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Our Story:
We are Carissa, Iwan & Frankie the sausage dog, and in 2020 decided one night over a bottle of wine that moving from North Wales to Portugal would be a good idea. Within a month we were on the road to Portugal to find the perfect piece of land to call home. We picked up Albi, Joao and Simao the cats along the way, as well as Diogo the podengo and a flock of chickens.
Subscribe to follow our project as we turn an old stone barn into our home, and learn the ropes of looking after a piece of land to make an abundant garden and one day, our very own winery.

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@janelliott9699 4 месяца назад

I've been watching you for a while as both my brothers are in central Portugal doing similar projects. I've seen many videos from different people, but can honestly say I find yours the most enjoyable. You are clearly a lovely couple and your love for your animals warms my heart. I'd like to say, having read other comments, that none of your video is boring, the intro sets the mood and feeling for what is to come perfectly. I really wish people would keep comments positive after all your hard work and talent producing beautiful videos for people like us to watch. I wish you well with everything you are doing. Take care.

@kailand3056 4 месяца назад

While I thoroughly enjoy your content, watching you and your animal companions interact is the best part of your channel❤ I especially like watching Frankie and Diogo - you are very lucky to have them in your lives. My absolute favorite RU-vid video is when you first found Diogo along the road when he was injured. The initial pictures of him with Clarissa on the sofa, his eyes were just begging to be loved - it absolutely melted my heart. Please give him a kiss for me (and Frankie too)😘

@somewhat_slightlydazed8508 4 месяца назад

When we watch your videos, our cat, Monty is absolutely glued to the screen! It's the funniest thing ever, he's never been interested in TV before but he sits on the floor in front of the telly lol

@andrewmaiden3738 4 месяца назад

The past and the future perfectly married. The past being the music and the future being off grid. Great video guys.

@Winnie-hq5hs 4 месяца назад

Two and a half minutes in this video I have to comment how beautiful and poetic it is. You are a true master of fimling and editing.

@FrankieOffGrid 4 месяца назад

Wow, thank you!

@glennathornhill8994 4 месяца назад

the artist's eye!@@FrankieOffGrid

@uppanadam 4 месяца назад

It felt like I was watching a fantasy movie actually!! Like the Shire out of Lord of the Rings!! LOL!!

@kathiesalamacha895 3 дня назад

She is amazing

@lizwilson6633 4 месяца назад

Good video folks. If you get into the habit of wiping your plates, pans etc with kitchen roll or whatever, before you wash them in the sink, then you won't get any food waste down the pipe into your soakaway. We got so much into the habit of doing this in our campervan to stop having a smelly tank, it's now second nature to do it at home and before we put anything in our dishwasher. Apologies if you've already thought of this 😂😂

@janstevens8120 4 месяца назад

Wow, another amazing video! I always feel such a sense of calmness & peace when I watch your videos. What an ingenious solution for your grey water! I just love that you are so thoughtful about every aspect of your land and your lives off grid. We need more people like you in the world, it would be a much better place…. Have a lovely week & take care, xx💕🇨🇦

@calypso4554 4 месяца назад

I am very happy to see that your animals are such keen helpers. Even the chickens. 😊 You would have probably gone nowhere with your work without them.... 😁😊😉

@patriciap8323 4 месяца назад

The roots of the trees, as they grow, can disrupt your homemade gray water septic system!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤

@CLFL14256 4 месяца назад

they are raspberries, they spread but don't go very deep

@SunraeSkatimunggr 4 месяца назад

I always love your intro. I love the look of olive trees. It reminds me when I was a kid growing up in southern California (back in the 1960's). We lived in farmland with orange, walnut, and olive groves, as well as carrot and watermelon fields. Unfortunately, it is all houses now.

@FrankieOffGrid 4 месяца назад

Thank you so much! Sounds lovely!

@turawolfe2841 4 месяца назад

Nice to see you working so hard to make things better on your land. As always i enjoyed seeing your pets being precious! Thanks for the visit! See you next time!

@user-yw8eg8tm3d 2 месяца назад

I love how well you two work together. You are a team that I route for. Go team! ❤️

@curtisgrindahl446 4 месяца назад

Thank you as always for allowing us to share in your journey. You are lovely people and the life you are creating is inspiring. Yes, it is a great deal of hard work, but being independent takes effort. And you've really done a beautiful job in creating these videos. Like so many who have comments I'm delighted to see you furry friends sharing the day with you both. I'm glad to have subscribed and look forward to whatever you decide to share with us. Your sponsors are very smart to be supporting you. Enjoy the coming Spring.

