I can only imagine how the years rebuilding the homestead in Canada made you decide on doing your family property in Portugal. It was a kind of apprenticeship for making your dream a reality. I love that you are not scared of tackling loads of different things to do with homesteading, it's the right attitude to have to do something like this. I'm really pleased to be able to follow along, thank you for sharing. 👍❤️
I have watched quite a few others working on bringing back to life abandoned, derelict and ruined homesteads. I like it better when the history is known. However, yours is more special. The history you tell and this homestead was and is part of that history, not someone else’s history. Your soul is part of this and I am honored to watch. You also have a great voice for telling and teaching. God Bless you and your family as well.
Hi from New Zealand 🥰, so glad that I found your channel.. how wonderful to return and renovate your families property. Good luck, I look forward to seeing your progress.
This video is so charming. I look forward to seeing happy ducks 😂 Its heartwarming that this particular home means so much more. I hope you will tell us more stories of your childhood and grandparents who obviously meant so much...
Always such a good time when watching your videos. I so enjoyed the drone footage in thebegining...every thing has turned so green from the rain. The grapes are so beautiful , too! Thank you
I love seeing how the place keeps coming together, including the harvests and production of foods! I also love seeing Alabaster. At my home we are expecting to adopt a Great Pryenees that was run over by a car and had his femur broken. He is recovering well and should be with us soon.
Nice process in wine making. Brings me memories of my dad and his friends would gather in the fall to sing folk songs, making wine in a drunken stupor.
Wow Joaquim, another great video! Awesome to see your nr. of subscribers increasing, so kudos to you! I thought you were going to jump inside the "pipa" and stomp the grapes like in the old days!😅 Nothing like a fresh green wine to make a minhoto happy, especially served by the bowl, 😀 so typical in Minho. Great you hv your family with you to help. Seeing you and your wife collecting the corn brought back wonderful childhood memories of my mom, my aunts and me (watching them) get the ears of corn, cutting the dry creaky stalks, to later feed them to the cows. Living in Minho is magical, so is and seeing the l❤ve relationship you have with your fur baby. He is your best friend Joaquim, and you his...so beautiful to watch❤️. Build him his own pool for Summer and keep up the great work!
Thank you so much for sharing details of your life. So very interesting. I grew up in a rural setting where, amongst many other things, we had a beautiful jersey house cow. Her milk fed a large family for many years. Such good memories.
Greetings from San Diego, California in USA. I was very interested to see how you made your wine. I just had my first harvest of Ribier grapes, a table grape from France, I'll get about 8 liters of wine from it (just a single grape vine), and will be transferring the liquid to a secondary fermentation container tomorrow. I was pleased to see that I was making what they call a country wine the same way you are making your wine, although on a much smaller scale. Love to see the progress on your land
Great video Joaquim. I'm finding a lot of similarities in our paths, I just haven't pulled the trigger on Portugal yet but will be in my near future. I wouldn't worry too much about divulging too much personal information, I know people are interested but I think you explained all you needed to. Love the work you're doing and admire the process and pride you take .
Thank you. A move like this is like uprooting a mature tree without killing it. It takes careful planning and a crap load of roughing it out to have fun while at times struggling.
I understand exactly what you mean. We went from the prairies now to the west coast, away from the city to build a new home (still building, neverending) and next move will be like you to my ancestors homeland. Again great work and love seeing the progress
Excelente vídeo, Joaquim. Eu estava curioso sobre o teu passado no Canadá, que te tanta experiência em vários campos. Muito interessante tudo. Estou a gostar muito de acompanhar este teu novo projecto. Muita sorte!
Great video. I feel for your dog in the Portugese summer. Your house and the countrside look magnificient at present. Four inches of rain is a good rainfall. Thank you.
That’s what we do also here in Serra da Estrela we got a water mine that first fill the drinking water then the watering tank around 20k litres then another couple of other tanks and then goes an small river once leaves the property , flowing water is energy ! Keep it up man I’m on the same path you are too , take good care
How very nice of your neighbour to loan you the grape crusher and allow you to pick the grapes to make your own wine. It looks like you installed your drains to the duck pond just in time. I hope you are able to salvage enough corn to feed the fowl. Did you get the feed storage building that you bought moved and set up?
