Winter garden on our homestead in Central Portugal

This week we prepped our garden.Will show you a recipe how to cook mushrooms and we got a two lucky winners who will get our olive oil
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[@lindabrooks8242]

Our mushroom selection in the supermarket is nothing compared to what you forage for free. And, boy, did they look delicious! As I watch you grow your garden, and with happy animals around, it tells me that this is where it's at! Thank You!❤

[@portugalitis]

Thank you, wild mushrooms can’t be compared to supermarkets ones, so much more smell and taste they have 👍🤗

[@LorraineinAustralia]

I love you two kids… ❤❤

[@portugalitis]

Thank you Lorraine 🙏🤩🤗

[@violetarobic516]

I would suggest you to plant a lot of vegetables that can stay stored for longer, like onion, garlic, beans etc. Whatever you don't need for your consumption you can sell, and you're not in rush to sell it because it can be stored for a long time. Same for walnuts, hazelnuts etc. Walnuts would take few years to grow, hazelnuts are faster. Also if there is a market for the eggs, you have plenty of space to expand your chickens in number. See if there is interest in the area for preserved food, like jams, pickled veggies. Would be nice addition to your income. Thank you for taking the time to record it all, which makes it double job💚

[@portugalitis]

We are trying to plant everything we can think of to find what grows best 👍 thank you for your advice

[@terrynida5787]

Congrats on finally getting a egg from your chickens; hopefully you will soon be "gathering" more eggs on a daily basis than you can consume. Another retail opportunity to help support your homestead.

[@portugalitis]

That's the plan! Thank you 😁

[@pennypacheco3868]

Your little dog is a treasure, he always makes me smile! 🥰

[@portugalitis]

He definitely is 😁🤩

[@christinarogers5933]

You guys are the best gardeners! I love the vintage Kabota tractor. Guffy and the cats are so funny, as well as the chickens. They all seem so relaxed and happy. Love your channel!

[@portugalitis]

Thanks so much, we are trying our best 😁

[@glorialeopard8808]

Guffie is living his best life, and so are the cats. You both work so hard and you homestead shows it. Great content, keep up the good job.

[@portugalitis]

Thank you! Do agree that animals are very happy to run free 👍

[@carolbulmer8253]

Hi, Gi and Andrew. I liked watching your busy video. Gigi makes me smile… he likes to be with you❤️ Those mushrooms looked delicious. 0:00

[@portugalitis]

Hello, thank you, glad you like what we do 😁👍🤩

[@F-J.]

The mushrooms look delicious 😋 😊

[@portugalitis]

Oh it was, shame that parasols have very short season

[@portugaldreamzzz920]

The mushrooms looked amazing. So much nicer than shop bought.

[@giedreruleviene]

We must pick some together so you will know which ones are good to eat!!!! X

[@portugaldreamzzz920]

@@giedreruleviene ❤️

[@portugalitis]

Found a lovely place for mushrooms and fishing at the same time, so we can arrange a full day of joy 😁🤩

[@ruthconstantino6861]

@@portugalitis Yes, please help the Portugal Dreamzzz family learn which mushrooms are good to eat. Foraging is always good content for vlogging, too, if you feel like filming, no pressure. The most important thing is to have fun and enjoy good company. 💗

[@portugaldreamzzz920]

@@ruthconstantino6861 ❤️

[@suz-annemoss6500]

When you tilled the soil around the trees to plant your beans and peas to improve your soil - I was thinking you have already done a good job in the past year enhancing your garden beds already. You both are great in how you manage your land, animals and gardens. Great video as always - many thanks.

[@portugalitis]

To be honest we know something about growing stuff as both of us were exposed to that when we were kids, but here is completely different climate, trying to look what locals are doing when seasons are changing 😁

[@suz-annemoss6500]

You learned what worked in Lithuania when you are children and you work ethic is wonderful as is your humour. You are smart to ask those around you what works in Portugal - but the fact you did and do apply that knowledge will make you successful. And we get to watch as you do! Thank you.@@portugalitis

[@robynclarke5274]

Andreas you're such a funny guy. You make me laugh.

[@portugalitis]

🤣 thank you 👍😁

[@katarzynag.]

You’re beautiful couple ❤

[@portugalitis]

Thank you!! 🙏🤗

[@celiapereira5223]

Those mushrooms looked super delicious 😋🤤

[@portugalitis]

They were! It’s a shame season for them is very short

[@Oregontrailblazin]

you need to talk to Theo about the Mushrooms he found ..

