LONELY & COLD OFF GRID // 2 YEARS in WILDERNESS on RAW LAND - FIRE for FOOD & SUN ENERGY - Ep. 125

[Music] [Music] point [Music] so [Music] okay so i just finished up my workout i did like a two and a half mile run i did arms and abs and i'm hot and exhausted and today jake and i are gonna fire up the hippie hot tub um and before i get it all warmed up i think i'm gonna do one last cold plunge i think this will be like my fifth time doing it and i absolutely love doing a cold plunge i can't believe that i haven't been doing this a lot sooner i've really been enjoying the cold plunges um i don't know it just does something to me it just like wakes me up and gives me a burst of energy and motivation and and all that so um so i'm gonna go ahead and heat it up so then jake and i can enjoy a jacuzzi soak tonight um which will be really nice all right let's do this i'm gonna do this while i'm still hot for my workout so as you can see there is no smoke coming out of the chimney so that means it's not on it is it is cold but what is really nice is it's in full sun right now so the sun is just hitting this spot really nicely the sun's not really like that warm right now at the moment but i'm gonna do this before i get too cold and hopefully i don't back out um okay let's just do this let's just do it oh ah your turn briana are you ready you ready okay so now i'm gonna head inside dry off make some juice and light this thing up and warm it up and which will be so much more enjoyable on puma yeah yeah are you ready it's your turn this so [Music] so so [Music] hey nicole and i did pizza last night and uh we did some other dinner type things but uh today we wanted to do some more baking so we lit it up again two days in a row and as it's getting warm i wanted to take this chance to answer a few your questions i see in the comments here on youtube that are recurring that are the same questions over and over again about the wood stove a lot of you guys um like to see us cooking this and you'd like to see the series where we built it over two and a half months i thought it would take me 10 days but it did not two and a half months and all my skin has now grown back it was definitely a masonry job and anytime i see any kind of earthen project from this point on i have a lot of respect and sympathy for the people that built it one question that keeps happening over and over again is uh don't you get wood ash or fire in the food and it's just not true i mean if you put a pizza in there i've already taken the fire and i've moved it to the back and i've let it die down to a comfortable size and we keep the brick on the ground here in the front where we cook the pizzas clean so i have a cotton mop and i wash the brick and i scrape out any of the ash or soot and then i'm cooking on a clean surface and as the fire pops and sparks like that sure it may throw some you know charcoal inside the food but aren't you guys brushing your teeth with charcoal all over your toothpaste aren't you doing charcoal infused water and i feel like humans are getting too weak and soft and they're forgetting their caveman cave woman roots and how we have evolved to eat by fire and this is an oven that is fueled by fire it's cooked by fire but it's built out of earth and clay and sand and rock very caveman cave woman's style of cooking and then folks say once the fire is done doesn't the pizza oven just get cold and die out well that's not true if you watch this build it what you're seeing now is the finished product you're not seeing all the layers the layers the layers that went into building this the layers on the ground on the floor and the layers of the dome that all work together to insulate this oven so we have layers of sand and layers of glass bottles and layers of perlite and layers of clay and brick the fire brick and layers of cob and they all work together to insulate the heat and keep it inside the dome so right now i mean it's really hot in there another question we get from people that didn't watch the whole series they kind of jumped in halfway through is you know isn't it too hot to cook a pie or too hot to cook a pizza well pizza is the first thing that we cook when the fire's raging so we got this oven last time to 1100 degrees 1100 degrees and the pizza was cooking in like two minutes and then when we're done cooking like 10 or 20 pizzas because we like to have pizza for breakfast the next morning why heat it up and go to all that work unless we're going to cook a lot of serious food then we let the fire die down and we wait until the temperature in the oven is a appropriate temperature for the next food item so if we need it to be like 400 degrees for cookies or you know a pie then we wait an hour until the temperature dies down to that degree if we need to be lower for like dehydrating herbs then we wait till it dies down into the hundreds for that and um so you can cook a myriad of different foods depending on how you have either amp the fire up or how you let the fire die down and right now like in the back there it's about 750 degrees and the side it's about 600 i also know how hot it is by the color of the