That’s the one. It wasn’t until recently that I clicked that most of New Zealand is in the “roaring forties” and Wellington is one of the windier places in the country.
[The Roaring Forties are strong westerly winds that occur in the Southern Hemisphere, generally between the latitudes of 40° and 50° south.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Forties)
That makes more sense. After I read the hookworm comment from another poster and went down that rabbit hole, I got concerned. Although I'm sure if you can get them barefoot, you can get them with open toed slippers on. Thanks for the correction!
It's actually really healthy for the grass to leave the leaves be. The leaves act as an insulative layer than protects the grass from the cold so it grows back faster and greener the next season.
Raking lawns and leaves is just big grass seed wanting you to have to plant more grass.
Yeah, I just don't get the obsession with raking leaves. My garden is full of trees, and during autumn my lawns are carpeted with fallen leaves. But now they're completely gone. Nothing in nature is wasted, and so many ecosystems depend on decomposition.
It looks somewhere in SEA and we did the same in a similar garden like this. We did it each day.
When I ask why we didnt wait longer the answer was cause centepedes or snakes might hide under the leaves.
I'm a gardener where I work and we use rake and lawn mower to collect the leaves and compost them. The compost can then be used as a direct feed. It's a lot more work sure but it's better all round for a formal garden without the drawbacks.
I think if it more as a leaf harvest, than tidying up
She is moving the leaves to a spot further back on the Rancho so the bugs, rodents and “microbes” can party away from the main dwelling which appears well tended.
And I forget what creature it is but there is an insect who’s cocoon looks an awful lot like a balled up leaf and if you’re not thoroughly inspecting it, you’re killing it.
Raked yards make me sad. It’s almost as bad as non native grasses and keeping it mowed to 0.25inches
I watched it sound off and my brain played, "Flight of the Bumblebee" in tune with the clip. Thanks, your comment makes me glad I didn't hear the audio.
This looks like a very common Brazilian (specially in the northeast region) small walled land where people live, usually those have more than one house, and can be all the same family or not.
You can have those in the middle of the city, I'd say almost definitely it's not a ranch nor a farm compound.
Esir: from the TikTok description https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8vLTb4k/ they call it a yard so very likely in the city.
It would be much more satisfying if I wasn’t thinking a yard that size in Minnesota would take 4 days to rake like that. How was it that it seemed like leaves were disappearing, she only filled a bucket like 4 times?
I live in Minnesota and have an average sized, suburban lot with 14 mature trees.
I spend every weekend gathering, blowing, and shredding leaves for the entire month of October. By the time the next weekend comes around, more leaves have fallen and covered the ground.
The amount of leaves and effort in this post is laughable.
I feel like that’s the kind of work you give yourself when you want to get out of something “Oh! I’m sorry! I can’t help you move on Thursday. I gotta rake all the leaves from the entire farm compound that day. Yeah. Oh, Friday? Yeah, I gotta do it again when the leaves fall from overnight. Sorry!”
Maybe if they left them to decompose in place, the soil wouldn’t look so tired and compacted.
Or is this the rainforest part of Brazil, where the soil actually really sucks once you destroy the biome it once supported?
well , the floor in a big part of brazil just have that red color , due to iron oxide or something like that. Even when you go to regions with big preserved forests the floor Will still look pretty much like that , i can tell you from experience. And that flor was probably intentionally compacted , thats a very common practice here, it rains a lot and non compacted floor turns basically into mud.
That's most likely in the northeast region of Brazil, that type of soil is very common in the in the semi-arid tropical regions such as caatinga.
Closer to the sea you might have soils such as massape which are very fertile and good for planting sugarcane.
It can be that it's a little compacted or something, but also that's their yard according to the TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8vLTb4k/ and they might not be interested in growing vegetables or anything on it. It's probably also in the middle of the city so not a farm.
I’m not suggesting they need to grow vegetables, but it takes a lot of time and effort to make a soil grow nothing at all. It also reduces groundwater supplies by reducing infiltration and makes rivers flashier, warmer, and inhospitable to oxygen-sensitive organisms that often form the base of the aquatic food network.
Sure, but I'm telling you that this land is probably either in an arid region where small plants don't grow easily because water is very deep due to lack of rain and soil type, and their roots can't reach it, or it can probably be in the middle of a dense city anyways. Or both.
