WE HAVE WAITED SO LONG FOR THIS! (Building our off-grid Homestead)

Oh, what are you doing in there? So today we are making planter boxes and we're gonna actually be planting. We've been waiting a long time for this and believe it or not, as we approach winter, it is now the perfect time to be planting. So it's time to make up some planter boxes. Does that help you? No, I can do it. Watch out, I can't see what's behind. Good work. Wanna karate chop it in half? Okay, let's cut it in half. So I bought them extra large. We only want them this big, but for some reason they sell them this wide for the same price as this wide. So I saved a bunch of money and now we just have to cut it in half, okay? Okay. Isn't that silly? But how we do that is gonna be tricky. First, we're gonna clamp it. What are we doing with the metal thing? This is gonna be our guide for when we cut with the saw. And then we'll clamp this to the board and then we'll be able to slice it. It fits perfectly. How much easier would this be if we just had a table saw? That's what I want for Christmas. I want a table saw. Actually, all I want for Christmas is to lose my teeth. And that might actually happen because my teeth are wiggly. All I want for Christmas is to lose my- It's barely wiggly. It's wiggly! All right, now there's 10 more to do. Hello. We have been waiting so long for this. We have been wanting to plant something for a long time now, obviously, but I do have a confession to make. I have never been able to keep plants alive. This has never been something that I've been good at, gardening or even just having household plants. So you guys have been giving us so many really great, helpful tips and things. So if anybody has any recommendations for how I can learn more about gardening, whether it's books or YouTube channels I need to check out, obviously that's a big part of what we want to do here is to grow our own food. So any suggestions would be really appreciated. Nine and a half centimeters. Perfect. All right, Chloe. This is a line. Yep, so go to the big line right there. Can you make a line? This is going to be our bottom. This will be our side. And then that'll be our other side. Please don't split. No! Yeah, I thought it might do that. This is why I need a nail gun. So many tools I need. You have a very large Christmas list this year. My Christmas list will be very big, but it'll all be tools. No! Oh man. Well, I'm not getting a tool for your birthday, Daddy. Why not? Because there's better things to get. We need to make it look pretty. We need to make it look really, really pretty. Okay, we'll do a couple more. See, if we had a nail gun, we would just go pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. It'd be finished. But since we don't have one of those, we're going to have to drill pilot holes. Wow, good job. A little bit more. Okay, good job. That's really scary. Yeah. All right, so let's flip it around and do one more side. Are we painting it? I don't think we're going to paint on it. It'll make it look prettier. You think so? Yeah, we could paint it red. Does it look like a planter box yet? Yeah. It's getting there. So we are really excited to get started on the inside of the house. And we have, I think, finalized our blueprints moving forward. So hopefully we'll be able to get those approved, get our permits and everything that we need to be able to start working on the inside of the house. So last week you guys had a ton of fantastic ideas for the moisture problems that we have going on. We're still exploring the best possible solution because the terrace behind the house here is very close to the house. But since you have so many good ideas, does anyone have any ideas for what we can do to reduce the smoke in this room? Because anytime we light a fire, pretty quickly that smoke kind of gets trapped in here. I don't know if like a smoke guard here would be a good idea. And because it's so open, I'm thinking that we might want to install some kind of extractor fan on the roof of the top of the vent, so that you could even have it be operated by a switch. You turn it on and then it kind of like has a power draft to pull the smoke out. We don't want to change anything about the fireplace. Like we don't want to put glass over top of it or anything like that. We want it to be an open fireplace, but it's just too much smoke in this room. I'm making paint. Paint? How do you do that? You have to smush the grass really well. Like a bowl, but I have the perfect thing to smash. Oh. Need more grass. And also the thing I'm making, it's very good for the flowers. So I forgot, I thought I would put them on there. So speaking of the water intrusion, I thought I would show behind the house. This is how close we have. This is the house side. This is the terrace against the mountain. So there is not enough room to bring any machinery back here to dig. If we did dig, it would need to be done completely by