Original subtitles

[banjo music playing]

[Marty] It takes a lot of rain

to keep a volcanic rock this green.

Right over there in those mountains,

it can rain

460 inches a year.

The last time I was on this island,

we witnessed firsthand

how these flash floods come in an instant,

unannounced.

[narrator] Three years ago,

the Raneys faced a state of emergency...

[Matt] Look at the water over here.

Look how big the culvert is.

[narrator] ... when torrential rains threatened

to drown out the rescue

of the Nash family's homestead.

-That looks amazing. -Oh, my gosh.

[Marty] Hold on!

[narrator] Fighting dangerous flash floods in mud,

the Raneys helped the Nashes build new structures...

[Misty] The whole thing is gonna tip!

[narrator] ... establish reliable food sources,

and create a safe space

for their growing family.

-[children laughing] -[narrator] But recent changes brought

new challenges...

-[Marty] Oh! - [narrator] ...and the family finds

their off-grid hopes in peril once again.

[Jackson] We've gotten to the point

where we wanted to quit.

That's where we're at.

[narrator] On this episode,

-Marty returns to the Nash homestead... -[Marty] Whoa!

Should we work on those three?

[narrator] ...to assess how they've successfully carried on

the lessons the Raneys passed on

in a race to solve the new existential threat

to their way of life.

That just landed on a couple hives.

[Marty] We got bees!

-[Jackson] Everybody, everybody move. -[Misty] Oh! Oh!

[narrator] But with new obstacles

and limited time...

[man] Watch your head!

-[Marty] You saved my life. Thank you. -[man] You're welcome.

[Marty] Let's cut it and do one more.

[narrator] ... Marty must once and for all

ensure the homesteaders can withstand

Mother Nature's attack...

[Marty] This is what I wanted to do the last time,

but it would have been more mud.

[narrator] ...and stand the test of time.

[Melissa] Things have changed,

and we just really need Marty back.

[folk music playing]

[Marty] Here we go.

Their homestead is just a few miles away.

[narrator] It's late January in Kauai.

With sunny skies and balmy temperatures,

it's easy to forget

the extreme weather the island faces.

Hawaii's northernmost island, Kauai,

is known as one of the wettest places on Earth

due to annual rainfall

that approaches nearly 40 feet.

Constant precipitation brings epic flooding.

And the island's vegetation can grow out of control,

enveloping gardens

and choking out crops.

It was in this environment

that the Raneys met the Nash family,

struggling to stay above water.

-Morning, Raney. -Jackson Nash.

-Pleasure to meet you. Yes, sir. -Jackson?

-Melissa. -[Misty] How far along are you?

[Melissa] Six months.

[Misty] Oh, congratulations.

-[Marty] Six months? -Six months, yeah.

-[Jackson] Yeah. -[Misty] So you're pregnant,

and you live out in the middle of the jungle.

Yeah.

One of the reasons that I've come back

to the island of Kauai is this.

I'm thinking about the homesteaders.

I'm worried. I'm concerned.

The last time I was on this island,

we witnessed

torrential rains and...

biblically-sized flooding.

-[Marty] I'm getting soaked. -[Jackson] Yeah, me too.

-Do you want to come in the house? -[rain pattering]

-Sure, let's go. -Okay.

[Marty] Are we going to get flooded?

[Jackson] Probably.

[Marty] While we were working on the Nash Homestead,

day after day,

the rains kept coming.

And then here came the floods.

This is what concerns me.

It's rising.

It was six. It was five.

Now it's four. And it's starting to breach right here.

-It's coming over. -[Jackson] Yeah.

[Marty] It flooded through the property.

And then it took out the access to their homestead.

[Misty] Look at this.

That's the access to their house?

Is it?

[Misty] I don't like it.

It's going all the way.

[Melissa] I feel a little uneasy

about this whole thing.

Um,

we've never crossed when it's this high.

It might move in that deep spot.

The truck might move.

[Marty] The government got involved, state agencies,

FEMA, etc.

This whole town was getting evacuated.

[Misty] Did you evacuate last night?

-[Melissa] Yeah. -Yeah, it came up big.

[Marty] I'm not happy at all

because we're behind schedule.

We tried to build a bridge,

and I'm not sure the bridge has survived.

All right, here we are.

Oh, yeah.

Bridge is still here.

[uplifting music playing]

[Marty] It's almost funny

to talk about flooding

when you look at this small little stream right here.

But it's not so funny when you look over here

and see these huge chunks of concrete.

This is the actual first bridge

that was ever put in here

a long time ago.

But the abutments, the bridge,

everything was pushed down

in a massive flood.

So, this is good news.

Makes me feel good.

Let's see how the homesteaders have fared

in the last few years.

[uplifting music playing]

-[truck honks] -[both laughing]

-[Marty] Wow, you look amazing. -You're back.

-Let's talk a little bit. -Yeah, hug the pretty one.

[Marty] It's good to see you.

I am Jackson Nash.

And I'm Melissa Nash.

And we are homesteaders here on the island of Kauai.

[Melissa] When the Raneys came last time,

we had this amazing experience.

We put in all these plants and all these gardens.

And then I had the baby,

and everything got kind of neglected.

And now we have the sheep

and not the proper fencing,

and it's just

this domino effect of challenges.

[folk music playing]

[narrator] To carry on progress after the rescue,

the Nashes introduced sheep to the homestead

to combat the island's jungle invasion

without realizing

the threat they posed to their own garden.

[Jackson] The sheep keep eating

this insane invasive Guinea grass

that's all around us, which is great,

but the sheep eat

24 hours a day,

they have a tendency to get into the garden.

So we've essentially sort of given up gardening.

[Melissa] Being on an island,

it's really important for us

to be able to produce our own food

because there is food insecurity

unless we're growing it.

[Jackson] When the Raneys first came out,

Matt and I went out and did honey harvest.

And the idea was

that the apiary would sort of have some hives in it.

[Melissa] But at the time, we didn't have a tool shed.

So the tools just all went in there

and it became the tool shed.

[narrator] Without the use of the apiary,

the Nashes' beehives have become overrun

with Guinea grass,

leaving them unable

to fully utilize their most valuable resource.

[Melissa] Having them in the apiary

would help to keep the bee boxes from rotting

because right now they're out in the open.

The Guinea grass grows up on them.

Other things grow up on them.

[child speaks indistinctly]

[narrator] With their third child, Neo,

arriving in 2021,

Melissa's parents moved to the homestead to help.

More mouths to feed

only amplifies the family's challenge.

[Jackson] You know, Melissa's folks,

having them here sometimes does tax

our food production capabilities.

Um, it also definitely increases

the amount of water that we have to pump.

It's not been easy.

It's really, really taking its toll on us.

I realized that the goal is

to create a functioning homestead

that we can pass on to our kids and their kids,

create that sort of

intergenerational functional space.

The version of myself that I think of as myself

is a version that my son has never experienced,

because I'm always having to worry

about the water and power.

And we've gotten to the point

where we wanted to quit.

[Melissa] We just really need Marty back.

-[Marty] So what's the new baby's name? -[Melissa chuckles]

Neo.

-[Marty] Neo. -[Melissa] Neonopolis.

Doesn't Neo mean "new"?

-[Jackson] Mm-hmm. -New.

-Yeah. -So, Neo, the new baby's here somewhere.

-Somewhere. -[Jackson] Mm-hmm.

Back in the day, correct me if I'm wrong,

kids were hanging out here,

then people were sleeping over there.

-We all live-- -Yeah, we're all here.

-So-- -You made the homestead.

We live in the home, on the homestead.

If that's true, I'm really happy.

-It's true. -Okay. Let's look at it. Is it still there?

-Yeah, shall we? -Yeah, yeah.

-So this was the deck you built. -[Melissa] Okay.

-[Marty] I forgot about this. -[Melissa] And the roof.

[Marty] And the breezeway. I forgot, catching all that rain.

[Melissa] Yep. Yep. Yep.

-[Jackson] We continued the deck. -[Marty] You did?

-And the bathhouse. -I love it.

I'm not going to be happy

unless you tell me you're using it.

[Jackson] We use it every day.

Oh, look, there's still the tubby water from the kids.

-[Marty] I like this. -[Melissa chuckles]

-[Jackson] Yeah. Works well. -[Marty] I really like this.

You have some solar.

So we put in a couple hundred watts

of solar on the roof.

-[Marty] 12 volt? -[Jackson] Uh, yep.

[Marty] A couple of years ago,

our goal here in Kauai was

to get this beautiful family of four under one roof.

Now it's a family of five,

and the parents have moved to the property.

