Our Homestead Was Missing Something... So We Built THIS!

Our Homestead Was Missing Something... So We Built THIS! hey everyone, we realised our homestead was missing something important - a habitat for bees and pollinators. so this week we're building a special terrace designed specifically for bees to nest and thrive, plus we're showing you another terrace we built a few weeks ago that we haven't yet shared. our off-grid homestead in rural italy is all about creating ecosystem and supporting biodiversity. this episode shows how we're building infrastructure that serves multiple purposes - securing walls, managing water, and most importantly, creating habitat for the wildlife that makes our permaculture food forest possible. this week's homestead projects include: 🐝 building a bee and pollinator terrace 🪨 laying stone retaining walls by hand 💧 connecting a french drain ⛏️ hand-digging and preparing multiple terraces 🌱 growing our own vegetables 🫒 taking our olives to be pressed into oil all work done by hand on our off-grid italian homestead - building terraces that support both our food production and the wild ecosystem around us. every project brings us closer to creating a thriving permaculture paradise in rural italy. thanks for being here, thanks for watching, emily & robi. 00:00 intro: constructing again! 00:55 starting the terrace construction 03:40 day 2 construction 05:56 day 3 construction 08:23 we pressed our olives into oil! 09:04 creating a bamboo terrace 14:14 creating pathways 16:22 our olive harvesting results (lol) 17:39 finishing the terrace walls 19:05 connecting our french drain system 22:32 final touches 23:39 three functions of this terrace explained 📍southern italy | 🏡off-grid living | ☀️100% solar powered #offgrid #offgridhomestead #homesteading #italy #permaculture #offgridliving #regenerativeliving