brick so right now all the brick is black from the previous time we used it the the fire created this black soot on the fire brick inside the dome and what i find is that once the heat inside the oven gets about 800 degrees or a little more than 800 the black soot on the fire brick turns white and when that white happens i know i'm ready to start cooking pizza because that's the temperature at which the soot is burning up and that's kind of why the pizza the food stays healthy and clean and why the oven stays clean is that heat just disinfects it and cleans it up and makes it really amazing right now you guys can't feel but the oven is cool to the touch there's no warmth at all on the outside so i know that it's heating up that brick it's heating up that perlite it's heating up that cob and once the fire goes away and the door goes back on then the oven doesn't shoot that heat into the air it brings it all back inside the dome and also the floor is important we have the fire brick resting on top of sand on glass bottles so the air space inside those glass bottles warms up and then when the fire goes out those bottles release that heat and it goes back into the sand and back into the fire brick and back into the dome so we get five six seven hours plus of cooking and then once i'm done cooking i build a little stack of wood inside there for the next time so that it can be drying out all night so the wood is dry and ready to ignite for the next cooking let's go inside there and see if nicole has the cookies and the bread ready to go here you want to try a little bit see if you like it did you just say is it good i love peanut butter the noodles are really really tasty good is the oven almost ready yeah it's ready alright so so [Applause] so [Applause] uh what do you got there some bread ready for the oven you put on the counter okay thanks babe you're welcome bye okay it's still hot for baking so uh we made our first like quiche it's gonna cook at like 550 600 degrees what do you think oh that cooks fast cause i'm hungry hit it with the gun let's see what the temp is for them five i would say it's gonna cook pretty damn fast it also smells so good you think it's done um no it's still pretty runny in the middle it's got the vegan cheese on it yeah probably put it in there for a little bit longer cool i just hope the top cooks [Music] how's it look it looks and it smells very good looks great it's perfect it's really good i bet this crispy part is really good too popped out of my mouth i saw that yeah we cooked it to perfection here yeah i'm glad we left it in a little bit longer it looks cooked to perfection careful it's hot i told you oh my god like burning your mouth holy crap really good very hot very fresh but it was good you got it's good wow it's our new breakfast from now on yeah so so it's bread time [Music] so i'm trying the two jars of water instead of the wet towel this time to see what happens this one smells so good bears are starting to wake up too for the season ever since they can smell it smells good it looks good the last one's a big daddy hey you want to stay warm you're sleeping in there tonight cuddle up that little ball okay enjoy your bread i'll see you 800 pounds later we cook so much bread today sloppy cinnabons our first time ever trying to make them so yeah we'll get better next time but they're going to taste delicious i can tell okay so now it's uh about 4 20. perfect peanut butter cookies feels like bomb here here we go are you going bro come here up dance with me all right oh that really did it's cold um wow oh cinnabons i have to eat all these that's yours they need raisins and walnuts and stuff it's good but it's yeah it's something well let me try like more in it's good it's just the sauce is a little too liquidy i think okay so next time i need to reduce it down a little bit to more of an icing consistency it's good though in your turn i'm gonna dunk it inside my come come now that's amazing okay it is good i'm not saying it's not good but for next time that's all i'll still eat them really good and we also made a bunch of cookies so yesterday we made oatmeal and chocolate chip cookies and then today you just seen me make some peanut butter cookies um they're like super cute and tiny look how tiny they are they're good i'm gonna take your peanut butter cookie and dip it in the cinnabon coconut maple syrup oh my god you're getting crazy instead of that crunch i love it so good great job thanks [Music] um come on come on come on guys good job buddy keep up bring it back bring it back do [Music] so so uh [Music] like the only chance i've had to carry an entire garden in my head am i gonna fall i hope not that's all of our seedlings except for two trays well we got to use this system like i've made these so we can stack things and i'm gonna put a seat around all the beds too what do you think do you need helper cheer me on go jake so in lieu of a greenhouse we're moving crap around throughout the hours of the day you guys have followed the journey for a while and you've seen us build these composters and use them for all of our of course food scraps yard clippings