In this video I’m going to show you how I installed an irrigation system and running water on our off grid land.
Last week we had extremely warm weather blowing in from North Africa with temperatures reaching up to 40 degrees Celsius. We just planted close to 400 new trees and want to give them the best chance to survive the upcoming summer.
That’s why I had to quickly install a new irrigation system so we can provide sufficient water to the trees.
Whilst I was at it I also installed many taps so we never have to walk far to get running water.
This system is NOT finished, but just an emergency installment.
We have placed a submersible well pump in our spring-fed water well. Connected an algae filter and a pressure tank to it. Laid out 40mm pipe on the land, connected drip irrigation and taps on it so we can have water wherever and whenever we need it.
The next steps we will take with our irrigation system is to connect a sand filter, dig trenches and bury the pipes below ground.
For now this system runs on our generator, but in the future we will connect this to a solar system and completely automate it.
Hope you’ll enjoy the video!
Was an unexpected warm week last week with warm weather blowing in from Africa. We had to quickly install a basic irrigation system to ensure we could water our trees quickly and efficiently. This system is NOT done. Check the description box for more information. A lot of people have asked for more explanations on the systems we developed so far, so soon I'll do a 6-month update video in which I'll explain everything we've done up to this moment. Hope you'll like the video!
Great video!
Namasté
you are the man!!! best chanel on YouTube
Great work!
muito bom…parabéns
Great, just one question, shouldn't we install the irrigation system under the mulch?
Amazing.
I can see a big solar project in the future
Man,u r the best!!
A farmer, a plumber, an excavator operator… but can you do a backflip?
You have accomplished a significant amount of work. Since I garden in Texas, US, I understand the importance of water, especially during brutal heat. Congratulations on what you have done and good luck on future projects
Love to see your progress and always learn something new! Thanks for sharing! Do you have a „buy me a coffee“ option? I would like to give you something in return for your videos.
How do you shoot videos of yourself from multiple angles while working at the same time!? It’s amazing
Who is the guy who runs the bobcat in winter clothes in the middle of summer? and second.. How do you manage to do all this with kids at the same time?
Good work you guys! 🙂
Здравствуйте, красоту создаете.
Вы не переживаете, что найдутся какие-то русские которые все по вырывают и украдут все ваши труды?
A solar power setup would be cool. You could collect the water downstream, and when it's sunny (which seems to be all the time, except at night), power an electric pump to move the water uphill. You'll always have pressure and can move water independently of the pump. And you don't need petrol.
Hi. I've bought a small farm with 2 friends and to learn some more on agriculture, no dig sistems and more we've watched all your videos a long time ago. It was a good surprise to see a new video done days ago and a better surprise to realize that you chose our country to come and live and raise your children. We welcome you, wish you all the luck and be waiting for the next updates. This one was funny because we saw so much similarities to our journey so far. Lol…
This place has no choice but to become a paradise under your well qualified hands and stewardship
Well done love your work mate!
Hi Moreno im following your channel at some time now. Congratulations for your choise of buy and living here, Portugal is a great place to achive our dreams.
I will buy my land and start my own project.
My question is if you dont neade someone to help you at your procees now and in your project. Im
Interested in be part of yuor star, work and learn all with you and absorved the knowleds that you have and shares. My project is slow right now, because im waiting one decision of the Tribunal (cort house) that's almost done.
Meanwile, i'd like to go there to help you with all the work you have right now. I'm worker, smart, but above all that, i love work, learning new things, and in your case i have 300% certain that you will feal glad to know the type of person that i'm. As worker, as future partner in business (who knows?) And the most important, the type of my personality, my character, and my way of living.
I love if you give me the oportunity of help you now that all the help are welcome, and with that i will learn tecnics and skills to implant and improve my future land.
Your concept has everything about me, that's exactly what i wanna do. My project will depends the various factors, but the principals and the concept is the same.
If you read this message and think that could be helpful and/or interesting for you, contact me by email jorge.jorgebasso@gmail.com
And then we change contacts to speak personaly, ok?
I haven't slept since your last video! Wondering how you'd water all those trees!!
I think it is necessary for you to get an outdoor microphone wind muff, it is really hard to watch your videos because the raw sound of the wind in the mic is really annoying to hear. I like your content and video quality though! Just the wind sound is bad.
Hey Moreno, I would like to make a request for short captions during the video as to what exactly your doing or maybe more of that sweet accent voice over, either way love the channel and I have learned so much. Thank you
Lovely system! A nice future addition would be to put a large tank up high on your plot, so you can fill it with solar during the day and have gravity fed irrigation at any time you need it.