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Our Journey to a Simpler & More Eco Friendly Life
in Rural Portugal

Follow along as we renovate and restore a dilapidated Portuguese farm into a eco friendly homestead.

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Eco and Beyond

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Eco-friendly living in central Portugal. Follow our journey as we restore and modernise an old manor-style house and farm land back to its former glory. Tune in for renovation vlogs, veg growing, recipes and much more. For more eco inspiration and resources check out our website at ecoandbeyond.co

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Join our ‘Eco Club’ and surround yourself with a bunch of like-minded, positive people working on all sorts of interesting eco projects: https://www.ecoandbeyond.co/apply In this Episode ----------------------- We've dug our trenches for a French drain, grey water harvesting and rain water harvesting. It took a while (double the six weeks we originally estimated!) and it was pretty exhausting. But, we're one step closer to solving the damp and water related issues in our old Portuguese stone farm house. Join us for a project that started in mid September 2021 and finished in early January 2022. Because you probably have better things to do than watch us dig in real time (although we've included some of that for context), this video is significantly sped up. Enjoy 🙂 Bits and Pieces ------------------------- Here's a list of tools and some other products that we use and love: US: https://www.amazon.com/shop/ecoandbeyond UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/ecoandb... 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐫: Order your NIF online and receive it in just one week. Or if you need a Portuguese bank account for your visa application they can help there too. Get €10 off your order using code ECOANDBEYOND - https://bordr.io ** Disclaimer: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links, which means that if you choose to make a purchase, we will earn a small commission. This commission comes at no additional cost to you. The Story So Far --------------------------- My name’s Guy. My wife Kylie and I bought an abandoned stone farmhouse and almost an acre of land in the autumn of 2020 and have been slowly (but surely) restoring it and bringing it back to its former glory. We're renovating the house (doing most of the work ourselves) and rejuvenating the land and we're living off grid in a large bell tent while we complete the works with a goal of building a semi-self-sufficient homestead. Stay tuned to see what we get up to and follow our progress. Subscribe to follow our journey. -------------------------------------------------- FB: https://www.facebook.com/ecoandbeyond Insta: https://www.instagram.com/ecoandbeyond/ Website: https://www.ecoandbeyond.co/

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The Big Drainage Dig – EPIC Timelapse – 12 Weeks of Digging by Hand – Portugal Property Renovation

Eco and Beyond 37.2K views January 15, 2022 9:00 am

We have a problem. We have lots and lots and LOTS of oranges. We have 7 mature trees on our small farm in central Portugal and they produce hundreds (or maybe thousands!) of fruit. We've got naval oranges, mandarins, tangerines, some kind of bitter orange (maybe Seville?) and we struggle to keep up with all the fruit dropping from the trees. We've had some great suggestions of things to make with them but we've found the best way to use up a whole bunch is to turn them into a delicious tasting solution: orange wine. Join us in this foodie episode where we juice over 50kg of various types of orange to make 25 litres of early-harvest orange wine. --- Here's a list of tools and some other products that we use and love: US: https://www.amazon.com/shop/ecoandbeyond UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/ecoandbeyond 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐫: Order your NIF online and receive it in just one week. Or if you need a Portuguese bank account for your visa application they can help there too. Get €10 off your order using code ECOANDBEYOND - https://bordr.io ** Disclaimer: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links, which means that if you choose to make a purchase, we will earn a small commission. This commission comes at no additional cost to you. The Story So Far --------------------------- My name’s Guy. My wife Kylie and I bought an abandoned stone farmhouse and almost an acre of land in the autumn of 2020 and have been slowly (but surely) restoring it and bringing it back to its former glory. We're renovating the house (doing most of the work ourselves) and rejuvenating the land and we're living off grid in a large bell tent while we complete the works with a goal of building a semi-self-sufficient homestead. Stay tuned to see what we get up to and follow our progress. Subscribe to follow our journey. -------------------------------------------------- FB: https://www.facebook.com/ecoandbeyond Insta: https://www.instagram.com/ecoandbeyond/ Website: https://www.ecoandbeyond.co/

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Juicing 500 Oranges to Make Orange Wine – Episode 053

Eco and Beyond 29.2K views January 1, 2022 9:00 am

What to do with a trench full of water? Empty it! With more rain on the way we wanted to empty our french drain trench before it overflowed and potentially caused our septic tank area to flood. But we don't have a pump and just wanted a quick and dirty solution. Here's what we came up with

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Lo-Fi Solution to Draining "The Moat"

Eco and Beyond 1.7M views December 26, 2021 9:00 am

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