There is a 12-volt power system,

but that's not enough for one family,

let alone

two.

Well, I think it's time to look around this property.

We are currently in a situation

where we're finding ourselves sort of running up

against the limits of our own power generation

with the systems that we have in place.

[Melissa] It runs our water pump,

sometimes,

depending on how much sun we've gotten.

It's so crucial to have power

to be able to make meals for a big family.

[folk music playing]

[Marty] What is this whole fenced area

supposed to be?

[goat bleating]

-Uh-oh. -[high-pitched] They're the sheep.

[Jackson] Look at that sheep. Here.

[Melissa] Oh, Mochiko.

-[Jackson] There we go. -[Melissa baby talks] Good boy.

-[Marty] What's this guy? -[Melissa] This guy with the horns is Cros,

and that's his brother, By.

-[Marty] Hold on. Cros-By? -[Melissa chuckles]

-[Melissa] Cros and By. -Let me guess.

-[Melissa chuckles] -Is this after David Crosby?

-[Melissa] Yes. -[Jackson] Yeah.

[Marty] You've got to be a musician.

-I'm a musician. -Okay.

And I come from a musical family.

Graham Nash is my father.

-Of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young? -Yeah.

That's a pretty serious musical legacy.

Yeah, that's my DNA.

I grew up on the road, following Dad around.

I've been in every state in the US.

And then we would come here

and live in our really beautiful,

very simple,

tin roof,

single wall construction,

old surf shack in the mountains.

So were you buddies with David Crosby?

He and I were friends my entire life.

And the year before he passed,

he and his family came out,

and we all got to hang out.

Well, the music always lives on.

Right? The music always lives on.

So let me guess.

Was this all grown over? You put them in here,

-and now they're beating it down? -[Jackson] Exactly.

[Marty] How high was it?

-Seven, eight feet? -No way.

-[Melissa] Taller than the van. -Taller than the van.

-[Marty] No. -[Melissa] Yeah, we couldn't see the van.

You couldn't see anything. It was just a field of grass.

If you look right over here,

this is a citrus tree.

You can't even hardly make it out.

-[Marty] Where's it at? -It's right in front of us.

[Marty] I don't see it.

Oh, what? Oh, I see.

-So, this-- -What is it?

-Another tangerine. -That you planted?

That I planted.

It looks to me like it's overgrown.

So it grew,

and then the Guinea grass came,

and the Guinea grass will grow up the tree

and pull down the growing tip.

And the Guinea grass will jump on top of the tree.

And together, they'll pull the tree down,

and they'll basically eat it.

-That's crazy. -Yeah.

How long did it take 'em to chew this down?

-About a month. -No!

-[Melissa] Yeah. -7 foot tall

to a golf course?

-It's pretty extraordinary how fast they were. -[Melissa] Yeah.

They eat 24 hours a day.

[Marty] Okay, where's the garden at?

[Melissa] Like, right over here.

[Jackson] It's been a bit overgrown.

[Melissa] This is the last of the comfrey

that Misty and I planted

-to line the fence with. -Yeah.

[Misty] Fencing's really hard to deal with.

It just kind of ends up getting swallowed up

by the Guinea grass. So run the cardboard underneath,

plant some comfrey,

and it'll be a nice little barrier

for the garden.

Kind of weed proofs the garden.

So that's what we're going to do.

[Melissa laughing]

I mean, come on.

-Three years. -Three years.

[Jackson] No, that's the thing is we've cut this

several times.

You can cut Guinea grass to the ground,

and at two weeks of decent rain,

it's three feet tall.

-No. -[Jackson] I've seen Guinea grass 20 feet tall.

[Marty] So what are you doing for a garden?

-We're not, right now. -We're not gardening.

[Marty] Sheep are an excellent animal

to bring to a homestead

if your homestead's being overtaken

by Guinea grass.

However, they'll grow over everything else

on that homestead

that's not protected.

Beautiful fruit trees, that garden,

everything in this homestead

will be eaten by free-range sheep.

-Shall we? -Yep.

We shall.

[folk music playing]

Behold, Marty, the apiary.

I got to be honest with you.

-I don't see a bee. [chuckles] -[Melissa chuckles]

The bees aren't here.

-This is just storage at the moment. -[Marty] Okay.

So it looks to me like it's a...

tool shed.

-[Melissa] Yeah. -[Jackson] It's a tool shed.

-[Melissa] It's a tool shed right now. -[Marty] Okay.

I'm sad

that when we left here, this was all about bees.

And...

the bees aren't here.

[dramatic music playing]

This homestead was set up with a new apiary,

and it was a clean, safe place

to harvest the honey.

Where'd the bees go?

We've got to figure out a plan.

You don't really have any...

storage or outbuildings here?

-No. -Right?

And really, like, a place

where in a high-winds kind of weather scenario,

we could put the sheep under cover.

[Marty] What do they do in a storm?

[Melissa] They go under the stage.

-[Jackson] They kind of hunker down here and there. -[Melissa chuckles]

[Marty] Really?

I feel a little bit bad,

because I know the last time we were here,

I wanted to move that shipping container...

-Mmm. -...get it out of the jungle.

-[Jackson] Mmm. -And there wasn't time.

You might not believe this,

but the first time I went to go find that thing...

-[Jackson] Mmm. -...I couldn't find it.

-It was in the jungle. -I believe it.

-You guys know where it's at? -Yeah.

-We do. -Show me.

[Marty] These doors work?

[Melissa] They do.

[Marty] Who did all this work? It's got a roof.

-[Melissa] Jackson and a couple friends. -[Marty] You guys...

So this was functional.

We stayed in here.

When it first got here,

we moved out of a car tent

and stayed in this for about a month.

[Marty] The last time I was here,

I'm thinking we have to put that in to use. Why?

Whether it's a barn

or shelter or a tool shed, whatever,

it's ready-made. It's ready-built.

All right, and there she is.

-[Nashes] There she is. -[Jackson] Our shipping container.

[Marty] The proverbial shipping container.

-[Melissa] Yeah. -[Marty] Let's talk about this.

-[Jackson] Yeah. -[Marty] One of the reasons

I think I'm standing here is

because I feel like

there's unfinished business here.

The Nashes are letting all these sheep

free range on the homestead,

and they can also access the garden.

That's bad.

And they need a tool shed.

If we can get this thing moved over here

inside of a fenced area

and let the sheep tag along,

we might be killing two problems

with one sheeping container.

Last time we moved a building a short distance.

This is what, 100 yards?

Yeah, maybe 200 yards.

-200 yards, okay. -Yeah.

[narrator] In an effort to consolidate the homestead

and provide shelter for the family's livestock,

Marty will navigate the shipping container

through 8-foot-tall Guinea grass

to be used as a sheep pen and workshop,

freeing up the apiary

so the bees can be moved back in.

He'll then help the family begin the process

of reclaiming the garden from the invading jungle

and upgrade their off-grid power source.

So we're probably going to get some equipment

and some tools.

And if you want to keep cleaning this out

or get it to a place where you think it's ready to move,

shut the doors.

We'll meet back here...

-[Jackson] Okay. -...in a matter of hours.

Fair enough?

Fair enough?

This homestead needs power.

These sheep need a barn.

If there was ever a family of homesteaders

that needed a lifeline...

-Go team. Break! -[Melissa chuckles]

[Marty] ...it's the Nashes.

[tense music playing]

[Marty] We're gonna rub on the machine?

-[excavator honks] - [narrator] On the island of Kauai,

Marty begins a full-scale re-rescue

of the Nashes' 5-acre homestead.

[Jackson] Arrividerci, Vito.

-[thunderclap] -[narrator] Three years ago,

epic flooding and a state of emergency

forced an all-out scramble to save them.

But now,

with three more mouths to feed,

a herd of ravenous sheep to corral,

and failing infrastructure,

the homestead faces its final chance.

[Marty] The last time that I set foot

on this homestead,

the rain never stopped.

The river flooded.

There were days this homestead wasn't even accessible.

It's not a good feeling to leave a homestead

knowing you could have done more.

And on this homestead,

we definitely could have done more.

-What's out there? -[Jackson] Jungle. Grass.

Now listen, I don't want to hit a beehive.

No beehives.

The container is just ahead, like,

11 o'clock.

I mean, I can't see you

if you get in 10-foot-tall grass.

[Jackson] I would say I'd go in front of you, but there's no path.

-You just got to go straight ahead. -From here?

Just point and follow, and I'll listen.

-Okay. I'll be right here. -You'll be in this trail behind me?

-All right. Let's try it. -Go for it.

Going the right way?

Here we go.

[wood cracking]

I just ran over a surfboard.

