Walk in the Campo - Andean Forest near Quito Ecuador

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:09]All right, I'm walking up to Hello, YouTube. So, I'm walking up to this little forest that is up above my property. I want to go check it out.

[00:00:23]It's a little patch of eucalyptus trees and native trees.

[00:00:29]I haven't gone and looked at it in many years. I was trying to get my wife to walk up here with me, but she is tied up talking to the maestro and can't seem to end the conversation.

[00:00:42]So, I gave up waiting because the day is burning. The day is passing and it's getting hot out.

[00:00:52]I want to get up there before the sun gets too intense.

[00:00:59]Let me turn the camera around and show you this little forest.

[00:01:11]I would love to eventually buy a little bit more and a little bit more and a little bit more land up here.

[00:01:27]Somebody's throwing their trash up here.

[00:01:29]That's not cool. That's not a good place for your trash.

[00:01:37]Oh, it's beautiful up here.

[00:01:49]There's a natural fence. They grow these trees. They're called lieros, I think.

[00:01:55]and they use them for fences, for living fence posts.

[00:02:01]I have the same on my property, but I want to slowly replace them with willow.

[00:02:09]I would prefer to use willow for my living fences than leaf gerros.

[00:02:13]I like willow more.

[00:02:20]Beautiful little flowers here.

[00:02:30]Sun shining down.

[00:02:37]It's a beautiful little spot. I wish my wife had come up here to enjoy it with me. But I think we are going to need to do a trash walk. Bring up some bags and pick up all the garbage that's collecting up here from neighbors.

[00:02:59]And this is more or less where the road ends and it becomes a trail.

[00:03:13]There's a very overgrown trail that goes off through there. And this one, I think, enters someone's property.

[00:03:24]Yeah, the trail just kind of marches up through the woods there.

[00:03:29]Look at these beautiful flowers.

[00:03:33]Check that out.

[00:03:40]Yeah, I wouldn't mind, for example, owning a little patch of land over here that I could use for animals.

[00:03:48]Maybe have some cows or a horse and have them far away from all my avocado trees and lemon trees so I don't come back one day and find that they've gotten loose and eaten everything.

[00:04:07]Oh, I see Grace. I see my wife walking up here.

[00:04:24]Let's see what she's got to say.

[00:04:32]Memor, we need to come through here with a garbage bag and pick up the trash that other people have left.

[00:04:39]We need to clean this.

[00:04:42]And I was just looking and thinking if we ever decide we want to get a bigger piece of land to have animals right up there.

[00:04:52]That's a hill for us to have a cow or a horse or goats that we don't have to very very very carefully maintain and manage to keep them off the trees.

[00:05:03]>> I was Raymond with you.

[00:05:05]>> Oh, I'm taking video right now.

[00:05:09]>> Oops.

[00:05:10]>> It's okay. You can tell you can tell the world that you were dreaming about this moment with me. I was dreaming about it, too.

[00:05:18]Pan the camera down here and look at the neighbors horses. Look at that beautiful horse with its baby down there.

[00:05:23]>> Do you know that horse's name?

[00:05:28]>> No.

[00:05:29]>> You don't know its name? Does it belong to the old lady in this house that's falling apart?

[00:05:34]>> Same.

[00:05:35]>> Probably.

[00:05:37]See, one of these little bit larger pieces of property over here where we could have an animal that grazes and doesn't get into our trees would be perfect. This or that or that. Something close enough we can just walk back and forth with it.

[00:05:52]One day in the future, >> one of these other hillsides, but something for just pasture instead of for trees.

[00:06:01]>> Another palm.

[00:06:02]>> Yep, there's another palm.

[00:06:06]This little village you see on the hill over here is called Pingia. I'm talking to them and not you. That's Pingia. She already knows that's Pingia. Am I saying it right?

[00:06:17]>> Pingia.

[00:06:18]>> Pingia.

[00:06:20]>> That is our closest village. And then you can't see it, but below the hill is Pierro.

[00:06:27]And there's another little village about the same distance away called Perucho and another one called Chavez Pomba.

[00:06:34]We're sort of in the middle between all three villages. And I can walk to this one over here. If I don't want to drive and I want to just take a walk up there, I can go do some very basic grocery shopping. It's a little bit more of a walk up a steep hill than I like.

[00:06:54]It's better on a motorcycle or a car or with an ebike. Eventually, I want to have a little electric bike out at the property for me to use or for others to use if I have people staying here.

[00:07:18]>> This is eucalypt from the forest. Hey, you were going to show me the nut tree. The nucuses.

[00:07:29]>> You forgot >> the seats I have in here.

[00:07:33]>> Oh, okay. Well, the >> the tree >> the tree.

[00:07:41]>> Oh, okay. Yeah, we don't need to go up there and look at it if you don't want to. Right now, I think I'm gonna stop this video here. That was the little the little walk up to the forest.

[00:07:57]It's a nice field of avocados. How how many years ago did they plant these? Do you remember? Come on, Quattro.

[00:08:03]>> Same.

[00:08:04]>> Same as us. So, come on. Cinco now.

[00:08:12]>> Yeah.

[00:08:13]>> Some of them are not healthy. They're having some of the same. You know what it is? You see what is right next to the avocado trees that are dying? There's eucalyptus next to them. The eucalyptus poisons other plants. And because the eucalyptus is invading their avocado field, it the avocados that are growing next to it are dying.

[00:08:33]>> Yeah.

[00:08:33]>> They need to go through and very carefully clean the eucalyptus away from their avocados or they will lose the avocado trees.

[00:08:42]It's interesting to watch that happening in real time. that biological warfare between different types of trees.

[00:08:52]So you can see the avocado tree dying.

[00:08:55]All the eucalyptus seeds fall out of this forest and fall out into this field and where they get it kills the other trees.

[00:09:05]Fascinating, fascinating stuff. The reason I wanted to go look at this nut tree that uh my wife was describing is because I think it's a native type of walnut. And walnuts do the same thing. The walnuts use a type of chemical warfare against other trees to ensure their survival. So where the nuts, the seeds fall, they release a toxin that affects other plants, inhibits their growth or kills them.

[00:09:40]All right, that's enough rambling on about the chemical warfare between different types of trees and plants. As I promised before, we're going to end this video