Lol. I had to laugh Carissa! You were talking about the colours of the men’s’ shirts and the colour of the nets. That is the artist in you! I draw and paint also. I find we tend to notice some things that other people would not. One of my sons once told me that he liked the way I looked at things! He said I am able to see beauty in everything! That really surprised me that he would notice that. He was a lot younger at that point. I thanked him because I felt it was a true compliment! Sometimes people will look at things and see ugly or a mess. But if you look carefully can can find some form of beauty or wonder in anything! We live in an amazing world! Wow, that was off the beaten path…wasn’t it lol.
I like the way you left the tree that had to come down because you can see the history of it while it grows ❤ will rain in the rotten part damage new growth? The way you take the olives from the branch looks similar to milking ! How long do you have to give between applying for a fire permit and receiving it? Are they often turned down?
I love watching this lovely couple. Such a relaxing style vlog with an insight into their lives. I’ve watched many other vlogs about off grid living in Portugal, for me personally none of them make me feel as relaxed and inspired as this little family ❤ 😊
I love how your 4-legged family members are always busily involved in everything that you do. Now, if only they can trim those branches & help collect the olives 🤣🤣🤣🥰🥰🥰
Hi from Cyprus! We use special combs on long sticks that help to get olives off the branches. Also we like to pick them when they are fat and green as the acid is lower in the oil. The greener olive is the less oil get but lower acid and higher quality. Black olives are also tasty as oil but higher in acid and get more oil in comparison to green olives. Other than that, theres no other satisfaction than consuming your own olives wether meaty black or green olives, enjoy! Also olive wood is ideal for warming in winter as they burn slowly. So u can save the thicker parts 🙏🙏🙏💖
If you don’t use all of your pruned branches for fire wood - and if you have the ability - you can BURY them, it creates IMMENSELY fertile soil, also making swales on you land harvest some of the rain from the rainy season and let’s it soak into YOUR land instead of just running off
What can one say here?A pair of young people who eventually got their act together(at least according to this video).So good to watch such talented young people.
It is great that you have us UA-camrs that watch you. We are a community but that you also have the community of people that have changed their lives the same way you have and you help each! For most of you, your families are not near by so are unable to help you on any kind of a regular basis. You are a special close knit community yourselves! U R blessed!🙏🏼❤️😎. Carissa, your hair is getting so long!!!
Beautiful seeing you guys with friends working the harvests. I think this my favorite quinta activity bc folks can work at a good pace but in not severe heat or severe cold. It seems you get to enjoy one another. Love the kitties and doggies helping everyone. Love you baking foccacia made of your own olive oil while prepping your olives to brine. Wonderful.
It is a great time of year, not usually quite so rainy, but definitely a pleasant temperature to be harvesting a big crop! Thanks for watching Ruth, hope you have a lovely rest of your weekend ☺️🫒
Ooouch , that is a rly rough cut!! When too much of the branches are exposed to direct sunlight, it responds with an incredible amount of new sprouts, of which you sort out just a few new branches. That cleaning is a hell amount of work
And PLEASE ... feed some branches with leaves to your chickens! ( Your rooster asked me to tell you.) GIVES THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEM HIGH BOOST for the winter months.
Having 100 trees a machine would be so helpful. Also plastic combs. This is how it is done now in Cyprus. I am loving your videos. I see from in the video you already know about both😂
your garden is looking so lovely and lush after all the rains, flowers are so pretty, great info about olives and the harvesting, love the longer videos ☺
Thanks Wendy ☺️ the rain has made the land so luscious! Just wish there were a fewer drier days so I could get some weeding done. Each year there are more and more flowers. Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed the longer vid ☺️ xx
Hello there and congratulations to all of you - seams Olive-oil prices are nicely up this year - Nick is never short of great ideas, love your teamwork and wish you all the Best. Keep on posting your great videos so you get a lot more Subscribers 😊
Hooray, another olive freak !! Loved the video, love them all really. Wife and I are totally in love with Portugal, we are now too old to do what you do , but nearly joined the farming community 37 yrs ago. It was particularily prohibitive then, but loved the guys who were doing it. Maybe pop in next time we're over and give you a hand. Carry on living the life most people can only dream of. xx
It's obvious that canine & feline supervision is essential for olive picking! Watching the video with my cat asleep on my legs, supposed to be up & doing stuff but she has other ideas so have enjoyed watching you guys this morning from my cosy house in South Wales 🏴 . Xx❤🏴❤
Oh it’s a very important part of the process, they do the quality control, especially Diogo he likes to check the olives are okay and Albi assesses the pruning quality of there trees 😆 cats are good at encouraging rest ☺️ hope you have a cosy rest of your weekend and thanks for watching 💛
The animals are as fascinated as I am over harvest. I found this to be very interesting and informative. The video froze a few times, but no complaints from me.
