Renovating our Abandoned Off Grid Farm We PAID £12.5k 

Love your Aussie jokes. Don't let negative people get you down. Block them. You guys are great and living your dream. God bless you both.❤

I LOVE my clothesline. The suns warmth and the fresh air on clean sheets is one of summers best gifts. And when you lay your head on the pillowcases at bedtime oh it’s lovely 🥰

Excellent video! That was really terrific of you to mow your friends land!

Praying for positive news. Love your energy and optimism and attitude. As you say if it’s God plans then…… Meantime your fans are still here hoping for the best. Ottawa Canada 🇨🇦👵🐶🥰

Piece by piece that beautiful homestead is emerging into an adorable place to be, working together to ensure it happens is the only way! Nice work on cutting your friends grass, every little bit counts when working in an off-grid community. Keep the faith, and looking forward to next weeks news, look after each other!

Your editing and music choices are better than many people who have done this for hundreds of episodes. I was excited to see all your fruit. I love seeing the great progress you're making. Yes, Baby steps. Still, add them up and you've come so far. You should be proud

Dan full marks, we all love the princess, you are so so so so blessed!

So nice to see you helping out your friends 😉 cant wait to sit around that fire pit.

Two of my favorites on RU-vid, glad to see you two crack on ( as you guys put it ). Please don’t ever change I’ve unsubscribed from You tubers I follow here in the U.S because after they have gotten a large following then they really change. I can honestly say that the ones I follow that are from the U.K they don’t change. As I’ve told you before Laura I enjoy the banter from you and Dan and I look forward to the weekly video’s. God Bless.

Pro-tip: I always tell people starting out homesteading on youtube who get to the cement mixing stage to use a Garden Hoe to mix when using a wheel barrow. The angle of the blade allows for the right weight for mixing the cement with rocks and water together sooooo much easier than a traditional shovel. Every new homesteader who's taken my advice can't thank me enough and have replied back to me. It's worth the purchase. When you start doing side walks at 4x4 blocks at a time, you'll be glad you had one to mix with, and you'll mix faster. Bonus Pro-tip: When you get to the 4x4 walk way block stage, buy Pea-rock as a base, only needs to be thinly spread where the ground is just barely visible but mostly covered, and you won't need to buy expensive rebar. The pea-rock is round and acts like a roman arch on the underside and the cement won't crack if it's 3 inches thick or thicker. If you don't use pea-rock, it will crack without rebar. Pea-rock is far cheaper than rebar.

Altert ....Dear Laura... Introduction suggestion said with hugs and lots of respect for you both ...❤ We started with zero knowledge but over the last year have gained many new skills ... Our RU-vid friends are all routing for us and are excited weekly to see first hand news from our homestead. 😁📰🤗🎉🎊

Well done. I bet you wish you had a trailer as well as the Ranger. The outdoor kitchen is looking good so far. A tip re: rats un the shower building - stuff any gaps with steel wool. They aren't supposed to like chewing on it and might help keep them out. Otherwise just keep setting traps.....

Evening Dan & Laura, you did well for a first time concrete mixing and laying a pad. Its not easy work especially when getting up that early! Dont take any notice from the trolls. I was expecting to see your friend in the outhouse clearing the way for you hahaha What a nice gesture and surprise for your friends upon their return to see all the grass cut for them, as you said working together helps make for an easier way of life separate and it would eventually wear people down. Your good friends to have. Till next week. Xx

Just started following you two darlings yesterday and it's been amazing watching you guys deal with all sorts of obstacles and setbacks but you still hanging on and hopeful❤am sincerely sorry for your loss,am hopeful that the babies will come ❤Dan cracks me up all the time with his funny jokes and happy attitude, you are a very hard working strong young man 👏👏👏 Beautiful Laura, simple girl with lots of wisdom and cheeky when we least expect it 🥰🥰🥰am on video 40!!!,9 more to go!!!Let the haters opinionate they got nothing better to do with their lives 😊I can't wait to see what the future holds for you guys on your "Land"❤❤❤ Nairobi is cheering you on 🎉🎉🎉

Aww guys can I say I absolutely love your chanel so funny, down to earth and wow what you guys do is amazing I love your ability to see the future plans I cannot wait for every episode while I sit in rainy Scotland makes my day I am sending you both blessings of abundance on your wonderful journey ,you are truly manifesting a life of tranquility. Xx❤

I absolutely love all of the fruit trees doing so well! That must feel so good knowing that you had a hand in them producing so much. I look forward to your videos every week! I can’t wait to see what you tackle next! Thank you for continuing to share your lives with us.

