#64 Starting our Masterplan with maps 

I'm not sure how Dave has managed this, but he has become simultaneously the father and son of project kamp

Emma's stair cutting montage at 4:30 with the drums was awesome. Never stop kicking ass, Emma.

The stop motion sequence of buildinng the stairs really captures what an Energizer Bunny Emma is. Julie too.

Making the stairs from the trees you chopped down there is so COOOOL. Repurposing straight away!

Really interesting to learn the history of the land through photographs and to see all the data you managed to gather ! Well done :D

Maybe you could use the ruin in the woods as an alone space? Like a hut with some cushions and tables and stuff just as like a hangout area if you wanna be alone.

Hi guys, congrats on the videos and on your project. You might even have heard of them by now, but for your reforestation ideas I believe would you really enjoy getting in touch with the guys at Reflorestar Portugal. You seem to share the same values and they for sure have a lot of know how to offer. Cheers!

the pierce of metal that turns the door is called a hinge :)

👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻🙋🏻‍♀️🇦🇺👍🏻 Love the Timelasp footage gives great insight to the work required to get the results the Team achieve 👏🏻👏🏻

You should make project kamp stickers to cover the logo on the back of the computer at 7:25

8:07 I updated openstreetmap last year during some lockdowns. I also mapped the surrounding towns a little, but all based on satellite pictures, your videos and some research. I never was there, so double checking everything might be a good idea.

I wish this channel to grow so much!!!! I will do anything I can! Love the work you guys are doing and the way you are planning whole landscape thing! As you said in some videos prior, the speed will be gradually decrease of development as it grows like a circle! Initial work seems fAst pace but later seems a bit slow it's just there are multiple branches that open up later! But I wait every week to watch the update! Hope the best for you!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

So cool! The maps are very good. I like that you also explained why you made the maps you did. Wonder what else you will find when you start cutting back and planting the native trees.

As someone who works with GIS mapping, this was a really interesting episode... keep up the great work!

Get an electric wood chipper, very useful! The chips are great in rejuvenating soil!

You have said before you can hear the traffic noises. As you thin out the invasive trees the noise will get worse. You should study the sound waves made by the cars. Then if the region allows it, you could create mounts of earth using the trees cut down, from the thinning, covered with dirt (hugelkultur) to block the waves. This would let you dispose of tree waste, reduce unwanted sound and the mounds would act as fire breaks from neighboring areas. Great job guys!!

the small trees that are cut can also to make some nice log furniture, like bushcraft chairs, picnic tables, benches etc, for people to relax under the threes or any were they want...

This is impressive and inspiring! Keep up the great work 👏 watching this from India 🇮🇳

You should take steps to secure your Kamp in case a natural disaster occur within your property. Evacuation plans and disaster simulation exercises can save lives during emergency situations.

It would be great if you could harvest the water from the giant rocks into a small canal to fill up a three stage water storage pond system. You could retain enough water that you could assist your neighbors with their agriculture. It would feed the aquifers and give you water to fight fires.

I love the way you are teasing out the properties and history of the land. What's also so cool, is that it's to make good decisions, sustainable, constructive and not to exploit and damage the land. The ruin you cleared is special, making use of the incline and the huge stones to support a roof structure. I don't think this was for farm animals, the door, hinge holes and window opening makes it more like a habitation, goodness knows how old it is. I wonder If the neighbours know who lived there. Last comment, Dave, great guide, you make it so interesting and every one working in front of and behind the camera, best wishes, I like the energy, thoughtfulness and care you bring to this piece of land. Take care, stay safe.

Would love to see some more ponds being built soon. . .

The stair building scenes are so awesome! Brilliant sound editing!

this looks so fun to do, this is every child's dream life

There is a video from Andrew Mollison about permaculture practises regarding wildfire defense. Great ressource you can use

i would love to have a little timer (like this cleaning took us 2 hours (approximatively, with just a text) to realise how much work you guys put in, if you do that, i'll support you on patreon !

i liked how y'all develope the property,very interesting what the next plan ahead..i can see huge progress from the very beggining

Thank you for another wonderful video. It's always great to have Dave guiding us through Project Kamp's vision for perspective.

