Try putting a tarp or second roof above any roofs. This will add a gap between the main roof and sun and make things a little cooler

Renovating an old house in California and have made the same mistake you guys appear to be making. That is, focusing too much on longer term priorities and ignoring near term quality of life. Invest less energy in land clearance, long term fire safety, etc. and more on staying cool or warm and dry. If life is too miserable, there will be no long term.

Animals (goats/chicken/ducks) may provide a natural "tinder-control" to keep forest-fires at bay.

The land dispute with your neighbor is so tricky. If you fight for what is 'rightfully' yours you may get the land but end up harming your reputation with the locals.

As a professional landscaper and permaculture homesteader i would say its better go slow and dont do much before legal paperwork its solid and clear. Right now you are ilegally camping... Only after that you can define and built permanent basic structures, including water, swage, etc. That will determine roads and walkways...only then the gardenning and forestry can be planned and worked on. You are in observation fase, and how much more the better. 10 hectares is a lot, and you have a difficult land to work on, but also big possibilities to develop it (if its legal). Althou you seem a bit lost and even a bit mad (the rebuilt ruin is insane...), your project is adictive and hope you give yourselfs time to learn and suceed. Being there for more then a year with no house, no water , etc...got my respect.

Try re-hydrating the land with on-contour swales to put as much water as possible into the soil during the winter. Then you should have more water available in the summer from the wells and springs and there should be a lower risk of fire too.

Re: the oppressive heat -I grew up in one of the most hot & arid cities in the US (Phoenix). Before that I lived in one of the wettest & coldest places (western Oregon) -so it was quite the adjustment. There’s a few tactics for either reducing the impact heat has on you, or tricks to help yourself cope with the unavoidable heat. Some tactics are: 1. (As you said) don’t do any labor intensive work from noon to 5pm. Opportunities are sunrise to noon, take a break, then 5pm to sunset. 2. Some people are naturally more comfortable in high heat conditions, so lean on them to handle the labor intensive stuff if possible 3. Cover your skin with light, loose fitting clothing & a hat that covers your forehead & neck. Drink lots of liquids. Make shade anywhere you can (even temporarily, like with a flying tent). Drink lots of liquids. Try to wear boots for heavy work -heat makes things harder, sharper, more brittle, etc. 4. Know the signs of heat exhaustion & how to treat heat stroke or exhaustion. Accept the sweat because it helps your body to not overheat -it’s when you stop sweating you’re in danger. Drink lots of liquids. Some tricks are: 5. Find a hot but comfortable place in the shade to sit quietly for 30 minutes. Drink warm water. Look out at the sunny places around you. Enjoy the scenery. Gradually think to yourself: “this is really different, but it’s still beautiful. It’s harder to live here, but it’s still worth living here. I need to slow my pace down, but there’s still a lot of stuff we can do over time.” 6. With repeated breaks for water & to reduce your heart rate your body & mind can grow accustomed to the high heat. It’s gradual, like over weeks & months -but it works. 7. Find & create fun in water. Dipping, floating, paddling, swinging on rope swings, napping on raft (in shade), mildly competitive games (not water polo), just chatting, etc. Best wishes for all of your safety. You people are inspiring.

About the chairs: make 3 legged chairs.

About the slowness: take a moment to look at your first and a later video off your precious plastic project. What started with little steps has grown in a world-wide movement. (and that was only 1 subject, all the subjects in project kamp need some more time and energy)

Multiple ways for cooler housing: 1) Put some 20-30cm of dirt and plants on top of your black plastic roof. The mass itself will better shield the roof from heating up. Probably also a good idea for all of the vans. 2) Add cob walls to your shipping containers. 3) Air ducting underground. Search for "Kirsten Dirksen grow oranges in snow" on KZfaq. Such greenhouses use the naturally occurring ~10°C underground in the winter to keep them warm. Meanwhile 10°C during the summer is also very nice. And you have a lot of able people who can dig, so this could be a low cost way of getting some cool air. 4) Look into ice storage. That's where a heat pump takes its energy out of a big underground water tank and thus it slowly freezes solid over the winter. You actually get the same energy out of freezing water to ice as the amount you need to heat up 0°C water to 80°C. While your winters are probably rather mild, you could still explore this for cooling down your future housings in the summer.