We live in Southwest Turkey and have 30 olive trees that we planted ten years ago. Just picked and took to local mill for cold pressing. Very low harvest this year, due to not enough rain and a very hot summer, so bad that Turkey has banned exports. We had less than a third of last year’s harvest, but still got 9 kilos of organic cold pressed oil, for which I am so grateful! Happy picking and pressing!
You may already know about these but just in case, as sometimes they can make life easier…and gentler on the hands! There are these small hand held fork claw like rake things you can get that you can rake the olives off the beaches. Quicker and less tough on the hands! Weren’t the olives beautifully plump this year! We noticed our olive oil this year was far more suave but still so aromatic.. some locals say it’s the best year for olive oil in a while so hope you guys get the same result although who am I kidding..self picked olive oil will always be delicious!!
I think I noticed them using the fork claw rake thing on earlier videos. Carissa which tree number is mine lol (the one you let me prune into a doughnut, reluctantly). Hopefully one year I will be there for the olive harvest, you never know maybe on my own slice of heaven in Portugal
Thank you ☺️ we do have a few rakes which we use when our hands get tired. But we quite enjoy hand picking, the oil makes your hands soft 😆 ah that’s interesting that you’re having a good harvest, our first one in 2021 was incredibly abundant and this year seems a little less so, but we still have a lot more picking to do so we shall see if we get as good a crop. Ooh yes always delicious, thanks for watching ☺️🫒
I have read that because of the drought in Spain, the price of olive oil here in the US is very high, yet Portugal seems to have had a lot of rain and you said it is considered the best. I don't think I've ever seen Portuguese olive oil where I shop. I generally look for Spanish olive oil, but lately am buying Italian oil. It's okay unless you pay top dollar for a bottle. I've paid as much as $45 for a bottle of Italian oil 10 years ago. It was so good you could drink it from the bottom. Your oil looks quite lovely. Jane, Philadelphia
You could try the Portuguese way to harvest the olives, with a very long stick in the middle of the branches, they fall onto the nets and then it's only pour it into the buckets. Search on line
Well done! We are still harvesting ours and we don’t have nearly as many as you guys! Will definitely trim all ours this year and follow your helpful tips as we had no idea what we were doing before😅 beautiful video as always 😊
@@FrankieOffGrid Yh it’s really quiet around here now. At least I’ve made it out of bed today 😅 think it’s going to take a while. Hopefully getting outside now the weather is a bit better will help us. You are welcome to bring Diogo around to meet Ellah, I’m sure she could use a buddy!
What a lovely video! But then again, I enjoy all your videos, and the amount of work you put into them is impressive. You have a real filmmaker's eye! I'm glad that Diogo and Albi were such good helpers with your harvest! Greetings from Devon!
Thank you for putting a date in the video! It would be so helpful to have them on every vlog for those of us who binge-watch a new channel from the beginning
Harvesting olives looks satisfying. I would love to do this or help you guys when I go back to Portugal. I visited Braga and Porto a while back and tremendously enjoyed it there.
Thank you for sharing this information and your experience with us. So fascinating to learn about olives from first hand growers. The whole process is so interesting and helps us connect with the reality of how our common goods are made & the beautiful way in which you present this video filled with facts, community, and love is truly outstanding. Thank you, thank you! That focaccia was gorgeous 😋! I so enjoyed my Sunday morning cup of coffee while petting my cat purring on my belly in the porch hammock watching this. Oh, and I love your music choices, so peaceful and glorious. 😉❤️
Loved seeing you all harvesting the olives all together. The focaccia looked so yummy. A lot of work all this harvesting but so productive. Keep it up guys. Love and be safe!🤗😘🌼🇻🇪
I was privileged to help friends in Spain to harvest their olives. What a wonderful experience. Those covers bring back such memories. Exhausting work but well worth it and rewarded with two bottles of first pressing olive oil.
