#47 We found a WATERFALL while eating 71,4% Vegan 

If you love the neighbour as much as we do. Have a look in this video were we interview 3 of them! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mo11VWD_sBU.html

You can see in Tonecas eyes, that he is a honest, truly happy human being with a pure heart. You are lucky to have him as your neighbor!

What a sweet man and generous neighbor! The land is lovely, the forest is fresh, the path through it is inviting and you're all making it better with the ecological work you're doing. Thanks for sharing this life you're making. I think of you all every morning as I tour my garden....very early in the day.

Tonecas is a gentleman. A darling of a neighbour.

Well done guys! :) I loved the part where your neighbour, "Tonecas" is talking. I hope you will have a chance to interview other locals too. Keep collecting the stories of the land, documenting local knowledge and history, and carrying on with some of the traditional practices.

Keeping animals would save you some work on the property - goats for example - are great for keeping down bushes/grass/small trees. Think of them as autonomous lawnmowers that also give you free fertiliser for your vegetables. Chickens give you eggs/fertiliser/meat and are very good at eating garden pests and leftovers. Horses keep your grass short and will work for you pulling carts if trained properly. Plenty of benefits with animals.

How can you not like or admire your neighbour a gentleman, he's got everything money can't buy that human nature thinks it can.

It feels like you guys have gotten the balance right between old videos and new :) Ty for your hard work!

I think as much as you are rejuvenating your land, you are also rejuvenating your neighbours.

O Sr. Tonecas é uma jóia de pessoa. 🤗🇵🇹

I had tears in my eyes from the interview with the neighbour. You could feel the joy when he talked about the great lunch they had when they finished the lagoon. Such a simple thing, utterly insignificant in a global sense but an accomplishment and a cherished memory for those involved.

Oh the interview at the end is the best!!! He is a treasure. Thank you for letting us meet him!

I have fallen head over heels for Tonecas. 🥰 What a wonderful neighbor and lovely human being.

The editing here is so on point. Tried something new outside of country music and it works. The framing, as you can tell, is on a professional level.

IDEA: You can use the 2 lakes of water to store electricity, I explain, one lake is above the other (with more height than the other) the water of the lake below rises with electricity (water pump), and then when you need electricity you connect the two lakes with a pipe, in the middle you have to put a turbine that when the water goes down it spins and produces energy. This method of storing energy is becoming more and more popular, for example, in 2023 the construction of the largest 'battery' in the world will begin in Spain using this method. Thanks to this you will not have to use batteries that have a high price and sometimes they are damaged, as there will be more and more people you will need more batteries, and it will surely cause more problems.

The peace and cordiality of this gentleman is a wonder 😍

Oh my goodness. Your neighbor is adorable! I could listen to him chat all day. What a sweetheart.

I cant tell you the amount of joy it brings me to watch the interviews you do with your neighbours. I have the biggest smile and sense of connection to my home land, especially with living on the other side of the world since I left Portugal as a young one.

Your neighbor is adorable. People coming together to a appreciate a wonderful water fall.

Senhore Tonecas brought tears to my eyes 😥. He exemplifies the Portuguese spirit that is my heritage. I'm in the USA (Rhode Island) but was born in a tiny village nestled between two mountains in the Leiria district. I love that you love my country and are working so hard to reclaim this abandoned property. Thank you from my heart! ❤🇵🇹

Such a profound encounter you had with Tonecas, a special human being. I ‘d love that all human kind could act and talk the way he does. The world would be so different. Thanks for sharing

Such a beautiful neighbor. His philosophy is pure and simple and something we all can learn from. Be kind, be good and get along with those whom have different views and lifestyles. Give that gentleman a big hug from us all. Strong work everyone!!

The conversation with Toneca is so amazing to watch. seeing people who are knowledgeable and passionate about the places they are from makes me emotional. He loves you guys for caring about the land he loves, not hates you for intruding. It's really beautiful to see!!

Really great what you do there! My big respect for that. Keep it up. Your neighbour directly got to my heart, just fullfilling to see people like you and him living with and next to each other in such a respectful and heart-warming way. A pleasure to see

Best episode of the new season by far, with two gems of humans in your Hungarian chef and Tonecas the neighbor, both brimming with such positivity. Hard not to be impressed by their joie de vivre and generosity.

This was my favorite episode so far. The loving kindness shown by neighbors being generous and freely helping each other is the example we all need in this life. Tonecas is a beautiful man.

