BARGAIN PORTUGUESE MOUNTAIN COTTAGE FOR SALE - CHERRY, FIG, OLIVE - STONE FRUIT FARM HOUSE HOMESTEAD

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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, 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 Autumn 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.

I start the virtual tour by introducing myself as I explain the reason behind our neighbour and friend selling his farm and home in central Portugal, we are not estate agents and have no financial involvement in the sale of this property but we believe this to be one of the most beautiful farms around and a bargain too, so it is our pleasure to help out our lovely friend and neighbour, Abilio.

We start the tour by walking down the long 500m private driveway, spotting all the different trees, chestnuts, cherries and of course big, beautiful, mature olive trees. The track runs from one village to the next and is only used by the handful of farms that run along the track, both ends are accessed by a tarmac road some 500m away. The farms that are up this track do not have any houses on them, so the track would be only used by the odd tractor driving up to their own land, which I am sure you would quickly become used to who is who and share greetings as and when they passed.

Once at the farm I start showing you the terraces, which are all filled with mature fruit trees, this farm boasts unspoiled panoramic views in the distance of the beautiful Serra da Estrela mountain range, you can see the peak of the mountain which is mainland Portugal's highest point, at 1,993 metres altitude.

I make my way up through the 1 and a half hectare showing the vast fig orchards, which are kept professionally here situated right in the fruit bowl of Portugal, the area famous for cherries and peaches predominantly, although other fruit too of course. This means the farm has perfect soil and climate to grow amazing fruits such as the already established cherries which in my opinion would provide an excellent income of money from the land at around €7,000 per year in cherries and a few thousand euros in figs too!

Next we walked down to the vineyard, where I passed Senhor Abilio, I shared a bom dia with him and asked him a couple of questions regarding the wine production, he has many farms in the region and says that this parcel of land alone makes on an average year 900 litres of red wine. Quite a beautiful tasting wine too as I have shared more than one glass with Sr. Abilio over the years.

We look beside the vineyard to the farm house, a cute granite stone building measuring 35m2 footprint, with two floors. This property would no doubt need to be extended a little bit, but this is no problem and can be done relatively simply with the help of a local builder. Please feel free to email me any questions regarding this and I will be sure to help as much as I possibly can.

Once we had looked around the whole farm we made our way back to our farm, where I cooked up some lunch, a beautiful dish where I shared my recipe of a chuck steak cream soup, served in a bread bowl with onions and habaneros, delicious!

After lunch we jumped straight back into the olive picking, we have 125 big mature olive trees. When harvesting we filled two pick up trucks to the brim, each weighing around 900kg, then an additional 400kg which we took in our own van, we were very grateful for Sr. Pinto and his wife Zezas help. The Portuguese are so friendly and it of course such an honour to work alongside such respectable, genuine people.

Right at the end of the day I talk a little about this week and how everything went, sitting by the stream with my two trusty puppy dogs. It was nice that we managed to look around the property for sale and seeing everything that it has to offer, such a cheap farm too with a lot of potential! I think it will get snapped up very quickly indeed!

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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