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Thanks for joining us on our off grid homestead journey in Portugal.
This week is our BIGGEST and CRAZIEST week to date - the flood gates have opened as we tell you all about our BIG NEWS! It's life changing in our current situation and the fall out means we are about to have the most hectic week we've had since we moved onto our off grid land 3 months ago! Yes, 3 months ago!
We are Scott and Driss and we have taken on a new life journey by leaving our conventional City life behind us and starting an off grid homesteading journey in rural Portugal. Join us as we become self sufficient and financially free, whilst breaking away from the 'norm' and system. From building off grid water systems, off grid solar power, composting toilets, a self built/ DIY home, off grid farming and gardening - we are tackling all of it, bit by bit.
Thanks for being here as we bring you up to date on our latest off grid living projects and mayhem! This week we get plumbed in, with the installation of our off grid water pump. Taking water from our well and start filling our IBC's so that we can store water for use. We also get our new friend George in, to start major clearing works in preparation for us building a huge 40 square metre decked area for our new home. Yep, we are moving into a tent. The race is on for us to get the deck built, so that we can get the tent up to allow us to hand it over to it's new lovely owners Linda and Pete. We've never constructed a decking before, but as always we pull up our sleeves and get stuck into the task at hand.
The BIG NEWS has huge implications as we will no longer have the comforts that a high end caravan brings - so over the next week or two we will be building our off grid kitchen. Our composting toileting. Our off grid shower and much much more.
So far we are finding our off grid homesteading journey, liberating, educational and extremely full-filling. That's not to say, that it isn't hard work, because it really, really is. But for those of you who are looking to start your own off grid journey - we hope that we can share our journey with you and help in some way. It's a constant learning curve, so any help and advise you can share with us; then please do!
We have a lot of projects all happening at the same time at the moment - from finishing the caravan/ car park terrace, completing the rendering/ cementing on the shed, and starting to build our outdoor, off grid seating areas, kitchens and bathrooms! Let alone our off grid geodesic dome - which we will be living in! Don't even talk about our off grid solar and off grid water system!
We have 6 terraces in total. so we have been focusing on getting as much land clearing done as we can. Our living off grid homesteading dream is now extremely real, and we are attacking the task at hand at full speed. Trying to stay focused is going to be challenge but we hope that with your support and encouragement, we'll be able to do it.
Don't forget to follow us on Instagram for some before and after footage. There's a few hick-ups along the way, but as always we come up with solutions and there's always a million other things to be working on; so we won’t be deterred.
Over the coming weeks we will be finalising our three off grid water systems - the natural well as the main source, a second back up from an ancient Roman spring, and a third redundancy system from water storage tanks. We have a LOT of trenches to dig and a huge amount of pipe work to install to create our off grid water system - all starting in the coming weeks. Our off grid solar system will follow next - any help and advise please let us know! Oh yeah, and of course we need to build an off grid house. Not much to be getting on with really!
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We are Scott and Driss, a gay couple from the UK and France, and a few months ago we left our conventional life in the UK and hit the open road, to start an new off grid homestead life in Portugal. After our initial travels, we made our way to central Portugal and began our search for our off grid land where we can build a homestead from the ground up.
Join us every Sunday and follow our journey and become fellow, Citizens of Our World.
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It's going to be exciting. It's going to be scary. It's going to be fun!
Over the coming weeks and months we will be clearing our land to make way for our off grid water systems, off grid solar power system, building an eco geodesic dome and starting a glamping business from scratch. So make sure you Subscribe and never miss out on our future videos.
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