Living our dream life, off-grid in Central Portugal - Year two
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2021
- This month it has been two years since we moved onto the land. Time to look back at all the hard work of the past year.
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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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What a delightful person is Puk. She seems so present, such a curious and interested companion. So smart.
The Ones who are lucky, its us, the portuguese to received a family like yours, hard workers and respectful. Thanks so much. Now learn portuguese to interact With the locals
We’re working on it :) Thanks for having us
@Beautiful things are love and dreams by GenaResende I only care about my money,not about the others money!
Congrats! Keep on going the nice and hard work!
Beautiful children and now the baby, he's a bless!
I'm also "new" here in Portugal and discovered your channel today!
Parabéns e obrigado!
@Beautiful things are love and dreams by GenaResende sometimes it’s better not to say anything 😁 This young couple is a role model for present day young people who are in general spoil to the teeth.
So true!
I watch so many people establishing new homesteads, but all of them have so much machinery, stores with all sorts of supplies they just go and buy, making it all so much easier. Yours is going slowly, perfectly imperfect, labour of love, hard work and persistence. You might be going on slowly and with lesser funds, but in the long run, you will get further, enjoying it all along:) Stay happy and healthy!!!
Thanks for noticing all the effort. It could for sure be easier with more money and more machines but we want to show it is also possible this way :)
@Beautiful things are love and dreams by GenaResende Absolutely agree:))
I think you are a marvellous couple and your children are learning basics every day and having fun too. What a great life for them!!!!❤️🌺🍓
it is a great remark..I see love and care in your eyes..love and care is the center of mother nature..you are your own nature..it is always easy..but it's true life as it meant to be..take care of your beautiful family..every difficulty a new stone in the river...love you guys...
Get goats to clear bush.
I laughed when I saw the chickens helping to dig the pond.
Brings a tear to my eye seeing you three living the off grid lifestyle my wife and I have enjoyed in the Sierra Nevada for the last 18+ years. Our two kids grew up to be the most amazing adults I know, and I’m convinced that growing up in a yurt without television is a huge part of it.
I will tell you when I bought a second hand backhoe, every project on the ranch got a LOT easier. Love what you guys are doing, it’s hard to be different but it’s worth it.
Congratulations, 2 years, 2 beautiful children, lots of hard work and each other, and “ you have never been happier”.
Well done, you have found the magic formula for a wonderful life, you deserve it.
Oh my haven’t you two progressed so well … with beautiful baby girl and then your gorgeous baby boy !!! … well done 👍
🙏☘️😘
Very Encouraging to get the fruits of your labor in return. Keep working...it is looking good...hope it is getting easier. .
All gets easier with time :)
You have been really busy, marvellous to see it all put together. Can’t wait to see Bo running after Puck in those fields. Stay safe
I love seeing little Puck, she is always so busy. You're great parents. Congratulations on all you have achieved.
Congratulations on making two years. I enjoy your posts. stay blessed
Very nice to see the changes, we often forget to look back and count our blessings but also analyze our "failures" as part of the learning so we can do even better with changes and adaptations..well, you doubled the children, more than double the beehives..sure you will at least double your harvest..keep it up
That’s a good way to look at it, double everything :)
Congrats on 2 years hope to see your hard work rewarded with a great harvest.
I hope so too!
WOW, AWESOME CHEERS..CONGRATS
Wonderful, just wonderful! Here's to a great Year 3!
I can hardly believe its been 2 yrs since I began watching your videos....thank you for sharing your wonderful adventure and loving family. 💕 from Idaho, USA 🇺🇸
Your hard work is giving you rich, healthy lives. Thanks for sharing:-)
marteen seems to never stop---- but its' never ending---love that puck---and baby too--deatra
He does sit down all the time ;)
@@ourportuguesehomestead this is true.
Prachtig ,wat mooi om te zien... en wat heeeeerlijk om zo jullie kinderen op te laten groeien.
Thank You for these videos! 🌀♥️🌀
I love the way the man is multitasking & how the wife is hardworking & loving
This was a lovely montage of what you guys have accomplished over two years. A lot of hard work! Your farm is looking so nice! And of course I love watching Puck help on all the projects. I can't wait to see your new baby as he grows up! Take care and see you next time!
