Just a couple of suggestions. Research syntropic methods. Don't burn, rather chip and cover your soil, don't remove your weeds. Always cover your soil. Build it up gradually. Harvest your water, with swale (permaculture )

I am 74 year old lady, trust me when I say, there is no right or wrong way to do anything.. just different! Embrace your different.

You got lots of grit. No need to rush, home renovation is a lifetime job so there's no real push. I like how practical and realistic your projects are.

I have good news.The weeds are doing the ecology a great service!! Your place is perfect for syntropic methods! ♥️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

may not be the most glamorous place to live, but your hard work is making it into a keeper.

Hi from Scotland, I think you’ve done brilliantly. You’ve tackled a degraded & abused piece of land thoughtfully & have plans to reintegrate it into the natural world . I hope your folks are proud.👍🏼

You are doing great. We are fixer uppers ourselves.

Proud of your work miss. Respect 🐺

Hard working and handy girl , wonderful ❤

I don't know what year 3 will hold but I will be here for it. Good luck!

Your own peace of paradise 👏

The more organic matter you have the better ✌️👏

Your AMAZING!! And you WORK on cars too?...Incredible!! You are one smart cookie!😊

It's great for you having a home to renovate. Some people live off grid in the high desert in a RV or trailer. You are blessed 🙌

Your Dad is a good man. :)

You have a lot to be proud of . I admire your hard work.

looks beautiful the property has become united with the land again

Your doing an incredible job!!! Your way is the right way for you don't matter what anyone has to say a out it. There are haters all over KZfaq. Just keep being you.

Myself I commend you for what you've done! Many wouldn't have attempted to do what you've done so far! I'm a Retired Building Contractor so I know that when you work and do what you've accomplished is a heck of a milestone! Congratulations.

stuff can decompose in the desert, just usually its not stacked up or close enough to allow moisture and microbes to live for longer periods of time, highly recommend looking for that horse manure and composting it with random plant trimmings as well as adding the ashes from your burn piles

Well done. You give your dad great joy when you let him in. I recommend taking those weeds into compost and shredding any wood you come up with to add to the weeds. This is an easy way to start improving the soil. You are rocking it kiddo!!

You have a great dad

All I can say is WOW And all I can do is to subscribe and give you a thumbs up. What a hard working and determined young lady.

Bougainvillea will grow very well out there. And add beautiful color.

Grow hemp, make bricks to build tiny homes! You saved the world building this 5 acres thanks you so much!

You are doing awesome!! Keep having fun!

Pretty amazing young lady, doing a great job..... impressive how much knowledge you have for auto repair 😊. Your an inspiration. Thank you

I enjoy watching your Journey. Life isn’t a race. It takes people years to realise that. Greetings from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. 😊

i love your homestead project, you should be so proud of yourself! you go girl!!!

Hello from Scotland! You have done a huge amount of work.

Hello from Germany. I love how you get things done! Keep going!

You could use all the small rocks and stuff to make a small outdoor fireplace ! Stack them up and use some fire safe mortar maybe?

I LOVE your agave garden + fence on the neighbor side. It looks great!

You're crushing it. Great job.

A beautiful and wonderful place, and what is even more important is your resourcefulness in choosing your life. I wish I could be a visitor, even if only for a moment. Greetings from Algeria, my dear lady.

congrats on the work you have completed.

I came across the video by chance and have to say: Hats off! What a great achievement! Even though I don't like the Arizona desert at all, I can totally relate to nature. I wish you many wonderful years with your house and property! With lots of love and greetings from Hamburg, Germany!

Thank you for sharing your journey, best wishes from Sydney, Australia xx

You're my inspiration, girl!

First time viewer. I am amazed what you are achieving, while also holding down a full time job.

Great job! It's a lot of work you have accomplished.

Holy crap I would be so proud of that place!

The view much better instead of the fence! ❤

Great job. I don't know how much underground water the were using with that huge tank but you may want to consider using methods to recharge underground water now to incorporate into your plans. Also a gutter and water catchment system could be really valuable in the future. You go girl I love how diverse your skills are.

Heather you are absolutely amazing! This is so cool! I'm so excited for you!

Oh ya,5000 that’s big.congratulations!!

Oh wow, your place looks soooo good with that horrid fence down! You can truly enjoy the amazing view now. I'm so happy I found your channel, it's so different from all those "I moved into a cabin in the woods" channels and I love to see the desert and all the wildlife you encounter there. Great job on getting so much work done!

Should think about some Guinea hens to tackle all the bad guys. They make a great alarm system. Noisy…but only when they are chasing something.

Great job! That is a massive amount of work for one person to do, you have a lot to be proud of 🥰This next year is going to be fantastic.

Im in !! Can't wait to see what you're home becomes ! Thanks for sharing !!

Love the work you’ve put in! Some ideas for those rocks- a dry riverbed to direct water when it rains, and a few piles for the lizards. They love rock piles and breed there. That will keep the roadrunners there too! Also- there’s a way to stack and keep plant around them well watered by dew.

Awesome as always, keep pushing forward. Blessings from the UK

Congratulations! I think you’re doing great. You’ve put in so much work and everything is looking good.

Stumbled on this channel and had to sub after seeing how much you have done in such a short time . Every little bit we all do with cleaning things up goes a long way for all of us. Im sure your neighbor appreciates it as well. Im been over in the Victor Valley for close to 30 years and i just need to say this. Water is one of the most precious keys to life on earth and im sure you figured that out by now:) Swales, even on a small property can lead to some amazing green. Ok, rambling over, im out. Take care and Thanks

You are a true inspiration to me. Your place looks amazing, there is something about the desert that brings peace to me, although I never visited USA, or seen a real desert. Can't wait for the next video.

