#3 Tackling chores on our homestead - Couple renovating an old farm in Italy 

I have fallen ridiculously in love with your farmstead, and can hardly wait until your next update. Thank you for the drawings of the buildings. That was so helpful!

I like the way you 'map' the buildings. It helps to get a feel of the layout of the buildings. You have found a gem of a place. Wish you joy and happiness in your beautiful new home.

The January sunsets and winter colours in the landscape are appealing to my artisitc eye, but the way you two work carefully together appeals to my heart. The photography (and editing) are also very artistic. I am eager to return and follow your story further tomorrow.

I adore everything about this, the house, you guys, the weather, the pace of filming and the quietness, sometimes working, sometimes explaining. ❤

The stonework construction of your buildings is incredibly beautiful, I look forward to further episodes. It is like the farm is awakening after a long winter of neglect.

My kind of mom! She brings the ax and the "let's get down to business" tools.

I love hearing you speaking Dutch to one another. It reminds me of my grandparents.

This is blowing my mind. I'm from the U.S. This is going to be fantastic. Make sure you remember if you can. If you're gonna have a garden. Find a place to put all your can vegetables in. A root cellar. Can't wait for the next video.

I'm so excited for you two!! Look at how fast this channel grew to over 9k 👏🎊🎈🎉 congrats! Clearly there's a lot of us out here that are thrilled you're reviving this beautiful property. Cheers 🥂

I love watching Your Journey ♥️

Congratulations on your Farmstead truly she is a Beauty. You understand she will take time and work to bring her back to life and you have wonderfully demonstrated the methodological approach of prioritizing those tasks. You have shown her that you care by lovingly taking the time to introduce yourself in a nuanced manner to preserve her integrity. Your farmstead, land, animals, plant life all feel your presence. The postive peaceful energy you have brought her will be reciprocated in kind. Blessings for Bounty to both of You and to all of the Farmstead. *the birds excited chirping in the background was natures way of telling the good news to all.

That is so nice they saved you a bottle of wine, made from your land, to celebrate your new house, with your Mother

Ребята, это ваша жизнь, вперёд! Это ваш выбор! Вы начали осваивать науку жизни на своей земле! Стали больше уметь! Учитесь на собственных ошибках, скоро асс будете в ремонте и стройке подобных объектов! И всякий раз просыпаясь рано утром, вы видите, что небо и солнце не устали, оно светит и выходит день за днем согревать людей и все живое на земле для жизни! А вы теперь с этой частью природы едины!!! Радости вам! Удачи и плодотворного делания! Здоровья и мира!

You have found a real gem of a place and the location is magical. I very much enjoy the calm and soothing way that you film and practical way that you approach thhe work. I find it very relaxing to watch. I am looking forward to following your journey as you progress through renovations. How nice that you will have your mother there, as well. xx

Stroopwafel will give you the energy to complete the project 😀. Love the video. Thanks.

Glad to see some more Italian channels pop up, I have mainly come across the Portuguese content but am partial to Italy since we live here as well. Any other Italian channel recommendations are more than welcome.

I cannot buy you a coffee yet, but you have my full attention!!! Best of wishes to you and good luck with your endeavors!

So pleased I found your channel on RU-vid. The way you film and edit is so relaxing. I can’t wait to see what you guys do next. Thank you for allowing us to come along on the journey with you ❤ lots of love Claire from the UK xx

Hallo Isis and Bertus. I love your Farmstead, you really got more accomplished, than you think. I like how you mapped out the property, it made it easier for us to understand where you are. Thanks so much for sharing, Hi to Isis's mom.

What a delightful journey you both are on and especially thanks for taking us along too. I love the way you explain you plans and also provide the diagrams of the buildings. It truly is a magical and meditative piece of earth.

You have a lot of buildings and a commensurate amount of work ahead of you. It will be great to see things being improved and made liveable. Best wishes from Australia.

This place has so much potential, just amazing. The videography and use of blueprints during the voiceover makes it a pleasure to watch. When do you plan to move into the house?

The roof first, it will be So nice to have your mother live there with you

It's really great how you colour along on the drawing as you tour the property. I've seen property tours where they haven't done that, which eventually causes the viewer to get lost, and then feel disconnected. So thanks for showing that respect!

Greatings from Trieste!! I have one cascina in Slovenia too. Beautifu experience!! !!!