[@portugalitis]

We will visit him very soon 👍😁

[@beverleyyoung5844]

eventually found the video about planting trees its called ,trade secrets from the tree doctor, how to plant a tree to grow twice as fast , good luck

[@portugalitis]

That is very helpful will have a look 👍🤗

[@asc3184]

Thanks for sharing another video with us. It is interesting to see u do ur day to day tasks. You were quite funny with ur mushroom remarks (can only eat once in ur life) and ur brief antics whilst eating them. They look beautiful and tasty after cooked.

[@portugalitis]

Thanj you 😁 these parasol mushrooms are amazing just a shame season lasts only about 3 weeks 👍

[@shanebrownrigg8632]

hi guys,another great vid,just love mushrooms and what a size they are,nice to see the tractor working,cant wait to get mine,still wating for the new roof on you building to go up,good news we are doing the deeds tomoz thursday,good luck and see you in next vid

[@portugalitis]

Great to hear you are on your last steps getting a property, let us know how it went 👍🙂

[@sanad7770]

Hi, I've just fund your channel an am really enjoying watching your progress. It is wonderful to live this kind of life and i pray all success for you :))

[@portugalitis]

Welcome aboard and thank you! 🙏🤗

[@lieuwina]

The sound of the fire crackling was very soothing and calming. Those mushrooms look delicious. Where I live in the UK we do not see these (as I buy in the supermarkets). Have a lovely day.

[@portugalitis]

We used to pick mushrooms in Scotland, every september used to go for a week, to stay in a cabin on the loch 😍 even when lived in London we managed to find some

[@helennoblet9235]

I visited Portugal several years ago and 2 years in a row for about a week each visit. 😀 I fell in Love with Portugal and wished I could return someday. The food was amazing, the mushrooms you picked looked delicious! We have similar weather in North Carolina as you and can plant many things even in winter. We have enjoyed watching your videos and learning from you both.

[@portugalitis]

Thanks for watching us :) we love Portugal as well xxx and hello to North Carolina

[@gjm456]

Other farmer vlogger there props the mushrooms above paper overnight. If in the morning the spores on the paper are white it is safe. If green then not. * But verify these colors if you try this because I am going off memory. :)

[@portugalitis]

Oh we don’t need to do that, we were eating same mushroom since we were kids 😁 but thats very interesting way to check 👍

[@debbiesmith1626]

Another enjoyable episode Thankyou

[@portugalitis]

Thank you, glad you liked it 😁👍

[@fotmar]

How much i jeleuse of you and your life /be good /nice continue☺😘

[@portugalitis]

Thank you we will 😁

[@manuelplacido1634]

Good job planting fava beans always plant 2 every hole if one doesn’t grow other will enjoy just planted mine to

[@portugalitis]

Good to know, 👍 thank you

[@christinelanham1936]

Great , entertaining video..

[@portugalitis]

Thank you 👍🤩

[@neutonrenda2303]

Most skirts you come across are not so easy to shift.😂👍

[@giedreruleviene]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 that’s one funny comment!!!!! Love it!!!

[@portugalitis]

Thats true 🤣😁

[@PensionersinPortugal]

Delicious looking mushrooms, we haven't found any like them, just the milk cap!!

[@portugalitis]

You should come over, we found some nice spots 👍😁

[@assuncaomeireles198]

Olá meus amigos é sempre com muita alegria que vejo os seus vidios sao excelentes. Eu tambem gosto muito de cogumelos mas nao consigo encontrar à venda assim tao grandes. Eu acho que devia estar uma delicia a receita era muito boa e fácil de fazer. Acho muita graça ao seu caozinho e ao gatinho andarem sempre atrás da Gi e do senhor Andrew enquanto trabalham nao à duvida que é muito bom viver no campo é muito divertido mas tambem dá muito trabalho. Desejo uma boa semana meus amigos e voltem sempre. God bless you ❤❤ 🐕🐈🐆🐈

[@portugalitis]

Them mushrooms grow everywhere at the beginning of the season, should not be very difficult to find them, thank you for your kind words 👍😊

[@ruthconstantino6861]

I so appreciate your looping back around to tend to the little jobs in the aftermath of your big projects. That's how my granpa and his kids have always been, just keep working at a job until it's completed in its entirety. Even if any one of them had short attention spans, they stuck to the job at hand til it was done done so they wouldn't have any unfinished work haunting them. 👍🏼 Oo, yes, please do keep us up to date on your straw-covered potato projects, G. Great work, one day at a time.