@SusanZiegler 4 месяца назад

Just beautiful! Everything: music, plants, animals, and fascinating work. Thank you for a lovely Saturday morning!

@joannecanetti7481 4 месяца назад

Another flawless video. The music, the animals and your work ethic is amazing. I look so forward to Saturday morning knowing I have another FOG video.

@ddenice963 4 месяца назад

❤ I love how curious all the fur babies are. They get right in the middle of the action, the music was awesome, another great video.

@sf55514 4 месяца назад

So cute how excited the dogs became when they saw you digging a hole. How fun are they. Then they digging.

@MirneDerks 4 месяца назад

Another lovely video. Of course, you are already 100% off-grid -- you don't have any power or water or sewerage connections: therefore you are off-grid.

@katiadp2145 4 месяца назад

Eagerly waiting for the results of the grey water system!!!Enjoy the week ahead. 🇬🇷 🇬🇷

@KarenPFolk-qq7dx 3 дня назад

Gravel as filtration is great but if it could run through a pond of fish and then through bulrushes and then oxygenate over water steps - you’ve got pretty pure water!

@lindagordon3581 4 месяца назад

Strain before you drain and the system will last a lot longer. Loved your miss matched socks (thanks to Frankie!)

@moniquevelasco20 4 месяца назад

Good morning guys! Loved seeing how the doggies and cats helped digging. This will definitely help you guys with the smell. Great job. Love and be safe!😘🤗🌼🇻🇪

@andypayne1571 4 месяца назад

The grey water system looks very good. I personally wouldn't use tyres in my food garden as they leach out all sorts of chemicals.

@nadinedunkle7215 4 месяца назад

You two work so hard together with the help of your critters. All very content together 😊

@abigailgerlach5443 4 месяца назад

Looks like a proper mini leech field to me!(minus the cats, of course) Well done! The thing I love about tires is you can paint them and make planters, pound earth in them and use them as foundations for buildings, cut them and use them as borders etc. The list is almost infinite. They are cheap, long lasting, and don't get blown away in a good stiff wind!

@noreenboland1204 4 месяца назад

Sublime video as always.Love the waste water idea and I have full confidence that after all this time you know exactly whats going down your sink.Tyres are great for young trees and bushes to avoid strimmer destruction..and also water retention

@gillianbrewer9607 4 месяца назад

I can understand why the raspberries are planted with in the tyres. They will out grow the tyres in a few years. Good job, both of you, plus assistance from des animos.

@carolbulmer8253 4 месяца назад

Good morning, Carissa and Iwan. I like your solution for the gray water. Frankie and Diogo were such good help with the digging😂 See you next week❤️❤️

@bettybradley8369 4 месяца назад

I grow lots of raspberries, both red and yellow. Planting then on top of the water drain feild is smart because they require a lot of water especially during fruiting time. They will eventually out grow your tires but for getting them established it's good. Love your videos and your pets.

@milliebanks7209 4 месяца назад

Sausage helped herself to a blue and a gray that should match the socks Narissa was wearing during filming today. Your dog is so memorable! Interesting video! Thanks!

@saintsi6997 4 месяца назад

To provide you with hot water , why do you not have a solar heated tank on the roof. As seen in Mediterranean countries i.e the stainless steel tank and thermal panel under it. No electricity required.

@Metalian66 4 месяца назад

What a good idea! My father made one at his own house. He called it a perish/expire pit. I called it a wonderfull idea! Only his pit was vertical. I don't know if that pit ever got smelly though. It was wunderful to watch you both again. Thank you for al that work you put in those videos.

@denisemastromina7821 4 месяца назад

Yiannis is getting proficient in lots of trades, with Simons help.😊😊😊

@FrankieOffGrid 4 месяца назад

Wrong channel? 😅

@denisemastromina7821 4 месяца назад

@@FrankieOffGrid ha ha ha I can only say I was having a sleepless night 😂😂😂😂🤩

@FrankieOffGrid 4 месяца назад

Haha what was the channel name? We’ll check it out!

