Day to Day Life Off Grid Building our Homestead in Central Portugal. Living our dream ☺️🌱🌻
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Beijinos e abraços,
Carissa, Iwan, Frankie & Albi
Carissa, Iwan & Frankie decided one night over a bottle of wine that moving from North Wales to Portugal would be a good idea. Within a month they were on the road to Portugal to find the perfect piece of land to call their new home. We picked up Albi the cat along the way. Subscribe to follow our journey as we turn an old stone barn into our home, and learn the ropes of looking after a piece of land to make an abundant garden and one day, our very own winery.
Frankie, Albi and Joau snuggled on the couch is lovely to see ….very happy animals, a tribute to the love and affection from Mum and Dad ❤❤❤
lol as my husband is 75, and I’m 69. We have a bits and bobs day everyday, or nearabouts
Looks like you enjoy rendering! Uncle Nick skills are priceless!
10.5K subscribers, CONGRATULATIONS! You've surpassed Nick and Andrea!
Thank you for the vlog, see you in the next one
Obrigado. Lovely noises in the peacefulness. 🇨🇦
Lovely video and loving the chilled, jazzy beats - awesome! 💖
Your animals are so content and happy! 🌀💚🌀
I love, love, love how everyone helps everyone!! So Beautiful!!!🏆💕🌸
A lovely video, I like this kind of video the most when I'm not happy l
Stay inside safe & dry!
Your videos are getting better. Cooking is always great!
Love seeing you guys working with Nick and Andrea and it’s great you all help each other out as needed. Must feel like a substitute family in a way. Have a wonderful Easter ( at least you’ll have eggs 🍳)😆
What a lovely life your pets have ha ha glad the weather has changed for the better. See you are getting eggs from the girls keep sending your vlogs as I look forward to seeing how you are x🤗🤗
I don't like rainy days but I sure like how the gardens thrive afterwards!!! I use the water hose to blast off the bugs on my plants. It seems to work as well as the soapy mixture. Easier on my hands too. Though I do get wet! Here in the US we call those broad beans fava beans. I love the flowers too! Thanks for sharing! See you next time.
For aphids try to find some lady birds, they are dormant if kept in the fridge and you let them go at night and they will eat them all.
Happy Easter. Glad Albie is sorted out with her mouth. Devilled eggs looked delish xx
Happy Easter to you both, love watching your Videos, your pets and Land are beautiful 😍 thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for a lovely video again. I would have panicked a little too if we ran out of coffee!! Could not start the day without it! Love seeing the sunshine... especially when the weather outside my window is typical irish rain!! Happy Easter 🐣
At the start of April, I did wonder if you could find wild asparagus in Portugal. When I lived in the S. of France, we used to forage for them in the shade around the bushes/trees in the hills or the ditches. Carissa, do pick them the size you showed. They are much, much thinner than commercial ones (~ half the thickness of a pencil). They are so tasty chopped 1cm long, lightly fried in butter/olive oil then added to omelettes or quiches. OMG, I so miss your background noise (crickets & cicadas). Cx
Spring is really in... and of course care for the garden is a constant work during this season, but how wonderful it is to be working with the nature, isn’t it... enjoying the beauty around🥰 and your house also open and caring for it as well💫 a very good day 🥰
It’s good to get strike the jobs off the to-do list…well done👏👏
Put sturdy 2 foot long stakes all around your veg beds and tack a long string of Tibetan prayer flags around them. The movement of the flags makes it difficult for birds to judge how high to fly in order to get over it and they will leave those areas alone. Plus, they look nice blowing in the wind. Chickens in the berry patch will not do. :)
When you nip off the tops if the broad beans before they flower, they are delicious cooked like spinach. It's supposed to keep the aphids away and the plants continue to grow. Happy Easter🐣
Happy Easter! Hope Albi gets better soon!
Still enjoying your variety of content thank you.
