so cute your little boy Crusoe running around the garden with out fall and smart moving around…can you imagine in few years time they will be 2 with little S…watch out for little boys pranks….and of course I admire your Tara and John for the best teamwork in your projects…greetings

Great video , it's like taking a breath of fresh air when I watch yalls videos , I feel like I'm there with yall …becarful and don't get burned out take the time to look at Around you and feel blessed at what God gave yall thank u for sharing it with us God bless yalls beautiful family, God bless yall from braselton Georgia

Another great one🤩You never disappoints ☺️

I'm only send you a loving hug, things are brigther in the end, but the yourney is the best 💖💖💖💖

Hi Guy's, glad you have managed to find a cheaper solution to the plumbing! As for the gear stick, lost for words!! Could see you were really upset Tara, and felt for you both. Looking forward to your next video. We have some Amazing news, We got our D7!!! we are rushing to Lyon next Tuesday to get passport stamped and then were off!! all the best, Juliet and Scott.

I'm so happy that you've had a much more positive week than the last awful one! 😃 Fingers crossed that the water is forthcoming for you to be able to come home really soon!
I'd love to be able to offer some quality advice about your olives and trees, but as my little one is still small enough to be in a tiny (relatively) pot and produced all of 5 olives last year that were no bigger than a baked bean each, I'm not sure I can be of any help! 😬
Speculation warning! My only thought is that, as with most fruit, there seems to be a "best before" date for harvesting, which is possibly something to do with when other bugs and such emerge and start rootling about for food or nests and so on, and possibly this may be the case with the Olive Fruit Fly?
Hopefully Joual's (apologies for guessed spelling) Dad will be the best Guru for 2023's olive crop! 🍀
*Hugs * to all of you x

If you need to replace or add additional olive trees, now would be a good time to try propagating them from cuttings or planting the pits. If you get young trees, you can train them to grow low by tying down or weighing down vertical branches. Landscape staples or tent stakes can hold the tie-downs. The main idea is to open up the center of the tree to the sun while making the fruiting branches reachable for picking. You can also do this for apples, pears, etc. Side bonus: creating a tree that's ideal for a treehouse for your future grandkids.

Beautiful effort. Just won yourself a new subscriber from Ghana 🇬🇭 in West Africa

Don’t cut the olive tree down. Read up on olives and how to grow and harvest before you do that.

To harvest olives. Put down nets on the ground or tarpaulins and shake and hit the tranches and they fall down. They cannot be eaten off the tree but need to be processed.

Is it Not Garage or Nock Garage? And why do you call it that? Great video…great story. Blessings to you all.

I think you should have a large catchment system for all of that rain you get. It will help with your water problems.

Hi!! I laughed so much with Crusoe, he is so curious, always looking for… everything, so cute. In my parentes village we call those mushrooms "padeiros", don't ask me why. Padeiros are the people who make the bread, so… yeah… About the olive trees, yes, cut them. I think I saw some olive sprouts in one of you trees. They will grow and you will have a new tree. It will take time, but it's better, they are very tall. I'm glad everything is getting right on track. See you next time 😊

Love watching y’all here in Georgia USA 🇺🇸 HOPE YOU GET WATER SOON!

Hi guys! Thins are coming along nicely…the lawn is looking gorgeous, and the perfect spot for a picnic and some much-needed rest and family time. Take a deep breath, Tara- you don't have to do it all today, girl. You just finished a major growing project of your own! So glad to be back on the farm with all of you. Take care- see you next week! Love from CT, USA

In the future, your ‘Not Garage’ is in the perfect position to make a beautiful summer kitchen/lounge, with a wall bi-fold glass doors overlooking the garden

The way Crusoe toddled down those stone steps to the lawn, then turned around to wait for his mama! He's up for anything too, any adventure big or small. I'm so glad your week is sunnier and more hopeful. Love to you all. Question: Small house for guests and house you're renovating now for you to live in?

Keep going, you guys are building a dream. It is not always easy but the challenges are making you stronger. Your kids won't remember the challenges but they will remember how strong their parents were… every accomplishment, every challenge you overcome will be their trophies. Take one thing at a time and make your dream come true. Take it from a South African who inadvertently started following in your footprints. I have been living in south east Asia with my wife and 2 kids and we are planning on buying a farm in Portugal in the next 2 years. You guys are inspiring.