It's very hard to see these types of old people with good heart... I'm very happy that you guys have him..

Tonecas it’s adorable. Nice to have good neighbours. Well done guys.

Hi! Love the cooking that’s happening at PK! Here, that type of pea are called Snow Peas. Snap peas are a little different, thicker pods, rounder peas. Like Snow Peas, Snap Peas are also fully edible, unlike English peas, which need to be shelled, and only the inner peas are eaten. 💚

This was a purely delightful episode. I really like your new cook, and I have to ask.......was I the ONLY one with happy tears in my eyes, listening to your wonderful and kind neighbor? It really warmed my heart.

I was watching a recent Geoff Lawton video where he mentioned that having fish in the bodies of water on the land helps keep mosquitos under control, as well as enriching the local ecosystem. You might consider small fish or other pond life native to your region for the pond and swamp, if you can get them.

What a great neighbor you guys have that let's you use that pretty waterfall. Tell him hello from Venezuela! It's perfect that you guys now have a cheff to help you out and everything looked delicious. Love and be safe!🤗😘🌼ve

São pessoas como o Sr. Tonecas que me fazem orgulhoso do meu país, que boa gente ❤

Encheu-me o coração ouvir o Sr. Tonecas, o melhor do espirito Português. 😊

A question for the Q&A: Where/how do you get your funding for the project?

Its nice to see how happy the Man is. He has been missing sombody there cute take care of all the land, and bring back the memories hee have of his life here. You and your big group are not only making things, but you are totcing there Heart and Soul. Fantastik work.👋👋👍👍

I really love that you are interested in and feature the stories of your neighbors.

Tonecas interview was great, sweet man. Lucky to have him as a neighbor.

I love what your doing and especially moments like these when you connect with the local people around you- Your neighbour is a legend! Another interesting focus might be to study the local wildlife, and report back what you find… please keep up the amazing work :)

Gostei muito do Sr. Tonecas!!!! ehhehe temos cá no Algarve muitos senhores como esse ;) ...... dá-me um pouco de esperança nestes tempos tão conturbados.... Todos deviam aprender a viver como o Sr. Tonecas!!! Grande Homem ;)

project kamp is getting interesting as weeks go by…….and you sure have a very sweet and jolly chef….Bon appetite!!!!

Lovely 23 minutes of peace. Your chef and kitchen is so organised. The food looks amazing. Its great to see your neighbours and to hear their feelings about who you are and what you are doing. Tonecas is a good man, I wish him health and long life.

Ai mais o Sr. Tonecas me trouxe as lágrimas, o ser humano deveria aspirar a tal honestidade, tal simplicidade. Eis aqui um homem feliz! Um abraço ao Sr. Tonecas e um abraço pra todos os do projeto, longa vida ao Project Kamp!

Looks like you really addressed last years deficits and hit this year running. Hiring a camera guy really was a smart idea....

When I saw the stone/brick walls around the waterfall, my mind couldn't help but go to "alternate history" channels which I watch just for fun. One thing they talk about are structures that are hundreds or thousands of years old that no one today knows how they got there. When Tonecas said that his family went back on the land over a hundred years, and his great-grandparents said the stuff was older than they could know, it just blew my mind. Same when he was talking about the former village on the site. So much history is still getting lost. Makes me think of the hundreds of abandoned villages in Italy.

I haven't even started the video yet, but I just want to say thanks. It was your 1 year recap video that I first learned about you folks, and since then I've gone down the rabbit hole. I've learned about One Army and all the projects there. I've dove DEEP into precious plastics, soo much so that for the first time *in my life* I felt this INTENSE passion brewing inside me while I researched. I'm bipolar, and I leaned into mania while furiously reading and researching it all. I'm *going* to start up a facility. Maybe not right away, as I have some health issues that need to be addressed, and will take time to do so, but once I'm done with recovery starting up is my next plan. I've already reached out to a buddy of mine who's a recently disabled chemical engineer due to an accident and he seemed very much onboard. I'm soo excited to get this started, in the meantime I'm trying to network and lay the ground work for everything to go as smoothly as possible. Hoping for some big impact, as my location is pretty amazing for this type of thing I feel. AHH soo excited. Thank you for being who you are, and helping to influence the world to change for the better! edit: as a non vegan, that vegan food looked AMAZING.

Well, a video opened by Rita is a beautiful day!! That waterfall is wonderful! I'm so happy for you all. Sr. Tonecas is a true gentleman! Rita is so beautiful and a wonderful soul! She's my favorite!

