Was amazing watching my Sanchia and her neighbours and friends olive picking on their land. Hard work but fun and a satisfying and productive outcome. Well done 👍
Hi KIrsty! You're doing wonderfully well with everything. It's hard to keep track of days when you don't go to an office to work. Sinead's blue fuzzy carpets look lovely and warm. I hope she gets the right chimney pipes! Ugh! Your window and the inside walls are going to be beautiful! I hope the window and wood comes very soon. Good idea to pick it up yourself. It's a big chunk of change, indeed, but sounds worth the view. it's hard to wait for things you want to get a move on. At least you have other things to do. 😅Thanks so much for sharing with us. I think we've had almost the same temperatures here in Toronto! Today it's a little cooler. I hope you both enjoy your week and I'm looking forward to seeing the secret project. 🥳
Ah it’ll be getting chilly in Toronto now! Ya the window is coming along and I’m eager to get a bit of wood for the sill and to figure out the lintel. It should be fun challenges ahead!
I want one of these automates trimmer gadgets just to listen to the noise it makes. It’s cute? I didn’t know I could find electrics to be cute sounding but here I am
Wow! Great result with the olives. And great news for Sinead. Something else to look forward to with the build process. Well done on getting the chipper. It'll make such a difference for you all. Like others in the comments, I love the pool area your friend has. You're all very lucky and its lovely to see how you all support eachother ❤
i suppose you could use a leaf blower to separate the olives from the leaves..good to see you girls all having fun.much easier moving to a place where you all know others..
Great video! Please, please you and the girls do not put your hands inside the orange cone to push anything through! Use another branch to do that. Take care!❤😊🙏
I'm pleased you have got a decent sized chipper. Can you alter the size of the chips that come out as it looked as if the leaves should have been smaller. Great pool area & good olive harvest.
you should collect the leaves kirsty and dry them out and offer your viewers some nice dried organic olive leaves from portugal..great for making a tea...you will be surprised how many people will buy them..being lightweight they shouldnt be too expensive to ship..alot of channels sell merch.
Someone mentioned about moving that to the garden area and I think it's a fine idea! For now I'll just leave it where it is but I'll consider the move, for sure!
A lot of great stuff DID happen in this video Kirsty. Loved it all. Change of season and things to look forward to. Great time. Greetings from Australia
Interesting to see branched cut off to harvest. I suppose there are many different ways to harvest. Just thought pruning was done a different time of year. I’ve only seen a few different harvests. Italy seems to do differently. 🤷♀️
Italy and Spain apparently do things very differently to Portugal. Different pruning styles but I don't know the details. I'm definitely not doing things the Portuguese way, though! Our trees haven't been pruned for many years and they're out of control. There are so many olives on those long middle branches that are impossible to reach and those branches will come off at pruning time anyway so this is what we decided to do. I've done it this way on my own trees for several years and it seems to work ok. I definitely need to come back with a chainsaw and try things up, though.
@ yes it’s very interesting but pruning anything is usually a certain time of year different than harvest. Not sure it’s different than Spain. Watched other Portugal olive harvests also… 🤷♀️ all good.. I’m just learning….
Spain and Italy both do things quite differently than Portugal but however I'm doing things definitely isn't how to do things! I'm sort of just trusting my gut... it's worked ok so far for olive trees, but there's definitely a better way to prune. I have so much to learn!
So does the press keep your olives separate from everyone else’s or do you just get the equivalent liters of oil from the kilos of olives? Did you do all your olive trees and Sinead’s but did not get to any of Sancha’s trees? How many olive trees do you each have on your land?
Most presses will do your oil separately but they have minimum quantities. This one was 150kg but the one we've used in previous years is 600kg. We didn't have time to get to all of Sinead's trees or Sanchia's. We could have perhaps added on another day of picking but we didn't know if our vehicles would have the space. Plus we were tired. 😁 Maybe next time we'll be able to estimate better and get some more friends in to help.