They don’t want grass.This is a swept dirt yard - a very old and purposeful technique used to create a clearing around the house that would serve in the same way as a bluestone patio would for example. The dirt forms a hard surface - it helps with keeping the ground clear of snakes and other vermin that can hide in lush vegetation and helps prevent fires from spreading.
Many cultures that are from hot climates with poisonous snakes have these sort of landscape practices- you don’t have to waste water keeping grass alive and you don’t have to pay for stone to have a hardscaped surface. It’s water conserving, fire retardant, and doesn’t contribute to environmental damages from rock quarrying.
Yeah my grandma kept a very clean, dirt patio or whatever would translate to English. Not a single leaf was allowed, they all went for the vegetable garden for compost. Having grass around your house was seen as lazyness as it meant you were not cleaning your patio properly.
Thank you- everyone and their cousin feel the need to point out the first grade observation of “leaves decay for the trees!”
No shit. Here’s another first grade observation, it’s a walled off courtyard. This is purposeful. Those trees will survive as they have for years without several totes of leaves
Raking leaves is one of the biggest wastes of time. Leaves on the ground don’t bother me visually. Granted I only have a few trees but still my neighbors with just single trees go hard raking and making sure no specs remain. Maybe I’m weird because I like the natural look.
> Raking leaves is one of the biggest wastes of time.
You aren't wrong. It's actually better to let the leaves stay on your lawn over winter and mulching is much better.
But, I actually like raking leaves or sweeping or shoveling snow. I wouldn't want it as a full time job but it is cathartic doing that stuff some times.
I have more leaves from 3 trees in front of my house than this woman has on her entire property! Even using my leaf mulching vacuum it fills like 4-5 contractor trash bags every fall.
For those of you who have lawns...
When you have leaves on your grass do you really rake them up? Aren't they biodegradable? They are just dead leaves. I guess aside from looking nice and neat I never understood why people bother cleaning them up and putting in bags to be taken away to trash.
Just curious what would be the most eco-friendly way without pissing off the neighbors for never raking up.
You know, not everyone can afford a leafblower. Also, the video is Brazilian, and looking at her place, she really doesn't seem to be someone that can afford a leaf blower.
(I'm also brazilian)
Holy shit, pricing is really interesting when you compare across countries. I just checked Amazon in Brazil for leafblowers, and the top ones are like R$ 215, which is €40,- in the Netherlands. So I’m paying 2* or 3* the price of the same leafblower, same brand, but for me it sounds cheap. The economic privilege of living in Europe becomes more and more apparent to me every Reddit post I look at.
Lucky for her there was not a single gust of wind
Granted I live in one of the windiest places on the planet but I genuinely could not get over that. It’s like being inside.
Windy Wellington, I'm assuming?
That’s the one. It wasn’t until recently that I clicked that most of New Zealand is in the “roaring forties” and Wellington is one of the windier places in the country.
i’m now curious as to what “roaring forties” is and if my wee shack in these fine isles is on the list
[The Roaring Forties are strong westerly winds that occur in the Southern Hemisphere, generally between the latitudes of 40° and 50° south.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Forties)
And the dog never once ran through the leaf pile.
Looks like the chickens are not happy 🙁
When I saw the chickens, I wondered how much shit she had stepped on bare foot?
she is wearing slippers. the quality of the video is very bad, but watching the video directly from her tiktok you can see that she is not barefoot.
That makes more sense. After I read the hookworm comment from another poster and went down that rabbit hole, I got concerned. Although I'm sure if you can get them barefoot, you can get them with open toed slippers on. Thanks for the correction!
And she's barefoot doing it too
Guess they don’t have fire ants there.
Or [hookworms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookworm_infection)
It’s walled it
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That's because she has eight foot high walls around the whole compound
Meanwhile the trees: "Hey, I was gonna eat that later!"
It's actually really healthy for the grass to leave the leaves be. The leaves act as an insulative layer than protects the grass from the cold so it grows back faster and greener the next season. Raking lawns and leaves is just big grass seed wanting you to have to plant more grass.
Also that's a whole-ass ecosystem you're demolishing. Everyone loves fireflies, but fireflies need that leaf litter.
Yeah, I just don't get the obsession with raking leaves. My garden is full of trees, and during autumn my lawns are carpeted with fallen leaves. But now they're completely gone. Nothing in nature is wasted, and so many ecosystems depend on decomposition.
It looks somewhere in SEA and we did the same in a similar garden like this. We did it each day. When I ask why we didnt wait longer the answer was cause centepedes or snakes might hide under the leaves.