[Jackson] Hey, there's my surfboard.

[Marty] If we take that shipping container,

move it inside the fenced area,

and bring along the sheep,

we can protect the garden.

Jackson gets a workspace

and a place for all of his tools.

And that frees up the apiary

where the bees can move back

into their comfortable home, busy...

as bees.

That's the missing piece of our shipping container.

That's where the door panel was cut out.

-Well, we'll set it off to the side. -Perfect.

[narrator] Placing the shipping container

in the pasture

will protect the sheep

and prevent them from grazing the garden.

It's a pasture that only exists

because three years ago,

Misty took measures

to protect the area from flooding.

[Misty] Okay, I'm gonna try and go straight.

This homestead is at the bottom of this valley,

and it has this beautiful river running through it.

The problem is, when it rains here,

we get flash flooding.

They have these massive berms in place,

but they're not completed.

My plan is to complete the berming

to protect structures and ultimately people.

Wow, this is the berm.

It's super wide.

I mean, maybe you could continue this berm

a little what ways, but it's like...

I don't know.

Not with anything this big.

There's a reason why this berm is so big.

Anything smaller than this is going to wash away.

So we just don't have the material

to even remotely closely do anything like this.

[narrator] In order to protect

the part of the homestead directly in the floodplain,

Misty's plan is to first dig

a water-controlled trench or swale.

Next, she will use the unearthed dirt

to engineer a new berm

to work in conjunction with the swale.

This should safely direct the water

back into the river.

So I'll start digging this trench.

As long as I divert the water all back to the creek,

we're at least protecting this part of the homestead.

-I want to show you guys something. -[Jackson] Yeah.

-[Misty] Come check this out. -[Melissa] Okay.

-What do you guys think? -[Melissa laughing]

Berm, baby berm!

-It's so good. [chuckles] -[Misty laughs]

-You like it? -It's so good!

-All right, a moat. -[Misty] Right?

So normal people don't get this excited about berms.

It's a really big deal for us.

I know it's just a pile of dirt

and a big trench in the ground,

but for us, this means safety for our family.

There's been floods

where people have died upstream here.

-Yeah. Yeah. -You know? So it's real.

-This whole trench is not only... -[upbeat music playing]

[Misty] ...preventing and helping with flooding

coming from that stream,

but it's capturing everything

from the mountains.

And you can see if it hits the trench,

it's going that way and back to the creek.

[narrator] Now, Marty wants to move the shipping container

out of the jungle

and into the newly created pasture,

where it can solve multiple problems at once.

[Marty] Owen, what's going on?

[Owen] You want to do one more?

I like it. I like it.

We squeezed in four days

to come to the Nashes'

and get this project done.

So I need the best of the best.

Guess who lives on the island of Kauai

during the winter months? Oh, yeah.

Misty and Maciah.

So one phone call got Micaiah and Owen

right here on the homestead.

[narrator] To turn the shipping container

into a multipurpose barn,

Marty will first disassemble the roof and deck.

Then he'll move it to a more central location

away from the floodplain

before restoring the deck and awning

and preparing the interior

to use as a livestock shelter.

[Marty] You guys ready?

Watch out.

Hold on.

Oh!

-[Melissa chuckles] -[Jackson] Hey, look at that.

Look out!

Picking up, please.

Good job.

-[Melissa speaking] -[Jackson] I don't know.

[Marty] So this 40-foot-long shipping container

has a covered roof

and a deck attached to it.

The question is

can we disassemble it,

move it through the jungle

and reassemble it?

That's the question.

[Owen] Woo.

Going up!

[tense music playing]

[in Arnold Schwarzenegger accent] I'll be back!

[Owen] Woo!

[narrator] With the awning removed

and safely stacked into pieces,

Marty focuses his attention

on the nearly 1,000-pound deck

attached to the bottom of the shipping container.

With no time to build a new structure from scratch,

reusing the existing materials is essential.

All right, pay attention!

-[metal creaking] -[Marty] Whoa!

It's just pulling hard.

[tense music playing]

We're attached to the house, I think. Hold on.

Good job.

Do not get underneath it, Owen!

I'm going to head over there with it. Bye.

[metal clanking]

Whoa! Whoa!

Easy now. Look out!

[Owen] Whoa!

[tense music playing]

[Marty] Do not get underneath it, Owen!

-Whoa! Whoa! -[clattering]

Hitting that...

Easy now. Look out!

Watch out.

Don't get underneath it.

Chains break.

Hold on.

Let me try to get a pull on it. Hang on, man.

[whistles]

[Marty] I'm going to head over there with it.

Bye.

Don't try to do anything.

[clanking]

[Marty] Good job.

[whistles] Get over here!

Please.

[Melissa] Our plan for the container is

have the sheep under in inclement weather,

have a place for a workshop,

a place to store the tools.

So [chuckles] that's what I'm hoping for.

[Marty] So what do you think about this?

We just get a chain on it,

lift it up, save these blocks.

I don't know if I can get on the back,

but could we just pull it off those back blocks?

-Yeah. -[Marty] Let it roll forward?

Yeah.

[narrator] Relocating structures safely

was a vital part of the Nashes' first rescue.

[Marty] Okay, while we're here,

we should talk about this, huh?

-Your home. -[Jackson] Well, it's our bedroom.

-[Marty] Wait a minute. -So we sleep in there.

Where do you cook?

Um, we mostly cook at our tiny house.

You live in two different homes.

Uh, we basically live all over the property.

We just do a lot of walking.

So from here to the shower,

to the tiny house,

to the creek.

None of them are...

-None of them are connected. Yeah. -...consolidated?

Is that the way you guys want to do it?

No, no, no.

[Marty] This place is a unique homestead

in that they're not living under one roof.

There's no home here.

You sleep in one building, you cook in another.

Question is, how sanitary is that?

Maybe more importantly, how safe is that?

We can begin moving that green building over here

because we're trying to make a home here.

If you can do it in the rain,

before a flash flood sweeps through right here.

Well, we'll deal with it.

Let's go all the way around the rim, Joyce.

[Misty] We're sticking the cable in this groove

which is holding it in place.

That way it just locks it in, so it can't slide up

and crush the building

and it can't slide off

and then do us no good.

[thunderclap]

[Misty] Can you hear that thunder?

Oh, imagine that. It's raining.

Okay, Dad. There you go!

Oh, my gosh.

[thuds]

[Marty] Hold on!

[whistles]

-[Misty whoops] -[Jackson] It looks good.

[Marty] Everybody happy?

[Misty] Yeah, Dad. Yeah!

-[Jackson] Keep coming. -[Marty] Coming. I don't wanna hit your house.

[Jackson] Looking good.

-Yeah, you're good. -[Marty] It's tipping.

[Jackson] Keep going, you got it.

-[Marty] It's tipping! Misty and Matt, get up here! -[creaking]

Matt, it's tipping!

-[Matt] Dad! -[Misty] Dad,

the whole thing's gonna tip!

It's not tipping, it's just leaning.

[Misty] I think we're good now.

[Melissa] That was a little nerve racking. [chuckles softly]

Yeah, that was the word.

Those were the two words I thought were, "nerve" and "wracking."

Really, kind of amazed that building didn't do a face plant into the mud

and knock out a whole bunch of stuff.

I mean, that could have very easily happened.

How did it go? How does it look?

How did it go?

[Melissa] It looked great.

[narrator] Now Marty hopes to complete another successful move

with a structure that could be a life changer for the Nashes.

[Marty] This is what I wanted to do,

-couple... three years ago. -Yeah.

-Yeah. It's okay. -[Marty] Sorry.

-We're here now. -[Melissa] Thank you.

Everything that we can do, I want to help you.

Well, first of all, what's the forecast?

I'm just, like, gun shy that it's going to start raining like it did last time.

-Just don't talk about it. -I won't even look at it.

-Stop mentioning it. -I don't look at it.

-Really? -Anytime I look at it, it's wrong.

[Melissa chuckling] So I don't even bother looking.

-It's a box of lies. -Okay, so...

-So we're not gonna look at the forecast. -[Melissa laughing]

We're just gonna try to get the stuff done

-without some biblically sized... -Don't say it. Don't say it.

-Don't say it. Don't say it. -Don't say it? Okay.

[narrator] Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean,

Kauai encounters northeasterly trade winds

that pick up moisture as they move across the water.

When they hit the island,

the steep, mountainous terrain

causes the winds to rise and cool,

creating clouds and increased precipitation.

Particularly on the northern side of the island.

The resulting rainfall is abundant and unpredictable.

So how do you guys feel about this?

Do some more clean up,

get a bigger chain,

get the skid steer over here.