Greetings from Berlin! For me the conclusion of your video is: just do it...and joy and satisfaction will come to you!

Love the way you don't waste anything. Keeping the branches for firewood is very frugal.

Gefeliciteerd met de aankoop van uw woning. U hebt een juweel van een plek gekocht en ik wens u het allerbeste met uw plannen voor uw huis. Have a lovely day and I can not wait to see you begin your projects. The way you mapped out the buildings on the property helped enormously for us to understand what each building was, thank you.

Drie mooie afleveringen dus dat belooft wat voor de toekomst. Wat een ontiegelijk mooie locatie en landschap. De stenen gebouwen zijn adembenemend mooi en kijk er naar uit om te zien hoe jullie dat allemaal gaan aanpakken, een mooi lange termijn project. Kan niet wachten op de lente aflevering als alles in bloei staat en de kleuren er vanaf spatten. Veel kracht en succes gewenst. Abonnee erbij 😃

Bravissimi! Continuerò a seguirvi in questa avventura, ciao! 💪

Leuk om je moeder Nederlands te horen praten

Hello from Kansas, USA! Congratulations on your new home! Such a beautiful location. I love the way you map it all out for us so we can see and get a feel for all the rooms and buildings. I can't wait to follow your progress. Good Luck! ❤️ from Kansas!

Wow wat een magische plek en de ligging met uitzicht op de alpen de natuur prachtig. Eerlijk gezegd denk ik dat de oudere gebouwen en de chapel echt veel ouder zijn misschien wel 1700 of eerder nog zo te zien aan de bouw en steen stapeling prachtig ik wens jullie alle geluk op deze mooie plek en ga jullie nog lange tijd volgen ❤🙏🍀🌹

Looks like you have some work cut out for you. Most of us only dream of what you two have accomplished with the purchase of this hilltop. Looking forward to seeing it become a happy home for you both. Wishing you the all the best!

Hi. Thanks for sharing your journey. I love the way you guide us through on paper and then show us the building. It helps a lot. I’m not an expert on tree pruning but I think you should trim the branches closer to the main branch. This will help the tree heal over better so I’ve heard.

Love the little Chappell it is gorgeous ❤ lots of work it is a big homestead . Looking forward to the next episode 🎉

BEST

Beautiful light in that hay loft!

You did a Great job, many more videos to come, it is Lovely, Are you going to have Solar, or wind generator??? The view is Amazing, your property is spectacular, I once lived in a cabin for 7 1/2 years with no electricity or running water, inside the cabin, burn firewood, for heat, a Big garden for fresh food, it was really The Best Time of my Life, No modern day distractions, ( No radio, television, computer, or cell phone). I have to say it got me soo in Touch with my Spirituality, and my Creative Imagination

Of course! Stroopwafels! I’m enjoying your progress and wish you all the best in your new homestead.

That straw will make a wonderful starter layer in improving the soil for a vegetable patch

What a beautiful project very best of luck, my biggest fear would be dying of old age before even scratching the surface Good luck

Looking forward for your next episodes.

Dear people, you are good of doing what you do, a day your big house will be a very nice place but please buy some machine to cut the trees, make your works easier as possible. ❤

Greetings from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, 🇨🇦. What a special place you have found to bring back to life. The scenery and the amazing stone buildings! You must be so happy to call this place home. Does it have an original name or will you be naming it? Excited to watch the restoration!😊

Can't wait to see what you do when you come back!

Bravo👏 Another great video. I have found by consuming so many videos…I love good editing. And you are doing a great job. It is exciting to look forward to how the skills and style will evolve. The other thing I enjoy is when I “fall in love” with the creators. Don’t be afraid to be 100% authentic and give us your full personalities. Quirks and humor always add to the charm for the viewer. It was lovely to see Mom and so nice she will join you eventually. I think it is interesting that the creators I enjoy the most are never from the US haha! I look forward to number 4 and I will find out if anyone got sick from the wine🤣🙏🤞

Great jo that beautiful building

I'm learning so much! Soon, I'll do the same with my new home in Italy. Thank you for sharing your journey!

Enjoying every moment with you folks! Lovely tune at the end.

The old hay, will make good mulch for your garden

Thank you for the update. I look forward to seeing your next update 💚🙏🏼🍷

love the property, love the potential

What a wonderful spot, the open views at sunset are amazing. Very lucky to find a good bottle of wine in your cellar - and I hope you will keep the wall-mounted corkscrew, it works beautifully! On the larger scale of things, it's great to have the reassurance of a second surveyor's opinion. Good luck with everything. Looking forward to your next video.