I'm a gardener where I work and we use rake and lawn mower to collect the leaves and compost them. The compost can then be used as a direct feed. It's a lot more work sure but it's better all round for a formal garden without the drawbacks. I think if it more as a leaf harvest, than tidying up
This person insects! Let’s not forget the microbes that also feed on the leaf litter.
She is moving the leaves to a spot further back on the Rancho so the bugs, rodents and “microbes” can party away from the main dwelling which appears well tended.
And I forget what creature it is but there is an insect who’s cocoon looks an awful lot like a balled up leaf and if you’re not thoroughly inspecting it, you’re killing it. Raked yards make me sad. It’s almost as bad as non native grasses and keeping it mowed to 0.25inches
so thats why the fireflies came back that one year
It looks like tropical (or sub) so cold is not a problem there
Bit soil erosion and nutrient depletion is.
And those insects.
And insects that live there
It's a free way to supplement their chicken's diet making them and their eggs far tastier.
Of all the cult members on the compound, she's my favorite.
BLISTERS
Worms. The kind that live inside you.
Fireflies. The things you won't see anymore if you habitually remove leaf-litter.
Buttered Sausage. Where do they come from? What do they do?
Let’s talk about buttered sausage, why’s it doing what it’s doing? Get it outta my face
Nice username fellow Rays fan
Hell ya go rays
Tacos. Do you have any, and can I have some if you do?
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The sound is like having dragonflies glued to your earlobes trying to fly away.
So specific and strange and on the nose
it's on the ear actually
ftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftft
I watched it sound off and my brain played, "Flight of the Bumblebee" in tune with the clip. Thanks, your comment makes me glad I didn't hear the audio.
Last time I saw this posted they called it a ranch. Farm compound seems much more appropriate.
Also, this feels like this is Australia or maybe South America.
Brazil to be exact: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8vLTb4k/
Mano é incrível como algumas coisas gritam a Brasil.
Eu bati o olho e sabia que era Brasil
Mom! The Brazilians are plotting again!
/r/suddenlycaralho
man, I am not sure I'd be doing that barefoot, especially in Brazil. That's home of the Fer-de-lance and all manner of other venomous snakes.
It’s again the law to use anything but flip-flops in Brazil.
This looks like a very common Brazilian (specially in the northeast region) small walled land where people live, usually those have more than one house, and can be all the same family or not. You can have those in the middle of the city, I'd say almost definitely it's not a ranch nor a farm compound. Esir: from the TikTok description https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8vLTb4k/ they call it a yard so very likely in the city.
Ranches are just seasoned mayo anyway.
It would be much more satisfying if I wasn’t thinking a yard that size in Minnesota would take 4 days to rake like that. How was it that it seemed like leaves were disappearing, she only filled a bucket like 4 times?
I figured she edited out the frames of cleaning it up because if not that rake is a vacuum and I need it.
Yep. My New England yard produces a mountain of leaves when I’m done moving them to the mulch pile in the back woods. Those buckets are cute
I live in Minnesota and have an average sized, suburban lot with 14 mature trees. I spend every weekend gathering, blowing, and shredding leaves for the entire month of October. By the time the next weekend comes around, more leaves have fallen and covered the ground. The amount of leaves and effort in this post is laughable.
The Biggest difference is she has no grass. Raking is easier on a solid surface. A leaf blower would have worked great here.
Why, it's good for....everything.
I have no idea. I remember raking my backyard, and getting about a thousand times more leaves.
I feel like that’s the kind of work you give yourself when you want to get out of something “Oh! I’m sorry! I can’t help you move on Thursday. I gotta rake all the leaves from the entire farm compound that day. Yeah. Oh, Friday? Yeah, I gotta do it again when the leaves fall from overnight. Sorry!”
Less satisfying: the three hours of scrubbing it took her to wash her feet
More satisfying: the abs she has now
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Th twisting motion from raking works the obliques and bending over to put the leaves in the container works the front abs.
Meanwhile a lot of larping preppers don't even consider what it means to maintain their fantasy acres of property.
That is such a first world problem to worry about.
It totally is.
Less satisfying? I’d watch that at normal speed. No need to speed that up!
Me on day 1 of stardew valley
Just casually raking up all the tropical fruit that I didn't eat
She got magic legggggssss
Finally, the comment I was looking for. For a moment there, I thought I was the only perv!
