#41 START NEW SEASON! Here is everything we will do coming year 

As a fellow ecologist I second this.

I was thinking the same thing Linda. It would be a good idea to leave many of them in place and use them to help protect and sustain the replacements in a gradual process. Regarding the mass tree planting plan elsewhere, it would pay to think about some permaculture design (e.g swales) first rather than random planting (if that was the idea?). Swales are "on contour" tree-growing systems that help keep as much water as possible soaking into your land. It's not always going to be as wet as your first year!! Great project, good energy, all the best with it.

@@felipeg4316 yes, of course. Permaculture design.... water, access, structures and vegetation, in that order.... is the best holistic tool for creating regenerative ecosystems that sustain themselves "to the seventh generation"!

@@lindamorrison450 I had only seen this one video, but I now see that last year they invited some permaculture specialists from Tamera to help with understanding the best way to approach the project. Looks like fun!

Before you start preening Linda, listen to this man speak...he knows what he is doing...next, view other videos and see if you can actually learn something before portending to be an expert...

@David Wang what? no. you can't be that dumb. You re-condense it first. you evaporate it so that it is fresh water. a better question would be "how would you get essential minerals back in the water after evaporation" get some critical thinking skills go read a book.

@David Wang This process of using evaporation to purify water is called distillation. So James Rogers means to distill the water for drinking.

Wheres the pub

@David Wang obviously evaporation into a controlled container, so it evaporates and condense again into another chamber, purified. Edit: grammar correction

They have a well?

that's how they do it on building sites indeed, two containers, pitched roof between them.

exactly what I envisaged

To add to this: you might want investigate the possibility to use the roof construction of the ‘big ruin’ for this project. To renovate the big ruin you will have to take the wood of the roof off anyway.

Respect for the way you started this. Lots of succes!

For an example of this check out 'Diesel Creek'.

Yes, we riparian planted our creek to create shade, avoid erosion, water and plant filtering and wildlife habitat ....the creek was full of weeds when we started to develop our land....5 years on and i would say we have about 40% of the creek under control....more trees to plant....but yes, don't expose your creek to the sun, you will develop a weed problem.....

And dont remove to many dead wood (out of the creek)…it slows the speed of the waterflow which is good for water retention ;)

Instead bushes plant instead trees, tall trees that keep the temperature fresh under and avoid evaporation, but keep the water clean and clear and enjoyable . For the building use a metal frame for roof , more light and durable , and metal permite to create a dome with out to much support in the middle, and permite to use better the areas , space

Good tips 👍

Lilly pass help a lot. Big trees you have to watch yourself some trees drink a lot of waterm

They already have a problem with people thinking they're a cult.

The neighbors have goats

@@bobweiram6321 Its a good question , because I alot of this kind of communities are registered as "religious". Cults like that are exempt from taxes in most places - not sure what are the laws in Portugal about it. It doesnt matter if its a real cult or something like "Wolololo in front of the tax autorities".

That's great idea! Goats instead of mowing manually with costly fuel and pollution

But they eat everything. I mean everything. They may eat to much

@@generalhanz9421 tether them out.

@@gufredd9675 true

That's weird

@@gufredd9675 cruel.

I was wondering why not using animals, would help clear a lot of scrub very swiftly in comparison to effort outlayed originally

@@jakebskeen8361 Yes. Both pigs and goats would help clear the forest. But. They haven't decided what to do with the land yet, so very resonable to wait a little. Planting trees and bushes, and maintaining them, is a lot of work.

@@jakebskeen8361 they are looking for a Vegan chef 10:06 . That makes me think they might be Vegans. As fare as i know Vegans don't have pets and dont use animals at all. Am i wrong?

@@Temptation666 Vegan food might be norm, since it suits all (besides all the positive effects on reducing co2). But even if everyone are vegans, they could save animals from slaughter and just keep them there for grazing and fertilizing?

I am unsure but in terms of clearing it makes sense to me not to clear too heavily. Just thinking t help new growth come through to help survey what they have. In terms of vegans having pets I don’t see why they wouldn’t. They still love to have friends around. I know animals can over graze and now they have a border they could use a fence around it all and I know that there are some negative impacts sometimes to having animals to clear things out too. Could be as simple as they don’t want to. That’s fair enough, owning an animal can come with some gross tasks that majority of people don’t want to deal with. The manure would help the soil as well

I am 22 and could totally be out there getting my hands dirty, but I'm city raised and don't quite have the passion to dive into Portugal for years. Instead I'll pursue a small scale project of my own and join you in the team of lazy-non-helping-but-still-very-much-enjoying viewers!

@@Hazball love it!