I so love your Vlogs they are so honest hard hard-working and I know how you guys are are working your nuts off - i am an avid watcher - god speed love love - scottish xx
I can't even imagine harvesting tens of thousands of trees! It blows my mind! I've seen the tree shaker that does commercial groves, but it still is hard to imagine. You all looked like you were having fun. Colorado is under an open fire ban. No open fires are allowed on public or private land because of forest and plains fires that have destroyed so much land and trees.
I've just about caught up with your blog. Love what you have done so far 🙏. The way the blog is put together is very artistic, makes me feel so calm and peaceful. Keep it up. 🙏🌞🌻🐝🦋💫
It's heartwarming to witness the synergy between your furry companions and the olive harvesting process. 🐾🌿 The way they're involved in every step adds an extra layer of joy to your off-grid lifestyle. Also, your videos provide a uniquely relaxing glimpse into your lives. Looking forward to more insights into your rich homesteading journey! 🌳🍃
Hi both, I am not sure if it is me but I struggled to watch this one as the video kept freezing (maybe 20+ times) but the red line kept going. The red line also showed all the markers for the edits that you made, if you know what I’m referring to, never seen that before. Like I said maybe it’s me as no one else commented about it but I’ve never had that before and other videos played fine. I got the general theme and enjoyed what I did see ☺️
What a productive week for you. I can't imagine how proud you must feel eating foccacia with your own oil and red wine😊 My favorite olives are black, sundried olives with stones from Tyrkey. They are amazing. Here in Denmark you can only buy them at turkish greengrocers. Maybe you should try that😊
When the Lagar de Sobral do Campo name came up I knew I knew the Sobral part from somewhere... A quick check and it brings up my favourite Eurovision Song contest winner of all time - better than Waterloo by Abba! Ooooh, controversy. Salvador Sobral - Amar Pelos Dois is so damned romantic and beautiful!
@@FrankieOffGrid Find the version of the song where he comes back on stage having won the competition! Graham Norton is commentating and Luisa Sobral duets with him - really beautiful version!!
“A while ago when I was in southern Spain, do used canvas whitecap, heavy white canvas, sales so I was thinking how good white is for reflecting light to at least get you through your summer time and layers of white and some kind of shading system would be awesome and not so expensive. Oh, it’s an old old technique and in Spain right now, they’re doing a thing where they’re on growing food in some of the older cities where they can cross the sails during this canvas sails that I’m talking about with water dripping on them an irrigation system and growing food on them actually growing vegetables and things very interesting. You might look it up. it might be a good solution for you during the summers
Carissa esse cachorro é de mais, grande amigo e companheiro. A colheita de azeitona é muito interessante, gosto de ver colher produtos da terra. É de louvar o vosso modo de estar na vida.
Me, too. I'll be coming for a rewatch and comment on your video, St. Nick. It's been kookoo here the past 3 weeks, all of your channels are keeping my soul bright. 💖
Another lovely video composition. Very grounding & soothing to watch and listen to; also educational! Nice to see Luke and Sarah visiting (I think I spotted Molly too!), and the other folks in the community you are forming together, which is excellent. The music at 25:40 is really wonderful and calming to listen to. I couldn't figure out which one it was from your playlist; maybe I didn't sample the right parts.
Dear Carissa, great documentary!! Only one remark, you are always a pleasure to listen to, nice slow and clear. But when you are 'rattling' up the facts you are twice as fast speaking and I had to put the subtitles on. Maybe something to improve / give some attention. Take care and ❤️ see you in the next one
I m happy you are getting interested in bringing the olive cutoffs back to the natural cycle, instead of burning them. I follow this path now for two years and could share some knowledge and experiences on this topic with you by email, or Telegram
Thanks that would be great :) we tried chipping some the other day but our wood chipper wasn’t very happy. If we do burn some then we use the ash in the garden aswell. Our email is: Frankiesausagedog@gmail.com
The classic way 😉 when you feed the fire quickly and extinguish it before the char turn to ashes, you can also get some great biochar out of that beside the ashes. Siver it out, crush it to 🥜 size and put it in a compost tee for some weeks, and it'll be great addition for your veggie garden, where it serves as a long term home for bacteria.
I just take it for granted these days that every expat in Portugal has a UA-cam channel lol 😂, it’s like stand in Olive grove and throw a olive 🫒 in air in any direction and your hit an expat UA-camr on head 😉.
