Dear Nearby Veggies, I just found you in YouTube and subscribed immediately. I love what you are doing, and that you choose Portugal as your refuge. I'm Portuguese myself, living many years abroad. My family also has olives trees and a house in the inner Portugal to take care of. We do our best to keep it, but it's a lot of work. About the olive trees, I don't know how isolated you are, but olive picking is traditionally a kind of communal task. Maybe you know this already, but in any case here it goes. If you do it for the neighbors, they also do it for you. And there is always someone in the area, that usually does it for a day's pay. Other option is to make it a family/friend event, where you supply food and stay, and they help you with the work. A day full of hard work, but also with lots of good food and wine to keep you going. All options to assure help for the olive picking, because it's really hard work, I know… Anyway, I mean it, for the coming years, as food for thought ;-). For now, you are doing a fantastic job! Good luck and best wishes!

Inspiring, thanks for sharing.

Did you ever tried to give fresh olive to your cat? My cat loves olives but he doesn't eat more then one. I think it's because they are salted. Don't have fresh ones in my country.
Thank you for sharing your life ❤ I am planing to move to Portugal very soon 🙏🦚

Can you imagine what life would be for them on their farm if they were incompetent?

🙋🏻‍♀️Hi i found yours videos 2 days ago in YT,I'm glad to see you satisfied with your new home in Portugal🤔but my question is:how much did you pay for the old house,and how difficult is it to buy in Portugal an property, or a piece of land? Could you explain the steps that must be taken tobe able to buy a property in Portugal if you are not Portuguese,I'm font the Caribbean,i love your backyard is beautiful,keep enjoying your dreams house,thanks and good luck, best wishes for both 🙋🏻‍♀️🤗👍🏻👏‼

Olive trees, .like most fruit trees, produce a lot one year and much less the next year. So don't feel bad for this year yeld, it's just normal.

Hey guys. I live in the south of Portugal in a small village called Moura (The capital of Olive Oil) and i have around 20 olive trees. i just wanted to share with you the way i've been doing the "conserva" with the olives, getting them ready to eat. i have a lot of Galega which look similar to the ones you show on this video and for these i make 3 or 4 vertical cuts and i put them in water for 15 days. I change the water once a day for the first 10 days and then i start adding a bit of salt to the water for the next 5 or 6 days, still changing it daily. After that you can do the "salmoura", 1kg of salt for 10litres of water if you want to keep them for long periods of time (they will still be crunchy one year later). Normally i just add oregano when i do the salmoura and they are delicious but you can add laurel, garlic, a slice of orange or lemon. If you have other varieties of olives, bigger ones like Cordovil or Manzanilla you can even pick them while they're green, just before they start to ripen. For those ones, instead of making the cuts, you smash them with a hammer and then follow the same process. After changing the water for 15 days, if you're not sure if they are ready for the salmoura, just try eating one or two and see if they're still bitter. Thank you for sharing your experience and i hope you enjoy everything your land has to offer! Miguel

Good Morning. How are you? I found his channel and liked the content and I just subscribed here. I'm Brazilian and I speak Brazilian Portuguese. And I speak and understand English a little, have a good day God bless you.

Do you really need to cut the branches for harvesting?

Hi. You guys are amazing! I love your energy, focus and hard work. I love that you know the names of all your trees and plants. Do you plan to make a living out of selling your produce? What are your plans for the old farmhouse? Where are you living? I send you both my very best wishes. Portugal is beautiful.

Hello, from south west france. when I was young, I lived 5years in corsica picking olives we where told how to prepare them, either you dry them, last on of the season, they don't remain bitter when dry, we brough them to the mill to make oil, the better oil, because their isn't any moisture left in them. when fresh and black, we put them in water with wood ash for 2weeks, before rincing and putting them in clear water, before oiling them in jares, with herbs we found in the maquis in corsica.
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I admire you two ! As someone who have no family or home it gives me hope to one day have a place of my own and hope for a future ! Keep sharing your videos

Make olive wood spoons , rolling pin , spatula

Gon on, you, re strong and capable, willing to do everything with the right timing and patience. Congrats on your success with the generous olives.

Quite some work, indeed, but everything one makes in the country has a special feeling, even when you become way too tired at the end of the day…

Even so, that's way better than sitting from 9h00 to 17h00 in front of a computer screen.

Greetings from the South.

Hard working people . Educated and polite . This is the people Portugal need here . ❤

A well pruned and maintained olive grove is such a beautiful sight, especially in the fog and rain! Great job!

I was given an olive tree some years ago and when the olives grew I tasted them and they were awful. So they went to waste because of my ignorance. Don’t feel bad. Love love your videos. Always learn something. Big hug from Florida.

That you're not skinny is one of the real things about this blog

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Ah Meraid, I felt for you there ❤ Keep enjoying the cake x

Love this channel. Relationship and life goals wrapped into one! X

Another beautiful video but please do not over do and hurt yourselves . I grew up in California , there were olives everywhere but only a couple of people I knew made brined olives . There are still many olive trees as they are popular for landscaping but most are males or people have their trees sprayed so they don't develop fruit . I bet the Portuguese find this appalling ! I saw on The Portugal Project a mini olive press -looked like a time consuming job but interesting if you only have a small amount of olives . Nice to see you enjoying yourselves with the cake as they say everything in moderation including moderation:)

I had no idea that you cut the olive branches off to harvest the olives!!

Pruning and Harvesting too now mulching all unusable tree trunks and leaves in soil

The pastry looks good!!

U should do a QNA . love the vid

Oh – I also didn’t know almonds and hazelnuts needed to be shelled – by hand- before they get to us in the market. No wonder nuts are generally quite expensive!

I didn’t realise either till after watching all these videos on YouTube – that’s the problem with buying olives off a supermarket shelf, and never encountering them in their native state😂

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My sis and did the same thing you did. She was really shocked and disappointed as she really loves eating olives.