Hopefully, we've got some fork somewhere.

And then we'll hit this first thing in the morning.

-And we'll try to move this. -Great.

-Fair enough? -Great.

Can I surf it while you move it?

-If you want to. -Yes, please.

-On top? -Yes, please.

[cheering, vocalizing]

[narrator] As the second day kicks off,

Marty preps the day's agenda with the family.

Where is everybody?

[all] We're here.

Good morning.

What! That was...

I'm doing cosplaying.

I'm acting as you.

You've changed.

First of all, the last time I saw you,

you were this tall.

-I was that tall. -Man!

-[Stellar] I was tiny. -Nice to see you. You're tall.

And I know this guy.

-Hello. -How are you? Nice to see you again.

Sorry I stepped on that.

And I've never seen this one.

-Say, "Hi." This is Uncle Marty. -[Marty] What is your...

I know I'm big and crazy and ugly,

but what's your name?

-Neo. -[Marty] Neo!

Neo.

If these three kids are not the most fortunate kids

on planet Earth, I'll eat this hat.

Why? Because this homestead is truly paradise.

So we'll continue to work to set this property up,

making it more sustainable for the next generation.

Passing it on. That's what it's all about.

Well, good morning.

I had no idea I'd be meeting the family this morning at a campfire.

-Kids, you remember that big shipping container back there? -[kids] Yeah.

We're in the process of moving it today, starting right now.

You think we'll figure it out?

How are you gonna move it with a little excavator?

-He's way ahead of us. -[Melissa laughing]

-We're working on that. -We're not sure, young man.

How would you move something

forty-foot long, eight thousand pounds with a little excavator.

How would you do it?

I would just get the skid steer

and the excavator and my dad's truck.

-There we go. -All three?

-[Vervain] Yeah. -You're smart. How old are you?

Eight.

You're looking for a job?

Yeah.

[Marty] I'm gonna keep an eye on you.

Might have to take you back to Alaska.

So we're gonna get to work.

-But, this looks pretty comfortable. -You want more coffee?

-I would just stay right there. -I'm gonna go.

Enjoy the fire.

And come over when you can.

And it was so nice to meet the new one.

Nice seeing you again.

-Bye. -[Marty] Let's go.

Bye.

[narrator] But before Marty begins,

he has an Alaskan-sized surprise for the Nashes.

[Marty] Guess what?

The Nashes aren't the only ones who have kids on this homestead.

So yesterday on day one, I realized

that this Guinea grass is truly a formidable foe.

So I got to thinking about it.

Follow me.

[all] Surprise!

[Marty] Let's go!

[all] Surprise!

[Melissa clapping]

I heard there was some work going on

and so I showed up with my crew.

And there's no way I'm not showing up

for some of my favorite homesteaders ever.

-[Melissa excitedly] You made it! -You need some help?

[Melissa] Yes. Always.

[Misty] You know, Kauai has this amazing community of people

that want to give back and they want to help out,

and it's really important for these guys

to take a moment from surfing and to help out a neighbor.

-Right? -Yeah.

I don't believe we showed up in time.

And boys, I know what this really means,

because I've heard, lately, that the waves are big.

[all agreeing]

[Marty] So... So I know the sacrifice you're making.

So let's get to it.

[narrator] While Gauge and his friends help Marty

with final preparations for the container move,

Misty and Melissa take stock

of the current state of the garden.

[Misty] Okay, Melissa, what in the world?

I... I got to say, this Guinea grass is tall.

How can I help you in the two days that I have?

[Melissa] Okay, so we have the sheep, as you know.

Um, they've been an incredible solution...

-Yeah. -...for the grass for us.

One of the challenges in this space is...

So, we put in this gate, we put in a gate over here,

We never put in a gate for the driveway part, into here,

So they still have access into here.

So we're figuring out how to corral them properly.

[narrator] Sheep typically consume roughly 2-4 % of their body weight

in dry matter per day.

But their tastes stretch well beyond food.

From simple household items like car keys and coins,

to aluminum cans, fence posts,

and even bicycle tires,

sheep have been known to eat just about anything they can reach.

But... Yeah, everything got overgrown.

I had just had a baby,

-and it just happened so fast, so fast. -Yeah. Too much.

So let's talk about it.

Last time I was here, we were limited by what we could do.

We were having, like a... a state emergency with flooding.

It's crazy that in the three years since we've been here last,

how overgrown this homestead has gotten.

I'm in the old garden we put in together.

I'm looking at all this fencing

and I can't even see the firm.

The Guinea grass is like 12-feet high.

So I get it, you know, they just had their baby.

Neo was born, and I think their hands are just full.

So I'm glad I'm here.

I have some ideas, you know, we're gonna be busy.

I think this would be a really fun thing

to kind of create that garden that we went to...

-You remember? -Yeah.

[narrator] During their previous rescue, Misty and Melissa

visited a local gardener for inspiration

on how to effectively garden on Kauai.

[Misty] This is beautiful, you guys.

And our garden is a little different

because it's... it's an ecosystem

and we're always trying to make sure

the ground is covered, you know.

And we're always trying to transition

from these grasses into a... a state that we can really control.

If you notice, none of our garden

is open to the edge of all of this.

All of it is edged because all the weeds are runner weeds.

Everything moves laterally here.

So we use the black tarps,

plywood and then cardboard.

You're always fighting a war that's coming from the sides.

So this is actually a barrier or a wall...

-[Rob] This is a barrier-- -...that's separating you from the grass?

-[Rob] Yes. -[Misty] That's awesome.

[Rob] If we didn't have all of this, we would be constantly just

trying to weed whack and keep an edge.

[Melissa] It's incredibly reassuring to see what they've done,

because then that lets me know that just the two of us can also do that.

You're creating fertility through death.

Now I can do that with any kind of plant that is alive.

Now I use comfrey because it's short, it's low, right?

And it's also the most mineral dense plant there is.

[Melissa] For us it's Guinea grass.

-[Rob] That's your food. -Yeah.

-This whole field was solid Guinea grass. -Mmm-hmm.

[Rob] And we were able to collect it,

and we created this whole garden

with a few acres of Guinea grass.

They have a decent-sized garden space,

but it's just getting swallowed by the jungle.

[Rob] My two cents would be, keep the ground covered.

It either has to be covered in death,

or it has to be covered in life.

And if it's not, it's going to be covered in weeds.

Yes.

I was blown away by what two people can do in just one year.

I see how it's really attainable for us,

now that we've got the water management

and, you know, just certain things put in place.

And I'm really excited about that,

and to be able to implement some of their techniques

and gardening strategies that we learned.

I love what we've seen here, and I'm excited to get back

-and get to work. -Yeah.

-You ready? -Yeah.

[Misty] Okay. Come on. Let's go.

-We did a lot of their techniques, right? -Mmm-hmm.

But when it came to their spiral way of gardening,

I just love that concept.

I love that idea.

And I think, because, I only have two days,

to start, like, in a spiral with the kids

and, like, just see how big we can grow it.

-That would be cool. -Would be really fun.

[narrator] To avoid being overtaken by invasive guinea grass,

Misty will plant a spiral pattern herb and produce garden

fifteen feet in diameter

using six-inch high plastic edging.

She'll configure two tracks

parallel to each other, starting from the same point,

creating both a garden track as well as a walking track,

providing a natural weed barrier

and making the garden accessible to the Nash's children.

Finally, a new gate will keep the sheep from getting too close.

But first things first, is the Guinea grass.

-We've got to go. -Yeah.

-[Misty] We'll work on that for now. -Okay.

Hold, hold, hold!

Hold up! Hold up! Hold up!

Maciah, what's that in the woods, right there?

What is that?

Open that up. Let me see what's in there, please.

That's a problem.

We don't want to hit it.

[Maciah] Can you push? Can you push it?

[Marty] I can't do it.

[Marty] Back to business here.

-Jackson. -[Jackson] Sir.

Let's talk. Good morning, Maciah.

Good morning, Owen.

[narrator] Marty Raney is on the island of Kauai

for a last resort re-rescue of the Nash homestead.

Ooh. Just like right in here.

I love this space.

[narrator] For much needed help,

he's called in a familiar crew, led by daughter

and fellow islander for half the year, Misty.

I kind of forget, because it's been a minute

since I've been to your homestead.

Is this a fence?

-This is a fence. -And then there's, like, our berm.

-Yeah. -Okay.

Yeah. Fence, Guinea grass, fence, berm.

[Misty] Okay, so we're gonna start here.

[narrator] With the deck and awning already removed

and awaiting the arrival of the shipping container,

Marty and the team

prepare for the next phase of his plan.