A solution for the "chair" challenge. 3 legs. Works on any surface.

You should have some ducks. Their poop is really food for the land.

The Dutch farmer(KZfaq channel) set up swales- pond to store rainwater. Gold videos explain a lot. He’s in Portugal, good luck! You should grow trees!

Take advantage of the hotter months to cook your food naturally with a solar oven. (You just have to learn how to plan the timing so the food is ready when you want to eat.) That would reduce your use of natural gas somewhat. Take advantage of the cooler months to cut down trees and do projects that would normally be much too hot to do in the summer.

Hello, love your project. Yes, the heat is almost as depressing as a Dutch winter in the sense that you can’t go outside and get stuff done, ironic really. I’m in Spain, Valencia region, very hot and burning too 😿 Have any of you seen what beavers can achieve in terms of expanding water infiltration? Not suggesting you introduce beavers 😹 but to mimic their dam building on the creek. If you refer to Andrew Millison’s water management videos here on KZfaq, and as you’re probably already aware, the idea is to slow, spread and sink water during the heavy rain season. Keep what falls on your land, on your land. With your contour maps the design will emerge, swales etc, but I can’t stop thinking about the potential of that creek, it’s such a resource if you could just slow it down with a series of dams. Oh, and I believe there is a white paint with cork particles that acts to reflect rays and also insulate a little, not sure if it’s a very sustainable product, they use it in Argentina to make houses with tin roofs more livable. Good luck to all of you 🙏

If I were you, I would clear large parts of the invasive forest in the fall when it is cooler. Not all of it, but a lot. I would leave enough trees for shade so that the soil doesn't dry out too quickly. Then I would plant cork oaks and other native species that need little water and can withstand forest fires. Preferably in the fall as well, that they can sprout roots in the wetter season and already grow well. With the cork oaks you could also generate money for the project in the future. In addition, animals that graze the grass. Possibly alpaccas or sheep. Wool could also be sold, and you would have a protection against fire. On the subject of heat. That's why southern countries have houses made of solid stone. This stores the coolness of the winter and keeps the temperature of the summer in the winter.

just discovered your project and have watched from the beginning some episodes! the energy and patience you bring into the project is fascinating. i'm super impressed about the structured approach. even if your steps seem now a bit slow for you, it's huge what you're bringing into life!!

Hey guys, you are really rocking it in content production on a very high level. Of course, the nature of your story telling is very interesting and educative, but also very pleasurable to consume. I know how hard it is to consistently release videos in such great production value, but I am sure that you will be rewarded in one way or the other. Thank you so much for making the internet a better place

Do not be discouraged! Keep fighting for your dream/dreams. It is normal not to have energy when you have more projects in parallel, but some day you will bring down only to one project...and then it will be nice again.

i love this channel! as a horticultural student, I love seeing what they are doing with the spread of non-native trees and docking the native ones. hopefully one year I'll be able to come and help. if they read these comments, please say you'll have people come next summer!

Adrián! It was so nice to see you being yourself!

I have to admit, throughout watching this series, it is a bit frustrating that the entirety of the plans were not legally executed from day one. I feel like it kind of makes it difficult as a model if we assume that all folks are willing to take a similar risk to get it off the ground. You can be shut down at any moment for noncompliance, or if a neighbor gets irritated at your land claims.

It's such a big blessing to have such a number of water sources as you have! At least one of them should never dry up....

for future sensors use LORA; low energy consuming but incredible transmitting range of several km's its in the 433MHz band...

Your honest dedication to Project Kamp is impressive. You're living in a challenging situation. Living in smoke and heatwave is true adversity. Very hard to function, without any way to escape the fog.