Everything looks awesome. You did a great job

Get yourself an induction burner. Portable and awesome for cooking. You won’t even want a full stove top.

Hey from Australia 🇦🇺 👋 Awesome journey you are on, well done 🙌

Dig a ditch next to house 5 ' deep(you can research depth for your area on line)put corrugated pipe in ditches and fill ! Buy fan and solar panel to run fan and put pipe inlet in house, put intake up on ceiling and exit on floor and attach fan and you have an air conditioner for the summer in daytime !😊

Your property looks fantastic! What a great transformation. Can’t wait to see what you do next.

You can take some of the pipes and turn them into wind chimes, I think, that would be cool.

Watching from Manchester, UK. You're living the dream, loving the progress well done

Kudos on your success & courage.

We rented a home back in 84, we found out real fast a dealer had once rented it, we were getting folks showing up all hours at our doorstep, we moved 6 months later.

Fantastic video! I'm glad I found your channel. You've done a great job with your property. The difference is astounding. Also, kudos to your narrating skills! I laughed out loud several times throughout the video. I look forward to watching your journey.

So impressive! Love from the Netherlands

Hey and hello from germany... I think you are realy brave to move alone in the middel of nowhere and for all you have done and can do at your age, you can be realy proud. I use to live in Oklahoma and we would get red sandstorms.. what a mess.. I would have kept the fence to have a bit of shelter from the wind and sandstorms. You may wanna think about a water saving system on the property . In way of shallow canals throuout and going into a big pond or zistern. When it rains, the water can run there then and not anywhere, where you dont want it. The wildlife would like that too. They started doing that in lots of desert countrys to make them fruitfull again and have watter in drout times. All best of luck and dont be so hart on yourself. You are doing great..❤

I ran across this. I enjoyed your honest reflections. Just remember it’s a journey, not a race. You’re doing great. Keep it up.

I remember when you 1st got the property..You have done a lot for 1 person..I will keep watching ur journey ❤

I think your great what you've achieved is great. and hats off to good old dependable Dad. Onwards and up wards❤

I love content like this

Am also doing landscaping on my property and its always endless work... One feels happy to sray in a beautiful home🏠

You have such amazing view out your backyard, I’m glad you took down all that stupid fencing.

From KUWAIT 🇰🇼 good luck 👍

Great sunset.

Congratulations on the 5k subscribers!!!!

You spent a lot of time un f**ing the place. Takes a lot of resources to do. You're doing great.

Great progress!! I think your way of doing everything is spot on 😊

Enjoy your videos. I also live in the desert and it is a beautiful place. Through your channel, people are able to see that beauty and peace it offers.

Your the bomb ! Pure grit , seriously your so cool

Hi from Madrid. I am new to the channel. Binge watched from the beginning. It looks much better without the fence, the fence with the property neighbor much better than to look at a property. You have done a great job and by watching One can see your personal change as well, with the ups and downs of life. Be watching in the future ❤❤

BUENAS NOCHES, MUCHAS FELICITACIONES POR LOGRAR LLEGAR AL 5K GRAN NÚMERO DE SUBSCRIPTORES, LO MERECES, AQUÍ SEGUIMOS APOYANDO TÚ CANAL DE GRAN CONTENIDO Y DESEÁNDOTE SIEMPRE LO MEJOR DE LO MEJOR, SALUDOS Y BENDICIONES DESDE LAS VEGAS NEVADA USA.

76k views!!! Totally epic! Congrats.

Maringo is an amazing hardy plant. The plant can be used for a vegetable and has other uses. Good luck

The journey is fun. Your doing great ❤❤❤

Yay!! A new video❤

Great update. Thanks.

yay - you're back🙂

Amazing. ❤ It's all worth it in the end. I was home steadily for ant a decade with my 5 children. I then was diagnosed w cancer. A year later we were in the matrix ( if you know ya know, and then public schooling, it was traumatic for us all. Now that they're grown and I have grand children, I just bought 23 acres in Mohave County, golden springs area. I also hired someone to come clear my land for 400 dollars as I'm building a massive wall around my property. Lol. 😅 we will do the rest. I make raised garden beds, id love to link and make ya one if you want one :) I love to build.. and my wife is a Welder. So we are ready to get to work in certain areas. Our hone is a Yurt. ❤ I just need material and tools and I'm good. 💪 used to build homes for 6 years woth my 6 brothers, so if you need any help there we got ya covered haha. Just us two ladies and our dog. ❤❤❤❤

Looks great, good progress 🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍

Can't wait for your next video. Great job 😊

Hello from England, excellent video

Congratulations, you have a fan in Trinidad 🇹🇹

How amazing well done ❤

Keep up the good work. Great videos

I loved the video you did a great job I can’t wait for your next video already 😊

Start making "mud" bricks with your extra dirt. Sure, they might take some extra materials, but you can make them, dry them in the sun, and store them for a brick shithouse. lol, or something more useful. Like a castle. 😁 Or a radiant heater/wood burner... or an outdoor pizza oven... or... or 😆

you doing great, and now for the outside you have a clean canvas.

One of tour forêt subscribers ils sont cool to se tour progress … contrats and jeep goinng ils always so cool to se tour vidéos… big hello from Casablanca 🤙🏼👍🍀

You are an awesome Wonder woman. Love the antique wheelbarrow.