To bring a barn to the Nash's homestead.

[Marty] You ever seen this before?

Yeah. You taught me this last time.

You remember how to do it?

-I do. -Okay. This cable's a little small for 8000 pounds.

I believe this is probably heavier than your house.

We moved their house last time we were here.

-Not very far, not very far. -Yeah.

And the ground was wet and we just kind of slid it through the mud.

This is a different animal.

[narrator] To safely move the shipping container across the homestead,

Marty will thread a cable through a chain attached to the base of the structure.

He'll loop the cable around the bucket of the excavator

and slowly pull with Clint pushing from behind with the skid steer.

Jackson will position himself on top of the container,

helping guide through the eight-foot tall Guinea grass.

So that's the plan.

If anything, you want to change, that's better,

speak up.

Are your hands in your pockets?

Good. Good man.

Hundred dollars fine for each time it happens today,

'cause this is the day where things have to happen.

Unless you've ever experienced Guinea grass,

you have no idea how difficult it is to move through it.

So here's the question.

Can a 12,000 pound excavator

move an 8000 pound shipping container

through 10-foot tall Guinea grass?

We are gonna find out.

Okay, now, listen. Hey. [whistles]

Don't get a hernia. Don't get hurt.

We've got a long way to go.

Do not get underneath it,

no matter what you do.

[Jackson] So, those blocks that way, these blocks this way?

[Marty] Five blocks out, please.

Thank you.

[cheering]

[Marty] Do me a favor.

Hang it over the edge.

See this thing.

[Marty] Oh, yeah.

Now it's down on that-- [laughing]

Woah, bruh! I don't know about this.

-Maybe I'll keep this for later. -[Marty] Whoo!

Okay.

Let's hang 40.

[Jackson] You're going that way.

-[Marty] Okay, for sure? -[Jackson] That way.

[Marty] I can't see through the grass.

[narrator] Introduced to the islands by European cattle farmers

in the late 1800s,

Guinea grass is among the most ecologically damaging species on Earth,

with seeds that spread rapidly

to surround neighboring plants

and shade them from sunlight.

It also deploys toxins to suppress competitors.

Guinea grass makes up more than 25% of Hawaii's land cover,

thanks to the state's record-breaking annual rainfall.

[Marty] Can you see over the jungle?

-Yes, sir. -[Marty] Okay, let's go.

[Jackson] Yes, Marty.

[Marty] Fire it up.

Let's go.

[Marty] It's a jungle.

[Jackson] Hey!

[Marty] Where do I go from here?

Yeah, baby. Keep going.

Keep on going.

Whoo!

[narrator] This isn't the first time Jackson has navigated the Raneys

through his troublesome homestead

as he found himself riding high with Matt three years ago.

[Matt] So what's the story on this?

This was the house that me, and Melissa,

and the kids, and our dog used to live in.

Um, that was my bunk, up top.

And then the kids and the wife and the dog lived down below.

Maybe we turn this really cool structure into a bee shed.

-A bee shed? -One side of this would literally be,

like, hives stacked up.

-Awesome. -Okay?

All your beekeeping stuff,

everything for honey.

-This would be like your new honey house. -I love it.

It's a really cool structure.

It's got, like, a lot of ornate bracing

and, more importantly, it's not destroyed by the rain yet.

It might get a little bumpy from this point on.

Let's go, Matt.

Here we go.

-Yeah. -[laughing]

[Matt] Jackson's crazy.

I thought he was just eccentric,

but now I realize that he's actually crazy.

We always want to up cycle or reuse

anything that we can find.

There's a whole structure that's got a lot of life left.

So we need to get it moved and re put back together,

out of this mud and all this jungle.

Whoa! We're dropping down.

You all right?

-Yeah, I'm good. -The platform's just straight ahead, right?

Yeah, baby.

The grass is like, as tall, if not taller than our excavator,

and that's just proof that things grow big here.

Then we're just kind of, just tunneling our way through

while trying to get to this platform.

[Matt] That was super fun. Thanks, man.

Yeah, I don't do that every day.

[narrator] Now he hopes to guide

Marty and his shipping container

to the other end of the property in one piece.

There's a hole here.

Hold, hold, hold!

Hold up! Hold up! Hold up!

[Marty] Maciah, what's that in the woods right there?

What is that?

-Open that up. Let me see what's in there, please. -There it is!

[Marty] That's a problem.

We don't want to hit it.

Did we do any damage?

-Look out! -[Maciah] No, we got lucky.

[horn beeping]

[Marty] I... I can't.

I can't see what's in the jungle.

That's a Ford.

Well, it's real simple.

It's either we move that and put a few scratches on it,

and save your building, or...

You know, smash that thing into dust.

[Marty] I can't do it.

I just can't grab a Ford truck and crunch it.

[Maciah] Can you push? Can you push it?

To me, it has zero value.

-It's just in the way. -[Marty] Here we go.

Hold on. Let me, uh, see if I can push on the tire.

[Jackson] If you can... Yeah, if you can get it closer that way,

we can swing right around.

[Marty] Maciah, let me dig it out for you.

I'll clear it out for you.

Ay-oh!

[Jackson] You should have seen how much junk used to be in here.

Like, we pulled so many cars and boats out of here, it's insane.

We've towed [sighs] eight, nine,

ten cars out of here. Two boats.

[narrator] Vehicles stuck in Guinea grass

on the Nash's homestead is one problem...

[Misty] So I'm not gonna drive across.

[narrator] But three years ago, the Raneys faced a challenge

getting vehicles onto the homestead.

All right, guys, here's the deal.

I'm confident, I think, with His blessing, of jumping in that white truck

and taking a team of whoever wants to cross to the other side right now.

Clearly, it's sketchy.

Something could go wrong.

But I'm going.

Because we're here to help these guys.

This side of the river, nothing helps them.

That side...

We can hit the ground running, if we make it.

Raise your hand if you want to go on the first trip.

Copy that.

Get ready to go. Let's get your truck.

I'm just praying to all the powers that be that everyone is safe.

[engine starting]

[Misty] Maciah, jump back if anything. Yeah?

Jump behind you.

[all whooping]

[Marty] Let me on, let me on.

Hit it.

[all cheering]

[speaking indistinctly]

My dad is so crazy.

We got the build crew across.

They got tools and material.

-This still is too high. -Yeah. Too high for me.

Too high for me.

The floods, the rain have kept us from completing projects.

It's been a struggle.

It's been a challenge, but we need to keep working

because I feel we need to do as much as we can for these people.

[narrator] Now, in the absence of life-threatening weather,

Marty seizes the opportunity to push forward

with his plan for the homestead.

[Marty] Okay, here we go.

We can't go forward. But what if I pull this angle right here?

That's fine.

[Marty] This seems to be working.

I think we're about halfway.

Okay?

We're going the right way, Jackson?

Yes, sir. Keep going.

[Marty] Yeah. Don't cover. Don't tip it. Don't let it tip. Don't...

[Melissa] It's so helpful to have Marty here.

What has taken us years, he's doing in an afternoon.

It's incredible.

[Jackson cheering]

[Marty] Could we have gotten that shipping container

from point A to Point B with the small excavator?

Yes, but we would have had to have lift it up

and stick logs on it and roll it.

And that was a long ways to do that method.

But with the skid steer,

we got the entire job done

with a little push and a little pull.

-Straight back? -Yep.

[Marty] And forever?

Push it.

Four feet.

-Two feet. -[Melissa] Good. Perfect.

-Perfect? -Okay, stop right there.

[Jackson] Lady said perfect.

[Marty] So there's your screen.

-[Melissa] It's perfect. -I don't know if it got bumped.

It's perfect. You can just... right where it is.

How do you... Why are you saying that?

Because I see where it is now,

and it just, like, has a feeling.

-She doesn't lie about... -[Marty] Anything.

She's not gonna lie to please you. Let me just say this.

[Jackson laughs]

The truth has a feeling.

So this is where you want it too, sir?

Yes, of course it is.

Okay, let's talk a little bit.

This is what I wanted to do last time.

But could you imagine more excavation?

-More land clearing? -That would have been insane.

It would have been more mud.

So thanks for your, what, two, three year patience.

Up top.

Two or three year patience.

And...

Again, we've got to get this on the blocks before sundown.

I've got a dead limb just hanging right now.

Don't try to save me and kill me in the process.

Watch out.

[Marty whistling] Four, three and three.

They're already there. We're good.

[narrator] On the island of Kauai,

the Raneys attempt to transform the Nash homestead.

[Marty] Thank you, Owen.

Ready?

