HOW MUCH MONEY CAN WE EARN FROM FRUIT & WHERE WE SELL THE HARVEST ON OUR PORTUGUESE FARM / HOMESTEAD

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 third week of the season. We have now moved up into the main cherry orchard and although many of the mid season varieties are not yet ripe, there are many cherries on the trees. We explain a little about the 'ins and outs' involved in farming cherries on a small scale organic fruit farm in central Portugal, plus some handy hints on how you could make money by quitting your job and becoming an expat farming in central Portugal, selling fruit and producing your families own food.

I break down the wholesale prices and reveal exactly how much we can earn in this short six week period. I tell of my opinion regarding the pros and cons of the three ways to sell the fruit - by use of a transport company, wholesale and private sales, I also give my first hand experience regarding the prices of all three.

Lloyd and I get the weather damaged cherries and start the process of infusing some alcohol to make liqueurs for the winter time. We pit the cherries and place them inside glass jars, pour over the brandy and agaurdente, break some cinnamon sticks and leave for the flavours to be drawn into the drink.

Mariana and I go to Fundão to buy some cherry boxes in our neighbours pick up truck. The only boxes available in the agricultural shop were flat pack ones, so I spend a while constructing them.

Mickey and Simba the baby lambs go to their new forever home as Colin and Lisa's pet lawnmowers, along with a couple of chickens. I will miss them but I am so happy they are going to a nice farm!

Later on in the day my father cuts the grass and I give the lawn clippings to the poultry, explaining a little about why you should not overdo the amount of clippings chickens receive.

Right at the end of the video I recap the goings on this week on the farm, accompanied by Mitzy in the vegetable garden, watering the cabbages.

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

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