you guys see me go on the ocean quite a few times i'm really excited to see what it looks like like down here like this far down like halfway down it starts to get unrecognizable can't see any more food scraps or anything oh worms little little worms black soil oh more worms getting exciting exciting for me i don't know if you guys get excited for stuff like that this is like it's been cold weather of the winter wait till the spring hits and these worms and microbes activate everything's broken down you can't tell [Music] wow [Music] what's up uh get your choke it is on no get your choke like three quarters of the way up [Music] we just pull it right there tucked in there okay oh god second mistake get it pumbaa thinks it's like fun time he's so excited he's just getting like pummeled in the face and he's just smiling [Music] you want to get in come on you're so weird yeah you're so weird you're so weird okay okay all right let's go come back back to work hey everybody that right there is very welcome sign the sun poking through through that cloud i know it doesn't look like much to you but to me that matters a lot i love seeing it right there it's been raining non-stop it's been raining non-stop and i'm finishing up this uh l-shaped bed which we're gonna designate for carrots and beets and it's a massive bed man and it's really high because we want it to be level to the other beds and be up above any kind of flood zone so you guys have seen the progress along the way how we kind of hugely cultured this bed which is like use all the other logs in the forest and then fresh wood chips we chipped and everyone's screaming in the comments oh my god the pine needles they're too acidic the fresh come back in june july you're gonna see a thriving garden out here and then you'll see what's going on but the way we battle fresh wood chips is we have all the wood chips that we um laid out last year at this time now they're seasoned and they've been mixed in with bark and soil that we had in the previous pandemic victory garden and i'm spreading those almost on top and then on top of this will be fresh compost so you can see how the wheelbarrow here has all these seasoned wood chips that have been you know pulpifying for about a year and i'm gonna finish spreading those seasoned wood chips and then i'm going to lay fresh compost down then we're ready to plant so this is what will be underneath the fresh compost i'll now spread about a 12 inch layer of fresh compost maybe 10 inches and you guys can't see really well how much white mycorrhizae mycelium underground ancient fungus there is on all these wood chips people pay a lot for you know buckets and gallons of liquid and dry mycelium mycorrhizae powder and i just have to let it season for a year so just when you guys wonder what's underneath the soil this is it the spirit bear lives again we got it started it's been like out of commission for what how many months this is so redneck and ghetto that you're cheering such a little mundane things woohoo i love the spirit bear i'm so glad that it got its spirit back this is so great we got it going the batteries i think it was a battery issue jake swapped him out he's a stud and now we're in it and we're like hoping it's fine and i'm trying not to touch the thick layer of mold that's coating everything inside i know it's pretty bad in here i'm sitting on a tarp but we'll clean it up woohoo spirit bear van give me some if you all have followed nicole and i for a while you know that we met through gardening and one of our loves is gardening our main goal here at komorebe is to escape the food grid by catching and growing our own food with raised beds permaculture and establishing a vibrant fruit tree orchard today we will visit an island within an island to purchase some established bushes and fruit trees that are grown by locals and are proven to produce well in our area much of the west coast of british columbia is connected by fairies and today we will pick up our nearly 100 fruit trees in our small trailer using a cable ferry [Applause] yeah i mean that's the risk come on come on let's go come on okay right back on the ferry we got a ton of fruit trees we're super excited if you guys watched a couple of vlogs back you guys seen that we went and visited visited this guy called peter the tree eater yeah and so we looked at trees that he had and so today we are picking them up he just is a fruit tree expert that has a lot of local knowledge we hooked us up with a lot of fruit trees bushes vines that he's successfully growing and things he thinks we can successfully grow on our property so we're excited to go back and um see if he's right yeah do you want to name a couple of fruit trees or should they wait let's see well some plums some cherries some kiwis some walnuts apples almonds hazelnuts blueberries grapes figs and then peter's also growing some varieties of pawpaw and persimmon which he didn't have ready to sell yet but i'm excited to see that he's growing them in the ground because i'll find them excited the dogs are excited i think they're just ready to get back home and run free they're really good car