@denisemastromina7821 4 месяца назад

@@FrankieOffGrid the Pethericks Billy bought a derelict convent and is doing it up very interesting and escape to rural France Dan bought a burnout chateau and is trying to rebuild it on his own mostly in a year he has over 400,000 subs he's amazing. Tube has completly changed my viewing habits better than any reality TV. by the way loved your soak away 👍👍👍

@monalingan9523 4 месяца назад

Another well done video. Beautiful filming and music.❤

@user-he9vn9cr7f 4 месяца назад

Hiya you too , just an idea for a shower I've a picture but not sure how to send Get two ibc tanks cut the top off one and the bottom off the other leaving lip to fix together one on top of each other . Cut a door way out but leave a lip to step into cube . Place the now two cubes on some bricks and pipe your shower outlet to your soak away .you can either put a door on the outside or a curtain . Add a small extractor fan fit in your shower head a shelf and a standing board on the floor . You could even put a led light inside .. You could even attach this to your cabin for your bedroom and have a door between shower and bed room .it's like a ensuite .👍👍

@user-he9vn9cr7f 4 месяца назад

Plant some reeds in your soak away also .

@Kitty_cat2001 4 месяца назад

I love looking at all your animals-they are beautiful & loved by you guys so much

@Esther.B7520 4 месяца назад

I love the way the cats like to hang around while you are doing things. More so than the dogs! You would feel very much alone I think without the dogs and cats! I feel sorry for people who have never had or can’t be bothered to have pets. They are missing out on so much!!! It is always such a pleasure watching your videos!!! Have a great week! ❤️🙏🏼😎👋🏻🇨🇦

@dominique8233 4 месяца назад

Good job, best of luck with it. Having done similar projects one thing I would advise is to mark the route of the pipe somehow. Learnt the hard way myself that over time with grass growing over the area its easy to accidently dig through the pipe. With the next one I put a garden path over the route. Just a thought.

@FrankieOffGrid 4 месяца назад

These videos are useful to us too! 🤣

@mathewhalpin 4 месяца назад

I guess that you have already thought of this but just in case.... I live in Greece and need a cheap way to add organic matter to our garden soil. Often the places that sell firewood give away bark chips. You cant use them straight onto veg beds but you can add them to the compost or put them on paths, then after about 1 year the soil is fantastic and can be added as compost to the veg garden.

@deborahwhite2339 4 месяца назад

Grey water septic. It should be quite effective. 🙂👍👍🇨🇦

@user-kr4sb2kp2k 3 месяца назад

Hi! you can plant a willow tree or other plants near your gray water hole, to clean the water.

@user-it2jo8bx4n 4 месяца назад

Hi you could join up your shower to the same system great work you two it may help with irrigation as well xx

@leeboss373 4 месяца назад

If you put the wheelbarrow facing in the direction you want to go before filling it you may find it easier. 8:41

@kevinnye5132 4 месяца назад

Love it when a family work together 😁, now just teach the cats to dig as fast as the dogs and your laughing all the way to China 🇨🇳 lol 😂,

@neutonrenda2303 4 месяца назад

Frankie's ears when she digs lol, they are both so entertaining.👍😂

@janmccann8081 4 месяца назад

Greetings from Devon. No t-shirts here! Lovely video, as usual. Diego and Frankie and Albi were particularly helpful. Love the raspberries!

@aveldman5403 4 месяца назад

Dear Carissa and Iwan, thank you very much for your videos. So wonderful to look at and experience, the nature, all the animals and so much harmony. So grateful for this, this helps me enormously through a difficult period in my life, I have been dealing with illnesses for a long time, now I have Covid. Fortunately, things are slowly improving and these videos and what they radiate are really of great significance. ❤🙏

@EastLondonKiwi 4 месяца назад

Hi both just a note for the future. In PT Tlthe black pipe you used as a waste line. Is high pressure pipe to connect mains water signified by the blue stripe. There is a equivalent low pressure version that has no stripe that is significantly cheaper per m. Use the low pressure version for waste and garden irrigation, I hope that helps, take care D

@100Noddy 4 месяца назад

I do hope I am wrong, but that pipe will block with foodstuff, oils, fats and sediment, you will then have difficulty clearing it as it is so narrow and you have no inspection/access chamber or rod eyes. I suggest that you need a filter below the sink outlet to catch solids. Do not under any circumstance allow your fats, coffee grinds and tea leaves to drain into this pipe.