hand, but you're also compromising this wall as you dig. And to be able to dig three or four meters down, it's just, seems a little impossible, but we do have a nice roof kind of completely covering this area. And when it rains, this ground stays pretty dry. It doesn't feel like the rain is kind of penetrating straight down through the ground. It actually feels like the water table is rising and then seeping in from the bottom. Because again, that upper wall in that room is not getting wet. It's kind of coming in from the bottom. Ooh, yeah, you got a little bit of paint on there. Green paint, good job. All right. So excited to plant garlic. Yeah, me too. Because we've been eating a lot of garlic. It's good for you. Looks pretty good, doesn't it? It's good, yeah. Only $10 to build a planting box like this. Pretty nice. Slice up the wood like that. I like clean workspace. Make like a stair step. Yeah. So we could have maybe six of them, but they're all stepped down. So you have the first here, then the top and the next one's here, then it kind of steps down. Oh, I like that, yeah. Is there room still to walk through and everything? As long as it doesn't go past like where this stone is, which I'd have to measure that out. So what we could do is kind of bury this in, screw that in and then stair step them down and then bury another post in. Then you can still reach. As long as you don't have more than, I'm thinking just do three for now. I think three, I think three would be good. So the girls have been begging us to open up our other little passports box that we have to do. And I think it's time to finally let them have it. Girls, are you ready? Let's go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anything. Did you just say you were born ready? Woo! What is it? This one. Don't tell us. Is a science theme. Cool. So it's an outer space one. It's cyber. So we're gonna make some crafts that have to do with learning about space. Yay! Okay, so we start right now. Right, right, right now. So Little Passports is a monthly subscription service where they send you a box that is educational and fun for your kids. So today we're opening the Space Quest Glowing Galaxies box. And there are actually two crafts in here that are space themed that the girls get to work through. So Little Passports has given us a 30% off coupon code to share with you guys that is Raising Voyagers 30. And if you wanna pick up a gift for your kids or your grandkids, this would be the perfect time to do it. We made a star planetarium and we're gonna use it as a nightlight tonight. Let's go inside and take a look at it. Let's go see how it looks in the dark. You guys ready? Push real hard. You guys see the stars? I wanna see more. It'll be better once it's dark outside. Yeah, it's not quite dark enough to see it. So I did colors. I'm like blue. Spread it all across. Colors mixed together. So of course, as we've talked about in other videos, we're not allowed to do too many things in the house until we get our permits, but I've actually considered that a blessing lately because as we're getting used to living in Italy, we're learning things about the way homes are built here and we're learning things that we want to do a little bit differently. So it's super neat to be able to kind of start from scratch and design things, but then also just take it slow to learn what we need that might be different than what they're used to doing here. All my helpers left. Do you like them? I love them. I think we should flame through them like we did the gate. Yeah, that'd be cool. I think that'd be fun. Fun or would it look good? Both. Sorry. So you don't need a lot of space for garlic. This is actually, in my head, they are actually gonna be smaller than this. This is more room than you need, but we should be able to plant at least a couple of weeks of garlic in here. Yay. We use so much. Yeah, we use a lot of garlic. What are you guys working on over here? Paint. You're making paint? Earth-friendly paint. I love it. We made it from grass and water. Now we're painting the rocks. We're making like lots of stuff with wood. Wood and rocks. And I need to like paint the rocks and stuff. Oh, should we go to the fairy garden and take her paint? Oh, that's a good idea. Do you wanna paint in the fairy garden? No, I need things from the fairy garden. Okay, you go get the things and bring them over. Woo, that made me jump. It doesn't look as cool when it's daytime, but just like with our gate, we wanna flame through the planter boxes. Holy quack-a-moly. I'm gonna move the tank back a little bit. Yeah, that's probably wise. Yeah, that's funny. Start. I'm having way too much fun. It's still going. It'll last forever now. Oh, not forever. For a long time. Daddy, wait. Nope. Guys, fire. ♪ We're still in the moonlight, it's something sweet. ♪ ♪ Let it wash over all of with you. ♪ All right, let's measure to make sure it's gonna fit. It