💚🏡💚 My goodness! This is marvelous! My husband and I are planning to move to Portugal in a few years, to live in his hometown, Pombal. I love, Portugal! Thank you for this superbe video! 💚🏡💚
It’s me from Texas again. I’m a 82 year old widow whose lived, traveled and seen alot. It’s my belief that every trade school all over this plant should require their students to watch every video you all have produced. Why? Here in US we have this woke generation who should have stayed asleep. Kids going to college and come out knowing zilch. They whine etc etc. Hopefully the young off grinders, tradesmen and those who want to keep their freedom and support their love ones will become keepers like you and Andrea. God bless you.❤️
My main project is to get eventually a quinta in Portugal and I loved this video and definitely I will buy a land with some olives trees to get my own oil. Just marvelous! Tudo de bão!
20% of the oil sounds like an absolute bargain to get the olives pressed and bottled. 👍. My parents would clip just one of the chicken’s wings to stop them flying out. I suppose it made them uneven and unable to fly.
If they are flighty you will still have to clip their wings unless ur fence is over 6ft. But only if they are flighty. Which I THINK the 8 escapee/returned chicks were? Of course each chicken is different and has their own mind. But if 1 does the others will follow!
Most if not all co-ops that press olives use a similar machine anyway, of course, if you are willing to go with a pre-clean beforehand they will appreciate it. The biggest olive companies in Portugal have tens (or more) of thousands of hectares of olive groves and it's all harvested by huge tractors and they have their own press and as you find out, nothing goes to waste, although some derive from the percentage they keep as payment and the paste from the local co-ops. The paste will result in refined olive oil which is an oil of lesser quality ideal for cooking. In some parts of the country, there is olive oil tasting if any is interested, I even went to a restaurant last year not too far from the Abrantes olive oil factory of Gallo oils, and the dude brought a sample of 8 local olive oils to taste before the main course which was unexpected.
And just fyi. I did sand on the floor in my coup for 18 months or so. But as it goes on the sand gets soaked with chicken poop juice. Plan to clean out all the sand at some point and start all over. Hot chicken poop juice is stinky!!
That’s a lot of olives! If I remember right, that was a little more than you hoped for? Weren’t you hoping for 900 kilos? It just looks so delicious🐝🤗❤️
Do guineas lay eggs? Can you eat their eggs? My granny always had guineas, she said they were for eating insects so I don't know if you would raise guineas for food purposes or not. Does your Olive oil taste better than the Olive oil you buy in the stores and does your Olive oil taste different from year to year? Sorry for all the questions.
Yes Guineas are good layers, and tasty eggs, their flesh is soft and white on the breast and brown on the legs, both gorgeous, they do eat lots of bugs,and are good at warning the chickens against any threats, if you bought the best Extra virgin olive oil you could buy, it would nearly be as tasty as ours, ours usually tastes pretty much the same Evey year, but it mellows with age and turns more golden in colour
Nick, that tour and explanation of how the olives are made and how its defined as Extra Virgin, cold pressed etc was BRILLIANT. Thank you. I'm still helping friends pick...when will it end!☺
I have not been to my house yet but I have 10 olive trees. I don't have electricity nor do I want it. I am intending to use my oil for lamps until I get my off grid electric lighting sorted. How much oil should I expect from 10 trees?
Great question! How big are the trees? One of our trees yeided 100kgs this year which for us would be 14 litres of oil, another one of our smaller trees yeided 2 kgs, so it's hard to say
Do not use EV or Virgin oil in lamps. Use Lampante - a much lower grade of oil, and called Lampante for obvious reasons. The good stuff will smoke too much. You should be able to buy Lampante quie cheaply from the bigger mills.
Another excellent vlog, Nick and Andrea! Most thorough show of how olive oil is pressed and how processing of your olives are paid for at the lagar. That was an amazing yield you had! Carissa and Iwan mentioned in their last vlog that they were off to help you finish, and Cindy mentioned she met you all leaving the lagar while she was in line to have her olives done... i was hoping to get a glimpse of you all again briefly featured in each others' vlogs as it's always nice to see you with each other 😊. Your chickens are so well cared for and look very content. Your plans for their area with Max patrolling sound great. Now... whatever could be going on in the kitchen 🤔?... Have a great week and always take good care.
Good afternoon... Nothing better than having quality products that will reflect on our health, and on top of that they were created on our property. It's wonderful... All the best, stay well... Tchau🍀😀👍
Not a fan of long videos but this one was quite interesting to watch. Really enjoyed the whole process of making olive oil as well explained. Also enjoyed the sand for the chicken poo, what a smart idea.
