Chipping and cherries - Continued work in the garden and my favorite birds

IT's been a busy week once again. We continued working in the garden, chipping some of the dead brush we have laying around and putting the chips on the pathways. We also visited our new friends Joseph and Mariana on their cherry farm in the Fundao area. But we always take time to enjoy the wildlife, and this week I was even able to film some for you :)
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Lea van der Eems
Apartado 001144
EC Zona Industrial Castelo Branco
6001 - 901 Castelo Branco
Portugal
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New here? My name is Lea and I live with my partner Maarten and our toddler Puck on our land in Central Portugal. We left the rat race in the Netherlands in 2018 and moved south in our old campervan. Two years ago we bought land in Portugal that had been abandoned for several decades. After lots of hard work we now live in a beautiful yurt and keep ourselves busy growing our own vegetables as well as producing olive oil, wine and honey on a small scale. This channel documents all the different jobs we have to do, and sometimes some nice footage of this beautiful country we now call home. Want to see more updates? Don't forget to subscribe!
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[@jonathanleonard1152]

Excellent cinematography down the row of cherry trees. You are making good use of a chipper and the chips.

[@sgrvtl7183]

Beautiful lettuces! I enjoy your garden details & tours. Ever changing😊🌻

[@afrlala3593]

Puck is such a great helper. She can keep herself busy. So fun to watch her. What a blessing. Bo is a good baby.🌷💕

[@manuelacavaco4147]

Fantastic project!

[@aptiambeng]

Love your pioneering spirit, courage, patience, and cheerfulness. Wish you all success.

[@empret7704]

It was so sweet seeing Puck enjoying the fresh cherry's ... she is so sweet enjoying the freedom of childhood.

[@gracedossantos2136]

I'm so happy you are with Joseph.

[@sgrvtl7183]

Wow! Beautiful cherry trees👌❗️

[@jeanhawken4482]

Wow the trees are really beautiful. Rather good mulching machine

[@lightdark00]

The things I enjoy most is seeing the white winged doves drinking the water I leave for birds and seeing all the lizards here in such a small area. Geckos too, harder to see outside(little ones), but a bugger to catch if one comes inside.

[@Kelleena1on1]

I love yr home stead so quaint and lovly :)

[@cynthiaOC]

cheers

[@thisisamitrathore]

I watched your videos during covid infection. I felt close to nature while watching your videos . 👍

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Happy to be of service :) Hope you can get into nature yourself soon.

[@adbc8737]

Your little girl is learning so fast watching her parents take on life in Portugal …. Learning from you and your partner is so much better than leaning at school, pre-school or day care….. beautiful family! 🌀♥️🌀

[@io6813]

Yes.I'm agree, our children do "home schooling", our regards from Italy

[@cynthiaOC]

my new favorite homestead channel

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Thank you! That is very kind of you. :)

[@alexvainio]

While watching your beautiful pea harvest, I just couldn't stop thinking about what a miracle nature is. 🌱 How incredible.

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Yes I think about this all the time. How amazing are plants?! So generous and beautiful.

[@johnsonr9]

As well as your farming talent, you are a natural film maker. Congrats on the new baby and all your progress!

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Thanks, that’s lovely to hear :)

[@barryholden6267]

Puck is just adorable & treasure to what you are trying to achieve 😊

[@filipar949]

Love the cute noises Bo makes it definitely adds to the ambiance 😘

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Impossible to not have it in there 🙈 glad it adds something

[@user-sn4tp8gi5k]

Very nice video and good luck for your we're awaiting more

[@GhostTownVlogs]

You guys visited Farmers for Fun! Its nice to see al the collaborations going on :)

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Yes we did! It’s nice to show what other people are doing and other KZbinrs are the most willing of course :)

[@noranature]

The nature is just so beautiful. Thank you for sharing this! All the best for you 💚

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Yes the land is looking great at this time :) Thanks for watching!

[@maureen8930]

Wow you can really clean up fast with wood chipper 👍👍👍

[@radmilamiljanic5977]

Pipi Longstockings is growing up so fast, planting, shelling peas, exploring the nature:)))

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Before you know it she’ll be off to bigger adventures ;)

[@jerrielindsey5939]

Enjoyed this video. Liked learning about your bird life.