SIPPIN MY COFFEE , YET A FANTASTIC HARVEST, AND HOPE MANY LITRES TO COME!! IM IN THE GULF OF MEXICO ALABAMA ON VACATION WATCHING FROM MY CAMPER. BACK TO IDAHO NEXT WEEK, GOD BLESS YA ALL👍👍😄
Ingenuity of brilliant people. My heart is full of joy seeing all you normal, wonderful people working together for a cause that end result is so healthy. Wish I could buy your EVOO. It’s the only thing I use in cooking.
They produce the shooters every year no matter what you do.. you just prune them too. We’re very fortunate that we can basically follow what the other olive farmers in the area do and ask for advice if we need it.
Your foccacia looked especially yummy. It was interesting to hear about the olives and watching the pressing. When are you going to harvest your quince and what are you going to do with them?
I don't know if it is you or me. Several times the frame froze but the timer kept running. Eventually the video moved on. One example was as the end when you started to talk about a press in the north. And then wouldn't accept this comment! Seems to be sorted now. Anyway, many thanks. Always enjoy your offerings!!
Next time you're at the press, please ask what they do with the water left over from the press. Just curious. Thank you. If it has some good qualities you might use it for watering the plants. LOVE the crazy hat! Was the bread as delicious as it looks?
Lol. I had to laugh Carissa! You were talking about the colours of the men’s’ shirts and the colour of the nets. That is the artist in you! I draw and paint also. I find we tend to notice some things that other people would not. One of my sons once told me that he liked the way I looked at things! He said I am able to see beauty in everything! That really surprised me that he would notice that. He was a lot younger at that point. I thanked him because I felt it was a true compliment! Sometimes people will look at things and see ugly or a mess. But if you look carefully can can find some form of beauty or wonder in anything! We live in an amazing world! Wow, that was off the beaten path…wasn’t it lol.
Olive timber makes beautiful hand carved spoons and spatulas if you wanted to make gifts for friends and family from your land.
Lovely idea, we’d also thought maybe some chopping boards could be quite beautiful from the bigger log
oooooh christmas presents, seeing you in January for exchange of gifts @@FrankieOffGrid 🎄
I like the way you left the tree that had to come down because you can see the history of it while it grows ❤ will rain in the rotten part damage new growth?
The way you take the olives from the branch looks similar to milking !
How long do you have to give between applying for a fire permit and receiving it? Are they often turned down?
I have a couple of olive wood spoons. Love them.
I have seen some beautiful salt boxes made from olive wood. They seem to be making a resurgence in popularity.
I love watching this lovely couple. Such a relaxing style vlog with an insight into their lives. I’ve watched many other vlogs about off grid living in Portugal, for me personally none of them make me feel as relaxed and inspired as this little family ❤ 😊
I love how your 4-legged family members are always busily involved in everything that you do. Now, if only they can trim those branches & help collect the olives 🤣🤣🤣🥰🥰🥰
Hi from Cyprus! We use special combs on long sticks that help to get olives off the branches. Also we like to pick them when they are fat and green as the acid is lower in the oil. The greener olive is the less oil get but lower acid and higher quality. Black olives are also tasty as oil but higher in acid and get more oil in comparison to green olives. Other than that, theres no other satisfaction than consuming your own olives wether meaty black or green olives, enjoy! Also olive wood is ideal for warming in winter as they burn slowly. So u can save the thicker parts 🙏🙏🙏💖
I love the hat Andrea made for you❤, memories saved hat forever❤
If you don’t use all of your pruned branches for fire wood - and if you have the ability - you can BURY them, it creates IMMENSELY fertile soil, also making swales on you land harvest some of the rain from the rainy season and let’s it soak into YOUR land instead of just running off
Oh Carissa... those fire images... breathtaking!!!
Frankie with her butt pointed to the fire was so cute!
Thank you all so much for appreciating Mother Nature’s/ Man Kind’s work 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌿❤❤
Diogo looked so majestic in the final scene.. he’s just beautiful ❤️
What can one say here?A pair of young people who eventually got their act together(at least according to this video).So good to watch such talented young people.
Hard work but rewarding. And great when you all help each other at harvest time.💚
What a rich heritage and culture you have moved into! So, lovely. I love your art. It's similar toy own and I afmire your work.
Nice one again! Olive oil season is one of my favorite. Whatching your videos makes me feel at home.