[narrator] With the shipping container moved to the sheep pen,

Marty needs to set it in place before the sun sets.

[Marty] Are you underneath it?

Good answer.

I can come down, but only after.

Are you guys there?

[Jackson] Moving the shipping container was one of the things

that we and the Raneys discussed pretty heavily during their first visit.

[Marty] Watch out.

[Jackson] And the weather was so challenging

that anything got done, was, quite frankly, miraculous.

[Marty] Coming down. Ready?

Give it a reading, please.

[mumbling]

-That's it. -That's good enough for me, yeah.

-[Maciah] Yeah, that's fine. -[Jackson] All right. It's good enough for sheep.

-[Marty] Money. -[Jackson] Money, money in the bank.

[Marty] We got it in before sundown.

That was awesome.

[Jackson] I'm really relieved that the shipping container

was able to survive that drag through the jungle

with two machines, just kind of, bumping it.

And it arrived here in great shape

and is now perfectly level exactly where we want it.

Like, phew!

Thank the Lord and... And... What?

Don't say it. [chuckling]

Well, just thank you, rain clouds for not raining down on us.

What a beautiful day.

Let's always say, "What a beautiful day."

[narrator] Across the homestead...

[Misty] Okay, so still a gate for the sheep,

spiral garden right here.

Guinea grass has to go.

[narrator] Before planting begins,

Misty, Gauge and his friends prepped the new garden space.

[Melissa] Guinea grass in there, removed would be amazing.

-Boys, you heard the girl. -That's the spot.

-[Misty] You heard the lady. -[Melissa] Okay.

-[Misty] What do you think? -[Melissa] Yeah, yeah.

-[kids cheering] -[Misty] Okay, let's go.

This is the best work crew I've ever had.

Look at these guys.

They're just here for it, which is really good,

because I need the help, because I only have two days.

We're gonna start by clearing out a little space

for the new garden we're gonna put in.

I have some fun ideas. And hopefully, by the end of today...

You know, we just worked a couple of hours in the afternoon,

and we've created a space for the garden.

Yeah, you guys.

Mmm. Mmm.

You guys.

Do you think I needed some help?

-Yeah. -Yeah.

Thank you so much.

Look how good it looks. You can actually see a fence.

-Did you know that there was a fence there before? -No.

-Did you? -Yeah.

Okay. That's good.

So we don't want sheep to be able to encroach on this garden.

Right? So thanks for clearing the fence.

That was amazing.

And now you're kind of, standing in the new garden.

What's it missing?

-Plants. -Garden.

[Misty] Are you guys ready to surf?

-[kids] Yeah. -[Misty] Okay, let's get out of here.

[narrator] As day three begins on the Nash homestead...

Morning.

-Good morning. -Morning.

Good morning.

[narrator] ...Marty and Misty meet with Jackson, Melissa

and their friend Peter, who's returned to offer up his island skills.

[Marty] What I liked about him

the first time I met him is that you were doing

really cool things with bamboo that I'd never seen before.

Yeah. You made a special tool.

-[Jackson] You're making him blush. -[Marty] Where is it?

[narrator] Three years ago, Peter's ingenuity

helped Misty finish a pig trap for the Nashes.

Okay. We gotta split all this bamboo.

What you got there?

-What's this? -A splitter-otor.

What's this?

-That is a blade. -[machine whirring]

And you just welded it all together?

-Shall we see how it works? -Sure.

The Nashes have this amazing buddy named Peter.

He makes me a tool.

Okay. So before he showed up, we took us, like ten minutes to split one.

And then this happened.

I do think he's on to something with this bamboo splitter,

and he's going to be a rich man one day.

Ta-da. I love it!

I must say, this is awesome.

So we're ripping these.

We're ripping probably 20 sections of bamboo.

And then I have this crazy idea to make these,

like, a Japanese-style roof system like that.

I want to build this little pig shack.

Keep the pigs out of the rain, keep them out of the sun.

And I have this idea of, like, a cup and pan roof style,

where we're gonna rip the bamboo in half.

And then we're gonna overlap it and create a roof system.

You got another foot-ish.

Watch-- watch-- hold on.

That's okay.

We're okay with minimal damage.

Yeah!

[narrator] Now Peter is back to help Misty once again.

[Misty] Are you here to work?

-Of course. -I would love some help.

I only have two days to put in a garden.

So I'll take all the help I can get.

-Sure. -And I want to steal the kids today, too.

-Can I have them? Okay. -[Melissa] Definitely.

[narrator] To help the Nashes

support a homestead that's nearly doubled in size,

Marty plans to make good on another promise.

[Marty] This family needs power.

We wanted to give the Nashes solar power

a couple years ago, but all it did was rain.

I just can't...

believe what it was like the last time we were here.

When I look at this building

and I remember the flooding coming down through there,

I mean, we've never seen that on a homestead.

We've seen flooding,

but not going directly under someone's house.

But now the sun's out and we have a plan.

You have a well, and how do you power that well?

-A generator. -With a generator.

So how does it kick on?

You have to manually start it?

-Yes, sir. -And is there a pressure tank?

Or do you just run it when you need water?

-Just run it when we need water. -And it's direct?

-Mmm-hmm. -For real? Wow.

So turn around, please.

This is Doug and his crew.

[Jackson] Ah.

Come on out, guys.

They actually volunteered their time

to come here and install a state of the art

10-panel solar power system.

-[Peter] Whoo! -Whoo!

What does this mean to you guys? What does it mean to you?

I would love to not only have the kids in the bath,

but also have the lights on and, you know,

at the same time.

You really have to, like, pick and choose

what you're gonna do at any time.

We're going to put in ten panels.

They're 410W.

-[laughing] -So it's a 4,000W solar generator.

[Melissa] Thank you so much.

Having this changes my life in such an amazing way.

I think I still haven't completely

wrapped my mind around it.

I think that having the power is going to allow me

to be more present with my children.

And I think that it's just going to make them

so much more comfortable.

These are deserving people that their whole world,

their whole life, every second of the day

revolves around those three kids.

And so a family that can get power,

thanks to people that are generous,

is a huge thing.

-Yeah, thank you, guys! -I appreciate it. We'll let you get to work.

-[Misty] You're following me, Peter. -Good man.

We're going to the garden.

[Marty] We've got work to do.

The wind couldn't be worse!

See any bees?

[Marty] Here she go!

Moving!

That just landed on a couple of hives.

[Marty] We got bees!

[narrator] With less than two days left

to resurrect this Hawaiian homestead...

[man] Okay, go!

...while the solar team supplies the Nashes

with life-changing power, over at the sheep pen...

[Marty] I think we got it picked right dead center.

And if we do,

we'll just carry it right over there,

we'll marry it up,

and we'll try to rebuild what you had over there-ish.

Fair enough?

[narrator] Marty, Jackson, and the build team

reattach the deck and roof to the shipping container.

Coming down, folks.

Easy now.

[Misty] Come on, work crew.

[narrator] Aided by Peter and the rest of the Nash family...

[Vervain] Hey, Misty.

Hey, what?

One time I was walking through the woods

and I saw a henway.

You did. What's a "henway"?

About three to four pounds.

[narrator] Misty attempts to establish the homestead's new spiral garden

before time runs out.

We have our fence that we've kind of reclaimed.

We're trying to keep the sheep out.

We'll work on it.

There's still some work to do, but...

I want to put it in a spiral garden...

-I love spiral gardens. -...because why not?

It would be so fun. And guess what?

With a spiral garden, you could grow it into

whatever size you want it to be.

So that's what we're gonna do.

Would you guys want to help?

-Yeah. -Yeah.

[Misty] Yesterday, thanks to Gauge and all of his buddies,

they showed up, they got rid of the guinea grass,

and that was so helpful.

So today, I'm gonna grab the Nash kids,

we're gonna put in a kid garden,

a space that they can tend to all by themselves.

And then guess what?

I'm gifting the garden to you guys,

not your mom.

-So this is only for you guys. -Yay!

And so you get to decide what we're gonna plant.

You get to decide where things go.

You're responsible for upkeep.

And Peter is here to help us.

Yay, Peter!

-[Vervain] Hi, Peter. -So, I feel like some compost

and some edging and some mulch,

and just try to create the spiral together

and create it-- like, all the ideas that you have,

let's create it together.

This isn't my garden. This is your garden.

The idea behind the spiral garden

is to create a space that's fun for the kids

and to create it from the ground up,

something that's small and manageable

and just kind of like keep it light.

So, you know, for me,

to be able to do it with Vervain, Neo and Stellar

is really special to me.

Um, but there's some work to do,

so we're gonna be really busy.