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@estellesmith6418]

Lekker. Mooi plaas. Mooi video. Pragtige blomme. Sterkte van 🇿🇦

[@johanbotha1665]

I'm sure Puck's hair increasingly got more reddish while eating all that cherries...;-)

[@peterbleach5417]

A lovely video guys - You could not hope to meet a nicer Gentleman than Joseph and his lovely fiancé Marrianna - hope you enjoyed the beautiful cherries and marvellous company - enjoy your peas.

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

They're a lovely family on a beautiful farm :) Peas and cherries are all gone now, Puck can't be stopped!

[@peterbleach5417]

@@ourportuguesehomestead we will have to pick your brains on Olives - have 350 here and not too far away - Puck is a great character - befitting a midsummer nights dream!

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Send us an email at [e-mail] if you want to talk more on the olives :)

[@luisjose3841]

BEAUTIFULLLLLLLĹ

[@teresaholcombe2736]

I love watching your channel. Your little girl Puck is adorable and I love her red hair, my hair was that red when I was a little girl, and Bo of course is too cute. Keep up the great content, love it from here in Alabama USA.

[@tessahugo5448]

Your garden looks fantastic, i admire all the hard work you both put into it.Cape Town

[@Farmerforfun]

Ahhhh, lovely video Lea! It was so lovely meeting you all!!!! 💕 See you again soon! 💕 🍒

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Thanks for having us! Was a lovely day

[@mirianclopes]

I would like to be in this lovely farm. ❤

[@daffs0]

Puck is so like my granddaughter , full of energy high speed enjoys everything around her X😁

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

She was also very shy at first but in the end she loved it there:)

[@heatherhall3452]

That bird sounds like what we call a noisy minor 🙉 if that was my cat it would be lunch 😸🐦 Much better music BTW 😍

[@July45Sweetpea]

Lea as I listen to you talking about the plants growing in the garden, can I also hear your cat purring ??

[@jennenegludovatz3364]

Your homestead looks amazing!! Your garden is looking really good and with all you have planted you should definitely see a big dent in your food bill this year.

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

I hope so!

[@LindaSchreiber]

Your editing is becoming a fantastic thing!!! I love you guys, and the kids, and the land, and the garden. But your videos are now really top-notch!! [Very, very good!] just wanted to comment on the expertise here. Not easy, and you are doing wonderfully!

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Thanks for noticing :)

[@vyvienvp3413]

Woah!! What a delightful video. Cherry picking in this lush and natural land. What dreams are made of.

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

It was so much greener there still! Amazing how you can be close yet so different

[@starshepherd2134]

Its really nice to see your garden doing so well this year! Hope youre going to have a great harvest and can eat loads from your own produce! Blessings and Love to your family, also especially to the little newest member Bo :)

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

I hope so too!

[@sallyannbagita2943]

Two wonderful people who made the right choice. Your children will grow up to be healthy and happy. God bless.

[@debrandw246]

Beautiful video. Puck is so happy. Covered in cherry juice. She would look so adorable in pigtails. Her hair is growing so fast now. X

[@josblom9152]

Heerlijk filmpje weer waarvoor dank. Wij hebben ook kersen en genoten van de rode maar een andere boom werd maar niet rijp. Na toch maar eentje proberen blijken het gele kersen te zijn- ook heerlijk en worden niet gegeten door de vogels. Groeten uit Tabua

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Dank! Oh ja die heb ik wel eens gezien maar nog nooit gehad... Maar denk dat alle soorten kersen lekker zijn

[@maximhollandnederlandthene7640]

Nice, Je bent er maar druk mee 👋🙂

[@ludovinaluciano5068]

I am Portuguese living in Canada with a summer home in the Azores I love to see your videos in all the nature to bad the young Portuguese people don,t care about farming and are living the countryside.

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

We would love to visit the Azores some day, looks like a beautiful place. I hope the Portuguese young people are also able to move back here soon, many are realizing cities are not that great but don't make enough money to make it work here.

[@carlosvictor8679]

pëga azul... we got them in the algarve,slighly smaller then the black & white species.

