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Hi there! I am Joseph.
I have been an immigrant / expat living in central Portugal along with my beautiful girlfriend Mariana for seven 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 late Summertime as we are given a tour around our friends farm, which is for sale, in a rural mountain village in central Portugal.

We start the virtual tour by introducing ourselves on a beautiful private track leading down to the farm 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 short private shingle track, which gives fantastic access to the farm, just a few metres away from a tarmac road. Then we step onto the property itself, the first thing we see as we look around is electricity posts connecting to this farm, then we walk down towards the granite building on the land. It is a 48m2 building with a garage that is also 48m2 attached to the back. It can be increased in size though to make it a larger building if needed.

Mariana and I both walk inside the little building and take a look around at all of the old tools and instruments for agriculture. There are lots of signs that this place once had a lot of life in it, I hope this comes back to this beautiful place.

After the building we walk past the olive grove, which has a few hundred olive trees, all mature and in need of a prune. Then we see the large hand dug well, an amazing feat which was created by the current owner along with his brothers and father. The steps leading down into the well are like something that leapt off the page of a book! The farm certainly has a lot of water, including three wells, a few springs and two nice sized ponds (of course the water level is low right now as we are coming out of the worst drought Europe has seen for decades.

There are numerous healthy, fruit trees planted around the farm, including but not limited to orange, apricot, loquat, olive, grape, quince, apple, pear, fig & more!

As we walk along the farms boundary line we can see lots of well cared for mature vines, this would produce a good few hundred litres of wine every year!

I wish you all a very pleasant week ahead and I hope to see you all 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!

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

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