YOUNG FAMILY creating an OFF-GRID PARADISE | Wilderness Living | Compost toilet #7

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Checkout previous episodes on our compost toilet build: Part 1: https://youtu.be/MOgDLf0nD6c?feature=shared Part 2: https://youtu.be/E-Inb-x63-Q?feature=shared Part 3: https://youtu.be/jVGATb9XEow?feature=shared Part 4: https://youtu.be/Jt5J0yUD8tk?si=jFoGunzW7lznp5st Part 5: https://youtu.be/EAnJyg6iN7Y?feature=shared Part 6: https://youtu.be/mcYmOSHv5jY?si=AV_kkQPcc4jCMMej Once upon a time our land was a successful almond plantation, producing 75 tonnes of almonds each year. During this time the land was sprayed with pesticides and herbicides, meaning over time the soil has lost its vigour for life and the land has almost been reduced to desertification. The yearly rains are washing away the top soil and destroying many of our stone terraces. We want to turn this 14 acre abandoned land into a luscious forest, and bring life back to the top of this mountain. For the past 3 years we’ve been planting trees, creating a huge vegetable garden and irrigating the land with water from our spring, and slowly we’re starting to see the wildlife return. As a bi-product of creating this luscious forest, we’ll be able to support our family by harvesting fruits, berries, vegetables and meat. Our new compost design will play a key role in accelerating our mission by saving the 75,000 litres of water that a 3 person household uses each year with a conventional toilet and producing 630kg of high quality compost each year for our trees. We’ve refined our compost toilet design from watching thousands of youtube videos and hundreds of sketches, so we hope it’s as awesome as we’re anticipating… and hopefully last us a lifetime. 00:00 - Intro 01:31 - Removing platform shutters 02:27 - Everything is harder when it’s 35°C 03:08 - Painting 05:04 - Revealing the hole 08:04 - Lizard bites Sage 09:42 - Abundant garden 10:40 - Making the steps 13:00 - Adding the power cable 17:49 - Swimming pool 21:27 - Fuse box wiring 23:17 - Installing reed bed pump 25:55 - Hammering a grounding rod 26:36 - Reed bed pump - Turning it on! 28:29 - Rainwater collection - Part 1 31:09 - Dinner from the garden 32:17 - Ginormous spider 32:51 - Rainwater collection - Part 2 34:11 - Mouflon drinking at the spring 34:53 - Plumbing the bidet 35:29 - Making a card for Emilia’s birthday 36:16 - Rainwater collection - Part 3 38:21 - Fiestas in the village 48:48 - Installing a light 44:08 - Sage making mama get him things out of bins 45:30 - Air extraction duct 47:11 - Painting the roof orange 49:42 - Tiling 53:48 - Conclusion 54:23 - Wildlife camera footage If you haven’t already, click the subscribe button on our channel to help us on our journey! We’re so grateful to each and every one of you for watching our videos and supporting our family! You can checkout more content from us on Patreon or Youtube members. We offer the same content on both, for the same price; you’ll get behind the scenes videos once per month and we’ll add your names to the credits at the end of the video. - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LadyandtheOwlMan - Youtube members: https://www.youtube.com/@ladyandtheowlman/join - PayPal: https://paypal.me/ladyandtheowlman Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ladyandtheowlman/ https://www.instagram.com/nakedmarmite/ Our story: We are Emilia, Robbie & Sage, we left our city lives behind and moved to the top of a mountain in Spain, to live off-grid. We’ve spent two years alone, renovating an old stone house and restoring the abandoned land. Join us as we continue to build our off-grid homestead, and become self-sufficient from the land. Business enquiries: [email protected] #offthegrid #abandoned #offgrid #offgridliving #homestead #homesteading #renovation #restoration #stonehouse #tinyhouse #wilderness #diy #alone #Spain #permaculture #organic #organicfarming #farming #composttoilet #building #construction #concrete