#86 There is a "hole" in our land, we went exploring it 

Watch the next video were we make a road on this land and park our new house: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cGFni6DwzmU.html

When my grandmother was 78 years old she would go out in both the cool of the morning and the cool of the evening and cut blackberry plants. She took time to make sure the spring holes were deep enough to catch water and easy for both sheep and cattle to drink. She didn't think about reading all day or watching television. She enjoyed knowing she was taking care of her property. She kept it optimized for food plants for both her cattle and sheep. It was what would be considered the perfect balance of silviculture today. It was beautiful with half on the hills and half on the flats. People would say, "Margaret, why do you work so hard every day? Your place is beautiful." She would just smile, shrug her shoulders, and say she liked to. She knew that if she stopped nurturing the trees, water flow, and cutting back the aggressive brambles and invasives her place would be overrun in a year. I compliment and applaud a group of people, and this guy specifically, who have found the joy of putting some intentional sweat in to make something beautiful, productive and healthy. Grandmother had 300 acres (121 Hectares). She worked long enough each day to completely go over it once each year. She lived until she was 99 and worked at this pace even to her last year when cancer got her. This kept her spry and nobody in the area had a better animal production than she did in what constantly looked like paradise. Did you read this entire thing... this monologue is just a thanks for reminding me of a tough kind old lady who changed my life for the better. Keep it up Kamp people.

I would start using goats to get rid of brambles and unwanted vegetation just fence off small areas and it will be clean in no time. It would save the whole camp time to use for other projects. The added land has so much to offer with the dwellings and open fields good luck on the purchase.

Just for grins, when you begin clearing, especially around the older stone ruins, go around the outside with a metal detector for any possible coins, etc., paying special attention to doorways, pathways, and such. People in the 1800’s, early 1900’s didn’t trust banks very much and frequently buried money, coins, and forgot where they buried it. Just a thought.

Not long ago people lived in that land. They worked, loved, laughed and cried. As you were clearing the area I could imagine all this taking place once again.

Looks like a very interesting piece of property. I hope that the sale goes through quickly and the team can get to clearing out around the ruins and get rid of the invasive species. If it would be practical, fence the place in and get a herd of goats to clear out the underbrush.

those three rooms were probbably a stable for horses, given that every one of those has a window and theyre sepaarted only by a half wall, also the size is horse-stable-like ;)

This video had strong "kid wandering in the woods being amazed by everything" energy and I loved that. Dave really climbed on everything just because he could

It’s great to see ‘Papa Kamp’ working the land like a boss!

Love the idea of using goats to help with landscaping. Keep up the great content!

This is like playing minecraft in real life love your content bro

Those ruin that you can renovate can be usefull to store fruits, old ruins are great to keep the cold inside and to be able to store lot of things protected !

Season one vibes in this episode, great to see a solo Dave video again. The land is worth buying just for the well everything else is just bonus. Its fun to see the potential for you guys owning all the complete piece of land

I have an Idea, after already 3 seasons of project kamp maybe it would be an nice idea to make a new map illustration that shows how you guys see the future of the land. as a reaction to the first one on where dave explains that project Kamp actually is. would love to see that!

Seeing the new meadow I thought wouldn't it be great if you could start keeping some honey bee hives there to aid the flora. It would be great project to aid in the development of even more biodiversity on the land and provide honey to the camp.

The 3 room ruin looks like it would make a perfect community shower spot, 3 private showers/changing rooms and right next to base camp

I must admit as someone who loves history, watching the Project Kamp team uncover and explore the ruins on their property is one of my favourite parts of the project! so cool to see what's survived the wildfires and the passing of time. great job on clearing all those brambles!

The brick block building looks like it was probably three farrowing pens for sows and piglets. Brambles produce a lot of fruit in late August and September so I suggest keeping some areas and wait until after that before cutting down the others.

I think it could be interesting to see a small interview with the previous owners

That first person explore portion was so much fun to watch! Must have been exciting to get to explore like that - adventures are everywhere at project kamp !

It was very satisfying, watching you clear brush in the hole of your doughnut! So glad you were able to buy it!

