You are trying to do the same thing in Portugal that the Mossy Bottom podcaster is doing in Ireland. He's a few years ahead of you but similar story. Best wishes.
Por acaso , vi um vídeo em que a Jacquie falava sobre o esvaziamento da população do territórios rurais de Portugal. Gostei da forma como abordou o problema e fiquei curiosa e subscrevi o vosso canal. Tento compreender o que leva os estrangeiros a viver para Portugal e a viver umavida rural.
Obrigado. Viemos para cá após quatro anos de trabalho na Alemanha e preferimos a vida aqui, mesmo com menos dinheiro, porque podemos concentrar-nos no nosso filho. Na Alemanha, não teríamos essa oportunidade por causa do nosso trabalho.
Olá Maria. Nós somos Portugueses mas vivemos no estrangeiro há 12 anos. Este ano vamos voltar a Portugal para fazer o mesmo que eles. Há uma diferença de mentalidade na Europa central e norte em relação à vida rural, em Portugal é visto quase como uma humilhação porque Portugal tem quase um sistema de castas em que cada pessoa tem mais ou menos "valor" mediante a sua profissão. Aqui na Europa Central não é assim, há uma grande humanização e dignificação de todas as profissões e escolhas de vida. Para a nossa família esta escolha foi feita pelo facto dos Invernos serem muito longos aqui e com pouca luminosidade e também porque percebemos que o contacto com a Natureza e o jardim nos faziam profundamente felizes e satisfeitos com a vida. Somos mais felizes no jardim do que em qualquer outro lugar e portanto vamos experimentar uma vida diferente, vamos tentar e se não conseguirmos que funcione podemos sempre mudar de direcção mas queremos correr atrás deste projecto. 🙂
Hi Maria, the reason why so many people move to Portugal is because many people are tired of living in capitalist societies like Ireland for example, where its impossible to buy a home...if you do buy a home here, would be with a mortgage, where interest rates keep going up, and if you're lucky, you finish paying mortgage and you own your home when you're 70 years old!!! In Portugal you can buy a house with your savings , in rural locations if you can't afford too expensive, and its no mortgage! Its back to the old ways, old ways are healthier, a country house,you just feel alive when you are connected more with your land and with a community of people in a beautiful country like Portugal🙂❤
I just found your channel! I live in Florida bug have an apartment in Leiria ,I’m from Figueira da Foz but I’ve lived in the USA since 1984,I’m actually going this year to Portugal on vacation,can’t wait ,I miss it so much!! Lovely area u live in .I’m so glad these properties are being taken care of by wonderful people as you
Greetings from a Portuguese living in Luxembourg 🇱🇺. Wish you and your family the best!! Ah and both of you have great Portuguese accents!!! Keep it up!!
Thanks so much. My wife and I are planning to retire to Portugal from the US in a year, and your videos are very informative, helpful and real. We want a rural place as well. I admire you both and best of luck with your farm. Alan
Wow! Where to start! I have lived in and explored Northern California. Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Guatemala and Nevada. I am 56 and seriously considering moving my family to Portugal. If there is even a chance of meeting and working with lovely people like yourselves, I'm even more intrigued by this possibility. The Western U.S. prices out almost anyone that wants to live the dream. Thank you for taking the time to document your journey. You are inspiring more people than you probably know. I will be watching all of your videos over the next few days and checking out your Substack. Thank you!
Lovely video! When you were talking about feeding the pigs it reminded me of The Pirate Ben, he has a few pigs and he's always trying to find inventive ways to feed them, including growing a huge field of squash. Just thought I'd mention in case you don't follow his blog/newsletter. You might enjoy!
Yes! He's up to quite a lot. We were speaking to an old neighbor, the guy who's land we are going to plant and he has some pumpkin seeds that are great for pigs. They don't need watering as the place has an irrigation canal flowing through it.