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

They’re such fun birds, very nice to watch hopping around the olive trees. Apparently these have quite complex social systems

[@edvanhagen2363]

Het is zo mooi dat die kleine puck een geweldige farmer in wording

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Ja ze pikt het goed op :)

[@mikethomas1559]

Those daisy looked so nice

[@kathymurphy6243]

Puck is so cute…it would be nice to see her hair brushed…even once.

[@oliveoil4487]

Hi Lea- Great video - I love to listen to the sound that Bo, is making :) and Puck exploring everything as usual. Garden is looking beautiful. The birds are pretty indeed!! I love the wildlife. Blessings to you Maarten, Puck and Bo

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

I was very happy to get them on film finally, such fun birds :) Hope you have a lovely week!

[@athena7042]

Well done. 🍒

[@gertsafari]

If you lacto ferment them with caraway seeds and some pickling spice....Out of this world, better than gerkin!

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Our pees are all gone but we got some sugar snap from a friend so I might try this today!

[@m000Theevilcow]

I live in a city in Portugal where I watch every day all types of birds from birds of prey (eagles, falcons, owls and others) to hoopoe, common jay, blackbird, cuckoo, turtledove, nightingale, goldfinch, swallow, chaffinch and other varieties, wild pigeons, sparrows, jackdaw and crows, siskin, blue-tailed robin, canaries, magpie and blue tail magpie, black-tailed redhead, Crested myna, japan nightingale, Black-capped Chickadee and many others.. and it's funny to see that during the pandemic I´m seeing more and more often than before.

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

That sounds amazing :)

[@m000Theevilcow]

@@ourportuguesehomestead yes its a freaking Zoo ;)

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

When I was in the hospital after Bo was born I loved watching the swallows flying around, made me feel right at home :)

[@sunnyskies4628]

Joseph seemed very hospitable and cheerful. I think Puck loved the cherries… What did you do with all of your cherries?

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Puck really loves cherries so she ate most of the cherries we picked in the three days after our visit to Joseph’s orchard. :)

[@MrBlessup247]

Amazing :)

[@suzipam1234]

Joseph I am coming to live in Portugal and need to ask you some tips on Vege growing

[@gertsafari]

Do the whole pea in the pod, just string it, lovely!

[@kayblack6484]

The chipper is great for clearing up.

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Yes we’re very happy our friend finally bought one ;)

[@perasperas]

The best cherries in the world are from Fundão :)

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

I agree but I might be biased ;)

[@perasperas]

@@ourportuguesehomestead , well, the cherries of Fundão became famous not very long ago because of this funny story: there was a Portuguese (from Fundão) manufacturer of candied cherries at an international food fair in England. A client told him he wanted all his production. Surprised, the guy started filling the order for all his cans of cherries, when the client replied "no, I don't want your cans, I want all your outstanding fresh cherries every year". And since then, cherries from Fundão are not seen for sell as before in all nation. And they are quite expensive. Cherries from Douro valley are also very good but yes, the ones from Fundão are the best.

[@nealchristensen1793]

So much fun love it big smiles and Puck loves the cherry's but who doesn't ! How are the bee's doing ? Love the video's every Sunday's Thanks so much !

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

The cherries were so good! All gone by now... Bees are doing well, will try do film an update soon :)

[@ChristineKelly1000]

Will you need to start potty training Puck soon for school in September? You will have your hands full.

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

She’s pretty much trained :) It helps that we are both mostly home

[@ChristineKelly1000]

@@ourportuguesehomestead that’s good. Between all your hard work, the new baby, and now preschool in September I thought it would be overwhelming. Glad that you have reached another milestone in Puks life. Keep up the good work.

