Off Grid Water - Things You Should Know - The Importance of Water When Living Off Grid. 💦🐐💦🐐🌱🌻
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2023
- Living off grid in Central Portugal needs one very important thing to survive, WATER. Long, hot, dry summers and the current changes in the climate which is effecting our environment , making sure you have more than one water source is vital to be self sufficient.
Running our off grid farm we use around 1,500 litres of water Per day!!
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I know, I know ... i spelt "Rescuing" wrong 😂 Have a good week everybody🙏
See you next week. Thanks
Will do ! 👍🙂
Aha , I hope a certain someone else watches your video on the rules of covering and sealing wells as every time I try to help him I get told I'm talking nonsense . Me personally have got over 500 meters of river and although small its never yet run dry in the nearly 20 years I've been here plus my local bombeiros take all their water from a well / borehole which is on my land which also feeds two local villages . I will come and meet you someday as your on the same planet as I am and I've been a farmer all my life . On the point of fresh water for animals your right as they won't touch any other water source if they have got access to a natural spring source of water normally where it comes from the ground to the surface and hasn't got warm or gone stagnant
I got a bit fed up with giving advice to some that then do the opposite 🙄
Water is so important and was a huge factor in our search for a place.
You would be welcome to visit, it's always good to talk to real farmers as i see my self as still learning👍🙂
@@FontedaPipaPortugueseFarmLife I too have given up trying to help some , they've only been here 5 minutes , got ripped off buying a worthless piece of land and will get evicted in the end but won't listen or understand how the finances go about doing and their land will be sold over their heads , but do they listen , no because they claim to know better than you or I
Informative and interesting video. Sandra, Molly and Alex are doing a great job of informing. Water is LIFE !! When you live in a wet climate like me, we dont really get how important...truly precious water truly is. Thanks for sharing. Glad yall have enough water. Here is to an uneventful fire season 2023! Randy/GA
It was the same for me when we first moved here and took about a year before my brain forgot about how we all use water back home, now any leak or similar is sorted immediately and seen as a huge waste of resources....... Thankfully any local fires so far have been small and put out very quickly, often by Molly's boyfriend now he is a local first responder.
Thank you for continuously educating us. We have a huge respect for your perseverance and resilience, especially considering what you all have been through the last couple of years, life hasn't been easy on you.
We have recently started our homesteading discovery journey (and Portuguese lessons), aiming for buying a small farm in Central or North Portugal in a couple of years. On-site exploration starts this autumn.
Your channel is a genuine source of information, keep up the good work, hope you will still get some rain to be better prepared for the summer to come.
We will buy all a cup of coffee, or tea.
Warm greetings from the Netherlands!
Thank you , that is very kind of you ☕ we really appreciate it and your kind comments 🙏
Thank you so much,
What we went through still effects us when we think about the fire and we hope if we can help at least one person avoid such a horrible experience it will be with being seen as some one who always goes on about fire safety.
I don't think we will see any more rain now until late Autumn, any will be a very welcome sight.
Wishing you the very best of luck in your search, and thank you so very much for the coffee's 🙏
Very nice video this week. You are all such hard workers. The farm really shows all your work! I enjoyed see how you filled the water tanks. Such an ingenious method! Thanks for sharing. See you next time.
Thanks for this great video again! very good and important information.
Always love to watch your channel!
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Love your family presentation of this key and detailed information.
You get the Gulf stream in general from North America. And you get Sahara winds in its different forms.
Eww. I wouldn't like to plant potatoes in my nose after dusty work. I's rather wear a respirator and look like an alien 👽 and breathe well.
I hope that corporation will come back and clear back their eucalyptus behind your house.
I think you definitely not jeopardize yourself or your tractors ever again.
🤣🤣I do wear a cloth or old t-shirt if it is bad, all that dust is bad for your lungs. I know in England many farmers get 'farmers lung' from breathing in all the dust when cutting hay etc.
I would go in the fires again, sadly stopping the fire pushing the firemen away is a priority out here, maybe i have become more localised than i realise as that is how the locals behave during fires.
I have a phone video of me and some friends helping on foot to put out fires in a thick overgrown hillside, we got caught in the thick smoke that choked us all to the point of blacking out and then we all got burned ankles fleeing the flames, that was my first wake up call. My only gripe about living here is the fires but think it is only going to get worse across the globe.
If those guys dont cut back their trees i wont have any doubts in reporting them, the fire has set me back 5 years and burned many thousands of euros of water pipes fencing etc, plus the emotional stress of being through such a large fire.
An experience i never want to see again on my farm or for anyone else.
Have a great week Ruth 🙏🙂
I pray 🤲🏼 you won't be touched by fire again. Each of you more than met lifetime quotas for fire.
