This Is What We Want Our Kids To Remember
Building a no-dig vegetable garden on our off-grid homestead in New Zealand sounded simple enough… until we realised everything standing in the way. After spending the last few years transforming raw rural land into our family homestead, we’re finally taking another big step towards producing our own food and becoming more self-sufficient. But before we can plant a single seed, there’s a lot of work to do. In this episode, we fence stock out of our future house section, build a new woodshed, move and stack mountains of firewood, clear land for an orchard, tackle invasive possums, and begin creating our first no-dig vegetable gardens. Along the way, the whole family gets involved as we work together towards a shared goal — building a more self-sufficient future on our off-grid property in rural New Zealand. Check out the full playlist of our off-grid New Zealand journey in chronological order: • The Beginning of Our Off-Grid Journey In this episode: • Off-grid living in New Zealand • DIY off-grid homestead build • Building a no-dig vegetable garden • No-dig gardening for beginners • Growing food on a homestead • Building a woodshed • Post and rail fencing • Homestead development • Self-sufficient family living • Rural New Zealand lifestyle • Family homesteading project • Orchard planning and planting • Off-grid family life with kids • Raw land development in New Zealand • Homesteading in rural New Zealand Thank you so much for supporting our family and following our off-grid homesteading journey. Every fence, every tree, every garden bed, and every project brings us one step closer to the dream we're building here on the whenua.

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A Real Morning On Our Rural New Zealand Lifestyle Block

Off Grid- 3 Years Building Our Dream Life - Before and After

I Bought My Dad His Dream House At 21 (He Cried)

My Garden Was Abandoned for 15 Years. I Fixed It in 7 Months.

What Our Island Garden Looks Like — For Realistic Homesteaders

The Moment They Saw Their New Catio

Our FIRST ALASKA COSTCO SUPPLY RUN in a YEAR!

American Shocked: Why Europe Farms Better Than the USA

I Had To Let Go

We Started With Nothing... THIS Is What We Built In 2 Years (TIMELAPSE)

Our Off-Grid Farm is Finally Coming Together

Update on LOTS of Garden Experiments - Some Successful, Others Not

HOW Long does it take us to do chores? #countryside #farming #chicken

3 Years later, the renovation is FINISHED!

We never expected SO MUCH Mud in rural New Zealand

7 Years in Germany & Everyone's Leaving. I Still Can't Believe Why.

We Bought $10 000 Homestead with NO running Water

