EXCAVATOR TRANSFORMS OUR STEEP HILLSIDE INTO BEAUTIFUL TERRACES with many possibilities... 🚜 

Those chubby wubbie kitties are looking mighty healthy. They were blessed when adopted by you two.

Talk about changing the landscape.. WOW!!! Guys you are really making a lot of progress.. Enjoy your channel every Sunday…

This is so cool. You all are completely transforming this into a beautiful property.

Drew your gracious attitude is the main reason I watch this channel. Even if they are being paid, you can be appreciative of the work. It doesn’t cost anything to say thank you. ❤❤❤

I love that you both let the tree cutters keep the extra money for the sale of the trees. You both really care about others ❤

You might consider using all those loose rocks to build walls fronting each terrace - this will prevent erosion for decades to come.

The machine driver did an awesome job, very well done.

Grapes and Olive trees would be great. Are you going to reinforce the face of the ridges so that they do not erode or make a landslide when it rains?

Congratulations on having been there one year! You have so much hard work behind you and in your future. Glad you show how you enjoy the journey. That’s a good reminder for me.

Terraces were done with so much thought and they turned out really nice. It is interesting to see your vision come to realization. Lots of sophisticated thought going into what is going to be a beautiful peace of property.

The terracing has made a great improvement to the land and will also give you options to regrow some fruit trees in their place and your vegetables. Looking forward to seeing what you do next 😊😊❤❤

That’s a new definition of transformation. Holy cow that’s gorgeous.

I’m so glad the kitties took so well to you and the land😊

What a huge job removing those trees and building those terraces! Worth the peace of mind though!! Happy 1 year home-owner anniversary 🎉

You are good cat parents, those cats just love you.

The cats are looking very healthy. They were quite lucky to be adopted by the two of you.

So glad you added the terraces, it will help to soak up water and also reduce risks of landslides, not to mention it being a great fire break too!

A BIG difference in a short time!

Wow, what a game changer, it looks amazing guys. It opens up so much potential where you couldn't really use it before. You also have a wonderful supply of stone for future building projects.👍

All those wonderful logs for the fireplace🌻🐈 😊

Wow, reshaping the mountain and protecting yourself from fires all in one, wow!

Has it been a yr already! Lots has happened in one yr! The fabulous contractors have been a blessing! It's so cute how ur cat follows u everywhere, they were skittish feral cats now they are true pets so adorable!🌼🌸🌷🌸🌼🌸

You guys deserve all the success that's happening. You are so genuine.

A small request please. .when you show the drone beauty shots at the end, give it another 10 seconds so i can freeze it and take it in before youtube covers it all over with all the watch next ads. -- thanks!

That patio area is going to be gorgeous & well-used. Nice!

Somehow your voice makes even rocks & rubble sound instantly way more interesting. lol. Loving the progress so far and what youre doing with the land around your home! Adding those extra tiers of land is such a great idea and sets up so much more future possibilities! Can't wait to see more!

Great work guys! It is going to be AMAZING!.. You really have found fantastic contractors to do your different jobs!

You guys should make friends with @RaisingVoyagers. They are transforming an old dry-stacked stone barn into a wonderful house in the foothill Alps of Italy. I'd love to see a conversation between you four! 😀❤

Fruit trees (pomegranate, citrus, avocado, etc.) and olive trees would look great on the terraces. Mix in some grapes as others have suggested and that’s a lot of food.

Your property gets more beautiful every video. I can’t wait until the inside of the house is done.

I can not believe you have been here a year already and you have done so much. Those terraces actually add character to your land. Your cats are lovely and I like the one who meows its responses to you. Have a lovely day.

Wow ...terraces are amazing. You can do alot with them. I would try different fruit trees and veggies and wild flowers (maybe) provided they would grow in that soil/condition. I would first ask the locals for suggestions as they would know what would work in those conditions. But WOW...what a massive job..and incredible transformation.

I love you guys and your projects, before and afters! But would LOVE to see you put out more than one video per week!!!❤️🙏

WOW WOW WOW...those terraces are amazing, and give you so much more usable land. Beautiful and so well done. Amazing transformation!!! Love the kitties so much, makes my heart so happy that they are living their best lives. Thank you for being such amazing stewards of the land and all the kitties and nature!!! Exciting to see all the progress!!! ❤❤❤

That excavator operator is a professional!

