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Tasmin / The Wild Island Farm
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This is my story.
My name is Tasmin, I am a writer, storyteller, author, environmentalist and freelance creative. I love to create all kinds of things - from a herb garden to photographs to fictional worlds.
Born & raised in Germany (close to Munich) I now live in Portugal. On the Azores, to be exact, a group of nine tiny islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. We have bought an old island home that we are currently renovating and the attached land is supposed to become a sustaining and nurturing wild farm and food forest.
I sometimes also talk about books and writing on this channel.
If you wanna learn more about me, please check out my website.
My name is Tasmin, I am a writer, storyteller, author, environmentalist and freelance creative. I love to create all kinds of things - from a herb garden to photographs to fictional worlds.
Born & raised in Germany (close to Munich) I now live in Portugal. On the Azores, to be exact, a group of nine tiny islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. We have bought an old island home that we are currently renovating and the attached land is supposed to become a sustaining and nurturing wild farm and food forest.
I sometimes also talk about books and writing on this channel.
If you wanna learn more about me, please check out my website.
Cozy Life Catch Up | My Memoir, Reading & Climathon
Hi! How are you? My name is Tasmin and I live on the Azores Archipelago. I document my life here for fun - island life, renovating, gardening, reading and writing. 🥰 Feel free to join the journey!
Join us on Wednesday over at @WellTraveledBooks
AZORES TRAVEL JOURNAL: mybook.to/azorestraveljournal
Reisetagebuch Deutsch: mybook.to/AzorenReisetagebuch
Climathon Announcement & Rules: ua-cam.com/video/WFcvA258z88/v-deo.html
Climathon Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/cb3803b3-9229-4f56-b4ba-0591b13ec1c9?redirect=true
You want to support & get early updates and chat with me?
Join my Patreon! www.patreon.com/tasminhansmann
Support by making a donation: paypal.me/tasmetu
My Books ▽
The Eloquence of Hurricanes: mybook.to/eloquenceofhurricanes
The Anatomy of Waves (new cover): mybook.to/TheAnatomyofWaves/
The Anatomy of Waves (old cover): mybook.to/TheAnatomy-oldcover
Welcome Home Dear Soul: mybook.to/welcomehomedearsoul
More ▽
Website: tasmin-hansmann.de/
My Skillshare Class: skl.sh/3DFny6y
Azorean Stories: azorean-stories.com/
Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/tasminhansmann
Instagram: tasminhansmann
Instagram Azorean Stories: azoreanstories
Facebook Author Updates: TasminStoryteller
Skillshare: skl.sh/3sJhVhA
Articles on Medium: tasmetu.medium.com/membership
00:00 Intro / Announcements
05:45 Writing Updates
14:07 Currents Reads & Reading Slump
19:53 Climathon Update
Music Outro:
"Juan Sánchez - Now The Silence" under Creative Commons (cc-by) Licence
Join us on Wednesday over at @WellTraveledBooks
AZORES TRAVEL JOURNAL: mybook.to/azorestraveljournal
Reisetagebuch Deutsch: mybook.to/AzorenReisetagebuch
Climathon Announcement & Rules: ua-cam.com/video/WFcvA258z88/v-deo.html
Climathon Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/cb3803b3-9229-4f56-b4ba-0591b13ec1c9?redirect=true
You want to support & get early updates and chat with me?