☺️ I love it too 🫒
It is great that you have us UA-camrs that watch you. We are a community but that you also have the community of people that have changed their lives the same way you have and you help each! For most of you, your families are not near by so are unable to help you on any kind of a regular basis. You are a special close knit community yourselves! U R blessed!🙏🏼❤️😎. Carissa, your hair is getting so long!!!
Beautiful seeing you guys with friends working the harvests. I think this my favorite quinta activity bc folks can work at a good pace but in not severe heat or severe cold. It seems you get to enjoy one another. Love the kitties and doggies helping everyone. Love you baking foccacia made of your own olive oil while prepping your olives to brine. Wonderful.
It is a great time of year, not usually quite so rainy, but definitely a pleasant temperature to be harvesting a big crop! Thanks for watching Ruth, hope you have a lovely rest of your weekend ☺️🫒
Ah, the CRUNCH of your focaccia... perfection 😋.
Thank you. Looking forward to more olive harvests and using different lagars!
Ooouch , that is a rly rough cut!! When too much of the branches are exposed to direct sunlight, it responds with an incredible amount of new sprouts, of which you sort out just a few new branches. That cleaning is a hell amount of work
And PLEASE ... feed some branches with leaves to your chickens! ( Your rooster asked me to tell you.) GIVES THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEM HIGH BOOST for the winter months.
Having 100 trees a machine would be so helpful. Also plastic combs. This is how it is done now in Cyprus. I am loving your videos. I see from in the video you already know about both😂
your garden is looking so lovely and lush after all the rains, flowers are so pretty, great info about olives and the harvesting, love the longer videos ☺
Thanks Wendy ☺️ the rain has made the land so luscious! Just wish there were a fewer drier days so I could get some weeding done. Each year there are more and more flowers. Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed the longer vid ☺️ xx
Great video as Always,
Hello there and congratulations to all of you - seams Olive-oil prices are nicely up this year - Nick is never short of great ideas, love your teamwork and wish you all the Best. Keep on posting your great videos so you get a lot more Subscribers 😊
Thank you ☺️ yeah the price is quite high at the moment, I think because last year was a bad one for olives. We’re lucky to have so many trees 🌳
Hooray, another olive freak !! Loved the video, love them all really. Wife and I are totally in love with Portugal, we are now too old to do what you do , but nearly joined the farming community 37 yrs ago. It was particularily prohibitive then, but loved the guys who were doing it. Maybe pop in next time we're over and give you a hand. Carry on living the life most people can only dream of. xx
It's obvious that canine & feline supervision is essential for olive picking!
Watching the video with my cat asleep on my legs, supposed to be up & doing stuff but she has other ideas so have enjoyed watching you guys this morning from my cosy house in South Wales 🏴 .
Xx❤🏴❤
Oh it’s a very important part of the process, they do the quality control, especially Diogo he likes to check the olives are okay and Albi assesses the pruning quality of there trees 😆 cats are good at encouraging rest ☺️ hope you have a cosy rest of your weekend and thanks for watching 💛
The animals are as fascinated as I am over harvest. I found this to be very interesting and informative. The video froze a few times, but no complaints from me.
Another beautiful Saturday morning contemplation. I’m so grateful to you. ❤
We live in Southwest Turkey and have 30 olive trees that we planted ten years ago. Just picked and took to local mill for cold pressing. Very low harvest this year, due to not enough rain and a very hot summer, so bad that Turkey has banned exports. We had less than a third of last year’s harvest, but still got 9 kilos of organic cold pressed oil, for which I am so grateful! Happy picking and pressing!
wow they have banned exports
The olive harvesting is monumental..we only managed to harvest a few but we will be more prepared next year ….well done great Vlog 🌻🇵🇹🐝
Very interesting seeing the olive harvest thank you for sharing ❤
Your chickens are looking healthy I would love to live there good luck
Diogo is so very enthusiastic about everything!
lol, i know, right.
He is the Tigger in Dioggo form, such a playful, happy, bouncy boi 😊
You may already know about these but just in case, as sometimes they can make life easier…and gentler on the hands! There are these small hand held fork claw like rake things you can get that you can rake the olives off the beaches. Quicker and less tough on the hands!
Weren’t the olives beautifully plump this year! We noticed our olive oil this year was far more suave but still so aromatic.. some locals say it’s the best year for olive oil in a while so hope you guys get the same result although who am I kidding..self picked olive oil will always be delicious!!