fits. Nice. I'm not super confident in the placement and arrangement. I think we're gonna have these two poles holding up the top one, and then we'll stair step them down and then put a pole down here, but at least start this way. We might change it. Wowzer. Not level. Not level by a long shot. It's intentional, it's for drainage. Yeah, right. All right, girls, I need your help holding this up. And mommy, I need your help telling us What to do. Ooh, I like that job. All right, lower it down. Think, see, I was thinking like step like this far. Yeah, okay, let me. Does that work for you? Let me get a view back here. Oh yeah, I like that. You like that? Yeah, I like it. That's really nice. Okay. Mama, why aren't we doing my idea? All right. I don't know how to fix it. Push it. Push, push. Yay. Let go. Not all the way. Let go, daddy. It looks nice. Daddy, let go. Yay, it doesn't go through. Oh yay. It's almost like I planned that. I think you did. I really like your idea. I love it. I think it looks even better than I had pictured. I didn't quite understand your idea when you were suggesting it. I feel like that's a continuing theme we have going on. I mean, yes. I never quite see your vision until it's out on display, but I think it looks really, really good. I'm really, really happy. Here, back up a little bit. I think I wanna do four actually. I want a third and then a fourth. I think that would be really, really nice. So we can reach it. Yeah. All right, pick it up high, Chloe. Yeah, up higher, higher, higher. Perfect. Okay, so you guys are gonna have to hold it there. Lower it down a little bit. Okay, let go for a second. Down, down, down, down, down. Perfect. Great work, kiddos. Okay, so can you hold it right there for three hours? Three hours? Sure. You guys are strong. You can handle it. Yes, sir. I think one more. Yeah, it would look really nice. So one more down here and then we'll put some more stakes, obviously to hold the weight because it'll get heavy once we fill it up with dirt. I love it. I think it looks really cool. It's like perfect. I love it. Will you still be able to reach the top? Yeah. Okay. Because, I mean, it's quite easy. Or you can go up to the garden bed up there. Yeah, go up to the walkway. Nice. Good job, guys. I love it. So I wanted to say a huge thank you to all of those who have supported us at the launch of our travel hacking course. We were just blown away by the support and it really does mean so much to us. So we actually had kind of a glitch in the website, which was keeping people from getting that 50% off discount that we had talked about. So we actually decided to extend the sale a little bit longer and we are gonna give you a specific code to type in in case that it doesn't work. 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Because it's gonna fall. It's gonna fall. We need the post. Okay. Should I go get a post? That would be nice. Mommy, can you come here for a second? Yep. Okay, so, question. Yes. Should we do a couple of these? The little ones? The little ones. I like it. On the front side? Oh, on the front. Or should we do a big one on? I like it this side. On the sides, okay. Yeah, that's good. It looks good. So then cut it off. Yep. Just a little bit above flush, do you think? Yeah. All right. We're finished in one day. This is so worth it to keep the ladder. We'll come back and we'll put dirt in it and plant some garlic tomorrow. One of the flavors I'm getting, it's so vanilla, colored vanilla, and it's so tasty. I'm gonna go with my usual, strawberry. How do you say it in Italian? Fragola. I'll help you. All right, girls, are you ready? Yeah! We did a good job. You should be really proud of yourself. All right, so we have a pocket full of garlic, big monster cloves of garlic, and then this guy, which I forgot the name of it, but it's like a garlic-onion hybrid that our neighbor gave us. Don't remember, but it sounds delicious. I've got a pocket full of those that we're gonna plant. So then you just dig a small little hole, plant it down deep. You want it to be down there, maybe halfway into the box, and then cover it up, okay? And then we need to space them out, because garlic is selfish, and it doesn't like to have a crowded space. Is it like a selfish? You're a bunny. We're gonna have so much garlic. Get cozy up in there. Thank you! Get cozy up in there. Not cozy. Good, not too cold, not too hot. And then lastly, we're gonna put a small layer of leaves, just to kind of keep them nice and warm over the winter, keep the frost off the dirt, and that should do it. Well, thank you so much for watching. Don't forget that there's just two days left to that 50% off sale for the Travel Hacking course. Thank you so much for supporting our family, and we will see you in the next video. Good night, darling. See you in six or seven months. Stay toasty warm. When you wake up, we will eat you. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!