What I loved about this episode is that you have found another basin! A look into the water architecture of the ancestors. Hope you can expand it, with innovation store much much more water, and that will bring in so much ecological opportunities! Thanks much for the video and for what you guys do!

The next level 2 house is coming! This is like LOST where they kept finding ruins and strange stuff, too. Maybe Project Kamp is more than meets the eye … 😊😊😊

I want to cry at 63, can barely walk. At your age I too loved physical challenges and improved the world for my family and other's with my strong body and will. CHERISH YOUR YOUTH YOUNG MEN! You cant imagine how limited, humiliated and dispirited you may become in old age

Nice Dave to see you again. It feels like one of the first episodes, hard work by yourself and explorer the land :)

Quite a view young oaks there. Looks like if you create open spaces they come back strong.

That is cool you will be able to buy it. Not only do you have a place to turn into a living area, you have the peace of mind of being able to get rid of all that mimosa to help with fire control. Here is hoping you get to buy it soon!

I must admit that seeing all of the brush removal was satisfying

Back in the 2000s I bought a farm in Portugal using inheritance money, and RE/MAX stole it from me. One day I will buy the company just to dissolve it.

Dave, that knife flip was amazing!

That pieco of land is probably super valuable for the team. 3 more structures that can be renovated without needing an expensive building permit and a lot of interesting locations. Congrats

A solo Dave adventure! Looks like a lot of hard work and fun was had. Can't wait to see how the heart land develops.

So fantastic! Knowing how to deal with neighbours is one of the major arts in human existence. You deserve. Hope the price paid is economical. Greetings from the Algarve.

I can't wait to see this land after it is been renovated, very happy for you. Good luck.

The three bay building made out of structural clay tiles (close to base Kamp) would be a relatively easy conversion to a 3 unit living space. The gable ends and partition walls seem to be in good condition, so all you need is a roof, windows and doors and likely a floor. This roof structure can be built entirely from mimosa selected for size and straightness. Good experiment to judge the suitability of mimosa round wood harvested on site for future projects. If you have fears of flammability of mimosa, paint it with intumescent paint for fire retardancy.

I'm glad the neighbor agreed to sell you guys the land. It's really weird owning a piece of property, without owning the donut hole in the middle. I'm excited to see what you guys will do with, after the paperwork has been finalized. Groetjes uit Nederland 👍

Got chills watching thick bush high grass kept look ing out for snakes but realised it's Netherland should be safe cheers ✌

That second ruin looks like it is in worse shape than the smaller first ruin. Maybe you can use the rocks from the second ruin to repair and expand the first ruin. Interesting exploration. I hope you can buy the small piece of land in the middle of your land.

The new piece of land i think is a big improvement especially because it is so close. The field and ruins looks really beautiful and provide much space for new projects. I am thrilled to see what you are going to make of it. Very nice work!

An updated map on the website that shows all the walls, water structures, ruins, new structures, and your paths would be great. It could help crowd source ideas for Project Kamp as well. Personally i think it would be great to see some dedicated workshops in these new buildings. Things where people could come for a long term stay to do things like blacksmithing, tile manufacturing, weaving, and pottery. Items that can be used at Kamp but also sold to help fund the project.

The brick rooms look like they may have been for animals. Good exploring p👍😀

I sure do appreciate how you make all your videos. Giving us an overview of where you are and locations of important points. I see so many possibilities with that piece of land. I hope very much you are able to acquire it. I also see many good young trees and plants! Not just all bramble and mimosas 😄🌱 I bet some goats could keep things clear. They are such lovely creatures - cats with horns!😂

Good neighbors are priceless. Growing up, we would just walk into our neighbors house and vice versa. My parents still live next to that same family, it’s very comforting knowing that in an emergency they’re right next door.

You have earned a thumbs up for not having the heart to cut the blossoming roses. ;)

One thing to check out is that if the under laying rock is mostly granite, there may be a radon gas issue in any building you renovate or build.....Also something else to note is that in Cornwall, UK, the granite substrate contains high levels of lithium that are about to be mined....maybe your granite contains lithium too....

