The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, so they say. However, in Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent’s case, it’s an orange.
The HGTV couple’s children, daughter Poppy and son Oskar, are taking after their famous fathers as they grow up on a Portuguese farm.
Nate and Jeremiah’s Kids
Berkus shared a sweet clip of his son and daughter tending to their family farm in Portugal.
“Working the farm 🍊🍋,” he captioned the Monday, August 17, clip.
The 8-year-old was seen jumping to reach the oranges on a tall tree. His attempts proved successful as Berkus flashed to a clip of a bucket full of oranges. The kids also appeared to harvest lemons from a lemon tree.
Both Oskar and Poppy then set up shop selling “Fresh Alentejo Oranges” and “Fresh Alentejo Lemonade” each for 1 Euro.
The comments section was filled with encourages messages of support for the kids’ entrepreneurial spirit.
“Start them young. Lol,” one follower wrote.
“Two glasses of lemonade please 😍,” another commented.
“Love it brings back my childhood in Portugal Alentejo 🥰,” a third follower added.
Another wrote, “Great thing to do when they’re kids!!👏”
The citrus picking was a full-circle moment for Berkus, who previously revealed his love for the property’s trees.
“Oprah used to say all the time, ‘I don’t care about my house; I care about my trees,'” the designer told Architectural Digest. “Now, for the first time, I understood. The pieces started slowly coming together—garden by garden, orchard by orchard, wall by wall, room by room.”
Their Portuguese Farm
Nate and Jeremiah opened up about their decision to purchase a farm in Portugal during a house tour with Architectural Digest.
“If I’m being totally honest, this one is hard to share,” the “Queer Eye” star said in May. “It’s the first time I’ve ever felt so protective about a place.”
The couple purchased the fixer-upper in 2021, and spent five years renovating the 18-acre property.
“I am Portuguese, my parents are Portuguese,” he explained. “My mom always talks about stories of coming back here and living here someday.”
While renovating, Brent made sure to make his mom’s dream come true by transforming an old bakery on the property into a place for his mother and her husband to live.
He added, “What’s beautiful is hearing my kids run down a pea-gravel path on their way to have a piece of cake warm out of the oven at Gijo’s, which is what they call my mother.”
Despite their love for the property and the European country, Nate and Jeremiah have no intention of fully relocating their family across the Atlantic. Instead, the couple explained that they will spend up to four months a year on their farm, specifically during their children’s breaks from school.
“In New York, I get up early and go, go, go. Here, I sleep a little longer. I like the nights. It’s the most beautiful time of quiet,” the Netflix star explained.
The family of four is clearly enjoying their summer in the country.