Do you plan to bring animals onto the land? Permaculture using animals like sheep to rotationally graze helps regenerate soil, keep water in the land, and reduce fire risk in summer.

about the process feeling "slow" i get it. i got a piece of land last year. the first months were super interesting since i had to do a lot, i mean a lot of cleanup. seeing the land change so drastically gave me a sense of progress, but after that things strarted to feel very slow, i made a cabin, i started growing some stuff, but then there wasn't much to do so i started visiting that land less often. to keep it "interesting" so to speak you should have a balance of long and short term projects. For example the Question about cooking gas, you guys could build a biodigester in a weekend. It would be content for the youtube channel and a step forward towards the camp end goal.

I had an idea about the potential fire protection 🔥 wouldn’t it be a good idea to pay someone or have someone sit in a high high ladder style chair to watch over your land literally 24 hours a day. There would be more than one person more than one shift obviously… But that’s how they do it in California where we get the most wildfires in all of the United States. Build the highest chair on the highest ladder you could imagine and start making shifts of the people who work there… I think that’s your best protection. Oh and get them an alarm! Something they can ring when they see fire. Simple but it’s the perfect solution

Incredibly impressed with the things you’ve already done at Project Kamp and your mission seems more and more important given what’s going on around the world. Keep up the good work!

Regarding the tree "reforestation" maybe you should team up with @MossyEarth

I wonder if there is a good sustainable shade-cloth product you could be using or maybe something you could make from recycled materials. All over the world native people make the best use of what they have locally eg bamboo or rushes to make screens and shelters to protect them from the harsh weather. Is there anything you could do with all that unwanted Mimosa? Could it be processed into fuel for a furnace or turned into charcoal as a cash crop? Are you allowed to grow Hemp in Portugal... it is an incredibly useful crop and grows fast. Keep up the good work.

You all are killing it. Keep up the great work, love following your project, been following since week 1.

Look at tiny shiny homestead and how they built w/ earth bag tech- it is a very affordable way to built extremely well insulated area to keep cool if built with underground cooling measures

you are so honest, committed to stay true to the values that you made yourselves up to! Parabens from Spain!

Thanks for posting and sharing. Best wishes and good luck with the ongoing work.

It always feels like a project could move faster but a slow progress is better than none. I think the earlier one makes piece with this the more centent one becomes. Some things just take time!

The priorities there seem to be a bit arguable... After so much so much time, effort, money and sweat there is still no proper shelter for the local weather.. Maybe that should have been top priority.

You guys are really brave, hard-working and very competent, nice people. I pray for a forcefield of protection against any fires in your region!

Project Kamp, may your Vision , Inspire the World, to do the same :) Progress in a long term project will vary, but your still going in the correct direction Thanks for sharing Love and rainbows

I hope your ponds and creek never run dry in the summer.... so you can go there and cool off during the day

Hmm also try to just paint your container or in general all survaces white, that keeps the survace temperature way down and it really makes a huge effect!

Tough challenges but hey guys you'll get there - slowly but steady! You're so inspiring.

I can’t imagine the heat you are enduring with no relief and you look so downtrodden. You guys are amazing and I hope you see that yourself. This project is amazing. You have accomplished so much and it would be more if not for this extreme heat….but your project is working to heal the planet and try to reverse this climate change that is happening. We need more like you. You are all heroes.

Fascinating to watch your "progress". Also been noticing your heat wave and fires. Be safe

Keep smiling guys, you are doing great and the heat wave is almost over!

you guys got this! persevere through these challenges. i believe in you!!!

Everybody seems tired and I can understand why.....but you have made SOOO much progress in such a short space of time. You will overcome all of these challenges soon and the weather will cool and you can have some proper rest. Hopefully you can have some down time to just chill and appreciate everything that you've accomplished so far, rather than looking at everything that still needs to be done. Maybe another river trip!

