CHEAP PORTUGUESE FARM FOR SALE - START YOUR LIFE OFF GRID ON A CENTRAL PORTUGAL HOMESTEAD

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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 late Spring 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 dirt track, which gives fantastic access to the farm. Then we step onto the property itself, the first thing we see as we look around is huge orchards of peach and cherry, which surround the property, as well as lots of cork oak trees and olives. There is a large farm house of around 50m2 sitting at the end of the driveway, as we walk onto the threshold we start to take a little look around the place.

I firstly check out the ruin itself, which of course needs a complete rebuild. 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 our all local people who give a fair days work for honest pay and I have personally seen a lot of their works.

Once we discussed the house a while I decided to take a short walk around some of the land, goats can be seen being herded in the distance, their bells can be heard every morning as they walk from their barn to the pastures. There are two neighbours to this property, one that shares the private track and another that is on the other side.

We see many beautiful wildflowers and grasses as we walk through he fields. Of course there are many butterflies and bees flying around, this signifies that there have been no chemicals sprayed over the farm. We see numerous fruit trees as we walk around and spot the farms two water sources, namely a couple of water mines, these differ from boreholes or wells greatly and are horizontally dug into the mountain side to access underground springs or aquifers.

Once we got to the top terrace we found the farms vineyard, which is all strung and posted nicely, which makes for a very neat looking vineyard indeed. There is also a small semi circled terrace there which acts as a hidden garden for anyone who wishes to sit in the shade of the afternoon sun, with a good book or a glass of your own homemade wine, just listening to goat bells and not a lot else, perfect!

Once we had taken a look around the farm I decided it was a good idea to grab an ice cold bottle of water from the local cafe situated in Vale de Prazeres, the nearby village. There are quite a few lovely little shops and things here, a couple of which I showed and then headed back to my own farm.

When I arrived back on my own farm it was of course starting to warm up somewhat, this weather is too hot for cherry picking so I waited a couple of hours and then my family and I gathered our belongings and made our way to the orchards, I spoke with both my mother, who was weighing cherries and my father who was picking alongside me.

Once we had our cherries all picked I made my way to the farmhouse kitchen, where I set about making a lovely cherry and almond pie, as requested from a couple of you last week, thank yuo for the suggestion.

At the very end of the day I sat around the pool, fingers sore from cherry stems and throat dry from the sun, a remedy for both of these things is an ice cold beer, to which I say give me that remedy!
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!

- Growing vegetables, raising meat and foraging on our cherry farm in Portugal’s Beira baixa, Fundão

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