I think I noticed them using the fork claw rake thing on earlier videos. Carissa which tree number is mine lol (the one you let me prune into a doughnut, reluctantly). Hopefully one year I will be there for the olive harvest, you never know maybe on my own slice of heaven in Portugal
Thank you ☺️ we do have a few rakes which we use when our hands get tired. But we quite enjoy hand picking, the oil makes your hands soft 😆 ah that’s interesting that you’re having a good harvest, our first one in 2021 was incredibly abundant and this year seems a little less so, but we still have a lot more picking to do so we shall see if we get as good a crop. Ooh yes always delicious, thanks for watching ☺️🫒
I have read that because of the drought in Spain, the price of olive oil here in the US is very high, yet Portugal seems to have had a lot of rain and you said it is considered the best. I don't think I've ever seen Portuguese olive oil where I shop. I generally look for Spanish olive oil, but lately am buying Italian oil. It's okay unless you pay top dollar for a bottle. I've paid as much as $45 for a bottle of Italian oil 10 years ago. It was so good you could drink it from the bottom. Your oil looks quite lovely. Jane, Philadelphia
Olive oil is also produced in Tunisia.
You could try the Portuguese way to harvest the olives, with a very long stick in the middle of the branches, they fall onto the nets and then it's only pour it into the buckets. Search on line
Well done! We are still harvesting ours and we don’t have nearly as many as you guys! Will definitely trim all ours this year and follow your helpful tips as we had no idea what we were doing before😅 beautiful video as always 😊
Thank you so much guys! All our thoughts are with you, still can’t believe it 😢❤️❤️❤️
@@FrankieOffGrid Yh it’s really quiet around here now. At least I’ve made it out of bed today 😅 think it’s going to take a while. Hopefully getting outside now the weather is a bit better will help us. You are welcome to bring Diogo around to meet Ellah, I’m sure she could use a buddy!
So happy to see all your olives going to production!
Lovely watching both dogs appreciating all your work keeping them warm !!
What a lovely video! But then again, I enjoy all your videos, and the amount of work you put into them is impressive. You have a real filmmaker's eye! I'm glad that Diogo and Albi were such good helpers with your harvest! Greetings from Devon!
Brining them for a few weeks make delicious snacks and putting them in oil yum with sun dried tomatoes sooo good❤❤
Oh wow, I have never seen an olive tree pruned, nor pruned that hard! But I see your before and after picture. Wow
Thank you for putting a date in the video! It would be so helpful to have them on every vlog for those of us who binge-watch a new channel from the beginning
Apparently you can use special “Comb’s” and have to be careful not to damage the leaves..interesting!
Wow so many olive trees !😮😂 more than words
Harvesting olives looks satisfying. I would love to do this or help you guys when I go back to Portugal. I visited Braga and Porto a while back and tremendously enjoyed it there.
Thank you for sharing this information and your experience with us. So fascinating to learn about olives from first hand growers. The whole process is so interesting and helps us connect with the reality of how our common goods are made & the beautiful way in which you present this video filled with facts, community, and love is truly outstanding. Thank you, thank you! That focaccia was gorgeous 😋! I so enjoyed my Sunday morning cup of coffee while petting my cat purring on my belly in the porch hammock watching this. Oh, and I love your music choices, so peaceful and glorious. 😉❤️
Your videos are so relaxing and the music is lovely i realy look forward to your videos
Your videos are so peaceful. Thank you. Also, I am loving seeing the process of wine and oil, both are things I have never done before.
Loved seeing you all harvesting the olives all together. The focaccia looked so yummy. A lot of work all this harvesting but so productive. Keep it up guys. Love and be safe!🤗😘🌼🇻🇪
Dioggo is definitely a foreman, perhaps the best in Portugal.
Glad the harvest went well for you and your friends x
Your videos are outstanding and a joy to watch... thanks for sharing them❤💯👍🤗
I was privileged to help friends in Spain to harvest their olives. What a wonderful experience. Those covers bring back such memories. Exhausting work but well worth it and rewarded with two bottles of first pressing olive oil.
You can almost sense the vibe and atmosphere of olive harvesting in this video!! Enjoy!!
Love the paradise you have created there. All your animals, Diogo my favorite one. Thanks for sharing your life with us.