Join my Patreon! www.patreon.com/tasminhansmann
Support by making a donation: paypal.me/tasmetu
My Books ▽
The Eloquence of Hurricanes: mybook.to/eloquenceofhurricanes
The Anatomy of Waves (new cover): mybook.to/TheAnatomyofWaves/
The Anatomy of Waves (old cover): mybook.to/TheAnatomy-oldcover
Welcome Home Dear Soul: mybook.to/welcomehomedearsoul
More ▽
Website: tasmin-hansmann.de/
My Skillshare Class: skl.sh/3DFny6y
Azorean Stories: azorean-stories.com/
Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/tasminhansmann
Instagram: tasminhansmann
Instagram Azorean Stories: azoreanstories
Facebook Author Updates: TasminStoryteller
Skillshare: skl.sh/3sJhVhA
Articles on Medium: tasmetu.medium.com/membership
00:00 Intro / Announcements
05:45 Writing Updates
14:07 Currents Reads & Reading Slump
19:53 Climathon Update
Music Outro:
"Juan Sánchez - Now The Silence" under Creative Commons (cc-by) Licence
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There's quite a well known video about the Azores that we watched, it mentioned a cat tax on the Azores. Have you found this to be true? Thanks love your channel!
É mesmo assim com este calor só de baixo de água para ficar fresco lindo vídeo 👏👏🌹👍
Endlich Abkühlung? ❤😊
i am so excited about our livestream this week! I love seeing you talk with so much passion about writing. I am so happy we are both sliding out of our reading slumps haha. Also, questions for you. I am curious how you are acquiring different plants for the garden and what access is like on Pico. Are you able to buy fruit trees, how is access to seeds or seedlings, are you buying plants, getting cuttings from friends, seed saving etc. Is there a garden store on Pico?
I would like to ask if you have experience with growing fruit. What works well in the Azores? Pineapples in a greenhouse, that's well known. I grow avocados in Spain, and I think the Azores have an ideal climate for avocados. Wind is a bit of a problem but avocados grow quickly and soon mend after a storm. Also maracuyá or guava should do well. I have been to the Azores and have not seen this fruit. I have seen papaya with green fruit but the summer is too short like in Spain and the fruit don't have time to ripen I think. You have lived there a long time, do you have any experience?
Thanks 😂😊
This Is What The Ocean Brings To People ! Joy And Peace .
Gostei muito de ver esse lindo vídeo com essas lindas paisagens e gostei muito desse lindo gatinho😻😻 muito obrigada 🍅🍅🌶️🌶️🫑🫑🌹🌹❤️👍
I am happy for you! Your dream came true.
Ok ok get going
Did you adopt your kitties on Pico?
I have a full video talking about how we got our cats :) Feel free to check it out
@@Tasmetu I’ll try to find it. I also live in Açores and brought my two kitties with me, but did some fostering here, too.
@@MyTaropist thats amazing ☺️
Don't wait for con-tractors to show up. They don't like to work or to respect your time schedule. They want to be paid more and more and to rip you off. Just DIY and be happy. Con-tractors are just a con. They do sometimes crawl on their knees and BEG for work, but...
I'm sorry that has been your experience but we have made our entire house with this man so far and we know why he isn't coming atm and that's fine :)
That's a guiltakhitteh.
Such a cute kitty!!! 😻
we clearly didn't know the half of it if we didn't know about the pizza hut 😂 congrats on all the progress and the slow, connected life you're building on the island:)
😂😂😂😂 yes - the pizza hut was very …. special 😂😂 Thank you 🧡
Great episode! I loved the footage from the garden. Did you raise the aubergine from seed? Did you ever get to repair the stone retaining wall that came down during the storm a year or so ago?
thank you very much 😊 Yes the eggplants came from seeds. the other question i might answer in my next Q&A
Hi Tasmin, I am not an expert but looks like your passion fruit tree has the woodiness virus or anthracnose or Fungal Spot. This fungus reduces the production and in the market no one buys them because they are "ugly". After you harvest all the passion fruit, the best you can do is remove the complete tree, pickup any fallen leaves and fruit to help stop the disease spreading. Spread ashes from barbecue or bonfires over the passion fruit soil to disinfect the area and also to provide minerals to the soil and then in the proper season plant a new passion fruit tree. Boa sorte para a tua renovação!
