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Hi there! I am Joseph.
I have been an immigrant, or 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 as we visit and give you a virtual tour of one of our dear friends farms which is for sale in our local village of central Portugal.

I start the virtual tour by introducing myself as I explain the reason behind our neighbour and friend selling his farm in central Portugal, we are not estate agents and have no financial involvement in the sale of this property but we believe this to be one of the most beautiful farms around and a bargain too, so it is our pleasure to help out our lovely friend and neighbour.

We start the tour by walking down the long 500m private driveway, spotting all the different trees, chestnuts, cherries and of course big, beautiful, mature olive trees. The track runs from one village to the next and is only used by the handful of farms that run along the track, both ends are accessed by a tarmac road some 500m / 1km away. The farms that are up this track do not have any houses on them, so the track would be only used by the odd tractor driving up to their own land, which I am sure you would quickly become used to who is who and share greetings as and when they passed.

Once at the farm I start showing you the entrance, where there is a few very large oak trees, one of which is used as a turning circle. It is an extremely hidden place and nicely isolated from public view but also only being a short walk to the local village, where there is a lovely café.

Once we walk down the main track to the little, tiny farm house I explain that the building would of course need extending, this is easily done and would realistically need doing to make the building a comfortable size to live in. We see there is also a small, little building next to the main building, of course it is a ruin and needs total reconstruction but would make a fantastic little chicken shed in my opinion!

Next we walk down to the bottom of the land, to where the pastures are situated. The wheatgrass that has been sown here is a beautiful bright, vibrant shade of green and would make an excellent field for livestock, a couple of sheep or goats would thrive here for sure. There are also quite a number of olive trees down in the pastures and a fair amount of varied fruit trees too, including apple, pear, diospiro, sloes, grapevines etc.

I walk around the various terraces and take a closer look at all the trees, we see the markings that a wild boar or two were here in the previous nights, they had been rooting around in the leaf litter, trying to find themselves worms, mushrooms or ants to eat.

Once we had looked around the whole farm I went back to my own farm and after that mornings walk I decided that it must be lunchtime, so I headed to the farmhouse kitchen where I made myself a spot of lunch. The dish does not have a name as such as it is just a few things chucked together by myself, pasture raised pork loin cubes, raised by my friend and neighbour, paprika, vegetables and cream, I really enjoy this type of meal and I hope you liked seeing it too!

At the end of the day I took a short walk to the sheep barn where I show you all our new little member to the flock who was born this week. A gorgeous little ewe lamb born to Florence, an excellent mother. Then I tell you all about my sister, Lucy and brother in law Lloyd who are getting married today, congratulations Lucy and Lloyd. I hope you all have a fantastic week, thank you so much for watching, see you next 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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