A good reasoning for creating a water landscape such as Tamera, but as your plot is so small, it should ideally be done for a whole catchment area or minor watershed. But as farmers everywhere are aging or even vanishing, this will certainly not be easy. I'd imagine there a just a few active land managers left in your area and likely all those are aging as well.... the consequences of the agricultural policies of the last 70 years

We have been watching The Dutch Farmer, he does what we do here in Australia Land Swales he is also in Portugal

Loved this. I’ve followed Dave from very early on in precious plastics and the way he gets quality people working together in low impact ways for a common great aim absolutely staggers me, you all always look like you’re having so much fun, I just wish I was young and fit enough to have something to offer you of myself. You are all beautiful people 😁 wish there was more of this in the cruel world.

Wow the view'. lovely sound, Very good video, I'm happy to be sitting here Relax watching your video, it's so beautiful it's amazing thang for sharing

Exactly... if you close the bottom of the ruin, with those huge granite stones you will have a nice cool place to hide in the summer hot days. With the top of the house well insulated you could also try to circulate the air through the basement and make a eco-air conditioning system

It will start to cool down soon. I love what you're doing. I built a cob house and it manages the extreme temperatures very well and cost almost nothing.

for anyone who wants to live of the land water is key. To manage water will become a very important skill.

Hi, Native Portuguese here! It's normal for Portugal these temperatures, in my opinion in the center and south of the country its cooler (more comfortable) this year. I will recommend visiting the Drave Scout Center a few hours from you(they have a website and social media). They have a lot of experience in rebuilding a village and have some International certification. In my time doing activities outside in Portugal the best way to have a good time is to wake up early and have a break from 13 to 16 and them resume.

Consider straw bale building. If built properly the structure stays cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The fire rating is over two hours. Some straw bale houses survived an intense California fire.

Heat is horrible. You have bitten off a lot. Good luck and stay safe

I think, creating something like a earthship is a good way to keep the heat away in the summer, as well the humidity and cold in the winter, but I don't know where is the north and from wich direction you get the sunlight. So yeah, basically an underground or at least, partly underground structure. It is also a better way to resist a fire in case there is one. Speaking of fire resistant, you have to do something on your land, planting, cleaning, growing, etc. An abandoned land catches fire more easily than a used/clean one! An I thing an "edible forest" is the way to go. It provides food, controlled land against fire /heat/water. It makes you more resilient! And for the question about renovating o build new, like you said, it could be a legal problem, to build new, and then you can be stopped and are not allowed to build. I live in Spain and I know thus kind of laws over here, but I don't know the neighbors country law, maybe it is similar, maybe not, but it should be legally a lot easier to renovate than to build new (or rebuild)! And at last, of course it looks like you don't do so much progress, but you do,and a lot, just more people there makes you achieve more. You see it on the videos very well. Last season, you documented every little achievement, now you you just informe about some of the bigger achievements, i guess, if you had more camera teams there, you could document more and provide 2-3 videos a week, with the little and bigger achievements! You have just to look with another's eyes or viewpoint. So, you are doing great! Thank you for you videos and sharing your experience, it is a great help and it's nice to see you every week.

don't worry about the speed of the project(s), it's only natural that making things right takes time. slow and steady wins the race as they say!

Speed and scaling: The more people, the less work gets actually done (per person). You may underestimate communication, conflicts etc. Interesting project!

You are getting good traction now. Doing great.

Cut your mimosa trees. It’s hot and dry everywhere in the EU

Hey! I love all your videos and I dream to do something like that, because of that I see a lot of different channels and one that I like a lot and make good solutions for the problem of the fire is THE DUTCH FARMER. The name of the video is :Abandoned land to starting Homestead. I recommend you to see the video apart of all the investigation. I hope everything it’s good. I like all your projects and I make use of them so I am excited to see what is gonna happen next. 😊