That was a lovely retrospective video. I just realized, and I am not aways alert at 73 haha, that your son is Portugese. Are you all learning the language? I have lived in Italy for almost a decade and I'm still not fluent in Italian. But as they say here, "piano, piano" or "slowly, slowly." You deserve to have the best land and the best life as you both are working so hard. And I'm confident you will achieve this.
Yes he was born here :) We’re trying but it’s a hard language to learn.
I've been living in cz 28 yrs.now I can manage plus or minus but while I was in ukraine five times the penny finally dropped..I was learned russian all these yrs.lol.. but I lived in Greece four years when I was 33/ now 76.fun learning languages..not perfect but I can live with that.good luck folks..my father had eight children and I'm the first..he loved working the land too..thanx
@@ourportuguesehomestead you have to learn Portuguese, exactly as you demand people from other countries to learn duch when they live in Holland. How will you be able to understand society without learning the language?
@@TheLuis0087 your comments just shows how shallow you are. try raising kids and making a off grid homestead from scratch and then complain if you have the time and energy . I think they are taking it slow and slow and steady wins the race.
Also in Netherlands/ Germany (as an expat ) you can easily live and work here with a understanding of people/ culture without speaking proper Dutch/German. Off course speaking the language helps (needed for more non skilled work).
What a beautiful look back at your two years. Congratulations and best wishes for continued good life on your homestead. Soon we’ll be seeing the littlest one running around with Puck.
Thank you to make our sunday morning so happy. I love yours vídeos. From Brasil. He have a very close relanship with Portugal. Sorry, my english isn't so good.😀🥰👏👏👏
the evercool Puck will bloom into a splendid person away from civilization street...and a great sister✌
You deserve all you have achieved from your hard work.
With Apple 🍎peels and core you can make vinegar.
Its looking great! You know the old saying Rome wasn't built in a day,so keep up the hard work everything will be awesome when you get it established well🥰❤😁
Congratulations on your progress in achieving your goals for your home and your farm! Just a tip on the fencing wire. The smaller openings should be at the bottom to help keep out the predators. My wish for you is for you to achieve your dreams.
So nice.. Its good, that you take over, the beautful of this country. 💐💖🇵🇹🇵🇹
Congratulations to you both for all the hard work.
You are a wonderful family. Thank you so much for sharing!
Really enjoying seeing a family making a great healthy lifestyle for themselves. Best wishes from Western Australia.
Hi from Australia, thoroughly enjoy your videos, a great life start for a young family. We too, left the city yrs ago & have done the same, the hard work is rewarded in so many ways, the best journey we have ever had, enjoy yours 🌺🇦🇺
Oh wow those stairs at the waterfall. Little girl Puck exploring and and rejoicing in everything new. Unbelievably cute.
Hello, nice to see all the good work you've been doing in your land. Could you please tell if you need any kind of licence from the municipality to build the outdoor kitchen or the yurt. Thank you.
Please have a look at this video: Land prices, legal issues and goats - Answering your frequently asked questions
I watch and admire you and am planning to do something similar but maybe with electricity. However step 1 was to get an allotment and familiarise myself with growing good on a larger scale. Luckily I am surrounded by lots of very knowledgeable people who help me along this road. I can't imagine doing this whilst raising 2 children. It is a great life experience.
Sounds like you’re taking some good steps! We do have electricity from our solar system :)
You have done wonders and worked so hard
Congratulations on your two years of survival, hard work and now year 3 should get easier as you now have some experience, and knowledge which you didn't have in years 1 and 2. Ever onwards and upwards.
What a lovely resume of your year. Happiness radiates from you, how could you not be. You have found a piece of Paradise xx
Happy to see the work that you done.Congratulations.
Wow, I am.so admire you two. Amazing life! Are there dangerous animals there, like snake, wolf, etc?
Not really!
@@ourportuguesehomestead Nice👍🏻
happy to see you and the family----i know this is hard work, but its' healthy --- and you dont have to eat to many processed food ---- i find the cookie cutter farmers boring and they have no idea what it really is. they miss out on the good life. i love what you do and how you share it with everyone-----your friend deatra
That’s really nice of you to say Deatra. We love the way we do it here, we’re not trying to copy anyone but listen to what this place needs
Congratulations! What a beautiful Portuguese homestead you have created! Beautiful family!