Awesome info. Thank you for sharing your valuable experiences and knowledge.
Another informative video thank you guys 👍
Thanks Mandy 🙂
Great explanation and coverage folks, really interesting video. The wind you were referring to, is it the Mistral, or Leveche or Solano (Sirocco), there are a few different ones.
That's the one's, Thanks 👍🙂
Great info for Portugal ❤
A lots of thanks to you and your entire family
God bless you always
You are struggling there and we are sitting here in STATE OF KUWAIT
And learning a lot from your videos
Hello to you in Kuwait 🙂
Thank you guys, even in Germany we had some verry dry years, with forests and lakes dying and huge wildfires, which we never had before. The fire brigade could`nt handle it, cause they hadn`t the equipment and around Berlin the forests are contaminated with ammonition from ww2. To have water is like you own a gold mine. Greetings from Hamburg
Oh yes, that is something i had not thought of, all those munitions still in the ground.. i hope they dont start going off.
Stay safe.
I really enjoy your informational videos, so important that this knowledge that you've gained over the years is known by all who move or are thinking of moving to Portugal.
Thank you🙂, all the information we have shared has been available since we moved here 9 years ago.... some i think just dont want to know🙄
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you all guys,such a beautiful motor this lister and pomping so much water 💦💦💦.
thanks for this very informative video looking forwards to the next one .
Again than you so much for educating us about there farm lands
I share what i have learnt and i am always learning, thanks 🙂
Great video guy's. Im thinking of building a 100,000 Litre tank in the next year. I want to capture rainwater off my (not errected yet) estufa.
Now that is more like it, we see to many relying on a couple of IBC tanks which will only last a few weeks and with no more rain for 8 months it wont be enough.
An estufa, polly tunnel will give a catch area 👍
@@FontedaPipaPortugueseFarmLife Yes, I have one IBC that I can utilise, but I dont want to start stringing loads of them together. Yes the Estufa is large (10m x 40m) so on my calculations I should get over 100,000 litres per year. We are just down the road from you guy's and girl's near Sarzedas.
You are a brave man! If the company dont do their work as they should, report it to authorities. All the info on water will surely help others. What about algae! Ive read it must be removed asap esp for animal water, and what isnt good for animals is not for humans either. Take good care.
The company are here again cleaning the fire tracks, will be in next weeks video... but they dont come every year but glad they come every few years as that keeps the track clear.
We don't seem to get an algae problem in our water, i have had the IBC tank on the fire trailer filled with water for about 2-3 months now and is still clear and i dont know why but im not complaining 😂 The goats have an automatic waterer and as they drink the water so quickly it never gets bad and we swill it out everyday anyway just for and straw etc that might have got it in, fresh clean water is really important for farm animals. 👍
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180 liters to do ONE wash? omg... I used 30m3 a year with 4 horses and me and that is with watering the garden, dishwasher, shower, washing the car a couple of times... ended up with about 82 liters per day... way far to go up to your 1500/day sheesh I guess I can get by with less water when I move down there :D
and if they really want paper... they should look into hemp... it grows faster, producing more papermass per year and is a LOT easier to handle and when it is cut = no fire risk at all
The 180 litres is for a top loading machine, ours uses 30 litres.
Dont forget we have 30 goats and 32 acres to irrigate.
Good on you if you can get away with only using that amount 👍🙂
@@FontedaPipaPortugueseFarmLife aye 400L for the goats still leave 1100 :D you irrigiate all 32 acres? not just the garden? (other than the overflow when using the last diesel in the pump)
@@LiLBitsDK I dont irrigate the whole farm no, but about 8-10 hectares. The left over 1100L is used in our house, Sandra does about 1-2 washes a day and we shower everyday.... Some days we might use less, it was "ball park" figure.
We are trying to get across, not having much water on your land and having 3-4 IBC tanks, 1000L, filled from rain fall is not enough, 8 months of the year there is no rain.
We dont really have a garden, all our land is used for the animals, with the goats we cant have a garden, they will find a way in to eat it all, maybe one day.
@@FontedaPipaPortugueseFarmLife yeah 3-4 tanks is definetly not enough
Amazing water 💧 but man those fires must of been scary , I remember watching a documentary on the fire storms in the blitz and they said it was almost as bad as a nuclear attack .
The fire was huge, i will explain a little in next weeks video.
The worst part of these fires is they create their own wind, you can here it rushing past you, it self feeds it's self oxygen increasing the heat and flames the more it burns. another reason why some places we see for sale can not be lived in, fires! 👍
20:33 I think you guyz should plant Fodder trees for your goats. Lucaena, Acacia, mulberry, apple, pulownia that will cover and provide shave as well as food for your goats.