Wow……Project Kamp just keeps getting better and better 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

That brick ruins were quarters for seasonal farm hands. We used to see these type quarters in Florida years ago. Some can still be found up in central Florida scattered among the orange groves. Just enough room for the workers to sleep. Sometimes two to a room in bunk beds. They would have a separate structure for washing and cooking. You should start looking at this property from that perspective.

I love the sped up brumble cutting

i love seeing all the ruins they really show the history of the land. i'm excited to see what project camp does with this new purchase

Great to see the boss getting to do some handy work! Love the content. Great episode!

I don't know if have already thought about it, but having goats and sheeps might help a lot in controling the growth of rumbles, grassroots and other green bushes/ herbaceous. They in Portugal are also called "Cabras/Ovelhas Sapadoras" because of the role they have in keeping controled the growth of this species and at the same time decreasing the fire-risk. I guess it should be a cheaper and ecological investment. 😊

This was magical! Love watching Dave explore. I know his head is exploding with ideas. All the best to all of you!

Such a wonderful piece of land to add to the rest! So much potential, and such a cool spot to set up the permanent living area. Love this exploration video :)

I see a lot of exciting content in the future. The amount of usefulness of has endless possibilities. The research modules will be many.

Love this video, it's like the firsts videos of Dave and his camera! But now recharged with knowledge, really cool to see the progress you made 💪🏻

Peeling back that jungle reveals some nice additions to Kamp. Nice video. 🏆

The 3 room ruin looks like some sort of animal pen.

Have you considered getting goats - even a few - to help graze your bramble areas and provide nutrition to the soil? A few goats can go a long ways towards helping keep things cleared back... plus they can provide milk/cheese

just watching the brush cutter at work, gives me hay fever LOL

That metal chain hanging from the wall was probably the kitchen area. I remember how my grandmother, in Portugal, cooked over the fireplace with a cast iron pot hanging by a long cast iron chain coming from up high in the chimney. The food cooked in those pots was beyond delicious and nutritious. :)

For the ever lasting issue with the Mimosas - wouldn't it be more viable to rent a small harvesting machine and annihilate them in a short period over using so much labor and time to slowly chop them? they keep draining the land and prevent reforestation with natives, so I was wondering... Keep up the great work!

Amazing videos guys! As an idea and also by experience of living in the country myself. The best would be investing in few goats and they will clean pieces of lands that you want to clear. The goats will eat the bad weeds and all the rambles that are invading your land. I had goats for years and they are very reliable animals especially they eat everything and can do the hard work for you. All the best to you guys!!

This is great, thank you. I love the Rose Tower and the giant boulder. The scoop in the top of the boulder looks 'used' for something. It feels like a castle with a moat and surrounding outbuildings.

I love that you wanted to save the oak tree and didn't cut down the roses - excellent video, new subscribe -

so awesome yall will manage to get that piece of land and complete the land area

Congrats on the latest project. Always wondered what that tiny ruin was from drone shots.

It's all so interesting. You should call the ruin with the roses, sleeping beauty house. Lol. Love what you and your friends are doing here. Keep up the good work. Thank you for sharing your journey.😊👍

I hope that the sale goes through quickly. Keep up the good work

This lifestyle is literally my dream.

I love this series and i have been waiting for the next vid ❤🎉

Maybe nab some of those pine cones and grow em into a sapling(s) and plant them where you remove the mimosas. After the native trees take root and start shading out the mimosas, controlling the unwanted species becomes much easier

My first priority would be to chop out all the broom before it goes to seed. Even then it takes a few years to eradicate it . Every spring we had to go on a broom hunt and pull out new growth.

Identifying the native trees, releasing them from the overgrowth that surrounds them and protecting them from goats is a great next step (this must be done before the goats are released). It looks like there may be some champion trees in the area that you can use as a source of seeds this fall for your native tree nursery. Hopefully you will find a chestnut (Castanea sativa) or two around this old homestead. It should be possible to fly a low altitude grid of the land for the purpose of locating tree crowns that are not mimosa or eucalyptus. The first ID is color. And I'm sure you can take it from there. That is how I would begin to identify the remaining champion trees. Anytime you are walking along a narrow track with a string trimmer in your hands I suggest you turn the trimmer on and cut one side of the path as you go. A trim to 20 cm is perfect. If everyone observed this guidance you would have nice wide tracks with healthy grasses. The limp oak tree should be corrected with three stake's approximately 1.5 meters away from the trunk. But first, find a nice straight mimosa about the same diameter and tie it to the trunk of the oak with natural twine. Not too tight, just enough for support. Then use the three stakes to pull the oak and it's support upright. There are many many oak seedlings in the area of the two ruins. Look for a champion oak tree in that area for acorn collection.

