The reality of off-grid living

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New here? My name is Lea and I live with my partner Maarten, our daughter Puck and toddler Bo on our land in Central Portugal. We left the rat race in the Netherlands in 2018 and moved south in our old campervan. Five 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.
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Chapters:
0:00
0:30 Morning walk
2:00 Building a trellis for cucumbers
3:55 Peas from the chaos garden
5:13 Preparing a honeybox
7:15 Reolink
10:15 Placing the honeybox
10:45 More trellis building
12:05 Strimming
13:08 Chickens
15:10 Clafouti
17:16 Modern off-grid living
18:20 Look at the garden
20:00 Sowing the last seeds for summer
22:00 Evening watering of the garden

[@user-yq4rv9ox1s]

You are an amazing mom 😘🥰❤️ and very hard working!!! 🙌🏻🦋🙏🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@lieuwina]

Love your dresses Leah. A garden does not have to look perfect, I find your gardens lovely and I can understand you doing one or two tasks in the garden as sometimes I too find my gardening overwhelming me and I do not know but this year seems to be a bit harder than usual for me to get into gardening. Love seeing you and the children and they are growing so quickly. Did Bo hurt his leg ? boys will be boys. Have a lovely day.

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Sorry to hear gardening is harder for you this year. Can you make it smaller? Yes Bo hurt his leg, so we kept a bandage over to keep it clean. All good now!

[@Ashton60578]

It is so nice to see the children helping with the garden. Your daughter seems to take a keen interest. Glad you all are doing well.

[@ArtistMartinaP]

You are giving your children SUCH a good childhood. Simplicity, enjoyment and appreciation, and a work ethic that'll stand them in good stead whatecer they end up doing.

[@angelat4639]

I think your garden is amazing! I am watching your videos now for a very long time and I remember your first summer gardening, and I think you habe achieved so much since then! :) I would be very proud if I were you!

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Thanks Angela, I'm quite happy with my gardens these days ☺ Perfectly tidy gardens are all the rage right now online, it's just not realistic for me

[@donnatrimble7439]

I love watching your videos interacting with ur children

[@ardsley2239]

Gr8 for children watching. Tot siinc

[@egoyiboclementinaonwuegbut7331]

Thank you for sharing your time with us 😊 very enjoyable watching.

[@liesbethvissia8878]

O wat is Bo een gezellige kletser zeg…. Prachtige kinderen hebben jullie.

[@empret7704]

I love your dress, and when you guys are talking in your own language, something to cherish 😊 have a great week

[@melindataljaard2753]

Hi Leah, wow I do love the black and yellow dress in the beginning of your video! At this moment it's winter and my garden looks terrible because we had very cold days freezing days now. It's going to be like that until Aug😢🥶. Thanks for the update. Greetings Melinda 👋🏻 ❤

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Thanks! It’s definitely a new favorite of mine as well 😊 Good luck with getting through the winter

[@franceshurt3517]

Lovely to see you all again and that life is progressing gently thank you for this peaceful vid, I always find it a pleasure to catch up with what you're doing, best wishes always, cheers!!🥰💕👍👍🙏

[@juanitakauffman6336]

Puck and Beau are getting big enough to be helpful and they learn from you. i hope your bees give you lots of honey.

[@ardsley2239]

Those children r a blessing for sure

[@juwe9516]

Just down to earth family. Taken each day as it come. At their pace and marvellous at the results.

[@laelgatewood3899]

Thank you. It's so nice to see the children watching and helping in the growing processes. Thanks for the tasty recipes as well.

[@ardsley2239]

Mom always baked bread brown and white.she had 8 children with the same man..lol. 7 of us still alive and I'm 79

[@sgrvtl7183]

Your children are adorable, so happy to help in the garden, and in any chore! Warms my Heart to see them enjoying time with Mama!

[@janicedelp2775]

Lea, thanks so much for sharing your daily life. Your garden and crops are looking great. Love the trellises. We finally decided years ago to put fench rows for the tomatoes and cucumbers. We use the metal fence post and hog wire. It helps so much. So happened we had extra post and wire from making the goat pens. The children are so adorable and a great help. They already know a lot about gardening and tending to the animals. Take care and many blessings to all of you! Janice from Arkansas USA

[@user-ih7zg4tf1w]

It's great to see you as a family and there will come a day, you can sit watching the children doing the work. It's a proces. The garden is really beautiful, the bees are busy, the eggs, with a nice recipe; thank you for this video; and your oil is really delicious! Blessings from the Netherlands.