You have stone walls supporting the old terraces and, as the old folk who built them knew, these prevent landslips. Has anyone talked to you about retention netting for the slopes between each of the new terraces? EDIT: I see others have mentioned this already, and gabions too. The latter are large steel mesh baskets filled with stones - of which you have plenty!

Leave the bottom door closed! It will keep the rats out. You will also need to water your compost in the summer since you are in such a dry arid climate. I never watered compost until I moved to Oregon. The moist eastern parts of the US have ample water, so compost doesn’t need watered. Watering the compost also helps to deter the rats, they like to make tunnels in the dark, dry contents of a compost pile. Another thing I learned living in Oregon. I like that the base of your composter has holes for air flow. A compost pile needs layers of food scraps covered with dry leaves or hay, or some other dry carbon materials, and lots and lots of moisture. The pile needs 6x as much carbon as it does green or nitrogen rich materials. In the fall I would make a large pile of dried leaves right next to the compost pile so when I added the food scraps I could cover them immediately to keep the smell and the bugs at bay. Cats can kill rats when they’re small, but an adult large rat can put a hurting on a cat. Found that out the hard way too. Poor kitty. I love your terraces! Now I know where the rock came from for the original terrace walls. You guys are really transforming your property! I admire your vision.

Wow catching up and it looks AMAZING!! Love watching the progress 😃

As someone who has lived on / with steep hillsides for decades.. This looks dreamy! I'd love to carve terraces and plant with fruit trees where I'm at.

The terraces are awesome & will be great for your property in so many ways. I am Australian & Eucalyptus oil is so versatile. your idea of making use of the remaining trees is a great idea. Eucalyptus oil is great for clearing the head etc for colds . It has great uses for cleaning, a great natural bug repellent & so much more. I used a water soluble eucalyptus water soluble solution to clean mould off an outdoor blind more than a month ago & the mould has not returned. Eucalyptus trees can be dangerous too, they loose limbs & just fall over very easily. They are also called widow makers. love watching the progress of your property. Cheers Helen

The landscape is dynamic on so many different timescales. Trees are just slow plants. Right kinds, right places, right time, etc. You just have to take a thirty year outlook instead of a thirty week one. Except, now year after year, above and below ground, the overall ecosystem you're creating is steadily beginning to improve. Good on you. All the best.

Drew totally understand seeing the earth torn up is unsettling...but it will keep you save and opens up so up so much land for use on those terraces. Brittnay the klitties look so very happy OXOXOOXOXO

Brave man on that excavator. I would have wanted a Menzi Muck style Excavator.

Wow! What a transformation you are creating! The scope of your project is huge! Beautiful! Maybe you should consider crops/trees that will give you income generating produce so that you could hire ongoing help. That person could perhaps help take care of things whenever you go adventuring! Looking forward to watching the transformations continue! ❤️❤️

Hi Drew, Brittany.I Love 💕 you Both,and your Cat's.🐈🐈🐈. Great Job your friend is doing for you both.Please thank him for making your Land more Beautiful for you guys.From this Grandma Raquel.From Bakersfield, California.Love you all.❤. Sending Hugg's 🤗.All around.❤.

Omg so much work, you guys are awesome. Everything is looking amazing. Drew you are a work horse, congrats to both of you and thank you for sharing your journey

How exciting! Get yourselves a massive bulk order of clover seeds ! ❤

Also, FYI, eucalyptus is also a natural flea deterrent. Once I had newborn kittens that I found out in the yard and they were covered with fleas. I put them in a box layered with eucalyptus branches and a towel over the branches, and the next morning the baby kittens were completely flealess. The place is coming along so nicely!! Really enjoying the stamp you are putting on the mill and surrounding areas. Wonderful to see the logs being reused. ❤

Olive trees would be great and don't require too much maintenance and in a few years you could be creating your own olive oil. You should talk to Sarah and Luca.❤

Hey guys, buried biodegradable material breaks down, leaving a hole where the covering dirt subsides. It'll take a few of years but be aware of it. Keep up the great content ❤

a great development ...... cant wait to see the full view for your land and house

Your accomplishments to your Portuguese palace have been overwhelming in my mind and I am very impressed in the building in and around of your home and taking the image of an idea to make it reality. You both give inspiration to all that follow your path of happiness. My wife and I go to Portugal (Braga) for at least a month every year (7 years now) to visit her and now our relatives and what you have done to inspire us as well as many to take that next step to give all the gratification that you both hold in your palms to your followers. Good luck in your further endeavors and we all are on our seat edges for the next episode.