Thanks for the wonderful videos. Excellent job. You have the skills, know what you are doing and plan ahead. It is great to develop the legacy of your predecessors.
Caro Joaquim, você não pode imaginar quão inspiradores são estes teus vídeos, além de deliciosos de se assistir. Nada mais português que fazer vinho! Precisei buscar um pouco para te acompanhar melhor. Aguardo ansiosamente pelo próximo vídeo, como toda semana. Um abraço.
Quim, it just so happened I raised two wild ducklings this summer, I never knew how much ducks love water, luckily I have a pretty big Koi pond, I couldn't get them out of the pond, lol with this being said, ever think of putting a liner down for the duck pond? The closest thing to aguardente I would say is moonshine, I use Moonshine for the Chourico, lol
Yes, águardente is great to roast the chouriço when strong and clear. The pond liners work well and are great for low water conditions, I’m hoping to have enough water that I can do without one. Thanks for your great comment
Hi Joachim, Find the videos relaxing and fascinating at the same time. They do jump around a bit. The progress is amazing! What is the status of your Prospector’s tent installation?
Ola Joaquin. Thanks for sharing your life journey with us. I too noted the writing on the wood crate behind you. Is there future car video for us car guys to look forward to? Best regards from Bermuda 🇧🇲🇵🇹
Hello to Bermuda. Perhaps there will be some classic car action, but first I need to have a roof over my head, and a solid source of sustenance. Thank you for a great comment
Thanks for another video and a bit of background about yourself. We have a similar history as I worked in the corporate world and then farming. We are also your neighbors (sort of) as we live in Mentrestido. We often take the twisty drive through Covis to Caminha on our beach days. Moved here from the northwest coast of Oregon so very used to the winter weather. Perhaps we can meet for cafa at the Saturday market in Cerveira sometime? Would be fun. Keep in touch and thanks for sharing. PS, we have the same wine making equipment ao that’s a very high interest to us.
Muito interessante a sua trajetória de vida. Muito rica! Que bom que você conseguiu realizar seu sonho de trabalhar com o que gosta. Seus videos sao inspiradores! Parabéns!
Good work on the drainage and the wine making, can I ask how long before you will be able to enjoy the wine? Also a 1965 Austin Sprite in a crate? wonderful little cars and will be a lot of fun on the local roads, do you have any pictures of it? Thanks for sharing, stay safe
Thank you, will be pressing and transferring to the tank this week, then in the waning moon of January will transfer from the lees into a fresh tank. Should be ready to enjoy when it settles, sometime in March. The Sprite is my first personal restoration project, and a basket case that I’m hoping to complete when I have the big stuff out of the way.
Greetings from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania! Becky and I (Jim) send best wishes on your journey. May I ask if the 1965 Sprite is a Frog-eye/Bug-eye? Thanks very much
@@Joaquim_Conde love the Frogeye! This is a friends #59 and my son’s Austin Mini. We enjoy vintage racing. Recently ran at Watkins Glen. Fingers are crossed for your shop and spare time! Hope to see it on your channel at some point
Enjoy seeing how traditional wines are made. Wild yeasts in California are good for many things, just not wine. So Jack cheese yes, sourdough bread yes, but sourdough wine is no. Have to heat and kill the local wild yeasts then introduce yeasts. This prevents regions from having a strong fingerprint of location, the fingerprint is more the grape variety and the yeasts used by a specific vintner.
When you say Cider , are you talking as in American soft or hard Cider ? or as a European alcoholic rough cider , or as we brits call it Scrumpy . Many a happy night drinking Scrumpy !! ( but paid for the next day )
Coloca mosto da pipa na panela contudo a panela sendo metal arrefece tenta colocar manta térmica ou leva para uma zona interior mais quente para manter a fermentação