Thank you so much!! :)
okra!!! <3 ok i love the story of the pizza hut haha i did not know that. love feeling that connection that you have to your home, you can really feel it when you are talking about it =D so happy for you tasmin <3
thank you my dear 💛 and yes the pizza hut is … well… something 😵💫😂
Herrlich so viel anpflanzen und anschließend ernten zu können. Ich möchte auf meinem Balkon auch ein bisschen mehr anpflanzen, kann mich nur noch nicht entscheiden was. Habe bisher Johannis- und Erdbeeren sowie Thymian, Lavendel und Oregano.
oh das klingt aber schon sehr lecker 😍 Radieschen sind super für den Balkon und es gibt spezielle Balkontomaten 🥰
Gostei muito desse lindo vídeo com essas lindas alfaces pimenta morangos figueira já com figos 🍅🍅🍓🍓🌶️🌶️🧅🧅🐈🐈🐈⬛❤️🌹👍
obrigada!
Good Day, my great grand father was born in Azores on Pico Island. The surname is Rosa. I am trying to find any living relatives that may still be there. If you could help me it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
My family is from Sao Miguel and I love seeing the islands and hearing all your insights. Congrats on the books!
Adorooo!😍 Gotta see if on my next visit someday they do this again 😘
I am so excited and proud of you for your books in a bookshop!! Ahh! So incredible =D Also, the facts about the ocean temps and cloud cover... wow that's wild. Things are so connected in so many ways that we don't understand. And those magazines! I will need to order one or two for myself, they look like amazing resources.
I'm here in Cais do Pico and I think I'm going to Lajes and buy me a travel guide
Gostei muito de ver vídeo com os lindos gatinhos 🐈🐈⬛ enquanto ao livros eu não percebo náda 📚📚📓📒📗❤️👏👍
Lovely vlog! I have The Anatomy of Waves in my poetry collection and I adore it. I need to pick up The Eloquence of Hurricanes !
ok this beet recipe, once i have an oven again i will need to try it! =D
You have to adapt it to make it vegan but I think you would love it :)
this is so so cool! thank you for sharing it with us =D
Hello Tasmin, thank you for making this video. I wanted to see something of the authentic life and culture of Pico island. Many people only show themselves and/or nature. Others are only tourists, who don't have an idea nor time for the people of Pico, for Pico's life. They just look at the island as another adventure. Your perspective honored the island, the ocean and its people. Thank you.
Thank you!
I would love to try to make a beetroot chocolate cake! Do you have a recipe?
200g beets (pre-boiled) 100 g plain unsweetened yoghurt 2 eggs 70ml oil 130g flour 2 EL dark unsweetened cacao powder 70g sugar 40g grinded almonds / almond flour 1 sprinkle cinnamon 1 teaspoon of a fruity vinegar, i use apple cider 2 teaspoons bicarbonate (or baking soda) a little butter or oil for greasing the pan - mix yoghurt, eggs, oil and beets - puree them until liquid, set aside - mix the dry ingredients (flour, almond flour, sugar, cacao powder, cinnamon) together - Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ones. Mix well - In a small bowl, mix vinegar and bicarbonate. It will react and bubble. IMMEDIATELY pour it into the dough mix and combine - pour into your form. Note: the dough is pinkish and pretty liquid (like in my video) - it will not rise much! - in the pre-heated oven at 160 degrees Celsius (320 Fahrenheit) for 60 to 70 minutes. if you want chocolate covering on top: 100 g sweet cream 150 g dark chocolate - boil the cream and pour it over the chocolate pieces and mix until melted, pour on top and let it solidify - You can also leave the cream away and simply melt some dark chocolate in a waterbath with some coconut oil Enjoy! :)
The journey by Mary Oliver it's my favourite poem of all times💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓 I absolutely love Mary Oliver
beautiful video,I was born in Lages Pico,right on Tasmin,I am happy for your happiness.
Thank you!
Thanks! We heard these in Flores (and then Sao Miguel and Sao Jorge) and couldn't figure out what they were!
Glad I could help!
Mother Nature is the Best. Thank you for taking us on this magical trek through the earth. ❤
she truly is 🥰
Tasmin, sounds like you guys should have used tiles or have a stone floor instead. That's horrendous amount of work. My arms are aching just from watching you. YIKES!