dogs we put them in here so they have the ability to lean against the kennel and have padded surfaces all right let's get back to the property and then peter's place is pretty remote so we had to take a cable ferry to get to it and we had to go through the forest on the old dirt road in our car vehicle pulling a little trailer yeah and so we had the dogs running behind us for exercise in the forest as they were it was really honey following the vehicle [Music] so [Music] they're happy to be home too uh [Music] uh ugh hey back home with my fiance we look famished but everything looks great here and it's always fun to come home and know that our music playing the electric fence and no bear got in no bear god and all that stuff defends against the bear and everything's in great condition but uh people can't feel what we feel here and the amount of rain and humidity here is next level i would say this is definitely one of the rainiest places on the planet but temperature wise what have we got outside right now seven celsius outside and it's six celsius in here so it's colder in here than it is outside it's so odd that the yurt is trapping cold air in here yeah okay so i'll light this fire up uh you guys just saw us take the trip down to get fruit trees can't wait to unpack it and show you guys it's quite a process to bring things like fruit trees here we uh have a barge bringing over the whole order that nicole and i have tied up on our trailer now that we've come back let's light the fire and bring some life to the earth yeah it's cold [Music] so ah so uh [Music] the sun the sun is out home boys it's the first day of march yay there we go that's 250 watts now hey it is this hat is somebody i found on instagram called surreal goods and she does embroidery so she embroidered with this cool yurt hat it's like an all cotton hat and then the yurt is really cool and uh it's got a bear on it it's got a bear you if you see uh coming up if you see me wearing this or my neck um this ring is three different orca and uh it's from a first nations artist here in british columbia and this is like a promise ring that i'm wearing for being engaged in nicole so so you guys know what's going on so have you guys seen me fill up the first little seedlings over here the mixture that i made was pretty much like 90 peat moss with a little bit of compost and some perlite now that i'm transplanting them to bigger um to a bigger pot size and they're actually growing pretty well i'm just adding it's still peat moss but i'm adding more compost in there to give them a little bit more nutrients so they can keep growing [Music] [Music] so are you letting the fire yeah isn't it cold lighting the fire good i just gotta now stick my hand back in the freezing cold to open the valves oh and i think i got it all right so people aren't going to understand like what did you just do you just let you uncap something and all the water rush into the wood stove yeah so we cap these off um so there's no water in this at all and then this i just undid the valve so i'm undoing the top one now it's bubbling so basically the back part of the wood stove is a chamber for the water the front part is for the fire yeah so if you don't have water going through this and you have a fire going there it'll ruin it but i forgot to plug this off so there's like a valve in the back of the wood stove so when i plug this up i release the water out of this um so if it freezes it doesn't damage the inside of this so if it freezes you don't want water in this at all because it'll crack the wood stuff oh crack it so um when we're done using the tofu i plug it up if we want to keep the water and then i release this all the water just comes out of this and i forgot to do that first anyway and then the hot water comes in where the hot water so the cold water comes from the bottom the cold water will suck in like that it'll like do its thing it'll warm up and then i'll shoot out the top here it's like a science experiment thermo siphoning hey i like this shirt too on you it looks really good thanks i got it at como rebbie.ca let's definitely check it out why doesn't puma get one should we make a little like a doggy jacket just get him a small you would freak out he would freak [Music] oh no there's a spider save it bro nice safe oh it's so much more enjoyable when it's not freezing is so nice the steam looks so good it feels so warm do you want a friend in there yeah you can come join me if you'd like that's it you brought cookies out here [Laughter] cookies and wine they're healthy cookies no thanks for the snacks okay we're gonna see how much that i weigh here oh my god oh wait wait do you think the water's gonna overflow and hit the tree oh my god okay how come my skin is stinging like there's some sort of assault or something in here [Music] or you like the water you're so cute oh my god there's so much vinegar in here i don't know that much i could tell oh it's so steamy yeah we're getting cooked jake and nicole soup putting some garlic bulbs in this bed and uh they're from this farm down on vancouver island called shamrock farms and they grew some beautiful