MASSIVE LUXURY STONE FARM HOUSE FOR SALE IN CENTRAL PORTUGAL - MONSANTO CASTLE VILLAGE

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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 Spring time as we are given a tour around our dear friends 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, 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 cereal crop fields, which surround the property, as well as lots of cork oak trees and olives. There is a large farm house of 243m2 sitting at the end of the driveway, as we walk through the large newly built gate and impressive granite wall.

Mariana and I both walk through the lovely gateway, speak a little about the property and make our way onto the farm, where first of all we walk down to the very bottom of the land, where there is a beautiful large stream that borders the farm. It is a wildlife paradise here and evidence of animals can be seen everywhere you look, foxes, genet, wild boar, fallow deer, rabbits and more!

Once we discussed the farm itself, the biological septic tank that has just been fitted and the borehole, which provides the house with clean, drinking water. We make our way up to the farm house. Where we talk a little about how the owner has built this house specifically to sell it, there are still a little bit of works to go until the house is completely finished, namely the fitment of the doors and windows, the flooring and of course the piping that will need to be placed once the new owner has decided where exactly they would like the bathrooms and kitchens to be fitted.

We walk right through each and every one of the properties rooms, firstly the three guest suites, which would make an absolutely amazing bed and breakfast style guest accommodation, or just extra living space for a larger family. Then a long beautiful open plan living / kitchen space with carpentry work to die for! The carpenter is absolutely fantastic at his job and really has made these chestnut roof beams in a truly beautiful way, all held together by wooden pegs.

After we had looked around the entire farm house we took a trip back to our own farm, where it is indeed cherry season, being a cherry farm this is of course our most favourite time of the year.

First things first though, we saw that our own appetites were appeased as it was lunchtime, so I set the barbeque alight and made some pork neckbone rolls with cherry salsa, very nice it was too.

Once lunch time was out of the way we set to work, with our harvest. We are having a poor yield this year with an approximate 90% less cherries on the trees than normal years. Never mind though, perhaps the next crops will be better, with our grapes and olives.

I interview my dear mother as she is our farms 'quality control', so to speak, and she deals with all of the choosing, sorting and weighing of our harvest. She is also babysitting my lovely little Chloe whilst Mariana, my father and I pick the cherries.

At the very end of the day I sit underneath the infamous Fundao cherry trees and enjoy a nice beer as I enjoy the dappled evening sunshine and a few cherries too. I wish you all a very pleasant week ahead and I hope to see you all in the next one! Bye bye for now!

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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