I'd recommend Luecaena as it will grow pretty fast and will grow within one season big enough to chop and feed.
Some good suggestions there, thank you!
We are hoping to plant 2500 trees in Autumn including a few species you mentioned for the goats.
We tend not to cut anything for the goats, for us right now with mainly only me working the harder jobs on the farm it is easier to take the goats to an area and let them eat what they want and then keep them out of that area for recovery.
You will be in our prayers for your test results. Turn the gate to narrow side and see if it fits!
Thank you so much, hopefully they will tell us the results of the tests very soon.... good idea on the gate!
Awe, you guys are beautiful people, and wonderful storytellers. I love that you include ant bites and facial expressions... it just adds authenticity, and shows your wonderful personality. I adored the water channelling. It reminded me of my dad routing shared water about his property with those same metal stoppers. Can't say enough good things, Stay safe and carry on, all of you. ❤❤
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Great information. We bought a house in the area but not a farm yet! I want to learn firstly!
Another really informative video from Quinta Fonte da Pipa, Thank you. My question is, Sandra and Molly were saying about wells needing to be covered, my wife and I have bought a property a few miles east of where you are we have several wells that are not covered, I honestly doubt they have ever been covered, are we obliged to get some kind of cover for them ? How do we stand (legally) on that ? We are currently back in the UK, but we will be back in central Portugal by the end of the month.
Hi, the law has been in place since 2012.
as the current owner you will now be responsible for covering the wells, dont forget it is to take the weight of 100 kilos per square meter, so if your well is 2 meters across the lid must hold around 250 - -400 kilos in total.
not having them covered can leave you open to a large fine.
you can find more info here, a good group for info on many subjects
facebook.com/scalgarve/photos/a.297134360400162/5145372285576321/
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Another informative video is well explained. Thanks
You have a beautiful Farm...Always enjoy your videos. Especially when I watched all that hard work to get the Lister Pump up and running. Well done Alex. ❤
So happy to hear you enjoy the videos, thanks 🙏🙂
Thank You
Thank very informative, could please do some more blogs on the rules regulations etc.
For people who are moving to Portugal🇵🇹
and are familiar with them.
We would be very happy to do that, at first we were a little concerned these sorts of videos might go against us and be seen as 'boring' or 'negative' with so many channels doing the wrong thing but with massive followings.... it seems most think Portugal is a country is where they can do what they like.
In most countries it would not be so bad but moving to Portugal means moving to a beautiful country that sadly has a huge fire problem and we all need to be responsible for ourselves and to nature and those around us.
Is there a certain thing you want to know about?
We are really pleased our video have been taken so well, thanks for your comment 🙂👍
Seeing the amount of old ruins with land advertised I was wondering why native Portuguese don`t occupy these seemingly paradise properties.The penny is starting to drop as to why properties are cheap over there. The amount of water needed plus the local hazards make it not for the faint hearted.
Wishing you a good productive spring and early summer. Your content is great, well done.
Glad you liked it, thanks.
Hello guys , another excellent video. Excellent advices , thanks for sharing.
Thanks as always Victor🙂👍
I was near that dam yesterday I think. Fabulous video well done keep them coming ❤ I wonder what all the airplanes was doing I was looking for a fire 🫣 I missed Cheese festival didn’t I?
Cheese festival was a couple of weeks ago. We missed it too!
Shame miss cheese festival I was looking forward to it I can not believe I been here since 7 April filling like a year already 🤣 take care
You should get Reverse Osmosis machine to have drinking water.
Not a bad idea but I hate the taste of water from RO machines, they waste 6 times the water they produce and the filters are expensive they also remove all good minerals from the water.
In our village we have Portugal's leading bottled water factory, Fonte da Fraga, we can buy a pallet of drinking water from them for pennies and is produced from a mineral water source high up in the mountains with no nasty additives, for us it is much easier for our drinking water and we support our local business🙂👍
I'm looking for a farm in the Fundao/CB area and my #1 non-negotiable priority is water. Can you recommend an estate agent and some good websites?
You got the right idea, it isnt just fires, you need to wash and we use water for so many things.
All i can say is just search the internet for properties as we havent looked at properties in years🙂
Great Video, thanks for all the work you put in to keep us all informed.
You are more than welcome Sean....... not long now before your here 🎊👏👍. um abraco
Water conservation?
All the water we use as family goes back to the land via the original cesspit on the farm, the land gets watered going back into the land and water for the animals to drink so i dont think we can conserve any more.
the only water i can see that might get lost is in the goats drinking it and coming out as wee.
the girls are the cutest!
put a net or small fence on the edge of that pool/..itll filter out the debris.
otherwise..im jealous
Yes i need to put something there 🙂👍