I make a brine of half water, half vinegar and then for every cup of vinegar it's two tbsp of sugar and one salt. Then I dissolve the stuff, let it cool, and add it to the jars lukewarm. Then the canning process is what 'cooks' them. If I'm not canning, I'll make the brine and put the peppers into the pan and it takes about 10 minutes of simmering.
The trees haven't been pruned properly for many years and weer out of control so this was the only way to reach the olives on branches that will be pruned off anyway. I've done things this way for a few years now and it seems to work ok. We have too many trees to pick so it's good to have some trees empty each year.
🎉 Sinead Congratulations🪅 for Building Approval granted. Olive picking on three friends properties, Olive trees picking was, Wonderful !!!!!!!! Amazing fun. The fourth friend added her property olives, that then made an enormous amount of olives picked.when added together. The olives produced lots of olive oil. That will enable enough olive oil for all of you, for over a year. Wonderful, wonderful olives !!!!!!! Everyone enjoyed lots of yummy delicious food and lots of locally made red wine at the friends homesteads. Absolutely brilliant, now the friends owning a wood chipper to share, enabling all of you to chip your own olive branches. Also now owing the wood chipper, being able to make your own wood chips for all the friends gardens will be Wonderful !!!!!!!!!
Please don't do that! You are damaging these beautiful ancient trees. Olive trees are very strong but fragile too, especially when it comes to pruning...leave pruning to an expert and you can learn too, so you can do it properly.
Also you can marinate/pickle olives in salt water. This is what I do, for every 2 cups of water I add 1tablespoon of salt, cover the olives with the solution, make sure they are all under the solution and leave for 2 months. They will be ready and sweet no need to change the water for few weeks as some people sadly still do. I've been marinating olives for 15 years and before me my mum and grandma did the same and never changed the water. I also ferment the black ones in salt, it's so delicious.
I'll get an expert to show me how to tidy them up, but I know that. those long middle shoots had to go and there were loads of dead branches, too. But yes... having an expert would be great but it's not always possible.
Thanks for the tip! I usually overcomplicate things but Sanchia did this last year, without even measuring gate salt, and they turned out way better than anything I've tried! 🤣
@@PortugalfromScratch I know that the land and it's beautiful trees are in safe hands with you, I'm just over protective of olive trees, maybe because as a Muslim we higly respect the olive tree as it's mentioned in the Qur'an as The Blessed Tree. Olive trees live for thousands of years, even long than the majestic oak, which lives for 600 years. I've seen, as a kid when visiting relatives in Palestine, adults weeping and mourning because one of their olive trees died because it was damaged / vandalized, etc. I hope you and your friends plant more olive trees As for marinating olives, if green in brine (2 cups of water +1 tablespoon of salt) submerge all under the brine and leave, it keeps for a year if you make big quantity..if olives are black you put layers in a jar and sprinkle each layer with salt, no water..don't fill to the top, leave some space...cover and leave on the counter and each day you need to burp the jar and shake..shake in the morning, afternoon and evening..just shaking and burping...after 10 days add garlic cloves, orange peel and lemon peel or just lemon peel..seal and keep shaking 3 times a day...after 15 days taste the olives, if it has lost the bitterness it's ready, if not keeping shaking..usually in 20 or max a month it's ready and hands down, it's the easiest and most delicious olives I've ever tasted..now I have 8 big jars of black olives on my counter, I've started them 5 days ago and it's so therapeutic to shake these jars🤣..cant wait to start eating them. Try it, it's the best and healthiest way to ferment black olives. Good luck and let me know if you need any help with it. Hugs and purrs ( oh, a new black kitten has just joined my crew😆 her name is Baby Zina 😍🥰
They really are majestic, beautiful trees! I also feel I'm a bit rough on them but I've seen how they spring back and I feel like it's ok. The way some of the locals prune the trees here is very harsh, too. And I know Italians and Spaniards do things totally differently, still. It seems like each country has their own relationship with this amazing tree and I have a lot to learn! Thanks for the brining tips! I haven't brined any and I think the ones still on the trees are going bad, but I'll look and see if I can find some to try this. 🙂
Was amazing watching my Sanchia and her neighbours and friends olive picking on their land. Hard work but fun and a satisfying and productive outcome. Well done 👍
Happy to share, I'm glad you're enjoying it!