Thank-you for this Q&A and for answering all these questions so clearly and thoughtfully. Your positive energy and practical mindsets mean you'll definitely achieve your dreams in time. Enjoy the journey together!
Hey Zak and Jackie! Just came across you channel and I am SO excited to follow along. I know your channel will grow very quickly and you'll be able to live off the income you make soon. You both have lived such interesting lives and it so fascinating to hear about. Excited to see your future online leather working business as well! :D Best of luck on all your future endeavors! Best, Chad (& Claire)
Hi guys, it looks like you are doing something interesting and in some ways reminds me of our journey together after reading your channel description. Thanks for the kind words 🙂
I love these videos about choosing WHERE to homestead. I usually watch Mossy Bottom for more than an average amount of content on that topic. I hope te topic is frequent here.
I hope the Portuguese burocracy does not make you give up on staying in Portugal... We certainly need people like you in order not to make our land more beautiful and enriched. SEF runs like s*%@ , but do not give up!! I wish you plenty of success! Boa sorte e sejam felizes no meu paìs!
Já falam muito bem português. O SEF como muitos organismos em Portugal é muito demorado e é didicil ter paciência com eles, no entanto têm de compreender que nos últimos anos há muita gente a querer vir para cá morar e penso que eles não estavam reparados para isso. Foi uma pena o UK ter saído da UE . Não se pode ter o melhor dos 2 mundos 😊
Beatifull family, plans, environment. Wish you all the best succes with everyting be couse it seems realistic. Maybe we'll ever meet around there. A Belgian form near Ansião.
Hai Jackie and Zak, So nice to follow people who try to make the world a better place. I wish you much courage.and strength in the struggle. Beautifull name Oak and Olive !!! A word that covers ages (a long time) Greetings from clarisse
Nice to get to know you in your early stage of the channel - but lovely progress you have made, in many aspects YT and off YT. You remind me of a younger version of me, but in a parralel world - where I instead took the route into corporate jobs but am now aiming to get back closer to what you're doing after a long detour. Enjoy the ride!
More great info. I know it's 7 months since this vid but a friend of mine who has a small holding says by far the best thing to keep as far as cheap to keep and what you get in return is geese. They eat mostly grass and you get the meat and the eggs.
Hey great to hear from you! Can you send us an email at: oakandolive3@gmail.com and we'll figure something out. We still cook on that gas oven when it's too hot for the fire.
On the tax on your property , in case you don't know that as a farm over 1 hectare you r entitled to eu farm supplements. I am not sure of the process but ok portugal mentioned this 2 year ago. Am going to look at all you vlogs Hils
Hi! I'm looking through tons of Q&A's like yours to find out how other people did it, especially in regards to making a living. We're mostly aiming for Spain and my husband is concerned about not getting a proper job, while I tell him we can make money online. Question, yes, another one: 🙂 Since you have a child and live remotely, are you planning on homeschooling him or taking him to a local school? I see Portuguese law permits homeschooling under the requirement that at least one parent has a degree in something, but that homeschooling is also not really widely accepted in Portugal, so one might become "that weird family" and not fit in (I don't know). We want to homeschool if we ever have kids, but still, rather Spanish/other school than the hellhole Swedish school is becoming.
Hi! It wasn’t super easy to find a nice job online - I do customer service now, which is the easiest to get if you don’t have a profession where it is standard anyways. We have everything to homeschool but chose to put our child in the public education system here as long as it works for him. We want him to have Portuguese friends and be part of the Portuguese society. We also want him to be exposed to different view points. So far he’s having a good time :) There are loads of homeschooling groups in Portugal and private alternative school. We personally don’t like the vibes of most of them as it’s a lot of conservative people whose realities don’t align with ours.
It's a nice site, but definitely one of the reasons why prices have risen locally bc foreigners have more money. Check out the normal sites too, for price comparisons (i.e. land size, house size, etc.)