@FrankieOffGrid 4 месяца назад

Haha I too hope you’re wrong! We are pretty good at not letting solids go down the sink, 3 years of having to empty the bucket definitely improves the ‘Chuck it down the sink’ mentality 😅

@100Noddy 4 месяца назад

@@FrankieOffGrid 💜

@evahegarty741 4 месяца назад

I was thinking the same! Don’t wash any greasy/oily pans and let the water into the drain. That would build up and you have a blockage very quickly. I think waste pipes are normally much wider. But if you are careful hopefully it will work. I always dry off the pan with kitchen paper before washing and sometimes it doesn’t even need to be washed with water. A cast iron pan is better off not being washed in water

@AlongThePathsOfNature 4 месяца назад

Beautiful intro. ❤ A bit like some of my own videos, but much, much better! @AlongThePathsOfNature

@ceriwibberley8364 3 месяца назад

Absolutely love your videos ❤️❤️❤️❤️ It's called bed rock 😄

@teresakeightley4909 4 месяца назад

You should paint some sort of design on those tires since you're a great artist. ❤ love your garden 🪴

@Skooty68 4 месяца назад

I used to grow Yellow Raspberries 'All Gold' .... Best flavoured Rasps out there,much better than Reds....Allez Allez Allez!!

@RedPhone-mz5lv 4 месяца назад

I grow them but didn't know how they can spread

@noordic 4 месяца назад

Yes and they taste soooo good lol

@suedale1865 3 месяца назад

Iwan such hard work all that digging 👍 I hope the grey water experiment is successful 👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@mariaeugenia7599 4 месяца назад

Eran, in order to fit both pipes, you have to expand one with the other. You heat carefully the pipe you want to expand, then use the other to press it, instead of a bottle. Wait untill it cools and then sand both surgaces and glue with pvc adhesive, othwrwise it may unglue. Believe me, I learned it the hard way, when doing the irrigation system at my home. Best wishes for you, Carissa, Diego and Frankie.

@uppanadam 4 месяца назад

I think you need two or three Dachshunds to help you dig holes there mate!! They are good badger dogs and love burrowing into holes and so forth!! But I don't think Diego quite gets it even though he means well!! LOL!!

@1dkappe 4 месяца назад

Nice tune. The voice is Cosima Lamberth. Thought for a moment it was an Invaders’ cover.

@lidanaude8022 4 месяца назад

Love the animals as well..Frankie is my favorite! ❤ Btw have you guys consider filtering through charcoal it might eliminate the smells..maybe

@neutonrenda2303 4 месяца назад

Great solution for your grey water, the heat gun works wonders on the pvc plumbing fittings, it makes a huge difference for plumbing jobs, great hack.👍

@csilviageo 4 месяца назад

Amo vê você plantar o jardim.

@mavisgillard653 4 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing your story ❤ an interesting way to deal with your grey water!

@rachelfrees1268 4 месяца назад

Hope all your hard work pays off.🎉

@ruthbowery8325 4 месяца назад

Great video , loved the fur babies input , great helpers . I think frankie is the foreman 😂😂xxxxx

@gardennonsense 4 месяца назад

👍 Thank you for sharing 🤠🐢 a lot of hard work 💚💚💚

@JudySnyder-dv5ld 4 месяца назад

Nice project process! The white and gold kitty was inspecting all your work and approved!

@FrankieOffGrid 4 месяца назад

Thank you! 😊

@Winnie-hq5hs 4 месяца назад

Albi always seems to be where the action is❤️ Our cat was the same. So sweet and funny🥰

@august2108 4 месяца назад

It took me 1/2 way through before the fog cleared , and then the explain, well done, I thought for a moment you had gone all luke and sara on us (soil samples) the resolution is very good, or my tv is working again Hmmm ... take care you two..

@tomwilson5822 4 месяца назад

I’ve been following your videos for a while now and an old man I love the enthusiasm of your presentation. Unfortunately this one the music was so depressing. Wishing you good luck and all the best and look forward to your next video 😊

@glassdaft 4 месяца назад

Just beautiful, the other four legged players were fantastic too ❤️

@Annemarieke58 4 месяца назад

If you would put some carbon on top of it (the stuff you use for bbq) it will stop the smell for sure.

@annalinekennedy1027 4 месяца назад

Great job. I love the idea and hope it's going to work. Enjoy your meal

@pattyflagler6353 4 месяца назад

Wow! Frankie has sure grown an impressive coat for winter!

@anderslindberg5761 4 месяца назад

I wouldn’t let edible fruitbushes near Old cartyres as they contain small amounts of toxic material.