7:14 that ruin can be use as bathroom

it's neat to see the new land vs the land you guys have worked so hard on, shows how far you've come!

It is satisfying to watch, I can only imagine how good it feels to be doing it and seeing the results of your own effort. Am jealous of the excitement of exploration and imagining what you can do with it.

Love the videos keep up the good work

I’m looking at an older google map and it looks like the circle land is formed of three terraces going down from nnw to sse.

Thanks for sharing. It's fun to watch as people explore and find interesting things on their property.😊

what a wonderful project!!! And some hard work, but that also seems to me really nice to do. I've been following you for a while and I have a lot of respect and admiration for the work you've done and what beautiful things you make of it! Keep doing this you’re heroes!

I love this project

This episode feels like an IRL Valheim remake 😅😅

Love exploring this property with you guys, I literally smiled for the whole video.

It might not be a bad idea to trim the oak tree back to make it less top heavy. I'm pretty sure you can cut off 30% at least so it has less bulk, to minimize wind damage.

Hello guys! I've commented in a previous video, but I can't stress this enough. Please don't destroy all of the brambles, their flowers are a super important source of food for quite a number of polinators and also birds in Portugal, you may take some out where they give you the most trouble, but don't destroy them all as they are a native species and actually give some pretty tasty and edible berries

Oh man. You really nailed it when you said that about hoping for the best with neighbors. We got lucky... bought 40 acres without even visiting the property. Could have been a bunch of trouble with neighbors with us camping on our land in our bus... but turns out that we've gotten along quite well with everyone we've met that has property nearby. But you really just are taking a gamble!

Great video! Such beautiful land, seems like an ancient place. Mother nature is so awesome! 🌲🌱🌿💚💚💚

If it's not yours, aren't you trespassing? Evidently they can't trust you.

Very impressive work on cleaning up the overgrown areas. Hard work.

The lamp is looking great ,good job you'll.more amazing finds

So cool! Love this channel. Thanks for sharing your adventure and best wishes.

These exploration/clean up episodes are the best ones!

The circular parcel is the perfect place for a goat herd (yes, goats will clear brambles) to do the preliminary clearing. Simply Google "VEVOR Electric Fence Netting, 42.5" H x 164' Lectro Net" to get started. You will need to buy a solar energizer to send the electrical charge through the fence unless one of your folks can build one. Goats will eat everything below four feet. You can also start taking down mimosa around the perimeter and using the poles to build a fence around this area to contain the goats. Save an appropriate stump at 1.5 meters high and nail the poles to it. In combo with the Lectro Net you can make good parcels for clearing. WHen the goats are ready to be moved off a section, the feeder pigs come in to prepare the ground and eat the tops off the mimosa trees you chop and drop. WHen the pigs are done you collect the worthwhile mimosa poles and overseed the soil with local meadow mix.😊

Fun exploration of long-abandoned agriculture space. Portugal is filled with overgrown small farms and interesting stuff to find and ask what was this or that used for. That small ruin with the burned clothing seems like a barn of some kind. The remains of that aluminum pot with holes in it is used for roasting chestnuts. Our local old folks have a long disagreement on whether or not metal blades on brush cutters is allowed this time of year due to spark risk. The tijolo brick ruin could have housed animals or stored feed or grains. Nice.

We've really enjoyed the format and editing of the videos for the past few seasons but this one brought back great memories of season 1, loved it!

Your editing is phenomenal. Very nice property and worth all the work too

Ure a hard worker for sure ! Nice to see the whole place cleaned up !! 👍👍

I liked the way you have made the video, easy to watch and understand exactly you are doing. Thanks

Once upon a time some people loved this place. It must have been wonderful, I wonder if any of the local people remember how it was. Cool project, hot work!

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Glad I stumbled across your page. Keep it up dude!