Great info! I've just started searching & hoping to be out there late March to get a feel for where i'd like to live & search. Where are your most favourite places? Love your videos x
Good luck with your search. I like the central and northern regions. Lots of hills and streams. Some good land for setting homesteads. Other people prefer the beach but it's much more urban in that direction. We know some people who left the coast to be in more rural areas further inland. Just be aware of the danger from wild fires, be sure to be near a good road with multiple directions to get away. There have been some disastrous fires in recent years.
Hey :) that was a great and informative post… I’m wondering as my wife and children are italian I guess we can come and stay without being resident? I say this because we would want to home school and I guess if the kids were resident we would have to stick to rules. I on the other hand am from the UK and would need to get residency to avoid having to leave every 3 months… can I ask, do u think it’s possible to get residency for both you and your husband but keep your child’s “residency” as the UK for example and then allow your boy to be there anyway because he is “german”? With freedom of movement to come and go….
When you fill in the form for residency you have to declare weather or not you have any dependent children under your care so it would be extremely complicated/difficult to falsify that without lying and breaking the law. If our son would'nt go to school here, or at least if we would'nt follow the curriculem with his education, then it would make it so much harder for him to take control of his life when he comes of age.
@@oakolive Thank you, I appreciate the information! Fact is the education system In Portugal Isn’t up to scratch, particularly in rural areas. I understand your reluctance with it being illegal to home educate in Germany and that it isn’t a valid form of education but we take education very seriously. They are currently in private education in the UK and without the extortionate fee’s for international school we wouldn’t be able to match up the level of education they currently receive. I mentioned my wife and children are Italian but this is only on paper as they are Brazilian in reality and speak Portuguese fluently. I wouldn’t imagine they would have any problem going forward education wise as they will be educated to a much higher standard. Plus they have the freedom of most of the world so I wouldn’t expect them to stay in Portugal long term after they have grown due to the lack of opportunity portugal offers. I would stop short of suggesting something we are doing is illegal as I can technically leave them under the care of my parents and have them “visit” us pretty much indefinitely. As they have freedom of movement all we would have to do is periodically leave. I’m grateful for the knowledge regarding the forms, it’s just another hurdle but a manageable one. Thanks again. All the best.
hello, I admire your courage to start farming and I want to ask if you have any side income, or do you live only from farming?...we would like to buy some land, or an old farm in Portugal and live off the chest, so shanime information.thanks you
We don't make any money from farming right now, it'll take a long time to develope that side of things if we can ever make it work. Jackie has a part time job working remotely as a translator; English to German. If you are thrifty it doesn't take much money to get by here.
I think there's no worries about legal issues, Germany (and the UK till recently) are in the Schengen galaxy. There are many Brits living in Portugal without any problem, you chose a country with a pleasant climate and a beautiful landscape but with a bad economy and terrible bureaucracy. Yes, a flock of goats or sheep are time consuming, you can't leave your property for too long. The goats specially, as they are great climbers, they jump over the fence more than often. You do well not to put all the eggs in the same basket. I don't know how difficult it is to learn Portuguese, as i am a native speaker, but i suppose the accent must be harder to catch than Spanish. You're doing fine!
We spoke to a neighbour yesterday. My language structure was horrendous but all that vocabulary learning paid off. A month ago I saw him and was unable to communicate, it was embarrassing and not useful. Now I can talk to him about our land and where the boarders are, what to place where etc... It's great. Another few months of vocabulary learning and I can talk to more people, when I was at that stage in German the intuitive structures of the language became easy.
@@oakolive It's horrible when you try to speak a language you're learning and you fail completely, makes you look like a fool, but i guess this is inevitable. Of course that reading, writing, listening and talking are four different things that increase in difficulty, for you have time to think about something that you are writing, but you don't have when you speak, this is why i don't speak that well, my brain is translating from Portuguese to English, which takes just enough time to delay or to confuse my speech, but this happens because you're not talking to anyone often, you're not training everyday. Great that you're getting to grips with Portuguese. As for Jackie, being a native German speaker (and furthermore familiar with French and Spanish) she should have no bigger difficulty learning the language also, as German grammar is more complicated that the Portuguese (declinations, articles, so on) i once met a German that was here for around 3 years or something and he was speaking almost perfectly.