I'm doing an ecology and conservation degree and fully I agree with you. They don't want to remove too much or they'll risk doing serious damage to the stream and surrounding area.

as a student of ecology, nature conservation and planing of landuse, i would recommend as first step you should be monitoring this little creek exactly. that means looking from where does the water come from, where it goes, how is the water quality, which biotopes are affected, which plants grow near the stream and which animals (macrozoobenthos) are actually living in the water. based on this data, you can male plans on what to do (or not). water ecosystems are in general highly sensitive to changes. even little human influence can cause big impacts to large sized lands and biotopes near around. in germany we have basic manuals for 'renaturating' water ecosystems. don't know if there is something like that in portugal. Good Luck for your project, love to watch the progress:)

After many years working in Africa, we found that a sundowner bar was the best type of chill out area, ......and a creative hive for ideas, concepts, commitment and contentment. Looking forward to this coming year from Project Kamp.

what other projects are there

There's other Portugal projects?

Love this idea

Mimosa is a short lived tree, typically. That means soft wood that doesnt work well for structures, but perhaps a small fence would be worth making with it. Love the creative thinking tho!

TA Outdoors channel has a good video on this

They are using them for quick clearing events, but yeah in Australasia they are using goats to clear blackberries to rehab a forest back into shape: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g9yiclBCxMo.html others are doing the same thing around the world i just found out

They’re vegans, why would they exploit livestock ?

@@olanrewajuihenacho178 I consider it a mutually beneficial relationship.

I lived on a farm briefly which had an initial large dam that via a small knee high waterfall style overflow fed into a larger dam, more like a lake really, as it had a small central island with a feature tree that you could canoe in! That lake fed to a few smaller water sources/dams, the last basically a pond but it still had yabbies. Goats were used to keep introduced blackberry bushes and non-native grasses from choking the natural spring that fed the 1st dam and larger lake, in addition to annual rainfall filling it. Using goats in this way was featured in a paper about farming in Western Australia as it was quite progressive around 2001-2003, (so many years ago 😂). It was considered a mutually beneficial relationship then too!

Are there any yt vlogs or further information available about the project in Andalucia? I'm interested in knowing more about it.

Me too. I didn't have to wait the few months for season 2 to start either. Happy days!

Dave Hakkens killed 'Dave Hakkens': the other channels are no longer only Dave's but are now under the group name 'One Army'. RIP Dave: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OxJjMt_Eu5A.html you might know all this already, but it's important to realize that a shift in intention (towards becoming more cooperative, team-focused) brings with it some minor limitations (including potentially forfeiting some admin/marketing privileges). having said that, i don't think there is a lack of attention for this project. maybe it's better to have organic growth that has really committed and interested people joining (either using/copying Project Kamp or joining directly) as the exchanges are richer and deeper. artificially doing marketing/spreading the word might dilute that?

@@jeroenboom8 Interesting point. Please allow me to address them. First, the subscriber count is lower than expected for a channel of such high quality content and production. 10K in revenue is nice, but it should be much higher. It should be well into the 600K subscribers. I subscribe to all of Dave's channels but didn't find this channel until it appeared on my feed. Second, the growth of the channel in terms of views and subs turns into revenue, which turns into more funding for the project without much work or without fatiguing donors or inadvertently creating competition for donors among the projects. Third, Dave's original mission is already fragmented out into other similar projects. It could be argued that it's already diluted. Even so, I presume there's already a supportive relationship among the One Army. There's really no such thing as organic growth any more than "build it and they'll come." Along with his past accomplishments, Dave's personality and his easy going yet highly polished presentation is what this channel really launched itself on. Finally, it would be a terrible mistake to position this channel's primarily for people who are committed and interested in the Project Camp. I think it's easy to forget how powerful RU-vid has become. It's safe to say the vast majority of the audience are people who are neither committed nor interested in the project, but watch it for entertainment. It's really a reality show where we vicariously participate in creating project camp. The mere fact that so much time and resources are invested on developing the content demonstrates that Dave understand's the importance of expanding the audience.

@@bobweiram6321 yeah actually i agree, it should have more people seeing this.

@@bobweiram6321 All of your points are super valid. """the vast majority of the audience are people who are neither committed nor interested in the project,""' I could care less about the project. I only subbed last night after I seen the last video on my feed. I also checked on the community posts and left a pretty harsh reply before I subbed. I then watched the rest of the video and then subbed as I kinda want to see what is up. All of this other stuff I could careless about. Now I am hearing about a bunch of other projects, other channels and dilution. You should go and look at the last community post where they said they are coming back and see what I wrote. I have to agree that the sub count should be in the 500k to 1million range. If there are other channels then they. be back to finsh my thought.

@@kameljoe21 I couldn't find your comments. RU-vid isn't allowing me to search comments. It used to let me to view other comments on a channel left by a user, but either they took away the feature or you might have a setting effecting it.