Great job! Excited to see what kinds of ideas you come up with. Take your time staring at the map, you never know what you'll eventually see!

Hey I think you know him already but Andrew Millison's channel is really good about landscaping and watermanagement. You have to fill your aquafers indeed, and to have species that survive to long droughts. I also advise you to check what Yacouba Sawadogo did in Burkina Faso to plant fruit trees to fight the desert. To prevent wildfires, goats can help while eating brambles. Include a lot of micro climates for differents species. Maybe you can also find documentation about species around you and observe wildlife, to help it to florish again. If you have some french with you or you can understand it, I also advise you the channel "permaculture agroécologie etc.."wich is good to understand more about biodiversity and landscaping. Succes from a french in the netherland ! :)

Thank you for doing this! I love following your process. Hang in there, it must be hard for you guys. You are doing great!

You might also want to look into different satelite images - Infra Red and different other bands can be used to look out for heat/draught stress etc. in plants and might make you more knowledgeable in reforesting with the right species in the right place!

I really think you should try to get a woodchipper to put all that cut down mimosas to good use. There are many people who garden on an elevated ground with a layer of like 20 cm of woodchips. It contains a lot of moisture, givin for example fruittrees a fertile and healty ground to grow in. You could up your gardening game while having a great way to get rid of mimosas :)

For reducing the sound off the highway, there are experiments with bamboo. Turn side it grows very vast, so you need to maintain it.

For me this is the most interesting episode so far. Amazing!

I am grateful to see you doing this. I hope to soon aquire a piece of land in Delaware and create a similar setup.

Compliments on the great job done with the solid professional approach. I absolutely love the way you visualize the data on those diagrams

You did a really impressing job, I think. Thank you for the insights!

I think it would be wise to make a fire break following along the perimeter of your land. It is so effective to stop the spread. With the history of fires on the land, and all the eucalyptus and mimosas around. It would be so tragic to burn again. Love the videos!

Brilliant work and dedication (from Texas)

amazing job. Project Kamp is the best real nature series to watching and I'm so happy to have be able to watch it. Good job Project Kamp team :)

Great job, crazy amount of work has been done already!

at last... have been waiting for this so long! thx, my "inner MONK" now is satisfied af XD

You guys should 100% get in touch with Mossy Earth! I'm sure their expertise would be a great insight in your efforts to rewild/make native the land. They have a beautiful youtube channel as well as a great website:)

I recently saw a documentary about allowing beavers to manage the landscape. Apparently they do a much better job than humans. A quick search revealed that Portugal doesn't have many beavers, and a document titled: "Rewilding with the Beaver in Portugal"

Thanks a lot❤ for sharing the data open source 🙏

You guys are incredible!!!! WOW great great job!

this maps are beautiful, good job dave

Thanks for the video and stay safe ✌️

Never ending treasure findings Dave!

Very professional, well done.

The ruins what a cool find!

Hi nice to c u guys sorting out my tuga. Beijos Eduardo

I'm gonna be honest here... I thought about that small ruin at least once a month since you discovered it :P I'm happy you cleared it up, for my peace of mind.

Fabulous research. It will assist in its preservation

Loved it, Thanks for sharing Love and Rainbows

Great work guys! 👏

Please also upload info about all the tools used. It looks lovely!

It appears to me that at one point there was a water diversion at the lagoon that went down the road by the new ruin and fed the top of the circular area. This could be a very old site, or more modern, as in a stock pen. It is a strangely round area, perhaps altered long ago.

Regarding traffic noise, you can use the elevation map to predict where should it be most noticeable. With the trees it might be hard to expect. Perhaps planning where to build next or which ruin should for what it can also serve as a parameter.

Holy cow, this is impressive and inspiring! Keep up the great work!

Great work. I follow you since the first Video.

So interesting! Thenk you!

Amazing video!!!!

Thankyou , I enjoyed the maps .

Those maps are incredible to look at the differences over time. Could you please share where you found them? Would love to look at our land over time, too, about 5-6 years ago 200 olive trees that were 50+ years old were all cut to the base and sold for olive wood. Dying to see what it all looked like then, compared to what we need regenerating now!!