Great content 👌 watch the cats with the lily's
Olà... Que bom clima aí, já de calsões e t-shirt 😊. Feliz Páscoa.
nice
What a wonderful video. I’m craving devilled eggs now. I’m going to buy you a Ko-fi to buy more of that delicious bread. Thank you for the joy you give through your beautiful videos. Ann
5 Ko-Fi’s for coffee and bread ☕️🤍
Thank you Ann!!
Ladybugs help with all the nasty little bugs. Some places breed and sell them just for gardeners. I did it one year, glad I did. Good luck. I have also done the spray bottle method.
Diatomaceous earth sprinkled on them and around each plant works just as well and is inexpensive. Non- toxic to plants, animals, etc. Reapply after high winds or rain. I say this because some people, like me, are allergic to ladybird bites. ;)
Oh your land is so beautiful!!
Garlic is also a good spray agains the black lice, ( in case you might need another try.
We have the black lice each year when temps get higher. I spray with garlic and soapie water.
Boil one whole bulbs of crushed garlic down in one liter water. Spray that with a little soap on the plants.do that every week. Succes!
Coming along!
Great work it all looks lush and green 👍❤️❤️❤️🙏
Very nice video again, you really have an eye for it Clarissa! Was that a stork (at 3:45 min.)? Your chickens seems to be happy, they make happy sounds. Your pets have a good life too! Everything is coming together more and more everyday! Thank you for sharing!
Happy Easter to you both. Everywhere looks lush after the rain. Lots of progress being made too. The weather has warmed up a bit over here in England so it is time to start planting and growing - and mowing the lawn (I hate that job).
Hope you guys have had a great Easter! You still need to come and visit!
You too Cindy! We definitely will!
Maybe something like Nick made for his turkeys could be made to protect the strawberries..
Just watched your labours with nick well done on the walls and keep it up love that content ... your getting the home foundation right the rest will follow while you are young get as much knowledge as you can X
Great taste in music you guys....
Chicken likes fresh place❤❤❤😂
Feliz pascoa! 🐣🐰🌷
I make Deviled eggs with minced basil (or leftover pesto) and finely grated Parmesan in the yolk mixture.
Sounds amazing!
Wow. With all that strimming it might be time for some kind of lawnmower.
I think we need a proper ride on mower. The ground is still very uneven in places after being ploughed. One day 😅
Happy Easter. Your place is looking great.
Thanks for your vid.😇💟💟💟 love you guys.
You can also use garlic and baking soda in water, or a better alternative is to plant tobacco plant as a natural pesticide.👍🏽
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Loving the videos
Hi Carrisa and Iuan.noticed a hawk circling around watch your chickens.Rosemary I grow using leaves for tea can be mixed with cloves.boiled in water left to cool.all the best to you both from New Zealand.
We get eagles and all sorts flying over, we don’t let the chickens get too far away and Frankie is always keeping an eye out 😁
It was a white stork, uma cegonha, looking for some frogs...
Look for 'Shakshuka' recipe for eggs. Yummie!
Have you got your car back?
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Carissa can you type in the people you’re talking about in the description below please!
Which people sorry Ina? This video is a year old so I can’t remember which people I was talking about
Do you have a link to the gardening insta account please? Your broad beans look good despite critters.
Perhaps get yourselves some more hens and they'll keep the grass in check. No need for noisy strimming. More time for Super Bock.
I think we will get more eventually, there dropping attract flies though so we’re going to need to come up with a way of containing them.
Life can b happy with our confidence dream in our work, but NOT with profits, money which will go on its own way so called luxury life.
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Moito ben 😘😘😘😘😘😘
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No guesses on what Ewan is doing this afternoon - Ian UK
Força Liverpool!! Just hope it’s not too hot for the laptop!
Re Albi's mouth pain, do you know about 'processional caterpillars ?'
We do! It’s a broken tooth fortunately.
How do take the pussycat to the vets without a car ?
With difficulty! 😅
Mmm, me thinks u may be buying strawberries