KEEP YOUR HANDS OUT OF THE ORANGE CHIPPER HOPPER .
Congratulations to Sinead, also on the olive harvest & stay safe with your new chipper.
Haha, top tip! Thanks!
Election day in the US, I see a bunch of childless cat ladies rocking it!! Well done on the harvest!
Hugs from 🇨🇦
Hahaha! Love it!
Hi KIrsty! You're doing wonderfully well with everything. It's hard to keep track of days when you don't go to an office to work. Sinead's blue fuzzy carpets look lovely and warm. I hope she gets the right chimney pipes! Ugh! Your window and the inside walls are going to be beautiful! I hope the window and wood comes very soon. Good idea to pick it up yourself. It's a big chunk of change, indeed, but sounds worth the view. it's hard to wait for things you want to get a move on. At least you have other things to do. 😅Thanks so much for sharing with us. I think we've had almost the same temperatures here in Toronto! Today it's a little cooler. I hope you both enjoy your week and I'm looking forward to seeing the secret project. 🥳
Ah it’ll be getting chilly in Toronto now! Ya the window is coming along and I’m eager to get a bit of wood for the sill and to figure out the lintel. It should be fun challenges ahead!
Impressive amount of olives. Great video.
Thanks!
Always a blast when you and the Girls get together... keep up the great work!
Yes it's loads of fun!
I want one of these automates trimmer gadgets just to listen to the noise it makes. It’s cute? I didn’t know I could find electrics to be cute sounding but here I am
I LOVE the noise those things make! They're vicious though!
Congrats on the harvest, the building approval for Sinead and for the wood chipper!! What a great group of friends you have!
Yes it was an all around great week!
Wow! Great result with the olives. And great news for Sinead. Something else to look forward to with the build process. Well done on getting the chipper. It'll make such a difference for you all.
Like others in the comments, I love the pool area your friend has. You're all very lucky and its lovely to see how you all support eachother ❤
Yes we're quite lucky here in the valley!
Your friends have a beautiful natural swimming pool. Very envious.
Me too, it's gorgeous!
Great video. Love seeing women rock it. Had some great laughs. Love that pool amazing.
Glad to hear that! Ya that pool is so nice!
Amazing work- love seeing the process- and excellent estimate on the weight! So exciting!
Haha ya, lucky guess!
I rely love what you do
Thanks!
Absolutely well done girls u r a mighty fine olive picking army to contend with❤
Haha, thanks!
Congratulations on the chipper!
Thanks!
I love seeing how cosy your house is now
It's getting there!
congrats ladies!
Thanks!
Well done gals! You’re a latter day Land Army and you gave me laugh.I hope the press will be good.
Haha, thanks!
Lots of olives. Also great that Sinaed got her building approval. What a great life all of you are having.
So many! Ya it was great news!
It’s nice you all are single and loving the off grid lifestyle. You all come together to support each other. So nice.
Yes it's great to have the support network!
Congratulations Sinead🎉😊
YAY!
Nice to see you had friends helping you out with the olive 🫒 harvesting...well done girls 👏👏👏
We were all helping each other... it was fun!
You girls make work look like fun. Another wonderfully entertaining video. Thank you Kristy!
My pleasure!
Thank you all 🫒 ..joyful episode 😊
It really was!
Congratulations Sinead! Such a marvellous bit of news and will be such an exciting build ❤🎉
It really is and the building will be very cool!
So much fun! Love your little community working together to accomplish so much!
It's great!
❤Fantastic work girls 70 litres wow
Great vidéo
Congratulations Sinead on the permit
Thanks! Ya it's great!
great work happening there well done women
Thanks!