Hey Project Kamp have a question: The area between the road and your land can you put up a "Noise Burm"? I live on a farm here in Canada where we had our neighbor farmers that wanted to clear out an area of land donated dirt for free and we put it on our land near the road but not to disturb the drainage but it keeps the cars and trucks noise down immensley. Would that work for you too maybe? So any area of land that you have that you want to clear can start your Noise Burm too.

Have you checked out the Zmar eco experience in Alentejo? It’s so interesting that folks are finding new ways to live together. All the best.

Would be nice to get an archaeologist on the project to properly excavate the ruin.s By the looks of it, they could be pretty old.

I love this project :)

Wow! Amazing!

Amazing detail on the maps, weather, sunlight, humidity. Did you ever publish the "map" for people coming to PK -- local businesses, stores, praia de fluvials, building materials places in your area? I remember a video where that was being put together.

Maximize the value of your land. I think you better start to clear more land for making profit. Such as build some green house to plant vegetables and flowers. Build some workshops for day camp tours. Marking camp sites for people come for weekends family camping. Through the way to can see which direction is the best. We can't wait until the renovation work is complete. Making profit is the most important thing to do. I watching your project from day 1. You are a good guy. So you need to make your dreams come true. But don't last for too long. Making profit can modify everything. I hope you can open minds to your future.

Fantastic!

Such constructional skills!

Very cool update ! Those maps are really interesting and I'm happy to learn how to make log stairs :) I was wondering which websites did you use to get climatic/meteorological data, as I would be interested in knowing more about my land here in Spain. Thank you for the videos !

How dangerous are the neighbours' plantations of Eucalyptus? I remember that species being very fire-prone?

Thought about planting figs? Awesome food and the tree has a nice smell :)

The big cork tree. 😏🥃👍

it would be nice if they created an gasoline tractor to move around the land and to carry some heavy and big things, show us all process

Thank you

6:32 ''something like a mangiatoia'' hahahah

Hey, that’s my bike!

,,,,,a cool video keep up the great content.. Thank you….

ancient shepherd's hut? Cool in summer, warm in winter, rock house.

Love the new video maker

7:41 that dot, spec at bottom right corner bamboozled me 🤣 i paused the video thinking i had a spec on me screen, proceeded to wash it for like 5min and it wouldn't go away... until i accidentally pressed space bar and the video continued and then the spec also moved with the picture...

mitico l'italiano che così de botto ha detto mangiatoia e mi sono intrippato tutto

You may wish to review a past project called New Alchemist inst on Cape Cod near Falmouth Massachusetts. It's under different name now but one of the scientific study names is Dr Tod of Ocean Ark's in WoodsHole Mass USA. With much cruder tools they were trying to get a better handle on what happens when you get this right.

Ummm…. Do we think the ruin might be an ancient megalithic site? Consider the large ancient granite wall which runs along the creek to the swimming hole that you guys cleared. Your old neighbour did not know who built it.

I noticed you have not updated your map area for a while, after all of the wonderful big clearings of summer -23, the updated maps would be awesome.

Hi! I'm writing my PhD on alternative economic systems (AKA non-capitalist ones) and watch your videos during writing breaks. Really cool to see what you guys are doing over there. The post-capitalist literature is quite critical on the notion of never ending development/progress/growth and it made me wonder: do you actively reflect on these subject as well? Is project Kamp meant to keep on developing/modernising? do you have an end-destination in mind? How do you know when you reach such a point? And what comes after? Best wishes from NL

Impressive!

You should get someone with a metal detector out there!

Are you gonna to have a garden and if you are where would it be. Also, where are you going to store your vegetables? Another ground writ cellar. Make sure you have plenty of storage when you're canning your product.

Veeeerrrry interesting!!! Are the red dotted lines your property? Is there a part of the property in the middle (where the well is) that is not yours?

a wood shredder would be perfect for cleaning up all the dead/unwanted trees and later on when they're shredded you can compress them into a wooden brick for burning in the winter or for a fireplace/pizza oven

THANKS this job

Great video. Could you drop the apps you used to get data on the land? Contours/height/climate etc? Thank you!

to heat the water, why you don't use the mimosa wood that is growing in the property? you will heat the water with free resources and also eliminating the mimosa. There are wood waterheaters sistems you can buy, but also you can build it with a bit os imagination : )