Hi there! I am Joseph.
I have been an immigrant, or expat, living in central Portugal along with my beautiful family for six years now.

Together Mariana, my father Clinton, my mother Julie 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 as we visit and give you a virtual tour of our entire cherry farm where we live here in central Portugal, just outside of Fundão.

I begin the day at the break of dawn, walking up to the sheep pasture with Mariana and Chloe. We take a leisurely walk around their field and it is a little too warm for our woolly girls to come over and say hello to us.

Then we walk up through the main cherry orchard, open up our wooden sheep barn which we built a couple of years ago and watch as all our beautiful ewes and their babies walk out to enjoy their day of grazing.

Once they are all outside we take a long walk up to the very top of our farm, where our concrete barn is located and also our large well which is 7.5 metres deep, it has a beautiful wrap around stone staircase which leads down to the bottom. We take a little walk down and find it to be much cooler down there.

Next we take a little look at the pigeon baby, see how he is getting on and take a walk down to our main cherry orchard. This year is proving to be a very poor cherry harvest indeed with around 90% less fruit than previous years. This is due to a heavy rainfall and hail storm when we had all our trees blossoming.

Down at the poultry pasture we see the geese, the chickens and all the other poultry. The geese appear to have some eggshell around the nests but we cannot get close enough to see if there are any goslings.

Finally we make our way up to the farm house, where I explain a little about the house itself and we sit down with Lilly the dog on my lap as I wish you all an amazing week ahead. Thank you for watching, bye for now!

See our journey to self sufficiency / permaculture / organic farming as expats 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!

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

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