Wow that sushi looks SCRUMPTIOUS!!
It was!!
That's lots of hardwork!
Yep but worth it and lots of fun, too!
Thanks so much for sharing the process which is new to me. I always smile when I see your beautiful blue door.
My pleasure!
congrats to Sinead!! 🎉 does Sancha rent her place while she is away?
It was great news! No she doesn't.
Amazing olives
I love them!
Hi Kirsty maybe next time instead chipping into the wheelbarrow try laying a tarp down it makes it easy to drag the chips to where you need them.
Ah, nice idea! I wasn't sure of the best way to do things. Thanks!
Fabulous video 🎉… loved it all! 😊
Thanks!
Let's hear it for the girls.
🤼♀️ 👭 👨👩👧👧 You all did great 👍 and had fun . Loved this video. ❤❤❤😊🎉🎉🎉
Glad to hear you liked the video, thanks!
Thku for sharing girls olive picking army piece of cake
Thanks for watching!
A great video! Looks like you all had fun. ❤
Thanks! I always do at olive time!
A great oil haul too. Sounds like just the right number of trees. A great week. Bye Sanchia, see you soon.
Yes it was perfect!
glad things are movin' along
stay strong 🤠😎
Slow and steady! 😀
What a great life 😁🥰
So far, so good!
Amazing. I shared it with friends and they were impressed that you reap the rewards of olives, lemons, peppers and more.
I know, I'm so lucky! Loads of oranges on the way now, too!
The way mickie side eyed you 😂🤣😂🤣
Great video wow so much olives
The chipper is a beast
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Haha ya, he wasn't impressed!
Lovely to c u back a welcome pleasure
Thanks!
Good girls ❤
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Leave a couple of leaves on the chilis when they go into the greenhouse so they can keep photosynthesising. ❤
Thanks for the tip! Sometimes I go a bit mental on the winter prune.
😂@@PortugalfromScratch
That's a good looking wood chipper.
She is!
i suppose you could use a leaf blower to separate the olives from the leaves..good to see you girls all having fun.much easier moving to a place where you all know others..
It was loads of fun!
Well done! My favorite part was at 25:56 : ) Awesome community you have.
Thanks! Yes I'm very lucky!
Great video! Please, please you and the girls do not put your hands inside the orange cone to push anything through! Use another branch to do that. Take care!❤😊🙏
Good tip, thanks!
You looked like you all had a wonderful time pick9ng
I love it!
This made me want to pick olives!
I think it's so fun!
I'm pleased you have got a decent sized chipper. Can you alter the size of the chips that come out as it looked as if the leaves should have been smaller. Great pool area & good olive harvest.
The leaves seem to have snuck through untouched but that's ok as it's just for mulch. But something to look into!
I came her to say just that!
Fun one!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
you should collect the leaves kirsty and dry them out and offer your viewers some nice dried organic olive leaves from portugal..great for making a tea...you will be surprised how many people will buy them..being lightweight they shouldnt be too expensive to ship..alot of channels sell merch.
Ah that's a really cool idea! I've heard about olive leaf tea but don't know anything about it!
Have you considered moving the little gas bottle house to the corner to open space under the window?
Someone mentioned about moving that to the garden area and I think it's a fine idea! For now I'll just leave it where it is but I'll consider the move, for sure!
Great video
Thanks!
have I missed something have not seen the ginger cat for a while
He was in this video on the bed when it was raining. 😁 They're always around somewhere.
Fab.😊
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A lot of great stuff DID happen in this video Kirsty. Loved it all. Change of season and things to look forward to. Great time. Greetings from Australia
This is such a nice time of the year!
Good one 👍
Thanks!
