet is not a problem anymore with Starlink.. it's costly, but if you have no other option you will pay the cost.
You did your best with the rice.The weather was against you.At least you'll be able to enjoy the rice when it's ready to eat.👍👍🇮🇪🇯🇴🇷🇺🇷🇺
Those doga will piss at that rice 😂100%
We similar with our home,one thing we have power,but with back up generator as mains power is unreliable,get least one/two power cuts each month,big C 30 km drive,marko75 km drive, no it stock up pantry especial for wet,our rice harvest finished two weeks back,170 bags😊,yes happy been 15 years now.
170 bags wow. I think we have about 25 😅
Very cinematic and picturesque video as always. Easy on the eyes. Shame the chemtrail in 10:49. Nothing we can do about it i guess. It's intensifying all over above thailand. Sadly 😥
Hey you're doing great! we are on a road between Nampong and Kranuan, which is about a 10-minute drive to Big C and KFC and about 40 minutes to Khon Kaen
Greetings from Khon Kaen and Holland
Great video mate
I did not realise that you lived so far from a village and town there.
In your vlogs it only seems to take 2 minutes to get to your house from the village😛
Solar Panels and batteries and water bore holes and internet make off-grid living so feasible in Thailand.
Beautiful home but I could not live there for long with out going stir crazy. It bad enough living in a tiny Thai village in Isaan.
well atleast you get 2 bags of rice mate😄
So the road to your house is the same level as your house? And your dam is well bellow.
Seems a lot of water if the road is flooded.
Love your videos.
Ben, I really like watching your videos. We are dealing with PEA trying to get electricity to my wife’s land outside of Cha Am. The PEA staff have been quite helpful. We had our water meter installed last month, so we now longer have to buy water from a neighbor. Question - where did you get your kayaks?
They were from a company called Rigger 👍
Hi there
Rice harvest in , what’s your plans for the land if not rice again ? Regards regards Davy 🏴🇹🇭
In your living location, you should really have a go at growing weed, not rice 😊
Havng said that, there is a whole science behind it, but if you can master the knowlege and skills, the monetary rewards will be great. Please do consider 😊
If they make it illegal again I’ll consider it 😆
@@LifeinThailand777 humour aside, please research the subject. It is best cash crop to grow in Thai now 😊
Maybe I need a business partner to help set the whole thing up, I’m clueless about it 😅
@@LifeinThailand777 with the amount of land you have, you are the sole homestead farmer I'm afraid 😉😊 The father in law might help growing weed more eagerly than rice though ☺️☺️
Internet is cheap there! I pay almost $100 us, no cheaper on the big island, either!
WOW a tiny combine! Hahahahaha. Ours are giganemous! Lol
Hi there @enough
How good do your gigantic combine harvesters work in paddy fields, are the any good, 👍
At least the harvest wasn’t a complete failure,,surely that will last you a year or so.?
Ben, internet advice. I tether my Netflix, CZcams, sky off my mobile phone. I buy the biggest package ( 1177 b, 10 g) to make sure I don't have any issues. So is this overkill ?
Maybe a bit of overkill. We run everything in the house, including both our mobile phones on the internet router. Weirdly though the same router wasn’t good enough when we used it in the city. Out in the middle of nowhere it’s perfect.
Yes I can provided there are amenities and it's not a cave .
I hope your dogs didn't pee in the rice pile off camera ?
Haha maybe 😆
I prefer city life although I am at the edge of the city in Pathum Thani.
Going back to 2011 was the last time we seen a flood partly due to the mismanagement of the dams in Issan leaving them closed for too long, we never had any flooding last year or this year so you must be in a flood plane area.
I did notice your preparations for flooding was much better this year than last year.
Will you build a ramp for your car to keep it out of the flood area or a simple makeshift ramp when required?
On your solar system, I am looking to install one but still can’t get information of FIT rates from PEA our current bill is around 4K but we have a 3 phase supply so will be interesting when it gets installed.
Best of luck with your solar. Is that an on grid system ?
Hi mate have the puppies had some vaccines yet ? Once they have their first menstruation will you get them fixed ?
We will get them fixed when they’re old enough yeah 🙏
Where did you buy the canoes from and how much are they each?
We bought them from a company called Rigger, but I forget how much they cost
Was that all of the rice harvested on your driveway? All that land you have, and it just seems so much work for so little amount of rice. Can't tell if that's normal or was a lot of unharvest able due to the flooding or part of the rice donated?
The flood damaged a lot of it 🙏
@@LifeinThailand777 Is there a crop that can be planted that doesn't die to seasonal flooding? Hate to see all of your hard work farming to go to waste with the next flood. Vegetables will rot in water, so maybe something above ground? You have all the banana trees already, maybe coconuts? Also BTW, even with the solar panels, you really need to get a 2 stage gas generator. Wire it up so it kicks in when solar batteries are dead.
@robertbritz257 we have a diesel generator hooked up to the system, although it’s never kicked in yet. Yes we have some plans other than rice, we’re also going to raise more of the land this winter 👍
Any advise on using a shipping container to move furniture and belongings from the U.K. to Thailand?
Why,,,leave all in the uk, you can buy everything you need at half the cost of shipping, dont understand why people want to move all there stuff half way around the world, stupid or what
Guess it depends on your stuff. Personally we own some antique furniture that we really didn’t want to get rid of when we moved here.
If you’re happy to just buy new stuff on Thailand then yes I’d certainly recommend doing that. The 20ft shipping container cost about £4000, so if you factor in that cost to buying new stuff, it’s probably the better option 👍
You have a good camera, but I suspect your memory card is too slow. Please check this out to improve the quality of the footage.
Middle of nowhere? Noisy neibours!!!
What get 30 bags.
About 25 I think Ross 👍
That ok for small rai area,we put in 32 rai.
That rice looks so blown over and infested with weeds that it probably would have been better if it was harvested by hand.
Not Cheap House n Land £18000+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
You are in the middle of everything
First questions, why build such a big house, just showing people look at me how much money i got,,,just build a modest place,, why so many falangs build a huge placeni will never know, same mentality as back home,,got to have bigger,,
It’s a spacious 2 bed house because that’s what we wanted to live in. It seems this notion of wanting to impress ppl with money or whatever is in your head, certainly not in mine. Thanks for the comment 👍