I would buy a little leaf blower! My daughter has just bought one, it’s powerful! 👍👍👍👍💗💗
Would love the recipe for your bread and all that lovely food you had for dinner
I so love your Vlogs they are so honest hard hard-working and I know how you guys are are working your nuts off - i am an avid watcher - god speed love love - scottish xx
I really do appreciate all your research, learning more about it while enjoying watching the process.
Many blessings to you and your family 🙏 moving forward for the year 2024! Happy New Year 🕛🎊 stay blessed 💞🎈
I can't even imagine harvesting tens of thousands of trees! It blows my mind! I've seen the tree shaker that does commercial groves, but it still is hard to imagine. You all looked like you were having fun.
Colorado is under an open fire ban. No open fires are allowed on public or private land because of forest and plains fires that have destroyed so much land and trees.
I met your mum selling tea at the recent Farmers Market in Conwy, friendly lady!
Ahh that’s nice to hear! ❤️
Wait, you are not strangers to the benefits of electric saws after all! 😎
Greatly admire (among many other things) the care you take with your trees and vines. They show the benefits of such fine care.
Ewan in tree!! Again. Watched you helping Project Portugal and Ewan again was in a tree..he seems happy to climb. Take care though.😊
My favourite place 😅
The collective olive harvest certainly build social traditions
Very interesting, I used to live in Phoenix and they grew a lot of olives too. It was very dry there.
I've just about caught up with your blog. Love what you have done so far 🙏. The way the blog is put together is very artistic, makes me feel so calm and peaceful. Keep it up. 🙏🌞🌻🐝🦋💫
You can use olive leaves to treat high blood pressure.
It's heartwarming to witness the synergy between your furry companions and the olive harvesting process. 🐾🌿 The way they're involved in every step adds an extra layer of joy to your off-grid lifestyle. Also, your videos provide a uniquely relaxing glimpse into your lives. Looking forward to more insights into your rich homesteading journey! 🌳🍃
Hi, Carissa and Iwan. I love to watch the olive harvest. The focaccia looks delicious❤️❤️
It was fun seeing you all together in one video working on olives! The dogs had fun.😊😊
Trop bien les chiens auprès du feu 🔥🐕🐶🐈⬛👍👍👍🇲🇫
I know, right? They were so loving the warmth of the 🔥.
Looks like hard work, good video. There were some problems with the video stopping, one is at 51:30.
Hi both, I am not sure if it is me but I struggled to watch this one as the video kept freezing (maybe 20+ times) but the red line kept going. The red line also showed all the markers for the edits that you made, if you know what I’m referring to, never seen that before. Like I said maybe it’s me as no one else commented about it but I’ve never had that before and other videos played fine. I got the general theme and enjoyed what I did see ☺️
Very sorry about that! It seems you aren’t the only one. Rather annoying!
What a productive week for you. I can't imagine how proud you must feel eating foccacia with your own oil and red wine😊 My favorite olives are black, sundried olives with stones from Tyrkey. They are amazing. Here in Denmark you can only buy them at turkish greengrocers. Maybe you should try that😊
When the Lagar de Sobral do Campo name came up I knew I knew the Sobral part from somewhere... A quick check and it brings up my favourite Eurovision Song contest winner of all time - better than Waterloo by Abba! Ooooh, controversy.
Salvador Sobral - Amar Pelos Dois is so damned romantic and beautiful!
Oh he has a sister called Luisa Sobral whose music I also adore. I’ll check out the song you mentioned ☺️
@@FrankieOffGrid Find the version of the song where he comes back on stage having won the competition! Graham Norton is commentating and Luisa Sobral duets with him - really beautiful version!!
“A while ago when I was in southern Spain, do used canvas whitecap, heavy white canvas, sales so I was thinking how good white is for reflecting light to at least get you through your summer time and layers of white and some kind of shading system would be awesome and not so expensive. Oh, it’s an old old technique and in Spain right now, they’re doing a thing where they’re on growing food in some of the older cities where they can cross the sails during this canvas sails that I’m talking about with water dripping on them an irrigation system and growing food on them actually growing vegetables and things very interesting. You might look it up.
it might be a good solution for you during the summers
Carissa esse cachorro é de mais, grande amigo e companheiro. A colheita de azeitona é muito interessante, gosto de ver colher produtos da terra. É de louvar o vosso modo de estar na vida.