So beautiful esspecially the connection with amazing neighbour whose generosity is wholesome ❤

Having some goats on the land would do wonders to control that forest! Rotationally grazing goats would be such a powerful tool to repair the landscape, you protect the trees you want and the goats can eat the rest. I have been rotating some chickens and even after just one year the effect is very clear, I even have some spots with grass up to my shoulders. Do you have any plans to implement animals in the project?

Absolutely wonderful man and a great neighbour to have He seems so happy that you are the new caretakers of the land....lots of hard work done and more to do. Impressive achievements so far...

I adore the interviews with the older neighbors. They nearly bring me to tears with the stories of the past and their instant acceptance of your project. So much love on your land.

OMG, Tonecas is a gem, I love him!! How sweet are our Portuguese men? A lot. I was just in Tábua, had I known u guys were so close I wiuld have visited! Thanks Rita, you guys are in heaven. Love 😍 fm Santarém

Great video, really! Still missing the season 1 intro though. “So we bought this big peace of land and are prototyping are more sustainable way of living. Not sure how it’s gonna go, but let’s see.” 🎵Na na naaa naaa na na na naaa, naaa naaa na na na naaa 🎵

Great video guys, really liked the videpgraphy, the flow, and meeting new members. It felt like watching a high end documentary. And what a great neighbour, all about seeing the countryside come back to life.

Um dia bem pasado 💕 that says it all. You can tell Sr. Tonecas is very happy you all showed up. It’s so important to get along with your neighbours and you are doing it right 🙏🏼

Post your questions below for next week Q&A!

Nem sempre é assim... mas isto é Portugal no seu melhor! Melhor video até agora! Parabéns Abraço ao Senhor Tonecas! Obrigado

Thanks for the redirect from last episode, I'm loving this one so far

Thanks for posting and sharing. It was great to see the chef, and have the kitchen tour. The dam and flood gate are interesting to see as well as the old walls made with the massive stones.

Why call it anything? Just eat healthy and mindful 👍🏼 love your approach anyhow 😘

She has such a beautiful and awesome spirit of life and giving. Looks like a great feast!

Loved this episode! Good people, great to meet the neighbor and cook. Wonderful to see the progress and cleanup of access to the waterfall. Can't wait to see the next episode. Cheers!

Great vid guys. Really hope you stick around for years to come. Fantastic to see all the neighbour's so welcoming n accommodating for the project. Must be special for them to see a bunch of young ppl trying to revitalise the area

O Sr Tonecas é muito humilde e um grande homem abraços aqui de Arvoredo SC Brasil ora pois.....🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

hello from the England! I love your project and I am very interested in coming to help

I love watching your channel for months now. And I really like this episode. Nice shots, interessing topics and beautiful interview. A really good mixture. Season 2 evolves in a good direction. Look forward to the next episodes.

Thank you for this video, that man seems so nice and brings happiness just listening to him talk Have fun in the waterfall, it's a well deserved treat ;)

To create diversity for your nutrition, I can suggest bulgur salad (called "kısır" in the local language) or bulgur balls from Anatolian cuisine (Turkish/Kurdish) which are also vegan and very delicious :)

what i really want to know: what about wind- and hydropower on your land? what about waste water treatment with a constructed wetland? what about biogas for cooking?

What a lovely person and neighbour! Love your videos! Thanks so much 😊

I loved the interview with the neighbor! What a lovely neighbor to have - I would love to see more about how you guys become part of a community!

Wow! We have only just discovered your wonderful channel and this is the first video we’ve watched. 👏🏼 We are already super excited to join and support your journey, by watching your back log of films. We have also just signed up to be your newest Patreon! 💛 The filmmaking and storytelling is very beautiful; thank you for all the time and effort you put into this to make it possible. We are both fully vegan, and so it warms our heart to see you incorporating this into your project, and showing others how varied and delicious it can be! You certainly seem to have all the right intentions in place - to find a solution that is better for the environment but also, your choice is saving animal’s lives. Thank you for your thoughtfulness and compassion 🌱💕 xx Tania

Wow, his interview brought a tear to my eye. What a wonderful welcoming man. Nothing like the people here in the UK.

Loved this video. The waterfall area is a wonderful place and your neighbour is so lovely and to be cherished.

This is awesome! Thanks for the video. Mr Tonecas has a great attitude and having such a neighbour is a real treasure! The same counts of you for him - which he clearly expressed. :D

Q: Whatever happened to the giant table from the bowling club(?) that was transported to Portugal in the kitchen container?