Hot: to adreess hot and water preservation on soil, on the warmer season, pls refer to the work of Gabe Brown "Dirt to Soil" and Allan Savory "Holistic management". I've referred in #48 you could use a wood shredder to cover the land. If the vegetation dries out it's a clear sign that the soil isn't much healthy, so you'll have to integrate animals in your project. Some of you may be vegans which is all-in-all somewhat restrictive, but it could also turn to be a win-win situation: have your neighbors catle cows, sheep, goats pigs and chickens be happy on your land (always be sure of controlled grazing you'll do the schedule with limited fences and heavy crowding of soil for short periods of time); let them work the land for you :)) and promote cover crops with diversity. Diversification is the key! Trees get rid rid of mimosas by cutting them to the vein, use the material to cover the land, grow oaks, cork oaks, chestnuts, carob trees, beechs, cedars. have them pruned 80% (so the sunlight goes to the levels underneath) all the year and grow fruits in the shaded: olives, orange, lemons peaches, pears, apples, pomegranates and waterver you like most. By the creek have some fennels and yews, again have them pruned 80% and plant fruit trees beneath. All wood material resulting from pruning goes under the soil to promote microbial proliferation. Refer to Ernst Götsch kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g82bobWf2aiqiaM.html to see more details... Sorry for beeing such a pain...

it seems You're very good organized and prepared, in starting this project. I'm an older person, observing this kind of projects, for it seems to me some right way in the future of humanity...away from luxus, elbow mentality and false 'values', back to the ground! ...not I, but we... Being part of nature can't be bad! At first it is exhausting, but I realize in other cases, after 3 years it moves straight up! More and more nature will work with You, not against. ..it's always a circle and rhythm...now You may be exausted, then keep it more easy...SIESTA is not for nothing! but generaly keep it on...and bring it on the right way! P.S. even it's recycled: in these clima zones don't chose plastic! Take all natural stuff, like greened roofs , wood, stone, sand...lime, natural colours... the old Portuguese knew why!

What a wonderful video once again. Thanks and keep cool (Have I mentioned how I love the accent when Dave says "cool" - ah, I guess u guys know. That's cool.) Cheers & Love. Love what u are doing!

I think you are doing very well making a home out of open land. There is a lot to learn and adapting to new situation is a job. Can sympathize with you concern of fire. Where I live has burned twice in about 12 years. Is frightening but work with the fire crews and it can be dealt with out going into a panic.

You could look into permaculture re swales to harvest water and keeping it in the ground for the plants to thrive under duress of hot weather . A second roof does help with creating shade

If it was me I'd go around the edge of the property and cut it back some that way the more you got it cut away. With that's your fire break just like where they did and the electrical Poles on each side of it. You could do the other end it would be a really good firebreak

A long nap under the trees near a water source, inside a mosquito screen "tent", might be one solution for the hot summer days?

I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms.

Love watching Project kamp

The best part of this video was Rita! I'm so in love with her!

Q&A: Have you looked into half underground greenhouses?

Keep up ! You are an inspiration

Aluminet fabric tarps. They reflect the sun and let through the wind. Real savior for me this summer. Got mine on Amazon. Good luck!

As a west Australian to deal with the heat wear a long white sleeve shirt with vents and a collar and use wet or damp towels with a fan

Big support for Project Kamp. I think anyone with awareness is becoming increasingly desperate, and it becoming apparent that your feelings are about the project. Nevertheless, desperation in the face of crisis is the first step for change. It’s a case for deep adaptation, and I’m looking at you for inspiration. It’s not an easy country for fast solutions; forestry, climate, climate adapted material and methods, but it’s a good location for experimentation. Don’t let yourself get caught in the fickleness of Portugal, think like the Dutch, invest for the long term, the ground breaking, think what will it be like in 20years, how can we live inside a fire risk zone. Get some goats or pigs to clean the acasias, start a carbon offset program to get forestry investment, plan fire breaks, and invest in an orchard (carobs are drought resistant and fetch a good price, + they are key canopy tree). We have until 2030 to be climate adapted!

Siesta in a cool pod. Make a cool pod!

Many months old video but on the topic of wifi & sensors, professional-grade sensors like Onset HOBO system uses a mesh network so data can hop from sensor to sensor.