[@portugalitis]

Thats what my grandparents used to do as well and back then there were no fancy tools to help them👍

[@ruthconstantino6861]

@@portugalitis Exactly! ZERO fancy tools. Only rudimentary tools. No big box builders mart. A machete, hoe, plough, water buffalo. That's all the tools. And their little, even pre-school-age, kids doing the planting, harvesting, carrying stuff, making and tending fires, pounding the rice to free the kernels from the chafe, winnowing the rice, cooking the rice... right along side with their parents. From pre-dawn to lunch time. Then mid-afternoon til the day's jobs were completely done. I can tell that you both grew up similarly with your parents & grandparents💪🏻👨🏻‍🌾💪🏻👩🏻‍🌾.

[@davidstoddard9160]

All firewood needs a slated enclosure to allow wind to go into the pile while also having a roof over the piled wood, so that it dries proper and stays dry. It takes a lot of work to gather the wood and why waste your time doing it if you dont protect it. This of course is true for all tasks.

[@portugalitis]

We are aware of that, in Lithuanian we even got a word for fire wood shed 👍😁 this wood I have put on the pallet because there is no other place for it at the moment, when we start using stove obviously we will have were to store it

[@leokeeney6673]

It's like watching a painting of a farm scene in the Louvre coming to life, the feeling of peace is wonderful,,hold everything till I get another cup of coffee and a bun ,ah lovely video 🎉

[@portugalitis]

Thank you, after the rains land looks very green and lush! 😁

[@juliant225]

Great video guys but I'm confused where the well over flow is - is it there , there or there ? 😂😂 you need to be careful eating those mushrooms because it makes your hair fall out 😂😂😂 take care guys

[@giedreruleviene]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 missing you guys!!!! ❤

[@portugalitis]

Its somewhere near the well Im sure about it, and stopped counting my hair a while ago now 🤣😁

[@helenmenzies9488]

Have been wondering for a while if you had had any eggs! That's the start.

[@portugalitis]

It’s starting now, we think 2 hens are laying now 😁

[@22spicka]

Nu jau vištų gražumas 😍😍 Tuoj pasipils kiaušiniai 🤓🤓

[@portugalitis]

Pilasi po biski, jau 6 turim 😁🤩

[@Nulife23]

Thats great youre planting garlic! I always thought that would be an awsome crop to grow there! I wish i was young again! How rewarding is your lifestyle!

[@portugalitis]

Planted a lot of garlic, let’s hope we are going to get good results 😁

[@GiuseppeAudino797]

Hi guys your farm gets better and better good job I would like suggest for when you drive the tractor with the Fresa tray with one gear down otherwise you to burn the clutch and I think for planting chickpeas is to early but check with the local because in south Italy we usually we plant Just after new year Thanks for the good video 👍👋🍻🍻

[@portugalitis]

Thanks for the tip! At the moment when soil is wet tractor manages it very easy, but I know what you mean 👍😁

[@neutonrenda2303]

Wow, beautiful mushrooms.👍

[@portugalitis]

Thank you they were very tasty 👍😁

[@elisabethnejedly9684]

Wow! What Beautiful mushrooms. G can open a restaurant in the future. You are living a wonderful life and all your hard work will pay off.God bless you . ❤️🙏

[@portugalitis]

Thank you, not so sure if G wants to go back to running a restaurant 😁

[@dragonflysdiscoveries7567]

Man, those mushrooms looked so yummy. And those eggs were so yellow, are they free-range? Thanks for sharing your video 😃

[@portugalitis]

Well eggs were still from supermarket but our chicks already started laying them occasionally 😁 mushrooms are perfect👍😁

[@mechanics4all405]

the soil is amazing,try no dig no till for earth web improvemrnt❤

[@portugalitis]

There are some issues with that 😁

[@athenak6185]

I am simply jealous. Leaving in Canada doesnt mean you have an access to forest , so no mushrooms.

[@portugalitis]

I had impression that Canadian forests must be loaded with mushrooms it’s just probably not so safe to go on your own 😁 🐻

[@thomascallaghan5988]

Great video

[@portugalitis]

Glad you enjoyed it thank you 🙏 😊

[@neutonrenda2303]

Mouth is watering.❤👍

[@portugalitis]

Yeah it was nice 😁

[@uk574]

Parasol mushroom... Kania! But wrong!... It should be flour - egg - flour, or flour - egg - the mixture of flour and breadcrumbs :D

[@portugalitis]

We will try it with breadcrumbs in the future, these mushrooms are already gone, very short season

[@robinjokinen]

Perfect video. Waiting to see the progress. Keep on posting videos.

