FAMILY LIVING ON A FARM IN CENTRAL PORTUGAL - PORTUGUESE FRUIT FARMING AND LOVING LIFE!

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 early summer time as we go about our daily goings on around our farm and the local surroundings, here in central Portugal.

We begin this week by taking a walk up to our top sheep meadow, where our little apiary is sited. Don our beekeeping suits and talk a bit about why and how we need to do regular hive inspections on our beehives, of which we have three.

My father and I have been keeping bees for a mere year and a half and we are not experts, but we do the best we can by our bees and try our hardest to keep them happy and healthy. We take a look inside and discover the bees are booming in their numbers and that they are in actual fact ready for a honey super to be added on top, which is a half sized box that the bees use for solely honey.

After we worked with the bees, together my brother in law, Lloyd, a stranger to the channel for some months now, and myself decided to pop down to our local fishing lake, Barragem do Pisco, where we fancied a spot of fishing and some time to catch up between ourselves, which was lovely. Lloyd talked a bit about why he has been absent from the channel for the last few months and discussed the new house that my sister and he have recently purchased in a close by village, Alcaide.

We did not manage to catch any fish, but we did catch a large turtle, unfortunately as we did not want a turtle to become unnecessarily damaged by the hook, fortunately it was only a small little puncture in his lip and I managed to swiftly get the hook out and return him back to his watery home.

After the lake, Lloyd and I went for a drink and then I made my way home. Back at the farm house I cooked up a beautiful dish, which was themed to this weeks episode nicely. A baked trout in a honey, soy, lime and white wine sauce. It was divine and I highly recommend anyone who likes the look of this fish dish to try it!

At the end of the day I sit on the veranda with my puppy pal, Mitzy during a large thunderstorm, she is petrified of thunderstorms and loud noises and needs to sit with me to keep her calm. I discuss the weeks goings on and bid you all an absolutely amazing week ahead.

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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IF YOU ARE PORTUGUESE OR TRYING TO LEARN PORTUGUESE PERHAPS CONSIDER TURNING ON SUBTITLES FOR THIS VIDEO, MARIANA & I HAVE CREATED SUBTITLES IN PORTUGUESE, MAYBE THEY MIGHT COME IN HANDY WITH LEARNING A WORD OR TWO! CLICK THE 'CLOSED CAPTIONS' BUTTON ON THE VIDEO AND THE SUBTITLE OPTIONS WILL APPEAR.

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