[@louisefourie5846]

You look so beautiful in the black and yellow dress. A real flower in your garden.

[@bethcollier3789]

Truly wonderful family moments, in the garden, around the stove, at the hen house, and putting the security camera up. Especially delightful seeing Bo holding that ladder firmly to protect against any accident happening to Mama. Thank you for sharing with us. ♥🧡

[@cazicature]

Great video, lovely dress. Thanks for sharing. Best wishes to all 😊

[@elainepearman2309]

What is perfection? Your garden provides what it is suppose to and that is its main job. I was just thinking how good your garden looked and how relaxed you appear working with the kids, teaching them how to do things etc. I admire you. My best time of the day is when I am in my garden. God Bless to your family.🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@joyguthrie964]

I absolutely love all the flowers in your video!

[@MyPlayHouse]

I was also going to be reviewing reolink,, but unfortunately the box arrived just 6 hours after I left,, so now the nice and very undestanding reolink product manager, will have to wait until September :-) Luckily I had been very upfront with my little window for doing this,, but I do feel bad,, I do like to hold up my end. 🙂 But I look even more forward to it now,, seeing your reviews,, I picked the Reolink TrackMix Wired LTE, which is a Smart 2K Wired 4G LTE Dual-Lens PTZ Camera with 24/7 Recording. (waiting for me in a box 😞) It is much like the first reolink you reviewed,, but with a moving head,, I had picked up a SIM and SD card for it,, the wet dream, was to be able to log on and see how me house was doing,, on the many gray days here. Dream away with Reolink!! 🙂

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Good thing security camera's are not a seasonal item. The first one we showed also has a moving head, we're happy with them both so far!

[@ram1brn]

lemon cucumbers do not mind the heat I grow them here in the desert southwest USA . they are a heirloom varity

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind for next year if these don't work out :)

[@RLucas-dc9yq]

The night sky on cloudless night in your place I'm sure is spectacular...

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

It really is quite spectacular

[@glenyscallaghan1195]

A lovely calm vlog , thank you .

[@jonathanleonard1152]

The dishwasher is very important for a family with children. Most dishwashers have a sanitize setting. This is the most important thing a dishwasher can do.

[@ardsley2239]

Mother had a wringer washer..the old days back in 1960

[@elainekaufman2264]

Wow Puck has gotten do big

[@user-wl4pv3kd2n]

I’ve followed you from the beginning you live my dream

[@magicwendy210]

crazy to see all the chemtrails over Portugal recently, probably what has been causing the unusual spring weather that l have been hearing about, lovely video especially like the drone footage

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

It's just climate change :)

[@sitioterra9358]

@@ourportuguesehomestead really? it can change the clouds too?

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

@@sitioterra9358 no the unusual spring weather

[@afrlala3593]

So great to see your progress. I remember what the property looked like when you just moved there. Those brambles. There has been such progress. Always wishing you the very best.🙏❤️

[@suepittel426]

I always enjoy your videos. Your children are wonderful and are learning so much from you.This is such an important time for them. I love your recipes also. Thank you.

[@didisalyers4460]

Your beautiful children are getting so big.

[@sandgroper-ig9nk]

Tx for the post . I did enjoy your walk and talks from years ago . 👍

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

I'm so happy you say that, I've been thinking of a few video essay style videos that I hope to produce this summer 😊

[@sandgroper-ig9nk]

@@ourportuguesehomestead that would be Kool 👍

[@PatriciaDavies-dh2fh]

Hi Leah a lovely video the 👗 you wore at the beginning of the video suits you also just to add you have done wonders with your garden we lived in the TRNC for many years and like you some of our plantings were somewhat orderly but the most was let it grow where ever.❤❤❤❤

[@gabrielaalcaide7290]

You have a dishwasher!!!! You are literally living in paradise 😊

[@teresakeightley4909]

Your garden looks great to me. Keep up the good work.

[@NoeleenGrima]

Lovely video ❤❤ very peaceful and pleasant watch x x sending love from not too far from you, somewhere around Covilha area 😅❤

[@mariestar1823]

Lots growing in your garden!