The looking like a fool part is an important step towards fluency... 😂 And way better than the part that comes before that which is to have no idea what is happening.
I have seen some of your videos and like very much your honesty and sincerity and the way you both talk about your experience here in Portugal. I am a Portuguese person, living in the suburbs of Oporto on a small piece of land that was part of what was for many years, a traditional farm of about 6 ha. Due to the changes on the economy and on farming, those traditional farms are becoming extint and this one, sadly is waiting to be transformed in cement by the urban expansion that is taking over many places on the suburbs of Oporto and Vila Nova de Gaia. This is very sad because much of those land which is being destroyed by the urban expansion is very good agricultural land that took millions of years to form and, once destroyed is gone forever. With the increase of human population on the world and the increasing degradation of agricultural soil, this is a huge problem that could lead us to a tremendous food crises. (For more information on this, you could see the following website: savesoil.org) Now that this place is abandoned by about thirty years, it is becoming very beautiful, full of oaks, cork tress, laudel trees and others. In my small piece of land of about 2000 sq meters I am doing a bit of home farming, trying to do some regenerative farming and producing the usual horticultures for the family. When my surroundings would be destroyed, probably I would have to leave and find some other place to live, like the place you have found. All the best to all of you three!!
Thank you for your kind comment. It is sad to see good land get developed into concrete structures. At least there is plenty of land available in central Portugal. And it will be very nice to see more Portuguese people move back into the area 🙂
@@oakolive The "only" problem is that it seems that the vast majority of good agricultural land here in Portugal is located near the littoral, with the center and interior of the country having less fertile land and also less rain and water available in many places... And it is many of this good agricultural land that is being destroyed by the urban expansion and by more and more people leaving the interior and coming to the littoral, searching for a better life and more well-paid jobs. But the living costs here are also higher, specially the costs for housing and properties so, even if they could earn more money, life here could be more difficult and the quality of life also maybe lower, at least in many cities and suburbs...
Very very interesting QandA guys. All the best to you both.
Bem vndos a Portugal ! From a Portuguese woman living in the UK 🥰🥰🥰🥰
shining personalities, that's what this planet need right now.
I love your honesty guys, things will come together for yous i'm sure,keep up the good work❤
Thank you, things are indeed going well for us 🙂
You are trying to do the same thing in Portugal that the Mossy Bottom podcaster is doing in Ireland. He's a few years ahead of you but similar story. Best wishes.
Nice to get to know you a bit better. Thank you for doing what you do ❤
Por acaso , vi um vídeo em que a Jacquie falava sobre o esvaziamento da população do territórios rurais de Portugal. Gostei da forma como abordou o problema e fiquei curiosa e subscrevi o vosso canal. Tento compreender o que leva os estrangeiros a viver para Portugal e a viver umavida rural.
Obrigado. Viemos para cá após quatro anos de trabalho na Alemanha e preferimos a vida aqui, mesmo com menos dinheiro, porque podemos concentrar-nos no nosso filho. Na Alemanha, não teríamos essa oportunidade por causa do nosso trabalho.
