It's the end of the summer and I have been mostly away of Hive for several weeks. I thought I'd do a short supper wrap as it has been full of ups and downs. He hardest news is mom passed away at the end

Today, after working on the tiny house for a few days I decided to drive two hours to reach the coast ad spend the day there. Fist stop was Nazare, known worldwide for its huge waves (not in the summer).

I woke up early this morning. At 6 am some workers decided to stop their truck in front of the farm qnd manually extract the cork of three huge oak trees. It took them about 30 minutes and they loaded

After a few days of extremelly high temperatures, today I woke up with some rain an the colors of the farm with all the grass treamed looked breathtaking. Still plenty of small things to do in the tiny

I came back to the farm for this week with several tasks in mind. Getting the grass cut while it is still green before the summer is the big priority. You do not want to do it too early because with rain

Yesterday my wife had to drive to a small village in the Spanish Pyrenees for a two hour meeting, a few meters away from France were we used to spend some time in the summer a few years ago. The day before,

Just came back from a two week trip to the farm in Portugal and the land was outstanding with all the trees blooming. The upper photo is one of the apple trees, but also the vines, fig trees, orange ones

I had planned to come back to Portugal in January for a long while. The idea was to pick up the olive oil we produced from last November harvest and prune the vines and some of the fruit trees. I was traveling

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I had an appointment early today in the city and decided to take the train to avoid morning traffic jam which is getting worse and worse everyday. As I spend more and more time in the farm in rural Portugal,

When I was a kid, most of the independent shops in town had the same shutters, old metallic steel color which owners had to push up manually as electric engines where still something you could only see

Last Thursday, after visiting the viewpoint, we drove 20 more minutes to get down the Fragosas Valey. The place is know by a 9km geopath called Passadiços do Orvalho where you can find several waterfalls.

Last Thursday, after ending our olive harvesting season, we decided to spend the day visiting the area. I had heard about this view point, about 45 minutes away from our farm. The day was cold but the

Today the weather forecast said rain in the morning but I decided to get to work at sun (cloud 🙂) raise. And I was given another beautifull picture when the sun started showing up. It was a poductive

It's been rainig all week here in rural Portugal. I was expecting to have a clear sky window today but the weather forcast was correct for once and I didn't have a chance to keep harvesting my olive trees.

Yesterday morning, before the rain started, I was able to harvest some trees working alone. I may have done 80Kgs in 4hr Harvestig alone is quite ineficient as you spend lots of time setting the nets and

The day did not start very well as my friend called saying he was not feeling right and was not coming. It was 7am, the sun was rising and I decided to start alone. I grabbed the shacker and harvested

Rainy day today, so I just got everything ready to start harvesting tomorrow. I cleaned the rotten fruit from the ground so we can easily lay the nets and the olives on them. The trees are so full of olives,

After a long driving day. I am back in the farm getting everything ready to start harvesting this beauties. I will also try to get some othe things done and of course plug the new extension battery to

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