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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 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 mid summer time as we are given a tour around a bargain farm house, which is for sale, in a rural mountain village in central Portugal.

We start the virtual tour by introducing ourselves 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 long private shingle track. The first thing that can be seen as you walk down the track is the spectacular views looking down into the valley, which surround the property.

We firstly check out the ruin itself, which of course needs a complete interior renovation. This is fairly easily achieved though and I know of many contractors and specialists who can help in this project, the builders I know of are all local people who give a fair days work for honest pay and I have personally seen a lot of their works.

Once we got inside the xisto ruin we see that the building has been used as an adega, or winery, and all the primary fermenters and oak cask secondary fermenters can still be seen, as well as a few bottles which still have drink inside them!

Upstairs we see that the condition of the roof is not bad, perhaps I would consider new rafters, although they really are not in that bad condition. The size of the ruin is small but can be extended if required. The current size would work well for a couple on their own who do not require a massive house.

After the house we checked out the terraces that are right by the house, they make for a nice sized garden with water sources and fruit trees. Enough space for some chickens and a vegetable patch. The property itself does not require a lot of regular maintenance due to the forestry section not needed hardly any work throughout the year, just chopping of wood for your own wood burner.

After we had seen everything on the property we took a short walk to the praia fluvial, or freshwater swimming beach in the local village. There is a spot to swim and fish and also a separate spot where you can sit waterside and buy ice cold drinks, we were very grateful for this on this scorching day, I say and had a nice refreshing beer and Mariana had a cola, before returning back to our own farm.

Upon arriving back at our own farm we decided to whip up some lunch, dourada (gilt head sea bream) com malagueta, tomato and wine sauce was on the menu for us today. It was absolutely spectacular and I highly recommend trying this menu!

After lunch we took a walk up to the top of the farm with Chloe, up to the sheep pastures. We checked the pigeons and spoke for a while about everything that had gone on this week on the farm.

Have an amazing week everybody and I look forward to seeing you all again 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!

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