[@sgrvtl7183]

Your garden is looking so nice! I remember your first gardens when you moved to the land. It is hard work, but it is so rewarding to see the beautiful flowers and the bounty of vegetables💚🏵

[@fertiledirt7708]

Amazing how far youve come along. Awesome job guys. Keep up the hard work. It'll pay off over time.

[@yureituesday]

Maybe the chickens would like fermented feed they seem to like picking the feed out of the puddle

[@LindaSchreiber]

So nicw to see you all. Love the updates!

[@Stormy-14-]

Thank you for another wonderful video 👍👍❤️❤️

[@temujin1970]

Its amazing how quickly the children have grown. Where does the time go?.

[@HandmadebySoof]

Such hard work, I love all your knowledge and you come across so soothing!

[@morganleticia2316]

I agree your garden doesn’t have to be perfect you should see mine I don’t have a big yard but I have planted vegetables and flowers wherever there’s room love being outside I have a couple of water bird feeders so I’m able to here the sound of water running this year has been so much better than last year as far as gardening see you on your next one

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

We all do what we can :)

[@EmbracethechaosPortugal]

Just subscribed on this channel as im on it most now and keep missing your videos..❤ Embrace the chaos is our tag line always!

[@eartecathy7378]

I enjoy seeing your garden. I suggest that you keep some of your beans for seed to see how much better they do than the seed you import. You will not know unless you try. If I were having trouble with cucumbers getting too hot I would stick some bushy branches in the dirt where it would give them some light shade at about 3 pm. I hope you have a pleasant summer.

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

I bought a Very big bag of green bean seeds, so I won’t have to save the for a while 😅.

[@eartecathy7378]

@@ourportuguesehomestead The big reason to plant seeds from your land is because plants change , both randomly and to adapt to their surroundings. Developing a strain of plant better matched to your conditions is done this way and the pay off is a strain that gives you a bigger amount of food to eat or a better quality of food. It is most important to keep seeds of your plants that were grown from seeds that came from further away and also from the plants that are having trouble preforming. Solving this puzzle is demanding of your intellect, gardening is not a simple thing. About the protestant work ethic and mental health: I was taught that God made humans for the purpose of showing joy in his creations. When I have lost someone I love it has been very difficult for me to feel joy but it is why I was made and is the very best way to praise God.

[@deehalpern8988]

Along with your native language of Dutch and learning Portuguese, are the children learning English as well? Beautiful wild flowers on your land.

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Yes they both also understand and speak English

[@portugal1969]

You always make me so envious, I was over in march, stayed at the expensive hotel on the hill for a couple of nights, never afford in season, but the wealth of people was evident and it was awful weather. Hope the digger gets fixed soon

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Nice place to stay though, if you have to stay inside :)

[@brittjansen9737]

Aaah zo lief, Bo die helpt met bouwen! ❤

[@amycoffin826]

I love all your dresses. Did you get them in Portugal, or elsewhere? 👗😊

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

I've started to buy more dresses from vintage sellers on Etsy, that's where I found the black with yellow flower dress recently :)

[@kpremalal]

Nice to see your video again

[@joseteixeira2518]

Some goats in fenced area would help as goats eat there way through the grass/

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

We have three hectares, that's a little too much to fence for us right now :)

[@Annazelfvoorzienendleven]

Misschien heb je dan niet de aller netste tuin, maar ik vind het prachtig hoor, al die natuur.

[@inesagarlocatelli9743]

Lovely video!😊

[@BirdYoumans]

❤❤

[@ChristineKelly1000]

I love the blue dress you wore while filling the dishwasher Lea. Who says you have to be a slave to house work? Particularly this time of year, you need to be in the garden.

[@colkur5007]

Always enjoy your updates. Very realistic and simple way of living . Have you guys thought of getting or being sponsored a portable sawmill? Youve got lots of trees on your property and you could cut your own usable wood for structures.

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Only about half our property is forest and most of those trees are oak which you’re not allowed to cut down (not that we want to). So realistically it wouldn’t be super useful for us, but I wouldn’t pass on the opportunity if it presented itself 😊

[@rachelfrees1268]

How sad that hard work and progress bring in the criminals. You are such a creative gardener and its success is evident in all the produce you grow. Bee farming is exciting. There is the best book by Gene Stratton Porter entitled “The Keeper of the Bees”. All of her books are about nature, and her characters are so rich and just jump off the page at you. I read them under the Free Books found on my I Pad. Take care.🎉

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Thanks for the tip, I'll have a look :)

[@gardeningwithlalitabhandar9138]

Wonderful sharing beautiful flowers and hardworking person and walking with 🐕🐕🐕🐕 nice sharing your daily routine life style greeting from India 🙏 your children are so cute good job keep it up happy Thursday and upcoming weekend

[@jonathanleonard1152]

Please consider back exercises. There are many for back stability at YT channel “Squat University”. I have back issues and do many exercises, some everyday, and some alternating days.