[@bdeleon9708]

Love watching you videos...does your farm has a source of water spring you can tap? Iam from Texas and seen some farm tapping spring water . Good luck and God bless

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Our well is spring fed and featured in today’s video :)

[@leahhayes8323]

You have inspired me to grow peas next year, not sure when to plant but I’ll figure it out 😁 I couldn’t be bothered to go to the supermarket today so we just ate from the garden, so blessed 🥰 great lettuce and fruits but the birds eat the cherries 🍒 😂 Lovely seeing Puck enjoying herself, such a sweetie, beautiful family 😘😘😘

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

That’s amazing! If you are in Portugal you can plant them in January or February, I think I seeded these in February. The ones I seeded after did not even come up, already too hot for them. Otherwise seed packs usually have local instructions :)

[@leahhayes8323]

@@ourportuguesehomestead perfect thank you! I’ll be planting my peas next January 😁👍😘

[@riskodisko]

Loved the collab with farmers, 500 cherrie trees, uau! Like a candy paradise 😄 Fundão is known to all ptuguese for that wonderful treasure, all food stores now have their cherries, its such a wonderful time of year to indulge on fruit...do you have loquats/nespera trees? Very common on farms, delicious fruit...loved the birds teasing the cat 😄 they re so smart, and beautiful. Abraço!

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Cherries are one of our favorited for sure :) As is nespera, I wish we had a tree! Think we’ll plant some coming autumn. Have noticed they are expensive this year, think they had a bad harvest because of the frost. At least it seams that way because our friends tree didn’t give any fruit

[@pagegreer5081]

Hearing the little sleeping one a background noise was so cute. Seems like everyone is doing well it's so different that there seems so many non Portuguese moving and farming in Portugal.

[@antoniodasilva1230]

Portuguese farm big time

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Yes it’s getting busy here! Guess people are realizing life is good here :)

[@juliemarsh8729]

Nice to of met you, Julie 🍒

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Thanks for having us, good luck with the last bit of the cherries :)

[@juliemarsh8729]

Yes, looking forward to enjoying the long hot summer ☀ 🏊

[@pagegreer5081]

Looks like all the hard pruning On the olive tree with a wet spring has in creased production looks like you might be able to sell your excess this year. Very fruit full spring on this season.

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

If all goes well we should have a good harvest and finally some to sell

[@richvangogh]

I would love to see the right way to pick cherries. How to do it the best way?

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

I wouldn’t know if there’s a right or wrong way, but I’d suggest checking out Josephs channel. He has done a lot on cherries the last few weeks :)

[@jamescarid3448]

Those cherries look great. How do they deal with birds? Cheers.

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

They just let them be, it’s not a major issue. They are surrounded by other cherry farms and don’t pick everything anyway. (It’s not worth it for them to hire people for the picking season)

[@joeyyoung2851]

What a lovely visit to Farmers for Fun. 😊 Puck is showing she has a great personality and as l have said already..what a wonderful way for your children to grow up away from all the violence, selfishness and negative stuff going on in our world today. No doubt you will both make them aware but the building blocks of your lifestyle will surely give them both a lasting grounding. How are the bee’s doing? Are you going to give an update soon?

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Thanks! Bees are doing well, still busy making honey :) I’ll try to do an update soon

[@deborahlozano7134]

Hello. Have you done a video yet of how you keep all the fruits and vegetables long term-storage-wise?

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

No not yet! This will be the first summer we might have enough to also store some. Will show you when the time comes :)

[@deborahlozano7134]

@@ourportuguesehomestead Great! Thank you:)

[@bertiew6771]

Where did you get the chipper from?

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

We borrowed it from a friend, so not sure where he bought it but it's from the brand Kawa

[@tessahugo5448]

Dit klink so mooi as julle met Puck Dutch praat.Ons in Suid Afrika praat ook n soort van Dutch/Afrikaans.. Ek verstaan julle al is julle accent bietjie anders.Love watching you and family xx

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Ik spreek ook Afrikaans maar niet meer zo goed omdat ik er niet vaak kom. Maar ik ben geboren in Pretoria :)

[@tessahugo5448]

@@ourportuguesehomestead Dit is nou n verassing. wow. My suster woon ook in Pretoria. You are a great family ❤️❤️🌹🌹

[@lotjeenoma5890]

Lea ik volg je op you tube, dit is ook mijn droom eens zal deze droom voor mij ook uitkomen ,mijn vraag is kan je de groente die je over heb ook verkopen op de markt of bij een groenteveiling? groetjesJo

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Dan moet je wel veel over hebben denk ik. Kan het altijd vriezen/inmaken/drogen voor in de winter, of gewoon aan de buren geven :)

[@suzipam1234]

You need to update your intro wording as now you have a second child. It only speaks of puck