That was one big transformation in one little episode, and what a difference it makes to the look of the land.😄

Wow, wow! The terraces are amazing. Everything is looking great!!!. I agree you’ll be much safer without those looming eucalyptus trees overhead. I do have a comment for Drew’s mention about if he just made himself more work for upkeep on the terraces. One thing I would suggest is once you planted all your fruit trees, etc , I would consider planting “ground clover” as a ground cover as it creates a tons of nitrogen in the soil plus it doesn’t grow tall. You can buy very low growing clover one variety is only like 4 inches tall. If you start it early before other native plants start to sprout, it will create a beautiful green cover, a little white or red flowers, depending on the mix and only 4 to 6 inches tall. Drew will never have to mow and trim up on those areas. Additionally, It will hold the soil to keep it from running away once it’s established. Its awesome stuff. I think everybody should do this in place of (gas mowing)lawn’s. Anyway, thanks for all your content love watching you guys and seeing things come along.

I did the same thing excavating terraces on my property. We also exposed tons of rock, which we used to build dry stacked walls against the cuts. Best thing I ever did to the property!!!

The large digger could create lots of different areas where you could pitch for camping as your land is so good and interesting.

The terraces look like excellent soil conditions to plant a small vineyard! That would help stabilize the soil as well.

making little check dams on the hills where you can tell water runs will help back up the water and let the ground absorb more. It will also stop sediment from washing away.

So good to see you both getting ready for summer and wise to be prepared for the Fire season what a generous way to achieve these projects and helping these people and good luck for your hard work both and the beautiful cats always nice to see lovely landscape take care thank you bye

That hill side & wooded area would make an epic mountain bike trail. You could build jumps & berms, it would be so good.

Congrats! This is a hell of a job improving the terrain. Thank you. 🇨🇷

🦋🎨 I don’t remember if I left a comment. What a great video that drone shot of showing your whole property with the terraces how they are at this point was beautiful. Happy that the little apple tree seems OK and the composting apparatus from your local municipality is wonderful. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Work from the guys taking the logs away to the excavator. You are blessed. I love the kitty, trying to take mommy home to protect her.

Wow! First time I admire the way terraces are formed! Great job! ❤ I love the kitties 🐈😻❣️

So exciting!! Wow! What a transformation!

Brittany ignore Drew’s comments on Momma kitty. My kitty free feeds from a gravity feeder. She doesn’t associate me with food at all but she follows me around just like Momma kitty follows you. They just love us.

@30:55 - Flashback to Monica with her head in a giant Turkey😂😂 #Friends- Great Vlog - amazing terraces - look great for growing crops - lemon trees or similar ? 🍋💛

I would plant a few avocado tree's on a terrace apple's on another plums and cherries pairs tree's ect ect

Hi Guys the excavator operator did a great work for doing all those terrace for you the looks amazing but I do have a suggestion for you keep eye on eucalyptus they will come up again cheers guys 🙏🙏👋👋👍👍🍻🍻

A couple of utubers called Snow and Curt travel with thier cats and Van all over the world! Take her with you 😊

It's Amazing how much that this week has transformed your property. I remember last year how much erosion from runoff that you had at the Watermill. I have a quick question, was the lower terrace behind your Watermill used previously for logging eucalyptus from the neighbor's property? What are the property lines on your 3 hectares of land? That ramp to landing area will be so useful this upcoming year as you build out the Watermill and need room for trucks and supplies to be staged. Really like how well the grass grew back on the lower terraces that you both had seeded. Not to mention the ruin just above the road entering your terraced Watermill.

OMG guys how beautiful are those terraces👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Everything is looking great such hard work will all pay off in the end. This was great see you next week. 😽😸😺seem to be so happy with you guys ❤️

Healthy and peacefull to live in the Nature.👍👌🏻🌲🌳🎄

I understand how your swales will trap the water, and so reduce erosion. But when the rain is torrential, there may still be erosion on the front wall of the terraces. Laying rocks along the terrace walls will reduce that, but will also be a major major effort. Perhaps a five year project, working on it as other tasks allow.