I see you're tilling the soil. Charles Dowding has a UA-cam channel on no dig /no till method that may work for you.
Good ... another a year you will harvest a lot from what you had plant @ mantain it ...!
Such a lovely look back at your year. It will be nice to look at this years from now, when you're children are grown. What sweet memories!
What a great way of life amazing.
Wow that was great looking back you have done so much
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I realy want to see the results of the olive pruning
Hardworking couple..
Easy dude! It took them 2 years to get some chicken...
Liked your selection of the best place. Happy to see your hardship.
Thanks
so much progress in a short time. great work
Welcome to the Greatest small Country in the World...where out Sacred Mother Nature awaits you with so many Wonders !...
Hallo lieve Lea en Maarten en kinderen, ik heb net vandaag voor het eerst jullie kanaal gevonden. Wat prachtig wat jullie allemaal bereikt hebben!!! En wat voortvarend! Een prachtige tuin, de kippen, de bron, de vijver, de wijngaard en ook nog olijfbomen bij houden. So prolific!!! Echt geweldig! Petje af. En dan ook nog 2 kinderen helpen opgroeien. Echt zoveel respect voor jullie. Ik bewonder wat jullie allemaal bereikt hebben. Dank je wel voor dit delen met de wereld. Alle zegeningen voor julllie.
Your life would make a wonderful childrens book series. Beautiful family, thank you for sharing w/us. ❤️ ✨ ❤️ ✨ ❤️
Maybe one day we’ll have time to write one...
Really awesome.
" GOD HELP THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES ".
Stay blessed.
Thankful to have found your videos. Keep up the good work.
Congratulations on your second baby God bless 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Little Puk is adorable, so curious and always interested in everything!! Great experience for her. I am sure your little boy will be equally as curious etc. 😇
Thank you for the many memories of sharing, from thousands of miles away, your progress on your homestead, allowing me to share in your family's joy and frustrations, and growth. This must have been a difficult, and yet immensely satisfying, piece to put together!
What to include. What to cut. Beautifully done!
If I were 20 years younger.... wait.... make that 40 years younger ;) ....
I would be taking on this kind of challenge, with enthusiasm and with exhaustion and with inner joy.
Maybe in my next life ;)
It's really been two years?!? Congratulations on your anniversary!!!
Took me the whole week to put together! Two small kids are not great for getting things done quickly.
I hope you find a nice farm in your next life ;)
I can hear bees...very good. You may also consider to grow medicinal herbs, like our ancestors did. A good herbal tea replaces all the pharmacy meds...in a good way. Orange and apples grow very easy also.
Watching from Philippines and i love ur vlog
Hi Lea and Maarten - Amazing journey for you both and you have succeeded so far and I am proud of your accomplishments. Puck the explorer and helper and Bo, is getting bitter each week. Congratulations and keep up the great work. Blessings
Thanks for watching :)
Excellent retrospective, congratulations!The boys are beautiful! Best wishes to everyone!
Thanks! Puck’s a girl, but still beautiful :) (although I’m a bit biased...)
@@ourportuguesehomestead, I am Portuguese. I live in Almada - Lisboa. I love your presence among us. My english is very bad, so I use translator to communicate. Initially I thought Puck was a boy, but later I realized it's girl. I love to see her help the daddies in agriculture . The nature is beautiful! I admire your simple life and that love for the land They are a great example to be followed by everyone Who has the same feelings. Best wishes and kisses to all of you. 😅
Lovely video. Hopefully I can buy some of your honey and olive oil next year! :)
Congratz on 2-year adventure in this beautiful country. I love seeing all your videos. Keep up with hard work.
May God bless this couple struggle to start their new venture in progressing their effort.
You guys are amazing self-taught
This is great to see, makes me want to buy a piece of land in my old country as well to be honest :).
Beautiful memories you all have to cherish 😁💯 perfect 🤩
Your last words made me cry.. I'm so happy for you all! 💕🌷💕
We've lost in 6 months all of our chickens to the egyptian moongo. He don't eat the chickens, he kills them and drank the blood. It allways happend when they were outside of the coop. All our neighbors had this problem too. He's allways around and waiting for his chance.
Sorry to hear about your chickens! We haven't had any issues yet but I do think they're around
I enjoyed your videos as well as your life 🌹🌹🌹
Congratulations! All the best as you continue on your journey.