I think you’re doing just fine with going mostly vegan as it’s always preferable not to kill another creature and eat it. It’s definitely possible to be vegan without any exotic food that has to be shipped from overseas. We’re living in Spain and eat local (vegan and super tasty) food. And some eggs don’t hurt as long as the chickens are free roaming and happy.

Hi. We love the project and the people working within or living around. Keep up the good work - it's really inspiring. We are also very pleased how you listened to the community on RU-vid and made some changes on the concept of the video. They are now super good ;-)

This is my favorite episode so far. I enjoy learning about the large projects, but it is great to learn more about the people in the camp and the day-to-day happenings in the community. It's so different from my urban lifestyle, and I find it fascinating.

Big thanks to Tonecas brother, so kind to do so much work by himself. I missed his name, if someone could tell me.

The best Part of this Video was the Interview with the Old Man. The other Parts are not my Favorite Ones. My Question: Are there a Book about this Region or other Old People they could tell us more about the Land. How are the Changes in the last 500 Years. Who are oldest living People in your Region?

loving S2 so far! also loved seeing the timelapses of clearing the waterfall! More timelapses please!! Its so cool to see how the environment changes

Best update ever. Thank you for your inspiration, for giving back to the abandoned interior of Portugal. The waterfall seems promising!!!

Q&A: Why don't you keep some animals on the land, like chickens? In that way you can ensure that they are kept in a natural way and live togheter with them in a symbiotic way (eggs, fertilizer, land grazing, foodwaste source...) I understand the vegan lifestyle, but isn't the main focus here to live sustainable + biofriendly?

I've been a vegetarian for two decades, but I'll never give up eggs and honey. When integrated into permaculture I'm comfortable with the life of a honeybee or chicken

What a beautiful moment, when Tonecas describes his joy seeing you care for and improve the land. This interview is honestly one of the best things I've seen on RU-vid in some time. Cheers Project Kamp

Loving your new style as you grow. Love the interview with your neighbor. Keep up the good work. I would love to join you if I were a few years younger.

Sounds like you have struck a nice balance food wise.

Once they try Portuguese food, especially Linguica sausage and bacalhao, the vegan diet will be over fast.

It's really great to see how you join forces and keep making great progress. I look forward to the next video's. Keep up the good work. Greetings from the Netherlands.

Awesome episode !!! Your group is very close to my heart in my later years. I had/have the same goals and share the love for the land that your rosy cheeked old neighbor.Tell the chef that her cooking skills had me drooling. I am a kitchen person too. Mine has every thing you can imagine... now I have to work at moving it on.The old fella had me in tears !!

I've seen some youtubers use waterfalls to generate electricity, It seems this waterfall is too small for that, but would that be something you would consider to generate electricity?

so long as you maintain the fact that the produce is local and sustainable, it would be better for both yourselves and your surroundings to have animal products in your diet. The problem with most meat and animal products is the way in which it is harvested, so as long as you can guarantee its sustainability and also ensure that the environment in which the animals are kept in is of high quality, then you are being most beneficial for your selves, and the planet

how lucky you are to have a neighbor like Tonecas, if it in my place the owner probably put a high perimeter fence already on that property, i see a humble, simple and honest man with Tonecas, if not that much to ask pls. help Tonecas also clean some of their spaces as a token of friendship since they might be already having trouble cleaning their places due to old age...thanks and keep safe everyone - long live Project Kamp ^_^

That's a lovely neighbour you have there! The progress is great and it has really become a wonderful little community.

I like the Flexitarian approach. You'd go for a more Vegan diet but prioritise local produce instead of industrially prepared foods, and you'd be accepting any animal products that you'd get from neighbours. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

How do you get money to buy the land and keep getting food etc. I really struggle to understand how thats possible

Everyones hard work, high spirits, love and respect for each other and the land is very evident! It brings me joy and hope watching your videos that this will become more common globally.

I loved this video. Loved the interview. A pleasure to watch your endeavors come to fruition!

For the Q&A. Sticking to strictly vegan is kinda silly tbh. It would make more sense to raise your own chickens, stock the ponds with fish and even think about raising crickets to feed the chickens and fish. Hell, you can even use crickets for food and even flour. You can raise goats for milk, cheese and to keep the grass low. Would you be interested in doing this as long as it is done respectfully and sustainably?