[narrator] For any homestead project,

extra hands are vital.

Because three years ago...

Oh, my gosh!

What are you thinking? What are you thinking?

You did it already! It's great.

[narrator] ...help was hard to come by.

[Misty] So you're six months pregnant,

I'm only one person,

and I want you to really get dialed in for tomorrow.

-Okay? -So let's start at the fence,

let's plant the comfrey,

let's get that wall barrier in

-from everything growing lateral... -Yep.

...let's protect the garden,

and then really get a plan and get dialed in

-when it comes to the garden space. -Okay.

[Misty] These are the last days

where everything gets really intensified

because we know we're running out of time.

But it's just been hard.

I'm pretty traumatized by the rain.

And it's just like we're almost there.

Are we going to get there in the end?

I don't know.

[narrator] Now, with the consolidated layout

and less guinea grass to contend with,

thanks to the sheep,

Misty hopes to revive the homestead garden

once and for all.

We got the compost, we got the mulch, and we did it.

Now it's time to plant. What are you thinking?

Well, me and Vervain made a drawing.

What?

-Oh, my goodness! Of where things should go? -Yeah.

So we were thinking like flowers in the middle,

plants, like tomatoes and stuff,

go on the outside because they always get all big.

Yeah.

I think everyone's just really excited

to finally have a garden again that we can eat from.

And my kids are excited to be involved

and to be a part of this

and to see how it comes to fruition.

And that's just beautiful.

Oh, my gosh, it's so good, you guys!

-Yeah. -Whoo!

[Melissa] The sheep came in here this morning

and like just kind of all stopped when they saw the spiral.

Like, "What is that?"

And then they all walked around it.

[both laughing]

It's like sheep deterrent.

Yeah.

[narrator] As heavy winds begin to whip up

across the homestead for the first time all week...

These look like albizzias.

...a leaning cluster of invasive albizzia trees

next to the beehives catches Marty's attention.

How big is this thing going to be in five years?

In five years, this thing's gonna be 60 feet tall.

Maybe five feet across.

-Take it down? -Please.

All right. Find some more.

I'll meet you there.

[narrator] Brought over from Indonesia 100 years ago,

albizzia trees are renowned for their majestic stature

and lush canopies.

However, their large branches are inherently brittle

and could become dangerously prone to breakage,

especially during storms or heavy winds.

[Marty] The first time I came to this homestead,

Jackson showed me a tree that looked to be 10 feet across.

[Matt] When I look at this tree, to me,

it's like a whole forest worth of trees.

Each one of these branches is a tree,

and a lot of these branches are big branches.

Told him it was an albizzia, and he wanted it cut down.

[whistles]

Just kiss it.

Don't try to do anything.

[Jackson] Unreal!

[exclaiming]

[Marty] Whoo!

[Jackson laughing]

That was awesome, man.

So-- seeing that tree go down, man.

That's huge.

This albizzia tree has dominated

this whole section of the land for ten years,

and it was always the thing that

"We'll get to it one day,"

and then along came Marty and Matt and Misty.

Got to it.

[Marty] This time on the homestead,

I'm looking at ten albizzias about this big around.

But it doesn't matter.

All of these albizzias are a little crazy.

They're dry, they're brittle, they're heavy,

they grow so fast,

and the limbs aren't really strong enough

to stay in the tree. They just fall off.

The wind couldn't be worse.

There's three or four beehives right here in the grass.

Did you know that?

No.

[Marty] You should be good.

Bees are only attracted to bright yellow.

[whistling]

Hold on.

I can't do it.

I've got a dead limb just hanging right now.

Do you see it?

[Clint] Yeah.

[Marty] I'm well aware, after working on Maui,

the big island in Kauai,

that albizzia trees are truly the ultimate the widow-maker.

[whistles]

Maybe hold it over my head.

Bucket over my head.

Far.

This is a dangerous homestead.

If you don't do everything with a dose of safety,

anything can happen here.

Don't try to save me and kill me in the process.

Ready?

[Clint] Go!

Watch your head!

You saved my life. Thank you.

You're welcome.

I'm not kidding.

Hey, let's do one more.

Let's go?

See any bees?

There's at least two beehives about 30-40 feet apart,

and we've got to put these huge looming albizzia trees down the center.

Okay, everybody, pay attention, please.

Bad place to stand,

but here we go.

[Jackson] The whole thing's leaning really hard that way.

[Marty] Here she go!

Moving!

[Jackson] Whoo!

-[Melissa] I'm looking at the bees. -I mean, no albizzia tree

is standing right now.

That just landed on like a couple of hives right there.

[Marty] Are they okay?

-They may have gotten a little-- -I mean, I see some...

-Yeah. -...down in there.

-They're like-- -[Jackson] They may have gotten a little wake-up call,

but they don't seem too upset.

Although they are kind of coming out now.

Yeah, they're all kind of coming out now.

We might have to, uh... [whistles]

[Melissa] Yeah, they're all coming out right there.

-I think we should walk. -[Jackson] Let's go take a walk.

[whistles] Kaia!

All the way. Come on. We got bees.

[Jackson] Oh, no, definitely wanna take a walk.

-[Marty] Really? -Definitely wanna take a walk.

-Really? -[Melissa] Walk, walk, walk, walk.

Everybody-- Everybody, move.

[Marty whistles] Kaia!

Go the other way. We've got bees.

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jackson] I have suits. I have a smoker.

I can light my smoker and put a suit on

and I have an electric chainsaw that's silent.

Well, as silent as a chainsaw can be.

[Marty] The bees are gonna be okay?

Okay.

[narrator] Bees are a valuable addition to any homestead

for their ability to provide honey and pollinate crops.

Resilient with complex social structures,

their diligent work ethic allows them

to overcome environmental obstacles in the wild

and sustain their colonies.

[Jackson] Look, you can see the air right now.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

[Jackson] So, yeah, we may have--

-We may have to move. -We may have just nipped that beehive.

Well, shoot. I'm sorry.

[narrator] With the beehives agitated and time short,

Jackson turns his focus to the next task,

clearing out the apiary

so it can be used for its intended purpose.

[Jackson] Our apiary has sort of become our de facto tool shed.

It was never meant to get filled with tools,

but it was the only space that we had

that was dry and out of the elements.

[narrator] Three years ago...

Matt helped Jackson convert a discarded bungalow

into a new home for the family's bee colony

and all of the valuable honey they produce.

[Matt] We'll just get it all framed up

then we'll go into windows and screens.

We've got some kind of crude hinges here

that we can kind of use.

[Jackson] Rad!

So what do you think?

[Matt] I say we go-- kind of go this way

and then we'll frame in the side.

-Okay. -Don't get super close,

but maybe a quarter/half away.

We're good.

So that's one down.

The Raneys' particular tight-knit-ness of their family,

it reminds me so much of mine.

I love it.

"Ohana" is extended family.

When the Raneys and friends showed up to help us,

it just felt like our ohana was that much bigger.

[narrator] Before Jackson can relocate the homestead's bees

to the new apiary,

Matt and Jackson must first venture into the jungle

to harvest the honey.

[Matt] What is this smoke doing?

[Jackson] The smoke, it like triggers a-- a--

a primordial urge in bees that says, like,

"Our tree is on fire. We've got to evacuate.

Everybody, eat as much honey as you can."

It basically distracts them.

[Matt] I've been stung by bees a few times in my life.

It sucks.

But there's a way to become one with the bees,

and I kind of get a sense that they, like,

know that you're helping.

And that helps me do what I need to do.

[Jackson] So I'm gonna smoke the front for you.

Okay.

There you go, and just lift straight up.

Into the air.

You got it? Beautiful.

Beautiful.

You're a beekeeper.

We set one edge kind of on the ear of the bucket,

and then we take our spatula.

[Matt] Yeah!

[Jackson] Like that.

[Matt] Man, look at all that honey.

[Jackson] By the time we're done here,

we'll probably have...

maybe two and a half gallons of honey.

All right, man, here it is.

This is a great dry space, man.

Not only did you like save the structure,

but you also just like--

you just like opened up a beehive with no gloves on

and like kept your total cool and, like,

that's an impressive thing to do.

So you're happy.

I'm more than happy. This place is fantastic.

-Go on. -Hey, man, don't forget to shut that door, would you?

Yeah.

[narrator] Now Jackson, once again,

has a safe and comfortable home

for the busiest workers on the homestead.

As the final day on the Nash homestead begins

Marty, Jackson, and the crew scrambled

to turn the shipping container into a barn and workshop...

Look at that string.

You tell me when it's on there please.

If I give it a fiddle string, how does that feel?

That looks so nice.