Olá Maria. Nós somos Portugueses mas vivemos no estrangeiro há 12 anos. Este ano vamos voltar a Portugal para fazer o mesmo que eles. Há uma diferença de mentalidade na Europa central e norte em relação à vida rural, em Portugal é visto quase como uma humilhação porque Portugal tem quase um sistema de castas em que cada pessoa tem mais ou menos "valor" mediante a sua profissão. Aqui na Europa Central não é assim, há uma grande humanização e dignificação de todas as profissões e escolhas de vida. Para a nossa família esta escolha foi feita pelo facto dos Invernos serem muito longos aqui e com pouca luminosidade e também porque percebemos que o contacto com a Natureza e o jardim nos faziam profundamente felizes e satisfeitos com a vida. Somos mais felizes no jardim do que em qualquer outro lugar e portanto vamos experimentar uma vida diferente, vamos tentar e se não conseguirmos que funcione podemos sempre mudar de direcção mas queremos correr atrás deste projecto. 🙂
Hi Maria, the reason why so many people move to Portugal is because many people are tired of living in capitalist societies like Ireland for example, where its impossible to buy a home...if you do buy a home here, would be with a mortgage, where interest rates keep going up, and if you're lucky, you finish paying mortgage and you own your home when you're 70 years old!!! In Portugal you can buy a house with your savings , in rural locations if you can't afford too expensive, and its no mortgage! Its back to the old ways, old ways are healthier, a country house,you just feel alive when you are connected more with your land and with a community of people in a beautiful country like Portugal🙂❤
I just found your channel!
I live in Florida bug have an apartment in Leiria ,I’m from Figueira da Foz but I’ve lived in the USA since 1984,I’m actually going this year to Portugal on vacation,can’t wait ,I miss it so much!!
Lovely area u live in .I’m so glad these properties are being taken care of by wonderful people as you
Greetings from a Portuguese living in Luxembourg 🇱🇺. Wish you and your family the best!! Ah and both of you have great Portuguese accents!!! Keep it up!!
Muito obrigado Dominique! Boa semana 🙂
Thanks so much. My wife and I are planning to retire to Portugal from the US in a year, and your videos are very informative, helpful and real. We want a rural place as well. I admire you both and best of luck with your farm. Alan
I like your style of videos, other Portuguese RUclipsrs show so much detail that it gets boring x
Wow! Where to start! I have lived in and explored Northern California. Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Guatemala and Nevada. I am 56 and seriously considering moving my family to Portugal. If there is even a chance of meeting and working with lovely people like yourselves, I'm even more intrigued by this possibility. The Western U.S. prices out almost anyone that wants to live the dream. Thank you for taking the time to document your journey. You are inspiring more people than you probably know. I will be watching all of your videos over the next few days and checking out your Substack. Thank you!
Thanks for joining us on the adventure! Maybe we'll meet one day at the market.
Well edited and interesting. Kudos!
Love the honesty in your videos.
Lovely video! When you were talking about feeding the pigs it reminded me of The Pirate Ben, he has a few pigs and he's always trying to find inventive ways to feed them, including growing a huge field of squash. Just thought I'd mention in case you don't follow his blog/newsletter. You might enjoy!
Yes! He's up to quite a lot. We were speaking to an old neighbor, the guy who's land we are going to plant and he has some pumpkin seeds that are great for pigs. They don't need watering as the place has an irrigation canal flowing through it.
Thank-you for this Q&A and for answering all these questions so clearly and thoughtfully. Your positive energy and practical mindsets mean you'll definitely achieve your dreams in time.
Enjoy the journey together!
you guys have such a pure energy, keep up the good work ^ ^
Love watching your videos you guys are so cool x keep up the good work x
Wishing you the best. Greetings from Canada.
Wishing you the very best 🙂
Love from Sweden
Glad to find your channel. Best of luck in your beautiful lifestyle. Maybe make a tour of property?
Hey Zak and Jackie! Just came across you channel and I am SO excited to follow along. I know your channel will grow very quickly and you'll be able to live off the income you make soon. You both have lived such interesting lives and it so fascinating to hear about. Excited to see your future online leather working business as well! :D Best of luck on all your future endeavors!
Best,
Chad (& Claire)
Hi guys, it looks like you are doing something interesting and in some ways reminds me of our journey together after reading your channel description. Thanks for the kind words 🙂
I love these videos about choosing WHERE to homestead. I usually watch Mossy Bottom for more than an average amount of content on that topic. I hope te topic is frequent here.