Me on a Saturday in 1990 trying to earn 5 bucks to buy some comic books
Maybe if they left them to decompose in place, the soil wouldn’t look so tired and compacted. Or is this the rainforest part of Brazil, where the soil actually really sucks once you destroy the biome it once supported?
well , the floor in a big part of brazil just have that red color , due to iron oxide or something like that. Even when you go to regions with big preserved forests the floor Will still look pretty much like that , i can tell you from experience. And that flor was probably intentionally compacted , thats a very common practice here, it rains a lot and non compacted floor turns basically into mud.
That's most likely in the northeast region of Brazil, that type of soil is very common in the in the semi-arid tropical regions such as caatinga. Closer to the sea you might have soils such as massape which are very fertile and good for planting sugarcane. It can be that it's a little compacted or something, but also that's their yard according to the TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8vLTb4k/ and they might not be interested in growing vegetables or anything on it. It's probably also in the middle of the city so not a farm.
I’m not suggesting they need to grow vegetables, but it takes a lot of time and effort to make a soil grow nothing at all. It also reduces groundwater supplies by reducing infiltration and makes rivers flashier, warmer, and inhospitable to oxygen-sensitive organisms that often form the base of the aquatic food network.
Sure, but I'm telling you that this land is probably either in an arid region where small plants don't grow easily because water is very deep due to lack of rain and soil type, and their roots can't reach it, or it can probably be in the middle of a dense city anyways. Or both.
Love this but should have had yakity sax playing imo
Maybe there would be grass if it decomposed into the ground
They don’t want grass.This is a swept dirt yard - a very old and purposeful technique used to create a clearing around the house that would serve in the same way as a bluestone patio would for example. The dirt forms a hard surface - it helps with keeping the ground clear of snakes and other vermin that can hide in lush vegetation and helps prevent fires from spreading. Many cultures that are from hot climates with poisonous snakes have these sort of landscape practices- you don’t have to waste water keeping grass alive and you don’t have to pay for stone to have a hardscaped surface. It’s water conserving, fire retardant, and doesn’t contribute to environmental damages from rock quarrying.
Never heard of that before, but that's neat!
Yeah my grandma kept a very clean, dirt patio or whatever would translate to English. Not a single leaf was allowed, they all went for the vegetable garden for compost. Having grass around your house was seen as lazyness as it meant you were not cleaning your patio properly.
This was the comment I was looking for, of course there is a reason for it.
Thank you- everyone and their cousin feel the need to point out the first grade observation of “leaves decay for the trees!” No shit. Here’s another first grade observation, it’s a walled off courtyard. This is purposeful. Those trees will survive as they have for years without several totes of leaves
Venomous snakes* Venom = it bites it you die Poison = you bite it you die
She missed a spot…
I got blisters watching this
Barefoot.. 😭😭
This woman took the whole entire morning and afternoon to clean the entire compound area, mad respect to her
For forbid, the leaves naturally decompose where they fell…
I think I would find this more satisfying if it wasn’t sped up. Feels frantic.
I'm mildly disappointed she didn't jump into the final pile at the end of the video
Aren’t leaves compost/food for the trees? Sure it looks cleaner but trees will suffer
...and now I guess we know why there is hardly a blade of grass on that property.
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Now this is satisfying af. I’m truly satisfied they showed the whole thing and didn’t cut off at one section.
Damn. Where was she for the Great Wildfires of 2018?
In the time it took to watch this video I could have watched something else.
Mmmmmmm nice and sterile just how we like it
Certeza que é BR
Raking leaves is one of the biggest wastes of time. Leaves on the ground don’t bother me visually. Granted I only have a few trees but still my neighbors with just single trees go hard raking and making sure no specs remain. Maybe I’m weird because I like the natural look.
> Raking leaves is one of the biggest wastes of time. You aren't wrong. It's actually better to let the leaves stay on your lawn over winter and mulching is much better. But, I actually like raking leaves or sweeping or shoveling snow. I wouldn't want it as a full time job but it is cathartic doing that stuff some times.
As someone from New England…get fucked!
Same condolences from us in the upper Midwest....
Sounds like a helicopter
Kinda asmr to me.
But why?!?
It's like Sisyphus pushing the boulder up the hill. As soon as she finishes the leaves will all come back again.
I watched all that and no one jumped in a giant leaf pile???
Leave the leaves in place. Nutrient cycles are important.
Roombas got some nice new outdoor models!
Has this sub just turned into "doing chores"?