Thanks!

Neighbours helping each other sounds like a Portuguese thing , you guys are a lovely couple ❤

Congratulations on 50K Subscribers 🥂🥳🎉would using google translate at the builders merchants help you out. You are both doing amazingly well. 🥰🤗

Laura & Dan, hello you sweet and lovely couple! I loved the video! The blessings of the fruits and future harvests warmed my heart. What a joyous feeling seeing your hard work produce so much. I totally agree with what Dan said about buying machinery for the home. The concrete slab looks great and like the way it turned out. The troll hunt was way to funny. Beware the trolls. (Dramatic music plays). Just love 'em and pray for 'em. Your sweet souls going to help your friends was epic. What a loving servanthood and living out God's grace. I cannot express in words the joy and peace I get from watching your videos. Your smiles, laughter, real talks, and truly doing the Lord's work is inspiring and healing. Lovely, lovely souls. I am so happy I was blessed to find you. I pray for your perseverance, great discernment, strength, peace, and joy. I pray your love for one another is like Christ's love for us: Strong, never ending, and long suffering. So much love to you both, so much! God bless you mightily! Colossians 3:23-24 NKJV "And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ." 2 Timothy 2:6-7 NKJV "The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops. Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things. The next sunset you share please say a prayer for me for guidance from our Lord. :-)

Looking forward to seeing your outdoor kitchen! Have a great week, Laura ❤️

Congrats 50000 SUBS well done all the best from London Ontario Canada🙈🙉🙊see you next week!!!!!

Another great video and more done. Great for you two and it also appears that you have neighbours who are all also working the land. We’ve always mixed our own cement also.

The thing I like about your channel is that you always have a go at things and learn from your mistakes. You two are going to have a bumper crop of your fruits with all the pruning you have done so far!! Great work on the concreting too!!

Great job on the footing for the kitchen. And glad you have a support group of friends and neighbors, so important. And as another person commented, great job on the video-music choreography! Here's high hopes you get the residency results you want!

Hello Laura and Dan you are surely getting things together starting on the outdoor kitchen laying a concrete pad also helping your friends by cutting there grass you both never stop I was going to say how about investing on a small second hand ride on mower but maybe in the future as you have enough work to be getting on with waiting for the next video stay safe friends

Nice one guys, I find it easier to mix concrete and cement in 3 gorilla tubs tip from one to the next till dry ingredients are mixed then add water to about half the mix and finish off with a spade for concrete and a trowel for cement. 😃

Wow, I'm so glad you started working on your out door kitchen, it's going to look absolutely amazing when it's done, yayyyy ❤❤❤❤

I wish you two the best off grid life ever. Many moons ago I lived off grid too in Spain also renovating and building a finca. It was my dream home. Family matters made me move to the UK. If I were young i'd do it all over again, best time of my life.

Hello, you two. I am glad that seeing your land when you 1st got back ( couple of episodes back) didn't make you quit. So the work on the outdoor kitchen has started in earnest. Great stuff. I like the idea of the old man goals. Seeing yourselves old on your land,is what ideally want, cause then you will be Portugeese residents, with the barn having been lived in for years. Your farm would not only be bearing fruit but you will have yohr veggies growing. Who knows you could be giving food to another young couple who had just bought land and had the same dreams as yourself. Oh yes Dan and by then you would be fluent in the lingo.😅 Anyway back to present day, Laura what was that courgette thing you made, fancy sharing the recipe please?. Nice of you to cut back and look after your friends property. Good to pay things forward. The music this week was particularly good. I look forward to next weeks ( in reality cause i am so late watching it will be tomorrow). It will be a welcome distraction as having my knee replaced on Thursday morning. Anyway time for me to head into the shower (rat free) x

I want to let you know that your grapes are not only edible but also excellent for making wine. All the best to both here in Portugal!

Hi you lovely two, great to see all the progress and moving forward. I so so hope you will get your visa's!! Little tip here from me about the concrete. A base like that should be at least 10 to 15cm thick and reinforced with a rebar framing to prevent braking or cracking, otherwise great job. 🙏🏻

You should build a a pair off umpire tennis seats .For sky watching.