@user-he9vn9cr7f 4 месяца назад

I would even build a lean too on your kitchen as I did in Greece .I built a small wall around the lean too lapped timber on the outside and insulation inside and osb board .make window sized openings and fit mosquito netting then in the winter I fitted windows and door wit plastic panels in the openings wood burner in middle and hey presto another room . Ands it's a temp building too .. led lighting .Just a thought .

@waynecassidy6145 4 месяца назад

I think that planting trees on top of drainage system might encourage roots to grow through the system and eventually in the pipe work and block up the whole setup, let’s hope not. Good work though 👏👏👌

@alejaelizalde 4 месяца назад

Beautiful video guys. Thanks for shearing. Muchos saludos desde México

@Neilhuny 4 месяца назад

There was some great music in this video - as always - but the song that started around about 16:50 was superb! I loved it. The sub-soil sample you took was almost guaranteed to have no organic matter since it was from so deep. Granted, weathering will be deeper in Portugal than in UK, and animals (worms, voles, insects etc) may also go deeper, but it will still be v sparse wrt organic matter.

@FrankieOffGrid 4 месяца назад

It is a great song! Glad you liked it too! Good point on the depth of the soil! It’s all like that though.. years of ploughing have taken their toll!

@ovunctezer7435 4 месяца назад

If I wrote you a song by Melanie Bell

@ingridvanderwerff803 4 месяца назад

The lyrics of the first song are not real I hope for you?

@teresamason5155 4 месяца назад

Dig.. I meant ❤

@arjanvogel6444 4 месяца назад

Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless us all in divine light.

@FrankieOffGrid 4 месяца назад

You are very welcome! Thanks for watching!

@michaelmckelvy8182 4 месяца назад

Greeting from East Tennessee! Love your videos. Keep up the good work!

@ricardolandsman9465 4 месяца назад

Great stuff guys however just a suggestion. From my experience with this. You should have run the pipe right through the barrels to the end and drilled slightly smaller holes than the pipes diameter on the side so that all the food particles don't get deposited in one place. Just a suggestion but otherwise great job guys

@FrankieOffGrid 4 месяца назад

Thanks for the tip! If it doesn’t work then I’ll definitely try it! We’re pretty good at not putting many solids down the sink so hopefully that will help!

@juanitakauffman6336 4 месяца назад

Interesting system. I hope it is successful. The animals loved the channels you built. Very peaceful music.

@lucianeedgington9421 3 месяца назад

Beautiful! I wish you told us what are you planting on the end.

@noreenmadden3028 4 месяца назад

Every time that I see your young dog I'm reminded of a Dingo.I don't mean Miss Rollypolly.Noreen Australia 🦘

@patbuckley4039 4 месяца назад

I had a dog very similar to theirs, and people always asked if she was a dingo😁

@neutonrenda2303 4 месяца назад

Love the battery powered auger, haven't seen that before.👍

@damdekmyhome 4 месяца назад

Great job

@jasonjohnson7077 4 месяца назад

What a great idea for disposal of grey water guys.... Have you thought about a simple grease trap in line?

@corinevink5164 4 месяца назад

Your cat is so funny.

@FrankieOffGrid 4 месяца назад

Haha they’re all pretty funny!

@junco477 4 месяца назад

WELL DONE !!

@madelynparsons9013 4 месяца назад

Loved the bit of northern soul music xx

@susanlauchlan3539 4 месяца назад

I'm 15 minutes in and I still cannot figure out what you are doing with the barrels! ....Okay, a gray water system of sorts. Well done!

@FrankieOffGrid 4 месяца назад

Haha! What’s your guess?

@Muppet_Interfector 4 месяца назад

Nice video work. Not to put a damper on your work but I think that little pipe for the grey water will block. Soap and fats will reduce the size of the pipe with a coating. Best work on a septic tank and use pipes that can be serviced with a snake (rotating flex) it has taken a a few centuries but we now have ways to treat our waste and reduce the chance of disease.

@angelanicholls1704 4 месяца назад

Doing really well now .good luck and your animals are fab xx

@gail2334 4 месяца назад

I sort of love it when you don't tell us what you intend to do or make. You just show us as you go and make us guess..."what the heck???" And then voila, we see the surprise finished project. Beautiful music and nature shots as usual. Good job!

@FrankieOffGrid 4 месяца назад

Thank you so much! Glad you liked it!