Hi there, My name is Lance. Maybe try cloning the tree. Strip off the bark on the level you would like to cut. Take a bag with moist soil and strap it around the area you stripped the bark off. Leave it for a month or two and it will start growing roots. After you cut the tree below the bag and replant the cloned tree with good compost and put up some supports for the tree after planting. This way you will have two mature olive trees that will produce olives next year. I have never tried it with an olive tree but I don't see why it would not work. Just an idea…

quality content, closely linked to a life project in our beautiful country. If you ever need legal advice I will be at your disposal. Portugal greets you!!

Muito obrigado pelo video, eu gostai muito , thank you very much for the video I like🥰

Hi Guys. Lovely that you are enjoying the sun. I am Portuguese and I am leaving in UK. Those mushrooms have different names in different counts of the country. In the North we call it Frades and you can eat it. Just do a fire on your fire place and rost it with olive oil and salt. It is delicious 😋. But watch out because some can be poisonous. 😉 about the flys on Olives is true and it happens often, when it is a very warm year. You can use it for olive oil but not for eat. And you always can chop the olive trees for next year. They will may don't give olives but it will be better for harvest. Just found someone locally that knows what is doing 🙂😉.

Watch A year in Provence with Carol Drinkwater. She has olive trees and they put sardines hung in jars on the trees which stops the fruit flies.

I loved to see that your enthusiasm is back and that you're again enjoying the Portuguese Dream! Hugs ❤️

I loveeeeed this video ❤

Yes you need to get your tree pruned a lot lower and depending on how many branched you have…you prune it in the shape of a crown open in the middle so sun light gets in to ripen the olives and it makes it easier to pick round the tree.
The pest problem I can't help you with as I only have info on products in Greece but they have to be used in early spring in Greece sometimes the council of the area have men come round to do it and you pay a small fee but also in farming stores they sell the products as well. Your Portuguese neighbours I'm sure will give you all the info plus they will know how to prune your trees and very often will do it for you for a small fee. It would be good if you have a few more olive trees then you could harvest and take them to the oil press then you would have your own oil 👍👍👍

If the olive tree is going to be chopped, save the more mature bits for carving objects or for open/ floating shelves … picked up some beautiful pieces at Bethlehem made of Olive tree wood.

Looks like your channel has been cloned on to “Gan Jin World” (… along with a lot of others). It’s very disappointing to see ☹️

A better and brighter week, yay!! Precious family you are!

Great idea to slow down and enjoy a picnic! Sending positive thoughts & love your way 🙂 Cheers 🍻

Contact some fellow You-tubers from the UK—-their vlog is "Project Portugal". They have a lot of olives and have several videos about how to prune, harvest and cure the olives. They also know places you can take them to for processing into oil. Very informative.

Hi, explores!! It's easier if you cut the bunches of grapes with pruning shears!😊
My father was an olive tree guru, but unfortunately because of a stroke he stopped talking. He would be delighted to help you! I don't know if the tree won't be too big by now. Have a fantastic week!!!

Tara. I feel vy sorry for u. Those hormones wl go soon. Loads of Camomile tea 🫖. My first baby was born in Portugal I was then living in London and found it ever so hard without my family. Then my 2th was born in Dagenham it was ever so so hard. My husband was Irish 😢my girls now r 50 and 52 my beautiful caring loving husband passed 9 years ago. But I don’t even think of Portugal anymore . I have 4 grandchildren and 2greatgrandchildren. We vy close family. All I have over in Coimbra is one sister. My older sister in Figueira da Foz passed 3 months ago, my sweetheart loving caring Mum passed away 5 years ago today she was just about 100 years old. I do go over to Coimbra vy often but I can take only about 3/4weeks. The winters over r vy cold and summer extremely hot for me. Anyway I absolutely love yr videos. Don’t eat olives as they r. They r extremely bitter. Your babies r ever so cute 🥰 and yr Crusoe is a great help. Bless him. Hope it all finish soon so u all can rest. Love from me to 4 of u ❤

Once all the olives had been scored or crushed, place them in a large bowl and soak with water for 3 days, changing the water once daily. This process reduces the natural bitterness of the olives. (KNIFE-Score them)

After the 3 days, remove all water and add the 500g salt and toss to coat all olives. Let the olives sit at room temperature (18-20 C), for 2 days, draining the water daily. The olives will soak up the salt and further reduce in bitterness.

second day, roughly chop the lemons and chilies and mix then set aside. Discard all the liquids in the olives bowl and mix in the chopped lemons and chilies.

