LINK TO OUR PORTUGUESE HOMESTEADS CHANNEL - SUBSCRIBE TO SEE THIS LOVELY FAMILY AND THEIR AMAZING FARM!

   / @ourportuguesehomestead  

Hi there! I am Joseph.
I have been an expat living in central Portugal along with my beautiful girlfriend Mariana for six years now.

Together Mariana and I, along with my father Clinton and my brother in law Lloyd, 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 the Spring time as we continue our cherry harvest into the fourth week of the season. We are all a little tired of the cherries now and our fingers are starting to get sore, but we love what we do and we are just so happy that this year the fruit seems to be coming good, meaning we are expecting a nice end to our harvest time.

Lloyd and I start the week off by visiting Fundãos Monday market, where we buy some vegetable plugs (cabbage varieties, green and red lettuce and kohlrabi). Of course we have to stop off at a café to hydrate ourselves before we head home to work on the farm.

Once we get back to the farm we dive straight into planting the cabbages and we take a little look around the veggie patch with Tiger the cat following us, the vegetables are all looking nice and big and we succession plant with these new little plugs so to mean that the harvest should roll right through the summer season.

Afterwards we get right back into cherry picking and I talk a little bit about how the harvest has been going for us.

I harvest the first few lettuce of the year and make a big salad (blue sheep cheese with pistachio and sweet cherries) for some guests we have coming over, Maarten and Lea from Our Portuguese Homestead, a marvellous channel and two very great people indeed, I cannot wait to see them both again!

Together Maarten, Lea and ourselves partake in a little cherry picking, which was just splendid, seeing Puck, their daughter, playing with the dogs and eating cherries was super lovely and really made us all smile!

Later on I take some straw up to the pig sty and make sure it is all ready for our piglet arrival, which should be anytime in the next week or two, we hope!

Right at the end of the video I recap the goings on this week on the farm, accompanied by Mitzy, Lilly and Tiger as we all sit down on a wall by the stream.

See our journey to self sufficiency / permaculture / organic farming as expats 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!

Hobby farming with my beautiful girlfriend!
- Growing vegetables, raising meat and foraging on our cherry farm in Portugal’s Beira baixa, Fundão

Follow us on Instagram @farmerforfun

PLEASE HELP US TO CONTINUE CREATING THIS CONTENT BY CONTRIBUTING TO US ON PATREON
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=57432054