My Story (or how I bought a farm having never previously set foot in one).
The film crew from Aragon TV visited us and we gave them the grand tour!
I will never forget the day we saved this dog from certain death. Discarded in a pit full of dead pigs we helped get her out so she can start a new life as our princess.
I have been harvesting cabbages, cauliflowers and broccolis all winter and now it’s time to start clearing it out to prepare it for the summer growing season.
Spending time with animals, looking at them, seeing how they eat and how they move is very relaxing. Enjoy this winter goat walk in the mountains of Spain and reduce…
Congratulation Sybil on a perfect delivery of twins. In this video you will see the kids born and follow them from birth until seven days old. You will see their…
Properties that have water are so much more expensive! If you’re looking to buy a property off-grid and you’re on a tight budget you may find yourself asking, what if…
The Freedom Farm Guinea Pig Rescue rehomes unloved, unwanted and neglected Guinea Pigs in a peaceful outdoor setting where they can enjoy nature. Because our budget is tight we build…
Here at the Freedom Farm Permaculture Homestead in Northern Spain we have 100 olive trees and 100 almond trees. The olives and the almonds that we produce are 100% organic but even better than that, they’re 100% SUSTAINABLE! What does that mean? Well, firstly it means that we do not irrigate our farm using water stolen from natural sources like rivers and lakes. Secondly, we do not plough up the ground, we chop and drop. This helps to enrich the soil, it’s great for biodiversity and the mulch helps keep moisture in the ground. Lastly, but not least, we are making our own fertilizer from human poop which we turn into compost using the Humanure method. Every year at the end of summer we go out with our nets and long sticks to beat the almonds off the trees. We’re doing as much as possible by hand to reduce our reliance on gasoline. In this video I show you how we harvest the almonds without machines and how we process them by hand.
It makes no sense to me that we take perfectly good drinking water, mix it with our poo, flush it down the toilet, and then pay millions of monies to separate that water from that poo in an attempt to make it clean again. Here at the Freedom Farm we are pursuing a plan I like to call RE-POOPULATING THE EARTH and it’s the opposite of what we used to do back home. It takes marginally more time jthan simply flushing but it’s also natural, chemical free, and a literal gift to the earth, it’s called Humanure. In this video I’m going to show you how we poop off-grid and how we turn that poop into valuable compost for our garden!
Gypsum is one of the most ubiquitous and easy to find rocks on the planet and we’ve been mining it for thousands of years to use in art, medicine and construction. The Egyptians even used it for their pyramids! This week at the Freedom Farm permaculture Homestead Off-Grid in Spain we’re using gypsum that we mined on our own property to make plaster of Paris with the end goal of making a homemade DIY emergency survival plaster cast. Hopefully we never have to use it for real but at least we know how!