Well, since the floor in that part of the house is floating on woodbeams (see the previous videos), tiles or stone were not an option as we did not have time or money to pour a full floor with cement and metal (etc) before doing the final layer. Wood was our only option. While it was for sure the hardest part of renovations, both for our bodies and nerves, I am writing this comment sitting on my sofa on top of that beautiful wooden floor :) Happy End!
@@Tasmetu As long as you are happy. That's all that matters. I was just thinking of all of the moisture on the island. That is one heck of contruction and it seems like you and your partner did most of the work. Good for you. But YIKES!
@@malgozata1875 True 😅🙈
Einfach fantastisch!! 🎉
AMAZING EARTH
Wow, sehr beeindruckend!
Lindo gostei muito de ver essa linda gruta das torres obrigada pelo vídeo ❤️🌹👍
Hello Tasmin, Thank you for sharing so frankly about your life on this island. Personally, I think that this video should be a per-requisite before moving to the island. Amazing synopsis of what matters. Ha, ha. I looked for your previous video, but could not find it. I am sorry. I wish I could have seen it.
Thank you very much :) Yes, I had to take it down due to safety reasons. Maybe one day I will make a newer version, who knows. :)
@@Tasmetu Wow! So sad, but I understand.
I missed this when it came out 3 days ago! Lovely :D And you made up a question that you couldn't answer?? Lol, teamwork--I've got a perfect answer for that one.. 🤗
Well, me and Ania made the tag together 😂 That's why it was a "either that OR that" question :D
Looking forward to your version of the tag :)
'IF SHE WERE TO COME OUT WITH ANOTHER BOOK' girl what timing!!!! love all of this, so happy to be nature book tagging together and climathoning together and yess to all things nature!
you and i are the community that we all need 🥲 so happy for climathon obviously but forever grateful for our friendship <3
riiiiiight? :D
Um bom domingo para si 👍📓📒📗📚🌹👍
As far as activities I can see why many do socially hang out at local cafes!! Since you are limited in the island
true! :)
100% true. I live on Terceira and feel absolutely the same. Probably, I can add 3 notes: 1. Regarding luxury, you can see some rather luxurious cars crossing the island in summer. But I guess it's more likely the tourists who can afford that. 2. And the weather. For me, it's a more subjective thing, but here +30 feels much more comfortable than +30 in the city because here it's mostly windy, especially close to the ocean. Anyway the sun is harsh, and you should always put sun protection on you from April till almost November no matter how naturally tant you are. 3. I would suggest to people who would like to move here to rent accommodation for the first year before buying your own house. There are a lot of houses on sale here, so I guess if you bought one, it might be a bit of a problem to sell it if you change your mind.
Thanks for chiming in on the discussion - I agree with you :) Also greetings from Pico to Terceira (gorgeous island!)
Quite cool! I also bought a small property in Pico few years ago near Ribeiras . The house is in complete ruin... I had no time yet to visit. :-( Dividing my time between Portugal and Germany at the moment
Life is so funny, and you are so brave. I’m from America, but I live in Germany now with my little family. My life path is impossible to explain; there’s so much trauma, changes, loss, and confusion. When I went to Portugal for the first time, a feeling like I’ve never felt before hit me so hard. I’ve lived in many countries, climates, and cultures. I’ve travelled extensively, for which I’m so grateful for. But I never thought I’d experience that feeling that I have in Portugal. I left having bought a house, knowing I’d come back. It’s been several years and I’m filled with the same pure joy every time I visit (we will move there permanently once our kids finish their Abitur). I see that same experience in you, and it’s so special. We are the lucky ones. Thank you for sharing your story!
Oh I feel this so hard! Thank you for sharing 💜
Welcome back. Hopefully there are no more snows in Pico and Spring is here to stay! Cool to hear from you :)
Yes I hope so too 😍 So far the sun has stayed!