Absolutely great advice 🌿🕊️❤️

Just put cardboard underneath the woodchips

the more eco friendly solution, cover the ground with cardboard. same effect and don't need to be removed and looks a lot better than black plastic :D

@@ric_dk-9520 That's all well and good but it would be difficult to try and cover a large area with many different pieces of cardboard which might get blown away in the wind. You can also reuse a tarp again and again.

@@wuddadid no, you just pin the cardboard down with stages/pins .. or rocks/dirt ... The plastic needs to be secured the same way. No big difference.

Actually yeah, fair enough

@@ric_dk-9520 The only problem is if it rains, as cardboard doesn't do well if exposed to water

.. but without ear protection the highway noise won’t be a problem for long 😅😂

@@cobralyoner this made me chuckle 😂

They have ear protection….it’s hanging on door of the workshop container.

And fried goat, and goat in the oven... mmmm gooooaaat

Sheep will keep the grass and weeds down and give wool. Definately get goats. They will eat the brambles, manure the land and give milk. Followed by pigs who will plow the ground manure it and eat the roots. Run chickens with the pigs, they will eat grubs, bugs and seeds. Manure and give eggs. Farm smart not hard.

I was about to say that! Goats are great, and you can get milk which is very nutritious for you, also goats are easy to care for

Goats are assholes, get sheep

But with goats you have to pay close attention so they don't eat all the young trees. Good fencing is definitely needed.

Goats will solve the problem, sheep are picky ....

Hope you are doing better ken! I definitely agree with what you've said. Sending love

thanks. whats your top 5 from that list? :)

Go to amarante, to the river beaches in aboadela. Nice swimming in nature and great ideas to do with the lake and swamp in project kamp

> in the long term you should guys try to look into repopulating the property with native tree species in order to restore the native ecosystem what are some good sources/places to find out what the native species are?

@@jeroenboom8 That is a very good question, and sadly I dont have a definitive, direct answer to it. On the other hand, I have hunches and reccomendations. A good place to start is asking the older folk arround the area who might remember how the region looked like when they were younger, before massive industralization of the rural areas of Portugal took place. Also, a good place to start looking for more concrete, scientifical info might be libraries, which might have books and information about the ecological situation of portugal and the NW Iberian peninsula. Its important to remember librarians are trained to help people find the information they need, so it might be wise to ask them too.

Just googled and it’s very limited 6 trees native 2 pines hill oaks olive cork etc not the array that most countries have have looked at the local tree that is called mimosa here in oz it’s acacia a type of wattle generally doesn’t take over like there the trouble is eucalyptus & Australian natives after fire dormant seeds sprout and saplings by the hundred come up taking years of competing with each other to thin and thus black berry has a chance to grow and a mess of impenetrable fire hazard /mess is the result a lot of native forest in mountain areas and high rainfall of Australia has huge blackberry problems though along road side where light is better than darker forested areas last year i in Tasmania very wet 6 jarss of jam in one pick at front driveway , a mix of triclopr & kerosene is painted on to cuts of both and will kill them have found the berry sprayed in flower has great results 👍

@@jeroenboom8 it's a bit difficult to identify the native species to this area of portugal because this land has been farmed for a long long time including the forests, so for instance many trees that we might consider native are actually really not that native. Mostly native portuguese forest revolves around various oak trees , chestnuts, elms, strawberry trees, poplar, ash, alder and willows. These are like the main ones that are native to that portuguese region. Other ones like the cork oak and holm oak are also present in this region but are way more prevelant in the south of portugal. Wild Pine trees I wouldn't consider them native to that region of portugal, although they are native to portugal as well, since it is more of a crop tree that was introduced in that region ages ago. I also wouldn't consider eucalyptus an invading species since that tree in specific does not spread by itself very well and if they are introduced to a mixed species forest they will not prevent other species from growing along side them , mostly I think it's the same situation as the wild pine trees, people are the ones that plant them as a crop because they grow really fast and can provide a good profit for a low investment. Acacias on the other hand are a completly diferent story, as well as being super invasive by them selfs they will prevent anything from growing underneth them, they also grow in a way that makes it very easy for fires to propagate and consume large areas without gaps for fires to stop.

@@do_3507 Im quite surprised by your statement about Eucalyptus not being that big of a deal arround that area, not because I dont think you are telling the truth but because I was under the impression that the invasive species problem was basically identical in Galicia and in the Northern half of Portugal; and on this side of the Minho River, Eucalyptus is a huge, huge hazard both for the enviroment and for human habitation. In 2017 we had some incredibly savage forest fires that ravaged the Southwest of Galicia, leabing some municipalities completely burned, like As Neves, just by the border. Anyways, details about specific invasive species aside, I think itd a good idea for the Project Kamp developers to look into the possibility of restoring the local ecosystem to thr best of their abilities, both for sustainability and for safety against forest fires.

What a fun and smart thing to do the mapping out. This way a community could land more easily. And any local business who wants to be on the map.... who knows, can pay a little fee? Whatever... I thought it was really cool!

Yeah. Somebody needs to develop an open source weedbot that can automatically dig up all the weeds in a defined area and removes their roots too. Redoing this manually every couple of months is a huge waste of precious human time & energy. (It would be so much better to "supervise" the weedbot from the new hammock.)

The continued growth is constantly harvesting carbon though, and that is an asset in the long run. All that mimosa timber adds up to a lot of fences and structures to grow plants over too. Resource-wise, that thriving snarl will continue to pay off as native trees come back. It could be an amazing vineyard/orchard soon- no shortage of wood chips to protect soils. I'm envious of the potential that place has! Cheers from beautiful Colorado! 🍻

I look at Portugal as the Oregon of Europe but not fucked up.

When you live and care (work) the land ... Its never done. It Will never finish. There s always more to be done. Usually the work is never enough and its late... Vegetables and animals are Living growing beings. The need management. All the time for a long time. Rural homesteading its a process, not a project. Its a marriage/family...its not part/short time dating .

I'm also waiting for that kind of magical day too! What are the chances of that!?!

At least set it on your work bench, it is right behind you.

A tiller? That's silly to ruin the topsoil and ecology of the soil. Just keep chipping trees and pile the chips up for nice coverage. Also spoiled hay would work, if those neighbors have some of that.

If they turned some of the trees into charcoal, that would work well.

Yes pigs will help with the root problems. After that let the land rest and continue with goats.