Howdy Laura and Dan. You two are so nice. Helping your neighbors out is so nice. Wish the world would think like you two, would be a much better place. Hey, good job on the concrete work. You did an amazing job for being so new to that type of work. For a little while, I thought Laura was going to watch the concrete set. Haha. You two are amazing and so funny. Keep up the great work. Blessings to you both.

Laura celebrating small things is to celebrate life! Successful wash day, is 🎉🎉 we must find joy and satisfaction in many moments everyday.

You guys are working super hard and the heat doesn't help! Every little bit is progress. Hang in there and keep following your dreams!

Sending love and prayers from the UK 🇬🇧 👏💜👍🙏🤗♿️ #ForeverPromotingPositiveDisabilityAwareness

just a little advice from a builder . put some braces from your beam to the posts at a 45 degree angle for strength against wind

Always awesome! You're getting the job done, and that's all that matters! And, from where I'm sitting, everything looks fantastic!

I am thinking Laura did a heck of a job leveling out the cement with a sand shovel. I think it would be helpful if you had proper tools and a sand shovel is not usually used to level cement. Also, the cement looked very thick and that makes it harder to scread, or another word for leveling it out. I actually thought that you got lucky had had not put stakes to hold the form in place and very lucky that it did stay in shape, because those 4 stones placed to do the job would hardly do the job if the cement was deeper and larger in size. Some times hard work and a lot of luck gets us through the project, but I dont think I would count on it every time. You two are fun to watch and of course hoping you do well.

Great progress! Teamwork makes the dream work! 😉👍

Well done. It’s hard work mixing concrete in a wheelbarrow in the English climate. It must be so much harder in the hot weather of Portugal. I’m looking forward to seeing your outside kitchen develop. From my experience, it is always a dog or cat that leaves is mark in fresh concrete!

You guys ROCK. Just getting ready to pour a pad of concrete, watching Laura do it was helpful! Lighter colors helps with the heat, so white T-shirts might help. Stay safe and healthy, and best of luck!

Make sure to take some rest days to recharge and relax and enjoy. Best wishes to you both.

Love your attitude. Do it your way. Faster isn't always better and better isn't always better either right

Hi Laura and Dan, I enjoyed your video -thank you. I look forward to seeing you build your outdoor kitchen and I hope that you achieve your goal to secure residency. All the best

Yay! I was so happy to see a new video. I’m excited to see how your kitchen comes along.

Love you guys you are so positive you certainly are getting things sorted. Nice to see you helping your friends out. Have you got your residency sorted yet.?❤️❤️❤️

Bonjour les amis. Petit à petit l'oiseau fait son nid. Les vôtres il est de plus en plus beau. Très bon travail je vous souhaite plein de bonheur.🕊🌹

💙 💙 💙 You're doing a great job but it's easier to smooth concrete if you make your leveling stick long enough to rest on the form boards each side. Then I tap on the form boards with a hammer to jiggle out bubbles that will weaken the slab and helps the mix self-level. Cheers!

Laura and Dan you, are doing a great job and I prefer if you can do it the old fashioned way, as you say it does take time but in the end I think one gets the satisfaction of knowing you did it yourself. I loved your observation post, have a great day.

When at control headquarters, please identify as Maxwell Smart and Agent 99...😎

Last time I see a video by you both you were heading back to the UK ,glad to see you back ,stay safe in the heat

Great job, concrete looked fab! 😊

Impressive base building skills, also the video editing skills continue to come along nicely as well.

You both are so comfortable with the camera now. Great editing all round. have you thought of asking a neighbour with sheep to graze the land. ?You're Such a hard-working, lovely couple. And the fact your fellow northerners is the cherry 🍒 🎂 😁

Laura and Dan i love so much you have such good energy and you live in a place that for me is beautiful and has good energy , stay strong step by step you will make your dreams come true God bless you a lot and always in my country which is also yours , everything will work out right❤❤🙏🙏🌷🌺

Warms my heart to see the short clip showing the harvest improvements from last year. Congratulations on all your heard work. Love this so much

Well done guys, slow and steady wins the race

Every day is a little more progress and well done to you both for your work ethic. Incidentally will your serpent rat catcher be appearing next week or was it an Instagram exclusive?

