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Hi there! I am Joseph.
I have been an expat living in central Portugal along with my beautiful girlfriend Mariana for six years now.

Together Mariana, my father Clinton and myself, would like to show you a bit of the daily goings on around our Portuguese farm / homestead / smallholding and all of the work we are doing whilst renovating, starting building projects, working with our livestock, DIY and trying to grow our little families own food!

In this episode we welcome you to join us in mid Spring time as we are given a tour around our dear friends farm house, which is for sale, in a rural mountain village in central Portugal.

We start the virtual tour by introducing ourselves as we explain the location of this wonderful gem of a farm and a little about the surroundings and local amenities.

We begin by walking up the long private shingle track, which gives fantastic access to the farm. Then we step onto the property itself, the first thing we see as we look around is Buddy the dog, barking away at us, his owner left him chained up whilst we did the filming so that he would not pester us. There is a large farm house of maybe 130 – 150m2 sitting on the driveway and a large garage, a chicken coop and ample patio area.

As we scoot around Buddy and make our way towards the front of the house Mariana spots a pig sty and a pigeon loft. This farm really is a perfect little Portuguese self sufficient smallholding. The owners here were able to produce a large amount of food for their family and it really shows how much effort they have put in over the years.

We discuss the vineyards on the farm and I hazard a guess that around 300 litres of red wine can be produced here. We then walk past a large natural swimming pool type irrigation tank, I would drain this down, clean it all up and line the tank to make it a nice plunge pool to escape that summers heat.

We walk down the track to the very bottom of the farm, North side, this takes us to a large stone well and a stream that borders the property. The stream and well have lots of water throughout the year and give more than enough water to constantly keep the 1.5 hectare of pasture land luscious and green, should an irrigation system be used. This will keep your livestock in nice green grass all year round.

Upon walking back up the track we spot a nice large vegetable garden with a strawberry patch, potatoes, onions, garlic, cabbage and spinach. We pass by the beautiful stone cottage once more and make our way to the final natural water source, the large 30 / 40m long fishing pond that exists on the farm. I would definitely plant this pond with water lilies and bull rushes, which would give a lovely natural bio filtration to the water, then add maybe some largemouth bass or carp. This would be where I would spend most of my summer afternoons with a good book and a fishing rod.

Once we had looked around everything we stood in the vineyard summed up our visit and Mariana and I decided it was just about lunchtime so we should head back to our farm.

Once back at our farm I took my little wicker basket, my gloves (which are needed for the next job, for sure!) and my trusty pocket knife. I foraged some lovely stinging nettles, perfect time of year to pick stinging nettles in spring as they are fresh young plants and have not developed the chemicals which can upset the kidneys yet. I also gathered a couple of pennyworts from our wall in front of the farm house to use as a garnish.

Back inside the farmhouse I laid all the ingredients out and explained what they all were, some nice Tuscan sausages, stinging nettles, pennyworts, some veggies and a nice dollop of double cream. Then I set to showing you all my very season soup of nettle and sausage. A yearly favourite of mine when the spring comes round.

At the end of the day I took a stroll up to our olive grove with Mitzy, Lilly and Tiger, my three strays and we discussed this week on the farm. It has been a bit of a hectic week for me as I have been busy doing cherry preparation work in the orchards of my own farm and that of my elderly neighbours. So lots of weed whacking and such what.

Thank you so much for watching and I hope you all have a marvellous week.

See our journey to self sufficiency / permaculture / organic farming living in Portugal, trying to produce as much of our own food planting vegetables, growing fruit trees as well as looking after all our animals, such as our chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, quail, rabbits and sheep – Shortly pigs too!

– Growing vegetables, raising meat and foraging on our cherry farm in Portugal’s Beira baixa, Fundão

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