Ingredients
1Kg fresh Olives (green, black or both)
1/2 Kg unwaxed Lemon
Green Chilies (quantity is optional)
2 cups lemon Juice
500g DS Pink Himalayan Salt (SEA SALT-KOSHER TYPE)

For Brine– For each 1 cup water you need 1 1/4 tbsp Salt

Put a tarp under the olive tree and with a long stick beat the okives to fall

Coloca uma lona debaixo da arvora, oliveira, e com uma vara comprida vareja para cair as azeitonas.

Hi, You don't chop the olive trees to make them small. Or at least you shouldn't. You want them to get as big and as wide as possible.. You can trim the small new branches at base of tree, but other than that, you don't mess with them. Get the grass from around them so they don't burn.
Basically you let them alone.. So to harvest them its easy… You get any cloth, burlap.. old sheets, whatever wrap the ground around the base…. And you can mechanically harvest them if you have a tractor with a rubber strap and shaker… shakes tree, all the olive fall into nets or cloth.
OR+ you can do it manually with a small rake on a long pole and basically shake the branches.
The olives fall onto the cloth you've laid… You close the cloth and carry them into wheel barrels or whatever… And press the for olive oil.. (Mats and stone leverage wedge and pressure press)
Or mechanically press them, take them to town and there are collectives that will charge by the liter of finished product, so on…. To eat them, You SCORE THEM, Tiny slit and marinade them in SEA SALT.. NOT REGULAR SALT for a few months in plastic barrels… And that is it….
IF you eat the raw…. Its like eating a rock…. they soften and become like store bought after about
2 months in brine… but its not just tossing them in, there is a method… they have to be pricked or scored… to allow the brine bath to penetrate…. Harvesting, yeah you can do it yourself, but its a lot of work…. they have teams that go around from farm to farm like a collective during harvest season…. Also during fire season to trim and cut grass and trees… Hope it helps.
AS for the olive trees, they can last for thousands of years, provided you don't mess with them
you don't have to do much to they grow on dry rocky soil… water during drought….
they pretty much take care of themselves…. Obviously trim everything to the ground during fire season… GOOD LUCK…. There are a lot of simple recipies of how to ads spice to salt brine.
The palestinian one is the best I have seen.

Olive guru…

Nice to see happy smiley faces again, a week on and definitely a weeks progress including baby boy is growing so fast already.

Bless your hearts you're working so hard, with your hands full and absolutely of course you want to get it right! My expertise in Olives is that I only like green ones lol, and they taste great out of a jar!🤣

Keep the faith both. Can sense it’s a bit hectic. You all have each other and that will get you through everything.

Hi there you two!🌞We are Norwegians living in Andalucia, Spain. And we got several hundreds olivtrees. We heard that this fly likes humid weather and disapaires when it is getting warmer. You can cut the tree as you are saying- but also putup bottles with wather and honey inside, then the flies will go in there and drawn. Of cause we dont think its smart to use any quimicals at all. The farmers here never did so either. You can use copper-powder in the summertime if you got “hongos» on your olives/tree. But the best thing you can do is to ask you neighbors there! They will have the correct answar for that region. Good luck with everything!🥰🥰

Tarp the ground. Shake the olive tree. Saw it done by someone else. 😉

Hope I am wrong, but you seem to be taking detailed kitchen measurements without accounting for the insulation.

We had quite a few olive trees on our land , we chopped them right back 3 years ago and this year a very good crop , but still the olive fly . Think the trees need to be sprayed . Its all a great interesting learning experience. Good luck with your salting and brine for the olives that are ok .