Thanks for showing us the whole olive process. I thought whole olives were ground and then pressed. Your oil looked so good. My favorite eating olive are the small black ones in salt, like you were making.
You can make some gorgeous Castile soap with your oil. Easy and fun to make plus you get superb soap with only pure ingredients. Thanks for the great vlog s you are creating.
That was really cool to watch your oil being made. Thank you. The metal planters in your chicken area are really nice how did you make them. Also noticed your mosaic and it looks finished. Will you be showing that whole completed patio? It's really quite amazing as is your moon gate. Your place looks like a work of art. Beautiful!!! Love watching your videos. 😊👍🌠❤
Wow, so much hard work for a small return, but you live so frugally that it must go farther than in the city. You two have accomplished so much that I thought that you had lived there 5 or more years. Amazing.
First time I've ever seen a bird getting it's wings clipped!! On a vlog about.how olive oil is made no less!! Interesting variety of content. Never know what I'm going to learn!
Fresh pressed olive oil has a very unique taste ... but olive oil on the opposite of whisky ( the old the better ) .. should be consumed in the maximum period of 18 months ; and its very very important to keep the containers tightly closed, away from light and heat...olive oil if kept in contact with air ( oxygen ) oxidizes and loses flavor and qualities...
@@denisemastromina7821 That's funny when I was young I went several times with my parents to the Lagar with harvested olives to make olive oil, in the past Portugal produced much more olive oil than now ; the Lagar people worked for 2/3 weeks 24/24 hours straight so they cooked the meals inside the Lagar and people who are waiting - sometimes all night long- for the oil also cooked there in fact there is a dish that is typical from that season in the Lagar- Bacalhau á Lagareiro - dish that uses a good amount of olive oil in the seasoning and everyone used the fresh pressed olive oil on it and it was delicious..if you are saying the fresh olive oil is bitter well then it was not a good olive oil - the quality depends on the olives quality ,and the manner that the Lagar works etc etc.... ...in fact fresh olive oil has a strong flavour off course ,but very fruity as tasteful and like I said olive oil gets old with time it starts oxidizing after production...18 months are the maximum recommended period to consume it.....
@@projectportugal we live in Southern Isles of Greece and the olives are very tiny just used for oil extracted on a low heat like yours but it has to be left a few monthes it's a nice tasting oil after that.
Hello! 😊 The most beautiful and interesting thing is you have what you working for. In supermarkets, oil is very expensive and you have your own oil much, much savory. 😊
@@amcab1625 Yes but "Lagar do Azeite" is a specific press ( or machinery) to extract olive oil from olives and "Lagar do Vinho" its a specific press to extract wine from grapes its not possible to use one press to do the other job or vice versa...
Nick, really enjoyed seeing the process extracting the olive oil and your explanation. Team work with Ange and Frankie on the road again. Best wishes from Wesr Wales.
@@Mydamian55 so, we produced just over 1000 kgs, this year, we normally have a higher than average oil per kilo ratio than most, (our land has lots of water) after payments we received 120 LTRs of oil, with a saleable value of 480€ That for 5 days labour each to harvest, 1 day in the Lagar, 5 days each of pruning, a bit of fertilizer, purchase of nets, mechanical shaker and a olive cleaning machine sacks/ crates and some help from s couple of friends, plus diesel pruning equipment, as we've said before you need over 3000 mature trees to make any money😁👍🤔
O. I know from following a lot of vloggets that you need a bigger farm if you only have thr farm as an income. But just had no figures about it. Ofcourse its not only the olives but still. I also see a lot of farms for sale with young olive trees. If I the read on wiki that it takes 35 years for them to come to a full harvest I'm not so keen on some prizes. Lots of real estates looks very expensive to me. Altough I saw one reasoneble for 0.75 per sqm. But that was so big that 750K makes it still to expensive.
Wonderful content…..may I suggest a microphone that attaches to you so that your volume stabilizes? I notice many other videographers using one with a wind dampener on it. It should make things easier for you
Found this episode by accident, really enjoyed how informative it is, congratulations on your set-up. We're a retired farming couple from North Devon, so specially interested to see what having a small-holding there involves. What part of Portugal are you in? I've travelled there quite a bit, very varied climates for a small country. How do I get back episodes, please, I'm not techy, I'm afraid. Looking forward to next week's episode. With thanks and good wishes.
Well done, I like what you are doing. I have been brought up with poultry, I am in my 70s and had a small holding until 2010. With regard to clipping the wings, you should only clip one wing for obvious reasons, you will also be able to get your hands on oyster shells, made into grit pestle and mortar style it's ideal for the calcium re eggs, you will be amazed how they will visit the grit feeder. Kind regards
