I hope these tips help you avoid some of the common mistakes of starting a homestead. If you have any questions or want to share your own experiences, write a comment below! Read the full article here: www.rootsreconnected.com/articles/5-beginner-homesteader-mistakes-to-avoid

Great to have you back. Would be nice to see more of your land and little projects.

If you want to garden…this is the guy to watch especially if you are in a problematic area! Amazing.

I get strong "killing me softly" vibes here, you're literally describing my first 1.5 years in Portugal 😢 This was very helpful and inspiring.

Moreno is a real master at Homesteading and farming, he knows his shit, listen to him! Great job with this and all the videos, you're a true pro and an authentic good person in the way you live on Earth and participate in humanity. All of your help and knowledge is greatly appreciated!

Wow! What a surprise on this Friday evening 😅, greetings from South Africa

Looking forward to updates on projects and gardens, as well as how things did over the "winter" 😊

Extremely enlightening video for aspiring homesteads. Thanks for your insightful efforts. God bless you 🙏

I will read your plan. I lived on a subtropical fruit tree farm we were pioneers on a low budget ,We focused on tree planting , a small cottage , with a wood oven with a wet oven to heat our water. We cooked our own bread and made pickles from the Vege patch ,at first ,we bought a dairy cow we had five acres around the cottage with a small creek ,drinking water was a Metal tank catching water off the roof .Yes it takes years we had Solar power for thirty years and water solar pumps 😊

Pure Wisdom and Intelligence! Turning 60 this year, I step back slowly and methodically along with my dwindling physical capacities. The goal is the same as yours: keep the love!

As a late beginner, the conclusion I reached is that initial expectations are so unrealistic that it is best to start without any plan and devise solutions as we are faced with concrete situations.

Every word in this video can be described with the preciousness of gold, even though it may come across as scholarly or formal. However, after watching your videos for a long time, I have come to realize that the wisdom shared in them is genuine and comes from your personal journey and the lessons you have learned along the way. This content truly deserves to be recognized and valued.

this comment is the least i can do to show my appreciation for your amazing work that u share with us, thank you.

I think the main problem with this land is water, because water is the key to agricultural success. The second problem is the availability of small agricultural machines such as mini excavators and mini tractors to make the work easier. too much savings is spent at the start on designs and preferences, forgetting to prepare high-value agricultural commodities as a source of income. Keep Fight, I'm very interested in how you started designing your garden...👍😊

Ik zit een paar minuten naar je te luisteren en vind het goed dat je dit deelt met een ieder die deze levensstijl wil gaan oppakken, ik bedacht dat aan de andere kant het eigenlijk heel droevig gesteld is dat zoveel mensen deze kennis kwijt zijn. Dat jij als Nederlander in het Engels dit onderwijs staat te geven, omdat het in Nederland niet betaalbaar is. We zijn hier in anderhalve generatie veranderd van een agrarisch land, naar een land waar het ontzettend moeilijk is om in het agrarische bezig te zijn. Jullie hebben een prachtige plek daar, geniet ervan.

Good to hear from you Moreno, thank you for sharing your experiences

Do many homesteaders start community projects, like a few couples pooling resources? This way each could specialise on a part they are good in. Together you can become self-sufficient a bit sooner and only later become self-sufficient as individual families. Instead of working until money runs out and getting by while saving up for each small addition, it seems safer to save up many years of income first and hire help to get production going sooner. A more fun way to do this is to invest in a small base homestead first and instead of expanding then trade or sell pieces of land within a group of homesteaders. You could even have a few pioneers get a set of homebases parts of which new members can buy/rent while the pioneers move on to a bigger more remote part of the land. Perhaps even creating a chain of homesteads.

A highly valuable video shared with absolute clear steps to consider and implement, Thank you

Great video, I am Dutch also and working on creating a homestead in Sevilla Spain! I recognise so much in what you are describing. Please dive in deeper 🙏

Thank you for sharing all your valuable information. Hoping to see a lot more videos.

Yes please, I would love a deep dive!!

I have done all of the mistakes you mention here, and many others. Still going on and it is very comforting to hear that others do, or did the same, at least in part. However we learn along the way and hopefully we won't get burnout. Many thanks again Moreno. Congratulations to you and your family for all the efforts to share all of this with us. May God bless you.

Welcome back. Best information around for anyone thinking of homesteading or just vegetable gardening. 👌🏼✅💯🏆💞

You were in France. Why did you decide to start over in another country, Portugal in particular?

Moreno...it's always good to watch your videos and I appreciated the content of this one. We just moved to a new property in January and so we have been working on the infrastructure so far this year so that we have the resources in place to start growing everything we want/need. You have done a great job with your family preparing the land for sustainability and it is always fun to see the progress. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing your successes and failures with us! (Kentucky, USA)

Looking at the vegetable trellises in the backgrounds, I'm reminded of the creative trellises made by Sang of @GrowingLittleCountryhomestead. He just used a bunch of sticks lying around in the woods on his homestead.