[@portugalitis]

Thank you! We definitely will 👍😁

[@portugal1969]

❤

[@portugalitis]

😃

[@paularthur1451]

It's a pity you can't get hot water by burning waste olive wood 😊

[@portugalitis]

Maybe one day, when the house is done 😁

[@coby6417]

🌟👏👍🍀💐

[@portugalitis]

🤩😁🤗👍

[@portugal1969]

Hard week

[@portugalitis]

Not the hardest so far 🤣😁

[@pamela5568]

Wow, those are huge mushrooms. They look like they would taste really good. Can you dry any to get seeds? Do you not fry in olive oil because to get it hot enough it begins to smoke? Any news on your house renovation? I always have questions...

[@portugalitis]

Mushrooms don’t have seeds, they have spores and them are too small to collect but there are some growing on our land so we will have them every autumn 👍😁

[@davidstoddard9160]

Sorta ruins the meal when we all see the cat stick it is face into the flour. Maybe some dont mind but some I am sure do.

[@giedreruleviene]

Everyone got their own opinion !!! And that’s normal!!!

[@portugalitis]

They not so easy to control anymore 😁

[@myitaliantherapyginafiore4414]

Helllllllooooooooo.....

[@portugalitis]

Hellooo 👍🤗🤩

[@trevorwindle8980]

The potato bed we call it permaculture layers of hay cardboard organic compost manure ash , no dig some here use old tyres and add rings as needed , you can use the eyes of potato in saucer of water to sprout roots and plant , the tyres at harvest you just push the 4 high painted bright colour tyre stack over and gather the potato none chopped in half or speared by forks, the nitrogen fixers peas beans can be dug in before the seeds form it’s green manure adding structure and nitrogen as aposed to fertiliser / manures, loved your mushroom mania a nomination for academy award best actor in supporting role , at the moment on a serious note a dinner party has killed 3 people with dried death caps so in australia wild mushrooms are certainly off the menu it’s a conundrum she had made her husband ill before the breakup , killed the in-laws , dumped the dehydrator , but went past 2 waste depo’s & can’t remember the Chinese shop she bought them from , it’s ruined beef Wellington ever getting on a menu here for a while ,chooks 1st egg 👍they cackle when a egg layed so I go down to collect ASAP as I have 2 that have developed a taste for eggs and the only way to stop is , egg shell empty , fill with hot English mustard and Tabasco place gently and stand back to watch the Mexican chilli sprint , your girls look like they should be pumping out eggs , lovely video ❤❤❤

[@portugalitis]

Hi, we would not use tyres for gardening, they are toxic, regarding the mushrooms it’s the same in every country, you have to know what you pick for eating, otherwise it can get dangerous, chickens are still young, I think only 2 of them started laying eggs so far 😁

[@trevorwindle8980]

I do apologise a program here in oz had shown the tyres method without saying potential toxins from the tyres leaching into soil then into food chains , that’s put paid to that idea , cheers

[@F-J.]

Why are you not cooking in olive oil ?

[@portugalitis]

Still got some from supermarket, just using left overs 😁

[@myitaliantherapyginafiore4414]

You guys you know Portugal pulled the NHR. I was coming to buy a farm. But now I am waiting and cut my trip in Half and spending most of it in Italy. I will wait to see which Country I will move to by SPring and now waiting to sell my property then buy a property either in Portugal or Italy. I cannot afford to come to portugal at 60 before I am collecting retirement and pay large taxes. SO now I have to meet with a tax person in Italy, but I cannot get appointments becaue everyone is going crazy to get their NHR by years end. I just had a meeting with immigration lawyer in Italy and got all of my questions answered by him now if only I can get direct information about my personal situation with a tax experit in Portugal. Crazy country. Love watching your progress and that property next to you is divine, but alas your lame prime minister really did a number on a lot of us....Hugs and heres to a great winter season. Cheers. Gina in Upstate New York moving to Portugal or Italy by 2025....Life is delightful. by the way OMG those mushrooms look delish and that new garden divine...

[@portugalitis]

To be honest we don’t know much about NHR, as we are EU citizens, but thats a shame, just curious, why so many Americans recently moving away? I have a cousin in Pensilvania and he seems to be very happy there 🙂

[@myitaliantherapyginafiore4414]

Oh right you EU peeps are lucky. I have wanted to leave since 1997 for me it was a figuring out income overseas and a special needs child@@portugalitis

[@myitaliantherapyginafiore4414]

grew up in NJ & live in Upstate NY since 2021. Lived all over US for last 42 years. Political climate is weird. Depending on your view. My perception. Cannot wait to get OUT.