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Thanks, I'll have a look :)

[@ardsley2239]

Such a nice life style.many envy you guys..this coming from a Canadian in prague.dad had 8 children with mom..he loved tilling the soil and they both lived til almost 90. I bet you guys are envied by many..ta for showing us the way

[@wiechertginhovenvan8887]

Wat leven jullie mooi. 😊

[@lidijafichtner7080]

Thank You for sharing❤

[@robynclarke5274]

It's great to the children helping and learning with your endeavours. Those veggie frames look nice, your very accomplished in the garden.Have you harvested much honey from your hives?

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

We’ll harvest a little honey towards the end of summer, but Iberian bees do not make that much honey so it’ll only be a kilo or two

[@robynclarke5274]

@@ourportuguesehomestead Bees as you know are extremely important. I have a bee garden with their favourite flowers growing. Thank you for caring for bees.

[@sunshinesurprisable]

Bravo !!! So enjoying watching your journey. Please DO give Antoinette a special pat from me :) XX

[@andreacooley9428]

Beautiful❤

[@damdekmyhomeដំដែកផ្ទះខ្ញុំ]

Hello this is great sharing I love it thank you

[@Luciacasado-fe4hg]

❤❤❤

[@yrisdel8215]

Hi, lovely video. I was wondering if you might be able to share the name of the singer, singing in Spanish towards the end of the video. Thanks!

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

The singer is called Caro Luna, you can find some of her stuff on KZbin :)

[@yrisdel8215]

@@ourportuguesehomestead Thanks!

[@metamud8686]

Fijn dat het bij jullie droger is. Ik ben al vier keer opnieuw begonnen in m'n Haarlemse moestuin, maar hier staat alles telkens weer compleet onder water. Of ik koi karpers aan het kweken ben, krijg ik wel te horen. Ugh!

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Ja, we zien het op het nieuws, vervelend! Hier hebben we juist een mild begin van de zomer, wat alles wat makkelijker maakt :)

[@coby6417]

🌟👏👍🍀💐

[@denyhaynes31]

👍👍👍👍

[@lyaca886]

Đất nước bạn thật màu mỡ mình rất thích

[@janslogic]

1:19 chemtrails 😶

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Beautiful, aren’t they?

[@nedimozbey9150]

Ich bin ein hobbyimker aus Deutschland. Ich möchte wissen was für Beuten in Portugal üblich in Gebrauch sind, weil ich auch nach Portugal auswandern werde. Kann man imker Bedarf einfach in Portugal bekommen kann?

[@gncl7599]

Yes, beekeeping is very common, you will have no problem finding supplies, just search for "loja de apicultura".

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Beekeeping is still very common in the countryside of Portugal, so it's easy to get supplies here

[@nedimozbey9150]

@@ourportuguesehomestead thanks alot

[@higheriam]

Do you teach your children English or Portuguese languages? 😊

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

We speak Dutch with our kids, but they also pick up english when we’re with friends. Portuguese is only spoken at school for now.

[@markbarnhart9321]

I wonder why your chicken coup is so far from your house

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

Is 100 meters far?

[@fritzmusic]

Don't be ashamed to use current technology to create less friction in your life. I get what you're saying but a lot of that stuff feels so fake like performative authenticity. The purists of off grid content are a toxic bunch and more like role-playing but you are living it and I don't blame you a bit for dishwasher or machines. Always strive for balance and being puritanical just for puritanical sake is just willful work fetishists. If it don't fit you, it don't fit you. Yes, it used to be harder but who cares? IF you do, I have laundry to do in a bucket so pitch in or shut up. Live and let live.

[@ourportuguesehomestead]

People can do whatever they want, but I know plenty off-gridders who get judged for having modern appliances. I'd rather be doing something else, that's all I'm saying :)

[@AnneHeyns]

Zoals altijd een erg leuke video, ik leer zoveel van je.

[@donnatrimble7439]

I love watching your videos interacting with ur children