This week we work on the final stretch in our garden, sowing more calorie crops. We start by tilling in the covercrop we sowed last fall, and adding some manure for good measure. First up is amaranth, a heat and drought tolerant grain that should do well in our climate. Maarten also starts strimming along the side of our new road, later using the cut down brush to build a trellis for our kiwi’s. We’re ready to start harvesting from our greenhouse, so I make a delicious salad with our homegrown beets.

0:00 Intro
0:38 Prepping the beds for final crops
3:23 Sowing amaranth
5:19 Strimming the side of the road
7:45 Gathering sticks for trellis
10:25 The plan
12:58 Harvesting beets from the greenhouse
15:13 My favorite beetroot salad
18:48 Finishing the kiwi trellis

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New here? My name is Lea and I live with my partner Maarten, our toddler Puck and baby Bo on our land in Central Portugal. We left the rat race in the Netherlands in 2018 and moved south in our old campervan. Two years ago we bought land in Portugal that had been abandoned for several decades. After lots of hard work we now live in a beautiful yurt and keep ourselves busy growing our own vegetables as well as producing olive oil, wine and honey on a small scale. This channel documents all the different jobs we have to do, and sometimes some nice footage of this beautiful country we now call home.

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