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BIGGEST FARMERS MARKET IN OUR REGION – FUNDAO – LIVESTOCK, PLANTS & MUCH MORE!

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BIGGEST FARMERS MARKET IN OUR REGION – FUNDAO – LIVESTOCK, PLANTS & MUCH MORE!

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 early spring time as we are given a tour around the town where we live, Fundao, a place very dear to our hearts indeed, located in central Portugal.

We start the virtual tour of the farmers market by introducing ourselves, walking through the crowds of people and talking a little bit about the bank holiday (feriado) 25th of April, or liberty day.

We walk down some of the aisles in the market place, looking at all the different wares for sale, the foods, tools, crockery, livestock, vegetable plugs and trees. It is our weekly habit to come down to the market nice and early and take a walk around, followed by a coffee and some breakfast in a local cafe. Which is exactly what we did today.

Once we finished our coffee and breakfast we headed back to our own farm, where I explained a little about our tractor having gone wrong the week prior, it needed a new fuel tank. Luckily our community here is so warm and kind that a lovely friend of ours in the village who is a mechanic popped round our house, had a nice glass of wine with me and fixed the tractor there and then. Marvellous, as the grasses are really growing due to the spring sun and showers, when the tractor is absent we really notice how much we rely on the tractor and of course how much back breaking labour it takes from us.

So, I attached the grass cutting topper, a rotating chain that spins off the PTO shaft and chops up weeds and grasses, then made my way out onto the road and up to the orchards. Our orchards here are completely organic or bio and therefore the only method for weed control is to manually cut them. Other farms use nasty roundup glysophates for weed control but not on our farm. My father works alongside me doing a little strimming in the parts I cannot reach.

After the grasses have all been cut I spot Mariana and little Chloe out for an afternoon walk on the farm, given the beautiful sunshine and dappled shade of the newly leafed trees, this makes for a perfect sheltered introduction to farm life for little Chloe, who is now just a little over five months old.

We took a stroll up past the main orchard to the wooden sheep barn, where our pigeon loft is, the pigeons are temporarily housed inside here until their babies are old enough to support themselves then they will be let out into the wilds, where they should (we hope) return every evening to sleep in the nest boxes. Pigeons make a fantastic meat source for people like myself who are self sufficient in poultry, this gives a little variation on the farm with more types of meat being consumed, also with the twelve potential offspring per year per breeding female this gives a great quantity of meat.

The two little eggs have not yet hatched but one had began pipping, a term used by poultry breeders to signify the babies beak tapping the egg from the inside until it breaks through and begins hatching. We shall have to wait and see next week if the babies hatch out and survive their most crucial first few days of life!

Shortly after, inevitably, the flock of sheep all come tumbling down the hill to greet us, we were trying to get up there without alerting them and making them run all the way down for nothing! We let Chloe touch Sweeties wool and ear with a little stroke, discuss the reason for keeping animals and growing our own food and how this benefits the family greatly, organic produce raised and reared with our own two hands, filling the plates and bellies of our loved ones.

We sit down by the spring with Tiger and Ty the cats, discuss our week on the farm and thank you all for watching along with us. We hope you have an amazing week ahead and we look forward to seeing you all again in the next one. Bye bye for now!

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!

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43 COMMENTS

  1. What a beautiful place to live.
    I’ve just subscribed to your channel, after speaking with your mum over on my channel 😊. Your mum is so lovely. I’m going to catch up with your vlogs later, they seem very relaxing to watch. Xx

  3. Good to see you all again, take care of yourself, never mind us. I loved the end point, under a spreading tree in the sunshine with the sounds of flowing water in the background.

  6. Great vidio Joe , lovely to see the market in Fundao , also so lovely to see Mariana & beautiful little Chloe she is growing so fast ,she will have a lot of fun on the farm when she gets older bless her , take care hope you feeling Joe , love to you all XXX💕💕💕

  12. Hi Joseph, Fundão looks to be a nice town/small city. Is there a train station. ? Itsgreat that you gives us the history and Mariana speaks Portuguese. I love history and this then gives me opportunity to read up .
    I'm studying the villages around Fundão for ,,(hopeful) visit October. What is your village called?. Glad Kylie & Guy bought 4 of your chickens. They are going to excellent home .. with a great chicken coop to matc. Chloe growing up fast and beautiful baby girl..🥰
    . Warm regards

  14. It would be nice to know each time you go out and get some things like the coffa milk and bread and say the price for that was so much and the price in English at so much to the pound ,
    A lot of blogers do it to let people to go there and get the same thing at a good price ,
    But a nice vidio mate

  15. I hope you feel better soon, and please don’t worry about this being a short video. We’re just happy you did a video. Especially because Mariana and Chloe were featured. Yes, that little Chloe is going to be a beauty!

  18. What a beautiful farm you have to bring up your children. Won't be long before Chloe's running around with all the animals. You are all such a beautiful family to watch. I wish we had markets like yours here in Australia, I miss the old farmers markets, and that pottery was gorgeous! Have a lovely week. God bless and take care. 🌻🐑🐣

  20. Thanks for another snapshot of life in portugal beautiful time of year Joseph not sure if you noticed one ewe has a limp might need a look if you haven’t already cloe is growing her eyes full of wonder stay safe from Australia 👍❤️❤️❤️🙏

  24. Hi, folks 👋🏼 Hope you're feeling better, Joseph. Chloe is so cute and Mariana such a loving nurturer. The days you filmed were gorgeous for featuring the Fundão weekly market and also your farm. Glad you can take it a bit easy for now before your work picks up again with planting and the rest. All the best to you. 🌼

  25. Hi to my favorite vlog family in Portugal and the lovely Mitzi as well. Really enjoyed this video as always, thank you and kindest regards! I saw you showing up in the chicken coop video from eco and beyond, I think the chickens will be very happy with them…

  32. Hello from the UK 🇬🇧 can I ask how long you have lived in Portugal please??
    I'm really thinking about coming to Portugal but I'm abit worried about the health care there. Do you know how much it costs for your Doctors/hospital visits please? What a lovely life you lead together ❤ I lost my partner 3yrs ago and our dream was to live off grid and rescue animals like donkeys, dogs, cats etc.

  35. Oh Joseph sorry to hear your mot feeling to good…hope you feel better soon…lovely to see chloe interacting with the animals it's a lovely way to bring your children up…

  39. So refreshing to see this morning! Yes, I am so happy for allof you to grow up in a setting like this! I so enjoyed the market! It's a wonderful one for sure! How interesting on your holiday and the history behind it. I will have to look it up to learn more. Thanks for sharing!

  42. Hi Joseph and Mariana and of course the little one she’s fantastic she going to love the farm life,enjoyed the market so much to look and buy.another great vidio

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