Hi there! I am Joseph.
I have been an immigrant / 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 summer time as we go about our daily goings on around our farm and the local surroundings, here in central Portugal.
We begin this week on our dear friend and neighbours farm, Sr. Pinto, if you have been with us for a while you will know him from previous videos where we have helped each other out.
I introduce myself and point out the local surroundings that I stand in front of. The farm is situated on the Gardunha mountains and has spectacular views to our local village.
The sheep shearers arrive right on cue and begin setting up their shearing tools and everything they need. My brother in law Lloyd, my father Clinton and myself start grabbing the sheep one by one and carrying them to the shearing station. They hogtie their legs up (an old traditional way of doing shearing not copied by most of the Western world) and begin taking their woolly jackets off.
The sheep appreciate this very much as they cannot naturally shed or moult their wool and it is a necessity to ensure they do not overheat during the hot summer months.
Once we finished with Sr. Pintos 15 / 20 sheep we make our way up to his beautiful old stone ruin and sit at the banquet table, he provides us all with lunch of presunto, ham, regional cheese and of course wine and beer was flowing well. We needed this lunch stop as it was somewhat of a hot day, being close to 40 degrees centigrade, 100 degrees Fahrenheit. My poor English blood cannot cope with that for a sustained period!
After lunch we made our way to our own farm, where our girls were waiting to be sheared, we rounded them up, led them all to the barn and began taking each girl, one by one to the shearing station to get that heavy coat taken off.
At the end of the day I thanked Luis and Ricardo, the two brothers for shearing alongside me and asked them if we should take a beer in the local café, which of course we did.
The next morning I walk up to the sheep pastures with Mariana and Chloe, we pick some fruit and feed it to the sheep, namely cherries and nesperas (loquats). A few for our basket and then head down to the veggie garden, here I pick a head of green lettuce for the kitchen and a head of red lettuce for the chickens.
Back up in the farmhouse my little sous chef, Chloe, and I prepare a lovely light salad, which we enjoy after such a hot week of farm work.
Thank you so very much for watching along with us this week, I hope you enjoyed the episode and I hope you all have an amazing week ahead.
Thank you, see you in the next one!
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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Those sheep are good girls cute sheep nice video do you want to watch mine
aw shame to hear he didn't get it sold. great video as always Joseph
the shearing helps with the heat, but what about sunburn then? the first ones skin seems very light? they don't have issues with that or?
Ricardo eyes the camera very suspeciously 😀
Are those Merino sheep that you sheared first? Wow from here it looked like excellent quality? What are the microns and length that you sheared off? Looks like 12 month wool?
Driving round your area now, eating cherries 🍒 after the Fundao market 😃 saw all the fruit trees and plug plants for sale! Love the farm but unfortunately it’s out of our budget.
Chloé is growing fast…..she is like "let's get on with the cooking, dad !"🤣
Thank you for the update on Lloyd .
Hi. I can't find sinur pinto's farm that is for sale. Where can I find the link. Love the channel.
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Hi Joe beautiful vidio 👍, so lovely to see Mariana & our beautiful Chloe bless her, good job done with all the shearing hard work & hot for you all , bet the sheep 🐑 feel cooler now , salad 🥗 you did looked very tasty , take care all of you , love you all XXX💕💕💕🐑
Hi Joseph I think the sheep are very happy with their wintercoats off…You all look great , but little Chloe is the cutest! Kindest regards and thank you for your videos.(Love them.) from the Netherlands!
bom trabalho amigos,familia linda abraços 🙂
Well, Joseph, there are actors who won’t work with animals and children. Farmers shouldn’t either 😉. Cloe and the sheep stole the show. What do you do with the fleeces? Are they suitable for yarn?
I would like to ask a question. What do you do with the ship wool? Furthermore what is your business email. I would like to ask some questions about farms in your region.
That was a lovely video Joseph. It was so nice seeing your girls again. I enjoyed seeing the sheep shearing and your salad tutorial. Can’t wait until the next video. 😁
You made my day with this Video, thanks for sharing.
Hello, excellent video of the sheep cutting their wool, it made me remember when I was little they did it in my house. I love your channel. God bless you and your family and your beautiful baby…hugs from Venezuela
Hi Joseph and Mariana and of course little Chloe she gets cuter by the day love her in that little chefs hat,another great video farms looking great.
Chloe is such a darling. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Great video again Joseph. I really enjoy seeing the care you put into your farm and animals. The salad looked tasty too. Of course Chloe steals the show. How cute is she! Looking forward to next week's video already. 👋👋👍👍
Hi Joseph, are you allowed to do barbeques in the summer seeing as they don't allow other fires in the summer?
Hi Joseph,
We were supposed to be leaving for portugal this morning but the flight was cancelled !:( however we are now booked on one on Tuesday.
Can you tell me the cost of the farm please and maybe we could make an appointment to come and view?
Thanks for that
Jackie
Looking pretty dry.. can you irrigate some fields?
Always such a nice video. Have a lovelly week for everyone there Joseph!
AMIGO, ESTE ANO OS LIMOES ESTAO ESTRAGADOS, SAO MUITO AMARGOS!
Glad to see Mariana and Chloe back in the farm 👍 😊 Oh, Chloe looks so cute in the Chef’s hat … 😃
The flock must be so relieved with their new cooler look .😃 It’s so nice to see how neighbors help each other. My kind of community !!! 👍 👌
It sure was another enjoyable video !!! Cheers Joseph !!! 😊
Thankyou for your streams from uk ❤️ can Chloe get anymore beautiful ? 💖
Hallo Joseph, once again , an enjoyable video of your relaxed and calm farm life..another recipe I'll try in our summer😁. Chloe is growing so quick .. enjoy and treasure her
Warm regards🥰
🍻cheers, have a cold one in this hot weather. Greetings to Mom and the little cutie too.
Chloe is gorgeous! The salad looked yummy
enjoyed the video especially your sous chef
I loved that song during your cooking portion. Who was it?
Your dous-chef is just adorable and that salad looks and must have tasted delicious 😋🤗👍
Thank you so much Joseph for another of your fantastic videos. Your Mariana and Chloe are beautiful and we are lucky that we can follow you and your family every week.
I see not only the sheep got a hair do, Mariana seems to have restyled her hair with highlights… 👌
40c Joseph! What's the humidity like & have you acclimatised? Chloe is a little show stealer, love the chefs hat 👒 ❤
Another great video Joseph. Next year I'll lend a hand with the sheep.
Joseph and Mariana,Chloe is gorgeous,so pretty!What a lovely video ,I love watching you ,you have such a beautiful farm and I love the way you take care of it!!
Love all your recipes Joseph ,they ard all amazingly delicious 🤤
Chloe is so cute. What a beautiful child. Lucky you. What do you do with the wool from the sheep? Your property is beautiful. Bless you❤️