Nice Friday surprise

Moreno you are really brilliant as usual I love the fact that you are very keen and passionate about what you do, genuine, generous, and willing to help such a pleasure having people like you sharing your wealth of knowledge ,a big YES for a deep dive video looking forwards to it many thanks.

He Moreno, weer een mooie update, heel leuk om je proces te volgen. Wat je doet is iets wat echt een beweging lijkt te zijn waarin velen op een impulsieve mannier je in voorgegaan zijn, jij daarintegen lijkt ondanks de impuls het hoofd en realisme niet kwijtgeraakt te zijn en daadwerkelijk iets neer te zetten. Even een puntje...mollen? Die eten toch geen bieten maar wormen, zijn het niet woelratten oid? Aan ons het het nu ook de beurt om een mooi stekkie te vinden, ben gestopt als voorman hovenier/tuintekenaar te werken en zijn als gezin (vrouw en 2(ling) dochters) vertrokken naar Madeira/Portugal. Deze locatie ivm fijn klimaat en cultuur. In een eerder filmpje heb je het bij landkeuze's over niet te stijl land ivm bosbrand; dat is op Madeira onmogelijk, het is een en al stijl, maargoed. Kan niet allen hebben. Ik volg je op de voet en het gaat jullie goed.

I get it ,but there's also the idea of just starting or one might procrastinate forever. Sometimes no matter how much we plan we'll never truly be ready.

Thank you for this video! I love following your way, even it is not what I ever could do, but the described mistakes are generally true for many "life projects" and it helped me to rethink about to continue with all my open "construction sites".

Dang, we didn't even get to see the gardens.

You have so much information!! Please deep dive on fase three, please!!!

Really helpful tips thank you. I would absolutely love to watch future videos from you about the actual design aspect of homesteading. Particularly working with land that is untouched and has no infrastructure to start off with.

Great info!

Amazing..Thanks for sharing your wonderful work..Please continue share your ideas and tips for build homestead. Hallo from Bali. Blessings 👋 ❤ Ble

Very interesting, especially mistakte 5 planning

Would love the deeper dive thanks for your time on this 😊

although watching your videos before I started my journey, I still managed to do all the mistakes 😂 the thing is before you start you never know exactly how much time or resources will take, you learn along the way. I guess if I haven't watched your videos beforehand I would've been in even more trouble 🤔

Thank you!

More deep dives please. Your content is so valuable!

Very interesting. I would love to learn more.

Thank you 🎉

Valuable insight thnx for sharing

Yes deep dive please!

Please make the deep dive about design!

Thank you for this great detailed video! Sure, I would love a deep dive into design. And can you please recommend some resources to know more about survey of the land plot for wind direction, water flows, soil quality, fires, history, etc? I know nothing about it at all, but I would really like to start my own project with a conscious approach someday.

Solid advice. Can’t fault any of it other than one crucial element which was left out … “How do you make God laugh? Make a plan!” The unexpected always has ways of throwing multiple spanners in the works (especially in Portugal), so it’s super sensible to have a contingency fund as well as planning out your resource use. And even then, shit happens. Like fires … Which is where you find out what you’re really made of. 15 years homesteading in Portugal now, fires and all. I still wouldn’t swap it for any other life.

Admiratia mea totala.

Hi Moreno. Your video was very useful as always. I wanted to "buy you a cup of coffe" for the useful information, but I dont see that option on your chanel. Would you consider adding it?

Mine is turned more grey and failed

what material you use for ur minitunnel hoops? around minute 1

Enjoy Nature as it is, what works, anything edible? Maybe start with some raised beds to define production in the first year. Yes, Water in Portugal is soooo time consuming. Lots of Mulch and combining with small Trees can keep the soil more moist so you water more but less often! Its a horrible irony that the more isolated you are the more necessary transport becomes to get to health services, schools etc.. You need to factor in these transport costs including visits back to see families etc..! Long term boring but do you have a pension you pay into?? Sites closer to small towns can be a real advantage sharing produce with neighbours though it is a compromise to the total control you have on a homestead?

❤we can never see the future ❤

Bro you have some dust on your camera (under the lenses) you can see the black spot in the first sec of the video

🤘🤘

Um vídeo completo e interessante! Podias ter mais conteúdo sobre as plantas árvores e animais pelo menos uma vez por mês. Se tiveres tempo!!!

Thinking isn’t doing ❤

A bit dissapointing to again just have a video of only talking. Would have loved to see some progress updates since the last episode was 2 months ago. Also I feel I have heard all of these tips before.

Biggest mistake: honesteading costs money. Dosent make money. Second biggest: buying more then 2 acres/ 1h of land.

I am a little bit shocked because of how tired and grey you suddenly look.

Jesus loves you!

Why dont you upload videos at least twice a week its so boring your channel your uploading 1 videos in one months?? Thats not good bro

Clarity..........not interested in your "religion"!

This is a Master Class in homesteading. This is really breaking it down to common sense and not overloading. Great video. 🩷