Interesting to see branched cut off to harvest. I suppose there are many different ways to harvest. Just thought pruning was done a different time of year. I’ve only seen a few different harvests. Italy seems to do differently. 🤷♀️
Italy and Spain apparently do things very differently to Portugal. Different pruning styles but I don't know the details. I'm definitely not doing things the Portuguese way, though! Our trees haven't been pruned for many years and they're out of control. There are so many olives on those long middle branches that are impossible to reach and those branches will come off at pruning time anyway so this is what we decided to do. I've done it this way on my own trees for several years and it seems to work ok. I definitely need to come back with a chainsaw and try things up, though.
@ yes it’s very interesting but pruning anything is usually a certain time of year different than harvest. Not sure it’s different than Spain. Watched other Portugal olive harvests also… 🤷♀️ all good.. I’m just learning….
Spain and Italy both do things quite differently than Portugal but however I'm doing things definitely isn't how to do things! I'm sort of just trusting my gut... it's worked ok so far for olive trees, but there's definitely a better way to prune. I have so much to learn!
Great again. Sinead going to start a channel, see this straw build.???
No Sinead isn't into video stuff so I'll make sure to share it all on my channel. 😀
Awesome fun video as always!! Great olive harvest!! Happy for your new wood chipper!! 🤗🫶🏻🇺🇸
Thank soo much!
Naa chenada 🎉
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So does the press keep your olives separate from everyone else’s or do you just get the equivalent liters of oil from the kilos of olives? Did you do all your olive trees and Sinead’s but did not get to any of Sancha’s trees? How many olive trees do you each have on your land?
Most presses will do your oil separately but they have minimum quantities. This one was 150kg but the one we've used in previous years is 600kg. We didn't have time to get to all of Sinead's trees or Sanchia's. We could have perhaps added on another day of picking but we didn't know if our vehicles would have the space. Plus we were tired. 😁 Maybe next time we'll be able to estimate better and get some more friends in to help.
Is 700 kg enough for the lagar to only press your olives, without mixing it with others?
That lagar only actually had a minimum of 150kg.
Always love your videos but yes chopping branches just to pick the olives is not the way to go
Maybe not but it’s worked so far for the past few years.
Very festive! Did you keep any for brining?
No, I've never had much luck with brining though I think Sanchia did some. Sinead was going to try but the olives seem bad now.
Maybe next year, a collective brining party!
Yes I think so!
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How did your fermented ghost pepper mix turn out?
I got scared because there was a white film on the top so I scraped that off and stuck it in the fridge and haven't tried it! 😁
@@PortugalfromScratchsounds like kahm (white film)? supposed to be OK i think if you scraped it off. 😊
Yep and Sinead and I tried some of it yesterday... super spicy bu yummy, too!
@PortugalfromScratch I demand a close up video of your eyes as you eat it.
Haha! Sinead had more today and warned me about the heat! She’s tougher than I am with spicy stuff.
You didn't show how you did the jalapeno do you put them in water and then you boil them
I make a brine of half water, half vinegar and then for every cup of vinegar it's two tbsp of sugar and one salt. Then I dissolve the stuff, let it cool, and add it to the jars lukewarm. Then the canning process is what 'cooks' them. If I'm not canning, I'll make the brine and put the peppers into the pan and it takes about 10 minutes of simmering.
Why are you cutting the branches from the olive trees? I understand that you have to wait 2 years for the next harvast
The trees haven't been pruned properly for many years and weer out of control so this was the only way to reach the olives on branches that will be pruned off anyway. I've done things this way for a few years now and it seems to work ok. We have too many trees to pick so it's good to have some trees empty each year.
I just went to roast my vegtables like you did ,to make a vegi. Soup.
Yet i am woried about your window,as soup do not stop the cold and wet..😢
Don't worry! The cork is doing a surprisingly good job keeping the elements out and the window is on the way!
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🎉 Sinead Congratulations🪅
for Building Approval
granted.
Olive picking on three friends properties, Olive trees picking was, Wonderful !!!!!!!! Amazing fun.
The fourth friend added her property olives, that then made an enormous amount of olives picked.when added together.
