We built a fence from invasive Mimosa (Acacia) in ONE Day and the builders arrived early!
If you’d like to know how we made the Churchkhela, check this episode https://youtu.be/FD9-iMrlzm4
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So the boots work quite well for deterring the Javeli. (Wild Boar) However, we’re not really comfortable relying just on a pair of boots to stop the wild boar coming in and destroying our vegetable gardens. So today we’re extending our fencing, building a bit of a new fence out of some Mimosa which
Needs to come down because it’s invasive. Over here we’ve used some old doors and some logs to close this part off. We’ve got Maggie and James here. We’ve got one day to make as much progress as we can. Four people working on it. We’ll make some significant progress in a day.
We made the churchkhel back in September I think. And here it is. We’ve saved it for Christmas. Meraid is going to cut it and see what it’s like and share it with our friends. It’s done better than the beetroot! It’s still good. All right. So we got to find a bit
Of string in the middle? Mmm very good. Mmm walnutty. And grapy juicy. This is our last coffee with friends on the Veranda in its current state. Does that look about ready? Well, we’ve done a fantastic amount of work today. I didn’t actually think when we started that we’d finish this fence today, but we do have a finished fence. How long is it Meraid? 20 Metres. 20 Metres of fence in one day.
When I got the call last night that works were going to start this morning, I got up early, and I was over here ready. Well not quite on their tail, you know. I thought well I’ll make a cup of coffee. Well Rui doesn’t take sugar and Davide does.
So I gave Rui his coffee and then I gave Davide his – with sugar. After a sip or two, he told me that I’d given him salt. Well you see that’s because Dan and I don’t really
Take sugar. We don’t take sugar at all, but we had it here anyway just in case somebody else did. So I threw it out. Rinsed out the cup and gave him a second cup from a different container. And you’ll never believe it, but that container also had salt in it.
By this stage I had no more coffee left for myself, so I made another cup of coffee found another tub with sugar in it and only this time he didn’t he didn’t let me do it, he did it himself. Anyway there you go, I started off not exactly on the best footing.
Maybe not the start you were expecting but this is really important, cuz this is where our electricity and water will be going. So eventually it’ll be clad in schist so it won’t look so ugly. After three years of coming, no house yet. Hopefully, next time. Bye Coming up next week the build starts.
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I saw another YT person take great care not to have the cut mimosa touching the soil at all as they said that is how it regrows from any cut piece and why it is so invasive. Sure you had considered that but chipping mimosa might be problematic ?
Brilliant method of using invasive🏆
I know the mimosas are invasive but I can imagine the lovely smell when they flower. Must be lovely. Good job on the boar fence😊
Everyone needs friends like that! Bravo! ❤ my hat goes off to you both for your perseverance and ingenuity!! What a marvelous life you lead. Good luck with the build. Can't wait to see it! ❤
Great friends, great job on the fence and wonderful that they are beginning building your new home.
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys, good work guys 👍😁.
I used sugar by mistake instead of salt..interesting taste to my soup. Great job on fence
Thanks for sharing a new video.Hope the new year is going well for you guys. Interesting footage of the javalis being stopped by your boot. Hope the fence proves effective. A lot of effort. The coffee story was funny ! M looking forward to watching ur progress in 2024
Really looking forward to build
Good luck
You deserve all the happiness your working towards, must be fantastic self gratification in all your hard work not forgetting the lovely people helping you along the way, a fantastic watch.
Very creative!
That’s such a clever and inexpensive way to make a fence.
So nice to have friends help with the big job of getting a fence built!
Better get a container and put a big label on in saying SUGAR 😂
We have secretly been watching your channel for a liitle while now and we love it. We are fellow homesteaders in West Cork, so of course we had to tune in to watch the fellow Irish cailin in Portugal and of course Dan😜
Loved you hedge laying this week, hoping to do a bit of that here soon. Super excited to see your house build, we are nearing the end of our external work on our house, however a load to do inside yet. Anyway should have written this months ago, but we love watching you guys, slainte 😚
I love those fence and it is brilliant to make it using live trees for the posts.
Nice progress again this episode.
Good luck on the build and hopefully the fence is high enough.
For guests I had sugar cubes. Much harder to mix up.
Uhau é de gente assim que Portugal precisa ,mas está tudo sem vontade! Parabéns vocês são exemplares. Gosto muito de vocês .
Really like the fencing!
Fence made out of branches and leaves turned into mulch, thank you for the conservation. Looking forward for the building to commence. Best Wishes.
How exciting that the building is starting 🎉
What’s a trick with the boot? Didn’t quite catch…
Great, natural, practical fence.
I see I'm not the only one excited about your build. Here's to the next episode!
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I have made the same mistake with salt/sugar mix up on the first day of a new job as a junior catering manager for a prestigious london private members club. You have my sympathy.
I'm amazed that the boots worked as well as they did. Congrats on your new build. Great use of Mimosa!
Excelente trabalho com a vedação 😊os javalis estão a dar muitos prejuízos aos agricultores em portugal.
Fico a aguardar o início da Obra 😊…mas por favor não ponha mais sal no café 😂😂
Love the woven fence, great use of materials from land. I'm looking forward to the build, 😊
The boar looked pretty afraid of those boots😂😂. Good luck with build! Look forward to following along😊