About the heat: Healthy soil helps keep the temperature down. Especially with more trees

I have an idea about the water on the spillway for the waterfalls that you'll go to everyone so home this morning. Why don't you have that waterfall going to another area that you can dam up? And then you can have more wator no and take and then put your spill way in there and keep moving it down. And then fix Some other sloop gates that can lead water out into the pastures that way. You have canals going out and then it saves water. You could even put pipes on your ground to water sleeps into and then sleeps out of that way. It's always wet underneath the ground that you want to keep green

Sorry, but you all looked beaten up and very tired in this one, Energy compared to Season 1 is very low. Maybe too many projects or too much heat. Still, as always love all your projects and videos. Really learned a lot from you guys on how to do proper documentation :)

I encourage you guys to look into permaculture techniques for water retention

You could build a large pond in a high place and put strategic drains to irrigate the land which hydrate the plants preventing or slowing down bush fires .

Even tho the quality is soooo much better than before I kinda miss the music of the Precious Plastic era. This tone cheered me up everytime. Anyway good luck for everything.

Extreme heat can be draining to the point of exhaustion & depression. Your strategy of starting early, breaking during the worst heat of the early afternoon, and then resuming is the best way to get things done without wearing your team down into mincemeat. I don't do well in the heat at all, so to prepare for the New Normal of extreme heat waves I have ordered a AlphaCool Frosty Mesh Ice Vest with Replacement Ice Packs, which I'll be testing out as soon as it arrives. I chose it because it comes with two sets of gel packs so one set can be in the freezer while you're wearing the other set. The vest slips over your T shirt and can be adjusted to your body size. In theory it should help keep your core temperature from rising rapidly when working outside in the summer. I'll report back once I, and my wife, have tested it ourselves. I am also looking for a wide-brimmed hat with frozen gel inserts that would keep my head cool as well. Global climate change is going to become really stressful in the years ahead, and I'll have a lot of outdoor work to do on our future homestead, so I'm preparing now. (I also have excellent cold weather gear that allows me to work in extremely cold weather while remaining very comfortable.) You are making excellent progress given the challenges that you are all facing during the extreme heat of summer and limited options for cooling off. Summer & winter are extremely difficult to work thru, so anything that helps with moderating core temp extremes will help immensely. Take care or some folks will break down from overheating. Perhaps one of the structures with an Earth coupled stone/cement/tile thermal mass can be rigged up to become your cooling station with a "swamp cooler" (evaporative cooling effect)? With a battery or solar pv power generator, gerry can of water, a mister/pump setup, and a 12vdc fan you might be good to go. You are all amazing people on the forefront of affordable diy sustainable community development. Conditions are grueling, so take care of each other. You got this!

If it's getting hard, please take a breake from youtube or the camp. HEALTH FIRST ALWAYS!

There is a guy in California that uses the water from the winter to fill artificial ponds. He has 3 huge ponds of water (even with ducks). Then during the summer he uses the stored water to keep the property green and to water the crops. He uses what we call "regadio" in Portuguese.

Welcome to the coolest summer of the rest of your life

You should try building 3 legged 🦵 chairs, they don't mind uneven surfaces.

id highly recommend looking into this as you produce a lot of vegetable waste home bio gas

The Indy project has a good method for poop. They have a faucet and shower in a outhouse. They put a bucket under toilet seat, poop, take outside and dump into 50 gallon drum, then cover with dirt. Take back inside rinse out, put back.

How about having a good pump in the "lake"/pond and long hoses, as a means to "water" the area surrounding area to the camp, as fire prevention? Also leaving a large area completely empty of trees between the camp and the forest, to avoid potential fire-spreading?

Build some rock dams on your streams to slow down any running water, that'll hydrate the nearby soil too.

Hammock with mosquito net in the trees to avoid spending time in metal boxes😁

Get a bee keeper to establish hives, I'm sure the Mimosa trees are awesome for beekeeping. Enjoying your vids, Richard - Johannesburg, South Africa

Another great video! As always, keep up the good work!

Thank you for answering my question :D

I would really give it some thought to building underground homes. I’m here from the United States and there’s a whole community of people that move to our Southwest or temperatures can get to 120 or 130 during the summer. You have to build a house underground when you live out that kind of heat in the desert. If you lost it looking where to start try looking up earth ships on KZfaq-there’s even a whole master series that you can take. Good luck