-Really? -Yeah, we should be cool.

[Marty] Let's go. Quick, Quick, quick!

[narrator] ...while over at the spiral garden...

[Stellar] Neo, do you want to put this one somewhere?

-Yeah. -Yeah?

[Melissa] Ooh, you got the houses!

Yay! We got some fairy houses.

[Misty] Oh, my gosh, Stellar.

[narrator] ...Misty, Melissa and the kids

put the finishing touches on the new family-friendly space

that will provide herbs and vegetables

for the seven-member homestead.

Well, good job. Was this worth it?

-Worth the time? -Absolutely!

Are you guys gonna be the waterers

and the weeders and the harvesters?

-[Stellar] Yes! -[Vervain] Yeah!

[Misty] Are you gonna be the eaters?

-Yeah! -Yeah!

[Misty chuckling]

This is like some of my favorite couple of days

that I've ever spent on any homestead.

I was with kids the whole time,

there was learning, there was creating together,

and it was just so fun and so rewarding.

And now, hopefully once and for all,

there's a garden here that will be taken care of,

and there will be a reliable safe food source.

[narrator] Three years ago,

Misty created a flood-proof, pig-proof garden space

for the Nashes to enjoy year-round.

But, over time, the island's destructive guinea grass

proved too much to overcome.

Today, Misty has reimagined the space as a spiral garden,

creating a barrier between the weeds and the plants

and preventing guinea grass

from working its way into the mulch bed.

With a new gate to keep the sheep out,

the design also provides easy access

for the family's children,

giving them the opportunity to help manage

one of the homestead's most valuable resources.

It's the best garden I've ever seen in my whole life!

-Yeah! -Yay!

[narrator] With only a few hours left

to finish the Nashes new multiuse barn

and, after nearly 36 months,

finally leave them with a completed rescue,

the pressure is on.

[Marty] When I left this homestead a few years ago,

I've never really felt

like we gave these homesteaders a fair shake.

Yeah, we worked hard

and we helped them a little bit,

but the only window of opportunity

that I had to come here is closing fast.

-Clint, what do you got? -Come here, big guy.

[Clint] I got a coconut.

-[Jackson] Coconuts. -I thought that was a football.

Here. Go long.

Hey, what's in there?

It's got that liquid center.

-That's amazing. -That's coconut water.

All right.

It's me and this guy against you two.

Come on, come up to the line. Let's go.

Ready?

Do you play this game? I don't play this game.

Hey, I'll go long.

We're going to go on "Clint."

Ready?

Clint!

[Jackson] Blitz!

[all laughing]

[Marty] Clint! Clint!

What the--

Oh, geez! What the...

These guys are...

What in the...

It only worked once.

Note to self,

uh, no contact sports with the Nashes.

[chuckles] Whoo! Whoo!

I got body blocked.

Okay, that was fun.

[Marty] Clint, you need to go up.

[narrator] On the Nashes' 5-acre homestead in Kauai...

[Marty] Here we go!

...it's all hands on deck

as everyone pitches in to complete the re-rescue.

[Misty] Man, last time we were here,

it was like one of the craziest homesteads

I've ever been to.

So to come back

and actually do this homestead justice

because we're not at the mercy of Mother Nature

is really, really exciting.

It takes a village, right.

It's like a lot of moving parts

and a lot of hard work.

Okay, let's go.

[narrator] During their first rescue,

it also took a village to overcome the epic rains

and flooding and complete all of their ongoing projects.

-[Misty] Everybody's here! -Hi, Misty!

This is one of the hardest rescues we've ever done, ever.

So we've called in backup.

This is our last day here.

-So why don't you take this half? -[Melissa] Okay.

Tell them what to do.

I'm gonna take this half.

And we're gonna get to work.

-Okay. -Let's go, girls.

Let's go!

-[Melissa] Thank you. -Yoo!

[Marty] You got nails in it?

Bring me the gun.

It's been a struggle.

It's been a challenge to try to get jobs completed.

Waiting for a gun. And I don't mean yesterday.

So is this going to be a busy day?

Absolutely.

[Matt] We are on the homestretch.

We're just totally locked into this thing

until it gets finished.

We gonna get done, Melissa?

Yeah.

With all these hands, calling in the village.

[Misty] Ultimately, the Raneys, like,

we really care about what we do,

and we really care about the people we help,

and we like to push it.

And it's just like--

It's a combination of so many things

that really make it work.

Don't you like the weather here?

Isn't the weather nice?

[narrator] Now, as the sun sets on their final day...

[Marty] After you.

...the Raneys hope to leave the family

in a position to thrive long after they're gone.

[Marty] Let's go, buddy.

-Stairs gonna hold up? -I do love these stairs.

[narrator] After nearly four days

and several hundred yards of guinea grass,

Marty and Jackson take a look at the new multiuse barn.

[Jackson] Such a useful structure.

It gives us now a place for everything to go.

It gives us a tool shed. It gives us an office.

It gives us a place where we can

have the livestock under cover.

I mean, it ticks so many boxes.

Follow me.

You asked for a little window,

and we put in a 4-foot window.

[Jackson] Look at that window!

Oh, that's perfect.

[narrator] Thirty-six months ago,

with a state of emergency declared

and flash floods overwhelming Kauai,

Marty wasn't able to provide the Nashes

everything the growing family needed to thrive.

But with a new shipping container barn and tool shed,

the family's new multiuse structure

will provide ample space for the herd

and serve as the homestead's workshop.

[Marty] May I?

Sure. Give it a...

Look at that.

There we go.

I got to be honest with you.

You did have some old windows here,

but this building really is in such good shape. I--

We don't have anything this nice.

I-- I went for a brand-new window that opened

so this could be sealed, free from insects,

but you could get fresh air blowing through here.

This is fantastic.

Yeah, the more, uh,

ventilation you can get in a shipping container,

the better.

[narrator] Over at the main house...

[Marty] I just want to witness before I leave

a light going on in there.

Is that okay?

...as his time with the family draws to a close...

-Where's that light switch? -Right above your head.

All you gotta do is reach up.

Whoo!

...Marty and the Nashes finally see the light.

[Jackson] Look at his face.

Why is that-- Why is that so cool?

There's never been power in our bathroom.

Until today.

Look right over there. That battery is huge.

It's the best battery in the world.

So you have a really good battery

that's not going to go out in the middle of the night

when you're taking a shower or bath.

[Jackson] I was overjoyed.

As it stands right now with my family growing

and our kids getting older

and Melissa's parents have just moved onto the homestead,

we are up against the limits

of what our existing solar system can produce.

And it was something that we didn't really have any solution for.

And to upgrade our solar system,

it means a directly higher quality of life

for me and my kids, my wife, our whole scene.

[Stellar] It's really amazing

because we used to have to like bring

this big like flashlight and like bring it in.

And I had to place it there

and make sure it's specifically pointing

in a way so I can see.

And it was really hard because sometimes

it would just like turn off in the middle of your bath

and you'd be like, "What?"

-[all laughing] -But now--

Now there's a light!

And now you don't have to do that.

It's amazing.

This is what they call customer-generated power.

-[all cheering and laughing] -[Marty] Follow me. Come on.

-[Misty] Whoo! -[Melissa] Power!

[Jackson] Running off the house!

Running off the sun.

-Running off the sun. Whoo! -Whoo!

It didn't rain this time!

[all laughing]

-[Misty] Are we singing the artwork now? -Deja vu!

-[Melissa] We can sing it now. -[Jackson] It's over.

The only thing missing is 12 inches of mud.

Okay. Okay. Here we go. Here we go.

This is your audience.

We're muddy, we're tired, we smell,

but we're here for you.

[Marty] What do you got for us? Do you wanna--

We gotta go. Can we go out, please,

on some Nash original parting music?

[Melissa] Yes, we can.

[Jackson] Before we sing us a song,

can we just give you a big Nash...

Thank you so much, you guys.

Take a little light back from here with you.

Wherever you go, light it, think about us,

'cause we'll sure as heck be thinking about you all.

[Marty] Thank you so much.

All right, we got a little song for you.

What can you say about a man whose father is Graham Nash?

His wife and his kids, they all sing.

It's a family band.

And, on that bridge,

the first time we were here,

I engraved the word "teach."

And he knew exactly what I meant.

It's all about family here

and and passing down the amazing Hawaiian lifestyle

for the next generation.

Yeah, Mudstock!

[all cheering]

[Marty] It's a privilege to come now for the second time

and work alongside them in this dream.

[all singing]

[Marty] And it might really all just come down to this.

Teach your children well.

[all cheering]

Mudstock 2, y'all!

[all laughing]