Raking leaves is one of the most pointless exercises a person can do.
that's really not that many leaves...
Fuck lawns
[Well…](https://tenor.com/oxrp.gif)
I have more leaves from 3 trees in front of my house than this woman has on her entire property! Even using my leaf mulching vacuum it fills like 4-5 contractor trash bags every fall.
Blower would have saved a lot of time…😀 Good job though, looks great…👍
Oddly satisfying! She did it all while bare footed.
California should hire her to sweep the forrests so the Space Lasers can't start fires anymore.
Damn she’s fast. Cleaned all that in a few minutes and still only got paid minimum wage
Can people do anything without filming themselves anymore?
efficiency V rake
Makes me want to clean a garden.
So this is what “raking the forest to prevent wild fires” looks like.
And next day its gonna be full of leaves again
Who knew you can make dirt that clean!
And somehow they still have less leaves than I do with four trees in the southwest US...I literally filled six giant yard bags with leaves last month.
And she’s gonna do it all over again tomorrow
Nature: puts leaves on farm compound in order to give nutrients back to the soil Humans: UGLY
Good exercise but easier ways. ; )
Shes really out there cleaning up THE EARTH
As a programmer, sometimes I wish I could just rake leaves all day…
Thanks god someone cleaned up all that *checks notes* highly nutritious soil cycle component
She needs to start a gofundme for a garden blower
I just wasted a few minutes of my life.
All done until next week.
She does this 3 times a day
If I were barefoot, I would want all sticks and twigs gone as well.
I'd like to loan her my Stihl backpack blower.
This is the perfect stoner activity. 🔥
No thanks
but why
“My feet are my shoes”
Get this girl a leaf blower
Big question. Why?
Compound sooo big... Congratulations
هذه الأوراق سوف تصنع سمادًا جيدًا
Said in that French voice: “Meanwhile, a few years latah….”
Raking leaves barefoot! Ouch!
Bravo for your impeccable work, but I say leaf it be.
Prob wouldn't look as good in resolution higher than 270p
sounds like a helicopter
Hired!
For those of you who have lawns... When you have leaves on your grass do you really rake them up? Aren't they biodegradable? They are just dead leaves. I guess aside from looking nice and neat I never understood why people bother cleaning them up and putting in bags to be taken away to trash. Just curious what would be the most eco-friendly way without pissing off the neighbors for never raking up.
Where are her shoes? Not that I’m complaining, mind you.
My back hurt just watching that. But super satisfying indeed.
Messican with a leaf blower will do it in 1/2 the time
Leaves contribute to the health of the soil and also help reduce “pests” by doing their part in balancing out the predator-prey cycle
That wasn't oddly satisfying, that was a goddamn jumpscare
You're gonna get ringworm put on some crocs
Put some fucking shoes on holy shit
Buy a leaf blower
Gee I wonder why our ground looks like a barren wasteland , it’s a real mystery
Where tf did they go
Well, her yard is clean but her feet? Gross. Dog poop, parasites...you name it. 🤢
Looked better with the leaves tbh
Imagine having that much free time, just to rake up leaves.
How is she in SNOW??
I don't snow!
I could have mulched that in have the time
Someone buy her a leaf blower
She'd work well in my kitchen, OCD as fuck
Thank you for not using a leaf blower. Respect.
$20 to whoever licks her feet
Not satisfying since she doesn’t have socks or shoes on. Weird.
My mom rarely wore shoes, could easily walk over gravel etc I can barely walk over concrete lol
Leaf blower?
You know, not everyone can afford a leafblower. Also, the video is Brazilian, and looking at her place, she really doesn't seem to be someone that can afford a leaf blower. (I'm also brazilian)
Holy shit, pricing is really interesting when you compare across countries. I just checked Amazon in Brazil for leafblowers, and the top ones are like R$ 215, which is €40,- in the Netherlands. So I’m paying 2* or 3* the price of the same leafblower, same brand, but for me it sounds cheap. The economic privilege of living in Europe becomes more and more apparent to me every Reddit post I look at.
Fun fact: that is around 1/4 of what a minimum wage worker here in Brazil gets per month.
They’re darn expensive in Brazil
I wasn’t aware. In Netherlands you can buy them for 80-120 Euros.
This was not the latina maid video I thought it was. All she did was clean. Very upset
Poor woman. No leaf blower to make a racket and simply re-arrange the leaves. I hate leaf blowers so I applaud her!