garlic that we picked up uh last season at a farmer's market when nicole and i were traveling a bit back then and we've been saving it to plant now and then i found this garlic that just is so beautiful that we grew from the pandemic victory garden that had sprouted out we had forgotten these bulbs i guess when we harvested from the small garden you guys saw us build last year and sprouted up so we're gonna we're super late to the season with these bulbs that i just planted but these ones give us a jump so i'm gonna divide them out keep the roots intact and uh hat the bed will be about two months ahead of the other half of the bed but the smell is just sweet garlic intoxication okay oh my gosh i don't know if you can see these i'm going to be planting some beets right now these are the variety that i'll be doing beets are one of my faves i love them so much so super excited to get these going okay so all the beets are done and now i'm doing carrots so this is the l-shaped bed that we made and this whole long strip is going to be carrots and i have five different varieties of carrots because jake and i absolutely love carrots as well so i'm gonna plant these up [Applause] go [ __ ] [Music] [Music] hey babe yeah are you hungry for lunch am i hungry i'm starving indian yes with some chapati china chapati okay bye bye grow babies grow yeah i sent my love when you did that the sun came out look at that no it's my strength it's my love it's my my superpower you're right i need to work we got the bonfire going for hot dogs and marshmallows tonight vegan dogs new cherry tree planted there and what are you doing with the pizza oven here i'm trying to make wispy bundles but kai's making it very impossible wispy bundles thank you here you are now go cook me some food okay i'm hungry um [Applause] so uh [Music] so foreign foreign [Music] so uh look at that fire we're gonna stay [Applause] but [Music] earlier off camera you said it smells like it tastes like india and then we also have some of our fresh baked bread that we made yesterday in the oven to dip in it wow it tastes really good i think if i have an indian twin he embodied my spirit while i made this thing it tastes pretty authentic yeah it tastes like the himalayas like sharma and deepak inside inside name drop nobody knows but us and then after dinner we have uh unlimited supply of vegan marshmallows thanks to the youtube fans out there sending them to our p.o box yeah if you guys watch the episode where the bear broke him we uh lost all our vegan marshmallows and the p.o box you'll see in the description below our videos we get bags of vegan marshmallows every time we hit that peel box so thank you fire is magic water is magic earth is mad it's magic metal is magic what's the fifth element here nope air not one of them nope wind is not one of them wood it's around us congratulations surviving the winter we did it i think this is officially our start of spring garden time nothing we still have wood left over we did it i'll tell you guys out there on youtube land some of the locals that we've talked to recently that live around our area once in a while we might come into collect with somebody which has been a lot less lately because of covid it seems like all the hermits that might live around here have just kind of [Music] become more hermited you know but a lot of people in this area believe in the sasquatch and have seen the sasquatch and when they tell you about it it's very convincing there's one person that has a homestead down the way and he's like 75 years old i think his wife's also about 75 years old and we talked to him before and he said yeah he was out in a boat one day and they were fishing and at the corner of his eye you can see some kind of a log on the shore in the distance and when he looked over at the object that had caught his peripheral vision it all of a sudden started to move and walked into the forest and he said it was like a big eight man and he goes he goes it was the sasquatch he goes and i i'm telling you fast forward we find another local who's the same age as this person that had the sasquatch encounter this person has lived his whole life in this area they went to school together he's also 75 and he said to us if that person says that he saw the sasquatch then he saw it because he never lies and the conviction of the second man made us really scared that the first guy actually saw the sasquatch fast forward a few months later we just happened to um bump into uh his wife uh hiking around here one day she asked us if we've seen this sasquatch uh where we are kind of point blank yeah and we were like no i said i don't think so unless he's a shape-shifting sasquatch and she goes yeah probably hard to see them right now because they've moved further into the mountains to hunt deer hunting deer are sasquatch like cougar down the comments do you guys believe in the yeti bigfoot sasquatch what do you call it do you believe [Music] [Music] wow you

Channel: Off Grid w/ Jake & Nicolle

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Length: 73min 46sec (4426 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 12 2021