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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 track which wraps around the properties vineyard. The first thing that can be seen as you walk down the track is the spectacular panoramic views 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 meet Joaquim and go inside the xisto and granite ruin he tells us that he used to live in this house some 35 years ago, nowadays it has been used as an adega, or winery. We take a tour around each of the rooms and see Joaquims old rabbitry and everything else the house has to offer.
The house has a height which easily would allow for an upstairs and can also be extended, the condition of the roof is not bad, but could use some work. The current size of the house is 98m2, which would work well for a small family.
After the house we walked down into the valley, where the pond and grazing areas of the farm are, there is enough space here to do whatever you wanted and the area itself is a fantastic fruit growing area. There is plenty of room to have donkeys, goats, sheep, horses, plant orchards or whatever you wish to do.
After our wonderful visit to this beautiful farm with Joaquim we headed back to our farm and my little sous chef, Chloe, and I decided it was time for lunch. So we gathered some ingredients and set about making ourselves some wonderful oriental pork skewers with a nice coriander and oyster sauce marinade and brushed over the grill with some coconut cream, it was rather nice!
Once lunch was finished we checked up on the little chick from last weeks episode, he was hatched out by mother duck, a chicken had been sneaking in behind the duck and laying eggs in her nest without us knowing, so we needed to take those chicks away before the ducklings were born otherwise the mother duck would try and teach the chicks to swim, which they cannot do. Fortunately a second little chick hatched out and gave our little chick a companion in his brooder box!
At the very end of the day I went up to one of our sheep barns, where all the girls greeted me with the promise of some tasty treats. I summed up the week and bid you all a very nice week ahead!
Have an amazing week everybody and I look forward to seeing you all again 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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23 авг 2024