Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Happy, healthy animals. Low-maintenance care. 100% off-grid. 🐓🐖🐐
Learn how permaculture farming keeps chickens, pigs, and goats thriving — while regenerating the land and saving you hours of work.

Gavin & Lucy Roberts — featured on Ben Fogle’s New Lives in the Wild (Channel 5) — transformed a collapsing coastal plot on the Isle of Wight into a thriving off-grid permaculture homestead. Once in danger of being lost to the sea, it’s now a model for sustainable farming and animal welfare.

In this episode, you’ll discover:
🐓 Fox-proof, rodent-proof chicken coop design that needs almost no daily work
🌿 How pigs & chickens live together in a healthy, symbiotic way
☀️ Feeding animals for free with mulch, trimmings and weeds
🛡 Pigs as daytime chicken bodyguards
🐐 Goats & 'la dolce vita' off-grid living

Watch the full series:
📺 Part 1 – Off-Grid Living on the Isle of Wight: youtu.be/EsK23p-qfoM
📺 Part 2 – Compost & Mulch to Prevent Flooding & Coastal Erosion: youtu.be/JbjefyhSta0

💧 Part 4 – Wicking Beds & Passive Solar Greenhouse
🔋 Part 5 – Solar Power & Refrigerated Pantry

👉 Read more about Gavin and Lucy's inspiring story in Permaculture magazine:
permaculture.co.uk/issue/autumn-125

Filmed by T.H. Venner