Come back soon. We're waiting and very excited about your new journey 🎉❤

Would love to see the chapel. And see it redone as well.

So happy to see your new video and again beautiful edited. It looks so tranquil and only the sound of birds and the wind absolutely lovely. I hope we will get to see loads more in future. Thanks and good luck with everything.

We've got a whole barrel full of wine that I've thought about opening, but still a bit worried what might pour out of it 😯 seems like yours was great though!!

What a view!! ❤️

Thank you for sharing your adventure! What a beautiful property, so full of potential. I am living vicariously through you, Martijn, and Not Useless Yet while I wait for my dual Italian citizenship to be recognized and figure out a way to be a "digital nomad" until I retire in 5-7 years. I read "Under the Tuscan Sun" twenty years ago and have dreamed of purchasing and renovating a long-abandoned but structurally sound property like yours, full of old furniture, tools, and memorabilia. My great-grandparents emigrated in 1903 from a hill town in Sicily, and my dream is to one day purchase a property there and split my time between there and the US.

Nice property and nice job. Hope to see many more videos. For cutting small branches of the tree I suggest You to buy a "coltellaccio" (large knife, machete), instead of using the hand saw, it will be more efficient and fast, but You need to pay attention not to put hand or nails near it or it will cut it. Congratulation from Treviso province, north-east of Italy.

I am so excited to have your mother with us on this adventure!! Can’t wait for the next video❤ Bev in Colorado USA

Nice project! All the best.

A beautiful setting, a lucky find - the old red! Please think carefully about hacking down semi-mature trees! Once down it takes many years to replace and leaves are a natural aspect of farms, trees etc. Greeny from NZ

Congratulations- you have your work set out for you! There's a tremendous amount of work ahead... thousands of hours of backbreaking work with tools, sweat and labour.

There is a special relationship that can develop between a person and a place that is rural, unlike in an urban situation. It is one of becoming related to the sky, trees, the soil, the climate and the wildlife. I moved to a rural environment that was very wild unlike in Europe where everything is so ancient and settled. The Olympic peninsula of Washington state on the edge of the National Forest and Park is quite different and an unknown place to much of the world. It is so different from the town that I had previously lived in. It is an adventure in living to be awakened by coyotes in the morning, to see the bald eagles soaring over the Bay, and to be surrounded by the verdant evergreen forests which are punctuated by the red bark of madrona trees. I love the life adventure and feeling closer to nature even if it is frightening at times to be near cougars and bears. In contrast to the larger animals there are the two different species of hummingbirds which are such a delight to experience with their buzzing. Sadly, I know that that experience will never be yours in Europe since they only exist in the Americas. But you can experience the ice covered mountains. In your case the Alps in my case the Olympic mountains. There is a beauty here of experiencing the sky which in your video I can see that you experience too. You have entered into a new life adventure. I hope that you enjoy it in a special way that will be an expansion of your life in new ways and imaginations that can only be known in dreams.

Wij zijn na 21 jaar verblijf in Italie, eind vorig jaar terug in Belgie aanbeland.. we begrijpen dan ook volledig waarom jullie je droom volgen.. jullie lijken me zeer rustige en geduldige mensen… vaardigheden die jullie ongetwijfeld nog regelmatig zullen kunnen gebruiken om dit project tot een goed einde te brengen…een klein advies: omring jullie met enkele plaatselijke specialisten die jullie ‘ten volle ‘ kunnen vertrouwen..veel succes en we blijven jullie droomproject alleszins volgen.. groetjes Ed

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Место с красивыми видами! Но берегите супругу, чтобы не надорваться от работы и не перегореть. К тому же от настроения жены и зависит весь микроклимат в доме! Так что пусть она занимается тем, что ей приятно и не сложно делать по дому! Удачи вам!

That hat has character - rather like your new home. Will it return in the Spring? 🤔🤔

Kan niet wachten op jullie terugkeer en jullie nieuwe avonturen! Love the stroopwafels in the end ❤

Good job! you guys. Maybe invest in a small tractor to help you move heavy items around the farm. Something like a weed whacker or weedeater, as we call it in the US, would be a good addition to help with grounds maintenance.