You're right, it's the little things that bring us joy, things we've forgotten to take joy in. I spent 3 hours looking at a basking shark in a cove in Cornwall last night, fabulous.

Looking Good you Two. Be Safe and stay Strong.

Awesome video guys! Good to see you working on your dream 😀 You know the world is full of wonderfull helpfull people, allot of keyboardwarriors too. Dont let it get to you at all. I am sure allot of people are commenting trying to be helpfull but since its the internet they word it totally un-personal. Meaning they come over in a very negative way and obviously they can be, but im sure "in person"they would word it very different and maybe even help in manual labout. (obviously they arent there and wont be but you get my drift). Just keep on doing what you are doing, life is precious and all about learning.

Rat/Mice issue: I just watched a video about ridding your dwelling of rats & mice. 1) Using a cheep container with a top lid 2) cut a hole in the side approx 1 inch diameter 3) Mix equal parts of baking soda & dry corn muffin mix together in the container (4 rounded tablespoons). If you can find cornbread mix with honey, that's better. 5) leave it where you find rat/mouse poop. Why it works, rats/mice can not burp or fart! So they eat it, go back to their nest & die because it expands in their gut which has stomach acid. The baking soda is what kills them. The corn meal is the attractant. Zero harm to other critters. It's not poison, and it's cheep!

your getting there slowly but surely ,coming on very nicely, great work

Congrats on the 50k subs 🎉

That was so nice of u

Great team work guys . I’m no Troll but the Geordie/ Ozzie accent needs work 😂. Keep cheering our week up .

Hiya you two , such another nice down to earth video and great funny moments. Keep up the good work ,your learning as you go good for you .Name and shame trolls lol . Hope your getting on further with your permits .👍👍

That was a great start and sion well be done thank you for sharing and your time was really great never miss a video and can't wait for next video

Remember to watch for Rattle snakes in the Tall Grass, they kill.

i love outdoor kitchens so i am really looking forward to your build! Thanks for sharing.

Hi guys I really don't want to shoot you down, but your concrete base has a good chance of cracking you should have put re-enforcing mesh at the bottom, or you could have used a type of fibreglass petals mixed in the concrete. well, fingers crossed good luck.

That kitchen is gonna be awesome you two love your videos so much so enjoyable

Looks great good job and good choice on the music. One step at a time and keep on keepin on.

Sois muy valientes y nos gustan mucho vuestros videos . Seguid asi un abrazo a los dos

A bit of labour intensive ahead but it is all worth it ,little by little the homestead will look fantastic no need to rush and leave some room for enjoyment while making projects as it is much needed when dealing with very physical work ,lovely to see some progress each time ,thanks

My sister stays in a hot climate, getting up an hour before the sun is the way to go!

In Spain they always used to do a little Siesta in the afternoon. After the work and activities in the morning. I guess they also do that in Portugal. It makes sense during the hottest time of the day.

I hang my clothes out as well in the spring and fall they smell so good . GOOD Job working that concrete. Another job well done guy’s stay hydrated stay safe.❤️

Well done yous !! You are such an inspiration. Fingers crossed it all works out ❤

Great job on the slab guys. Looks like it’s gonna get hot and sticky……. On the laaaaaaaaaaand 😂💪

Love the music choice, when you were making and laying concrete. Great choice.

Love the background music 💕

50k is beer time. You should deliberately do something strange just to throw the trolls off the scent before they get within 400m. It'll be a giggle.

I was only thinking the same thing to myself about washing...not weird at all...loving your videos...#lifegoals

Good to see work going ahead. Hope you don’t mind us asking but how do you guys afford to keep on going when you don’t seem to have outside work? Good luck with your residency 🇦🇺

Great video and congratulations on 50k🎉🎊👏

Well done guys!!

Thanks for the video. 🌻

Really nice to c how things r coming along. Great job guys!

Animo, esta quedando genial 😃

Another great vlog, full of enthusiasm from you both ❤❤

Great episode guys😉

You two are making great strides! 👍🏼

Great music! You two are doing an awesome job.

Good Luck! Keep going

Excellent video, thanks. looking forward to seeing whats next...

Love watching you 2 love your sense of humour good luck

50k subs. congrats!