I hope the Portuguese burocracy does not make you give up on staying in Portugal... We certainly need people like you in order not to make our land more beautiful and enriched. SEF runs like s*%@ , but do not give up!! I wish you plenty of success! Boa sorte e sejam felizes no meu paìs!
Muito obrigado! Quero aqui ficar 🙂 --Zak
Já falam muito bem português. O SEF como muitos organismos em Portugal é muito demorado e é didicil ter paciência com eles, no entanto têm de compreender que nos últimos anos há muita gente a querer vir para cá morar e penso que eles não estavam reparados para isso. Foi uma pena o UK ter saído da UE . Não se pode ter o melhor dos 2 mundos 😊
Beatifull family, plans, environment. Wish you all the best succes with everyting be couse it seems realistic. Maybe we'll ever meet around there. A Belgian form near Ansião.
Hai Jackie and Zak, So nice to follow people who try to make the world a better place. I wish you much courage.and strength in the struggle. Beautifull name Oak and Olive !!! A word that covers ages (a long time) Greetings from clarisse
Nice to get to know you in your early stage of the channel - but lovely progress you have made, in many aspects YT and off YT. You remind me of a younger version of me, but in a parralel world - where I instead took the route into corporate jobs but am now aiming to get back closer to what you're doing after a long detour. Enjoy the ride!
Thank you so much!
More great info. I know it's 7 months since this vid but a friend of mine who has a small holding says by far the best thing to keep as far as cheap to keep and what you get in return is geese. They eat mostly grass and you get the meat and the eggs.
We’re actually really into the idea of getting geese (at least for winter times when we have the grass) but first we need a predator proof coop again…
@@oakolive they are noisy as well, but you can't have everything they make a noise towards strangers so make good guard dogs/geese.
Iam a new subscriber good luck with everything yous will be fine 🍀👍
Wow! I just found your channel. Maybe you remember us? We sold you a log burner last year. If you are nearby, we should get a coffee.
Hey great to hear from you! Can you send us an email at: oakandolive3@gmail.com and we'll figure something out. We still cook on that gas oven when it's too hot for the fire.
On the tax on your property , in case you don't know that as a farm over 1 hectare you r entitled to eu farm supplements. I am not sure of the process but ok portugal mentioned this 2 year ago. Am going to look at all you vlogs
Hils
Thanks for watching! I believe that those subsidies only apply to agricultural zoned property. The vast majority of our land is zoned as forrestry.
I enjoyed this very much
Hi! I'm looking through tons of Q&A's like yours to find out how other people did it, especially in regards to making a living. We're mostly aiming for Spain and my husband is concerned about not getting a proper job, while I tell him we can make money online.
Question, yes, another one: 🙂 Since you have a child and live remotely, are you planning on homeschooling him or taking him to a local school?
I see Portuguese law permits homeschooling under the requirement that at least one parent has a degree in something, but that homeschooling is also not really widely accepted in Portugal, so one might become "that weird family" and not fit in (I don't know).
We want to homeschool if we ever have kids, but still, rather Spanish/other school than the hellhole Swedish school is becoming.
Hi! It wasn’t super easy to find a nice job online - I do customer service now, which is the easiest to get if you don’t have a profession where it is standard anyways.
We have everything to homeschool but chose to put our child in the public education system here as long as it works for him. We want him to have Portuguese friends and be part of the Portuguese society. We also want him to be exposed to different view points. So far he’s having a good time :)
There are loads of homeschooling groups in Portugal and private alternative school. We personally don’t like the vibes of most of them as it’s a lot of conservative people whose realities don’t align with ours.
hi from a portuguese in dallas texas usa
Hi to you too 🙂
Nice video, been looking on Pure Portugal for awhile... Thinking of making a change soon.
It's a nice site, but definitely one of the reasons why prices have risen locally bc foreigners have more money. Check out the normal sites too, for price comparisons (i.e. land size, house size, etc.)