Views are amazing . The space for your Mum will be lovely

Excellent idea to share floor plans ✨and highlighting projects as you work. Thank you!! 🤩

Such a beautiful house and area, not sure if I would get much done I think I would be looking at the views all the time. ❤️😁

Есть такие минуты в жизни, когда становится всё, всё, всё ясным и понятным. У вас наступил такой период в жизни, где всё устроится и потечёт в режиме, который вы создадите сами себе, никого не подгоняя и не торопясь.

Love ♥️ from your Aussie mates...looking forward to joining your journey.

This is so enjoyable, watching you starting to tidy up. I love the drawings too. I was thinking a chainsaw might be a good idea. I think you may need one.

Congrats on the surveyors' reports! Lots of worries less. Following various other renovation projects on YT I would strongly urge you to give priority to the roofs, and then work your way down. Spring and summer are near, so perfect for roof work. But the wet autumn and winter will be upon you in no time. And you better be weathertight before then. Repairing the roofs will be expensive, but delaying repairs will be exponentially more expensive in the end. Also joined renovation of both 'Mom's cabin' and the main building will benefit all. Mother will be able to move in earlier, and she may like to join in the renovation. You could see her enjoyment in the kitchen, and in the sun drinking wine. BTW : the little chapel, isn't that what is customary for travellers or by-passers? The local pastore will know what to do with it. It may also need to be consecrated again.

Take us with you please to the Netherlands. We would love to see your daily lives.

A small 4x4 tracktor (Fiat, since you are in Italy :) ) with a loader and bucket, and a trailer would be very handy for you in the times ahead. Good luck :)

Lovely farm! I really enjoy your editing and the practical drawing of the buildings and descriptions.

Waited and waited for your next video. It was another wonderful episode. Love all your scenery shots. Lekker stroop wafels en Koffie. Look forward to ‘spring’.

Indeed a great place, as I said last time in a comment, a property with tremendous ways to restore it as it deserves, Hoping soon to see more of your fabulous work and this fascinating stonewalled construction🇮🇹👍🏻🙏🏻.🇳🇱🇳🇴Greetings, Hubertus

Какие прекрасные исторические сооружения! Но это ничего по сравнению с тем, КАКИЕ ЛЮДИ ВОЗРОЖДАЮТ ЗДЕСЬ ЖИЗНЬ снова!

Надо не забывать зрителю, когда он смотрит выпуск этот, что всё происходит в теплом климате. Здесь зимы не бывает по полгода и более, здесь лето и вечная весна за окном!

There is a modern version of the bow saw for pruning, it’s called a reciprocating saw and you use a bow saw blade in it. Just easier. I’m sure you will be buying cordless tools, so pick your brand

Another interesting vlog. You do such a nice job of showing which room you're talking about, thank you. I hope your electricity was connected and you have running water inside too! Will your gas be a propane tank above ground? Hope you're back in Italy now, and your garden is blooming!

Loved watching the interaction with your property! Looking forward to your new Spring video.

The location is absolutely stunning! I love your channel and how you map it out for us! Looking forward to the next vlog!

Can’t wait to see what’s next!

What an awesome adventure for you both! I look forward to the journey and thank you for taking us along.

You need to purchase a good chain saw. A good sized one. Not small. And a tractor with a bush hog blade for the back.

Stumbled across your channel, and watched all 3 episodes! Congratulations on your new home! I too am a firm believer that the right house finds you. What great sturdy outbuildings...the possibilities are enormous! Love the views, the red roofs, the trekking, seeing you begin the transformation. And how about that wine?..well done! Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

Oef, jullie moeten beide goed op je rug passen. De manier van hakken, de manier van zagen zet extra kracht op je rug, zo houd je dat niet lang vol, zeker niet met wat jullie allemaal moeten doen. Mooie plek, hele uitdaging!

What an adventure!! Lovely buildings and will be following with interest....

Wishing you all the best in this adventure! I can't wait for the next episode! Congratulations!!

Thanks for taking us along on your new journey :) I’m really enjoying you show us on plan and then the room itself - so much easier to understand the layout. I wish you the very best in this project. I have one question - do you plan to live on site as you lovingly bring the property back to its best? Thanks again and I look forward to your next video :)

Hello from the state of Georgia, USA! Congratulations on your new homestead. Looking forward to following your journey.

Very beautifully done videos. Love what you are doing, thank you for sharing your journey