Native plants are crucial to the health of the landscape!!! I was just at a local native plant swap today. It was fabulous!!! Lots of plants that will help the native wildlife!! Invasive plants can even affect the health of the soil.

Australia also have devastating bush fires ...but the Eucalyptus bush regenerates and even sprout better with fires, they come back on burned trunks standing up as it happen for millennia with the help of the indigenous people ,the problem is when we have humans living on the bush....or as an introduced specie in Europe is not good for that environment. Love from Queensland Australia ... PS we love your channel.

Use bamboos to strengthen terrace edges plan trees closes to bottom side of edges and stack boulders to help hold them in place also make sure the terrace are not sloping down hill but they have gradients towards the upper ridges so as to let rain water not flow heavily downhill but to let them be stored nd sink in

What a great place for fruit trees to grow!!

Ohhh yeah ❤. Now that’s beautiful family!

Great video, as always - thank you. I am looking to landscape my plot (in Italy) that is not as steep as yours. These tips are so helpful. Perfect timing.🙌

We live on a 5 acre terraced property. We have names for each terrace. We have chickens on one terrace, we has gardens on another, goats and a barn on one. We planted grasses to hold back the dirt. We have grape vines, fruit trees. I get a leg work put every day.

Absolutely beautiful and amazing!!! Love it!!! Thank you for sharing! Continued prayers and love for yas!❤😊

Wow what a transformation ... maybe the start of a vineyard? 😃😃😍😍😎😎

It’s coming together so fast. I know it’s not fast to you but Seeing so much each week now is awesome Blessing ❤️👏🏻🙏🏻❤️

You will find out, as home owners, there will always be projects and work to be done....and that's a good thing! Prayers, love, and gentle hugs from Donna in Florida.🥰

Absolutely love your videos. I am currently working from an office in London, and whenever I get to watch one of your videos, it reminds me of what I want to do at some point in the future!

I love watching your videos. I started watching them while I was in Lagos last year. You are such a fantastic couple !! You have made such amazing progress on your property . I have also done a lot of travelling :-)

Wow, look how far you have come in such a short time. Well done🙂

Stacking all those rocks against the hillside to re-enforce them is going to be a forever job.

You guys are absolutely amazing!!! Love seeing the wonderful updates. Sending lots of love from the Netherlands!! 🥰♥

Beautiful, perfect for a food forest!

Woh! massive change, that's got to feel so good/exciting. Look at all that fresh 'canvas'

The terraces look great. You may want to rethink the burying of the eucalyptus stumps. I’m thinking they will decompose in a few years and create large sink holes. Just a thought.

Wow your land looks so different and so amazing. Im like you Drew I hate to see trees cut down, but completely understand the reason you need to do it. It would be incredible if you were able to make eucalyptus oil. I have asthma and I struggle to find just eucalyptus on its own, they tend to put other oils with it. Its wonderful the difference you have made to the cats, who would have thought they would be so lovely after seeing them so wild. x

What an incredible leap forward! Brittany, the night shot with the full moon and the wispy clouds was amazing, AND You are always share such a beautiful mindfulness with us... "I just need to remember that this is the beginning. That this is going to lead to what we want in the future." and you celebrate each step as you go. This is such a beautiful and healthy way of seeing life. Thanks for sharing it with us. xo and give those kitties a little scritch for me. PS, thanks for showing all the terraces in their full glory with the drone shot at the end! It is magnificent!

We travel with our cats in the RV. They wear trackers so we don"t lose them. They love it as much as we do!

I’m curious to know if even if the chopped leaves from the eucalyptus are buried will they still reroute themselves and grow new sprouts upwards?? They tend to grow so rapidly. The terraces are really looking amazing. Lots of ideas for future projects! 👏👏👏

Wow.. the sneak peek of those new terraces looks amazing!

It would be really nice to see if you could get hold of some footage from the previous owners of what they started with and their progression.you are both so lovely and I'm enjoying watching your vlogs.

Super! It is looking very nice over there!

Wow! Sad about the eucalyptus trees, but so happy you guys will be so much safer. I actually planted a eucalyptus tree because I loved the leaves and branches for making wreaths. I love your idea Brittany for making eucalyptus oil with the remaining trees. I use that oil every day. Those terraces are incredible!! Can’t wait to see what you do with them!! Love from Mary in SoOC💗