Everything you do is perfect……Minute 2:17 I live those butterflies on the beautiful flower!
Congratulations on 2yrs. Thanks for sharing with us.
Best wishes from Minnesota USA.
Enjoying your videos..and those flowers are lovely🧡
Lovely ty for sharing yr hard work ty Jesus
Very nice overview! :) Best of luck in the future, too!
Hi, I love your channel. I've noticed that you have lots of wood that can be turned into charcoal. Please consider learning how to do this because you can then make Bio-Char (aka Black Earth or Tiera Negra). In essence, you place your grass cuttings and leaves, chicken manure, and food scraps on top of a half filled barrel of charcoal. Soak the entire mixture with water (and the muck from your wells) for a winter. The charcoal absorbs all of the nutrients and will slow feed them to your garden vegetables for generations. It's incredible stuff. Keep up the good work and God Bless.
Only two years? Wow. You guys have done a lot. Congratulations!! And that it means that Puck is still less than 3years old?!
She turned three in April :)
@@ourportuguesehomestead wow, it's amazing how many skills she already have. So cute! Congrats, again!
Wonderful chronicle of your year. Thanks for sharing.
A great video:)
Your family is beautiful. Welcome to you wee addition.
Congratulations fantastic job you guys are doing 👏 have you thought about building a bio gas system to make your own gas so you don't have to buy it anymore? There very easily made and the wast from it is plant food.its a win win
Thanks :) Maybe in the future when we have a ‘real’ house
I love your channel. It’s refreshing to see how to respect the land and demonstrate that with hard work anything is possible.
Rewatched the year one review and started playing this one and it's such a contrast. Year one, a perfect length video, told in story form, including intros to video clips without sound but nice music. You showed enough, without showing too much, so it stays an enjoyable rewatch. I really hope year three review is more like year one, with possible improvements of timing things never too long(so people want to watch the other videos), and it's always nice to have bonus material that was never seen earlier in a video. Adding a map in videos and highlighting where you are on it is another thing people might like to understand the bigger picture. I really want you to have a viral video again to boost overall viewers/subscribers!
I see your hard work and love towards your family ,home and land from you, God bless you & your family
Congratulations on your mega achievements including new name xx n
Miss b from wva united states ive watched all your videos and loved each one. Im so sad how hard it is for 2 babies but you're doing a great job i love when you take them to the garden. When you and Martin are together you always have smile keep making those videos girl
Dos años y la verdad es que han pasado bastante rápido, con sus cositas. Me alegro que sigáis con la misma ilusión que cuando comenzó todo. Saludos desde sur de España....y mucha suerte.
Amazing. Will follow you. I adore your courage and experience.
To *hydrate* the soil to avoid watering the plants so frequently:
1) get 2 identical clay pots, drill a hole on the bottom of *one* and glue the pots together at their tops (water-proof adhesive)
2) After a day, bury them near the plants, leaving the hole outside to refill when the soil drains the water you put inside
3) Cover the hole with a stone/cork to prevent evaporation, dirt and bugs accumulation
I learned this from Geoff Lawton: permaculturenews[ . ]org/2018/12/25/how-to-make-your-garden-drought-proof-using-unglazed-clay-pots
Really enjoyed watching your efforts grow this year 🙂
Don’t know of that is efficient in a bigger garden, but we might try with some trees and other perennials. Glad to hear you’re enjoying the videos :)
Our family did a similar adventure off grid in Italy. We were not far from two villages so I did not feel so isolated. But we did grow all our own food. And went to town only for essentials.
Well done i am realy impressed by you young hard working people !!!👪💪
A nice overview of this busy and happy year. Well done
Oh those waterfalls ! Nice garden . Love the outdoor kitchen .
Just enjoy the journey .
Ons is bly vir julle... baie mooi... Ons gaan kuier wanneer ons is in Portugal... Ons sal mekaar verstaan want ons taal is amper dieselfde... julle het hard gewerk... really amazing how far you have come ... pragtig...
Well done!
Two years went by already? I think I was here for most of that. 🙂 Nice to look back and see all the progress. You're doing great! 💚
Thanks for being here for so long :)
@@ourportuguesehomestead ❤️
I wish i can have a farm just like you couple....youre very industrious and lots of plans developing your homestead....