The olives produced lots
of olive oil.
That will enable enough olive oil for all of you,
for over a year. Wonderful, wonderful olives !!!!!!! Everyone enjoyed lots of yummy delicious food
and lots of locally made red wine at the friends homesteads.
Absolutely brilliant, now the friends owning a wood chipper to share, enabling all of you
to chip your own
olive branches.
Also now owing the wood chipper,
being able to make your own wood chips for all the friends gardens will be Wonderful !!!!!!!!!
Yes there have been lots of wonderful things happening in the past couple of weeks! 😀
🌟👏👍🍀💐
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Must be farting fireworks 😂😂😂
I've been trying to figure out what this means but I'm at a loss! 🤣
@PortugalfromScratch lol the hot peppers aka chilies I was just doing a joke for fun and it seems to have worked 😘
Haha! Ya... those chilis certainly can make things interesting! 🤣
Boxed..ace...pluck nose
Eh? 😁
Please don't do that! You are damaging these beautiful ancient trees. Olive trees are very strong but fragile too, especially when it comes to pruning...leave pruning to an expert and you can learn too, so you can do it properly.
Also you can marinate/pickle olives in salt water. This is what I do, for every 2 cups of water I add 1tablespoon of salt, cover the olives with the solution, make sure they are all under the solution and leave for 2 months. They will be ready and sweet no need to change the water for few weeks as some people sadly still do. I've been marinating olives for 15 years and before me my mum and grandma did the same and never changed the water. I also ferment the black ones in salt, it's so delicious.
I'll get an expert to show me how to tidy them up, but I know that. those long middle shoots had to go and there were loads of dead branches, too. But yes... having an expert would be great but it's not always possible.
Thanks for the tip! I usually overcomplicate things but Sanchia did this last year, without even measuring gate salt, and they turned out way better than anything I've tried! 🤣
@@PortugalfromScratch I know that the land and it's beautiful trees are in safe hands with you, I'm just over protective of olive trees, maybe because as a Muslim we higly respect the olive tree as it's mentioned in the Qur'an as The Blessed Tree. Olive trees live for thousands of years, even long than the majestic oak, which lives for 600 years. I've seen, as a kid when visiting relatives in Palestine, adults weeping and mourning because one of their olive trees died because it was damaged / vandalized, etc. I hope you and your friends plant more olive trees
As for marinating olives, if green in brine (2 cups of water +1 tablespoon of salt) submerge all under the brine and leave, it keeps for a year if you make big quantity..if olives are black you put layers in a jar and sprinkle each layer with salt, no water..don't fill to the top, leave some space...cover and leave on the counter and each day you need to burp the jar and shake..shake in the morning, afternoon and evening..just shaking and burping...after 10 days add garlic cloves, orange peel and lemon peel or just lemon peel..seal and keep shaking 3 times a day...after 15 days taste the olives, if it has lost the bitterness it's ready, if not keeping shaking..usually in 20 or max a month it's ready and hands down, it's the easiest and most delicious olives I've ever tasted..now I have 8 big jars of black olives on my counter, I've started them 5 days ago and it's so therapeutic to shake these jars🤣..cant wait to start eating them. Try it, it's the best and healthiest way to ferment black olives. Good luck and let me know if you need any help with it. Hugs and purrs ( oh, a new black kitten has just joined my crew😆 her name is Baby Zina 😍🥰
They really are majestic, beautiful trees! I also feel I'm a bit rough on them but I've seen how they spring back and I feel like it's ok. The way some of the locals prune the trees here is very harsh, too. And I know Italians and Spaniards do things totally differently, still. It seems like each country has their own relationship with this amazing tree and I have a lot to learn! Thanks for the brining tips! I haven't brined any and I think the ones still on the trees are going bad, but I'll look and see if I can find some to try this. 🙂
You are ruining those olive trees😢 you cut good brunches and leave the dead ones btw you have "gafa" on those tress
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I love all you fun, free women. 🩷
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