Obrigada Rosa, ele é um tesouro, temos sorte de o encontrado ☺️💛
Gostei de ver os cães a aquecer se no sofá
Would a garden rake strip them off ?. Best blog on UA-cam always relaxing to watch .
Cracking video❤ loving the detail and facts
💛🫒🫒 hope you got the rest of your picking done between the rains!
Me, too. I'll be coming for a rewatch and comment on your video, St. Nick. It's been kookoo here the past 3 weeks, all of your channels are keeping my soul bright. 💖
Another lovely video composition. Very grounding & soothing to watch and listen to; also educational! Nice to see Luke and Sarah visiting (I think I spotted Molly too!), and the other folks in the community you are forming together, which is excellent. The music at 25:40 is really wonderful and calming to listen to. I couldn't figure out which one it was from your playlist; maybe I didn't sample the right parts.
Dear Carissa, great documentary!! Only one remark, you are always a pleasure to listen to, nice slow and clear. But when you are 'rattling' up the facts you are twice as fast speaking and I had to put the subtitles on. Maybe something to improve / give some attention. Take care and ❤️ see you in the next one
I m happy you are getting interested in bringing the olive cutoffs back to the natural cycle, instead of burning them. I follow this path now for two years and could share some knowledge and experiences on this topic with you by email, or Telegram
Thanks that would be great :) we tried chipping some the other day but our wood chipper wasn’t very happy. If we do burn some then we use the ash in the garden aswell. Our email is: Frankiesausagedog@gmail.com
The classic way 😉 when you feed the fire quickly and extinguish it before the char turn to ashes, you can also get some great biochar out of that beside the ashes. Siver it out, crush it to 🥜 size and put it in a compost tee for some weeks, and it'll be great addition for your veggie garden, where it serves as a long term home for bacteria.
That focaccia looked stunning btw
I just take it for granted these days that every expat in Portugal has a UA-cam channel lol 😂, it’s like stand in Olive grove and throw a olive 🫒 in air in any direction and your hit an expat UA-camr on head 😉.
In Israel and Jordan and Texas they just Shake the trees and olives fall❤
I guess they would have to climb up the tree to shake the branches, I picked grapefruits on a kibbutz no shaking was involved lol
I think we’d need to be a few kg’s heavier for it to work on our trees haha
SIPPIN MY COFFEE , YET A FANTASTIC HARVEST, AND HOPE MANY LITRES TO COME!! IM IN THE GULF OF MEXICO ALABAMA ON VACATION WATCHING FROM MY CAMPER. BACK TO IDAHO NEXT WEEK, GOD BLESS YA ALL👍👍😄
Your Rusteris a stud & he knowsit
I’m impressed with the sprout coming forth from a huge stump. I also would have counted trees.
Having the branches freshly cut makes it easier for the wood chipper actually.
Our chipper just gets clogged up with the leaves after about 10 minutes.
Ingenuity of brilliant people. My heart is full of joy seeing all you normal, wonderful people working together for a cause that end result is so healthy. Wish I could buy your EVOO. It’s the only thing I use in cooking.
Unfortunately, if olive trees are pruned too heavily, they will produce shoots at the bottom of the trunk.
Less is often more.😉
They produce the shooters every year no matter what you do.. you just prune them too. We’re very fortunate that we can basically follow what the other olive farmers in the area do and ask for advice if we need it.
Your foccacia looked especially yummy. It was interesting to hear about the olives and watching the pressing.
When are you going to harvest your quince and what are you going to do with them?
It was! ☺️ we’ll pick some for jam/chutney for sure.. not sure what else to be honest.. most will probably go to our friends with livestock
@@FrankieOffGridjust boil and then eat them. I usually eat the boiled quinces with a bit of cinnamon, I love it 😊
Gorgeous video! So many olives🎉🤩 Olive you;)
I don't know if it is you or me. Several times the frame froze but the timer kept running. Eventually the video moved on. One example was as the end when you started to talk about a press in the north. And then wouldn't accept this comment! Seems to be sorted now. Anyway, many thanks. Always enjoy your offerings!!
Very sorry about that. Not sure what’s happened.
Aproveitem as cinzas para a agricultura
Next time you're at the press, please ask what they do with the water left over from the press. Just curious. Thank you. If it has some good qualities you might use it for watering the plants. LOVE the crazy hat! Was the bread as delicious as it looks?
Lovely!