An 18-acre restored farm in Portugal’s Alentejo region is being stewarded by the Brent-Berkuses near the Spanish border. Spring weather brings citrus scents and rising temperatures as Jeremiah Brent tends a vegetable garden with a vintage tractor and Nate Berkus harvests surplus oranges from orchards. Their children help with farm life, including Oskar playing in a marble pool and Poppy exploring lavender fields while watching for animals. The property includes reimagined features from existing structures and a menagerie of animals. The retreat differs from the family’s highly public homes in the United States, and the Portuguese farm feels unusually private and protective to its caretakers.
"On a soft spring afternoon in Portugal's rugged Alentejo, the air is scented with citrus and the temperatures are finally climbing. For many people, this would be a cue to relax—but for the Brent-Berkuses, there is work to be done on the 18-acre farm they are stewarding on a remote stretch less than half an hour from the Spanish border."
"Jeremiah Brent is at the wheel of his vintage orange Kubota tractor, hauling plants and soil for his new vegetable garden. Nate Berkus is racing to fill barrels with ripe "Laranja-da-Bahia" oranges, trying to keep up with the surplus from the orchards. Their son, Oskar, eight, lends a hand but is eager to take a dip in the checkerboard marble pool his dads reimagined from an old water tank. Meanwhile, their daughter, Poppy, 11, is wandering through fields of French lavender, armed with a walkie-talkie, keeping an eye out for snakes, searching for peacocks, and hoping to run into her grandmother, who lives on the property."
"The Portuguese retreat is nothing like the family's two residences on the other side of the Atlantic. Those artfully appointed homes, in Greenwich Village and Montauk, are almost as well-documented as the lives of the AD100 duo who created them. Brent is fresh off his stint on the final season of Queer Eye; Berkus is the Oprah-endorsed home-design phenomenon whose celebrity now rivals that of his Hollywood clients. Neither man is camera shy. But their ranch in Portugal—nearly five years in the making, and finally ready for its close-up—has until now been a private affair."
""If I'm being totally honest, this one is hard to share," Brent admits. "It's the first time I've ever felt so protective about a place." Later that day, Brent and Berkus are seated in front of a cavernous granite fireplace in the dining room, discussing w"
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