Great info! I've just started searching & hoping to be out there late March to get a feel for where i'd like to live & search. Where are your most favourite places? Love your videos x
Good luck with your search. I like the central and northern regions. Lots of hills and streams. Some good land for setting homesteads. Other people prefer the beach but it's much more urban in that direction. We know some people who left the coast to be in more rural areas further inland. Just be aware of the danger from wild fires, be sure to be near a good road with multiple directions to get away. There have been some disastrous fires in recent years.
WHICH AREA YOU LIVE IN PORTUGAL ??? Thanks
We live in Leiria district 🙂
Hey :) that was a great and informative post… I’m wondering as my wife and children are italian I guess we can come and stay without being resident? I say this because we would want to home school and I guess if the kids were resident we would have to stick to rules. I on the other hand am from the UK and would need to get residency to avoid having to leave every 3 months… can I ask, do u think it’s possible to get residency for both you and your husband but keep your child’s “residency” as the UK for example and then allow your boy to be there anyway because he is “german”? With freedom of movement to come and go….
When you fill in the form for residency you have to declare weather or not you have any dependent children under your care so it would be extremely complicated/difficult to falsify that without lying and breaking the law.
If our son would'nt go to school here, or at least if we would'nt follow the curriculem with his education, then it would make it so much harder for him to take control of his life when he comes of age.
@@oakolive Thank you, I appreciate the information! Fact is the education system In Portugal
Isn’t up to scratch, particularly in rural areas. I understand your reluctance with it being illegal to home educate in Germany and that it isn’t a valid form of education but we take education very seriously. They are currently in private education in the UK and without the extortionate fee’s for international school we wouldn’t be able to match up the level of education they currently receive. I mentioned my wife and children are Italian but this is only on paper as they are Brazilian in reality and speak Portuguese fluently. I wouldn’t imagine they would have any problem going forward education wise as they will be educated to a much higher standard. Plus they have the freedom of most of the world so I wouldn’t expect them to stay in Portugal long term after they have grown due to the lack of opportunity portugal offers. I would stop short of suggesting something we are doing is illegal as I can technically leave them under the care of my parents and have them “visit” us pretty much indefinitely. As they have freedom of movement all we would have to do is periodically leave. I’m grateful for the knowledge regarding the forms, it’s just another hurdle but a manageable one. Thanks again. All the best.
so now I'm really confused. That land you bought is obviously not the same land you did a post on 2 weeks ago . Anyway ,I'll check out pure portugal .
We own land. The video from two weeks ago is about another piece of land that neighbors us.
hello, I admire your courage to start farming and I want to ask if you have any side income, or do you live only from farming?...we would like to buy some land, or an old farm in Portugal and live off the chest, so shanime information.thanks you
We don't make any money from farming right now, it'll take a long time to develope that side of things if we can ever make it work. Jackie has a part time job working remotely as a translator; English to German. If you are thrifty it doesn't take much money to get by here.
I think there's no worries about legal issues, Germany (and the UK till recently) are in the Schengen galaxy. There are many Brits living in Portugal without any problem, you chose a country with a pleasant climate and a beautiful landscape but with a bad economy and terrible bureaucracy.
Yes, a flock of goats or sheep are time consuming, you can't leave your property for too long. The goats specially, as they are great climbers, they jump over the fence more than often.
You do well not to put all the eggs in the same basket.
I don't know how difficult it is to learn Portuguese, as i am a native speaker, but i suppose the accent must be harder to catch than Spanish. You're doing fine!
We spoke to a neighbour yesterday. My language structure was horrendous but all that vocabulary learning paid off. A month ago I saw him and was unable to communicate, it was embarrassing and not useful. Now I can talk to him about our land and where the boarders are, what to place where etc... It's great. Another few months of vocabulary learning and I can talk to more people, when I was at that stage in German the intuitive structures of the language became easy.
@@oakolive It's horrible when you try to speak a language you're learning and you fail completely, makes you look like a fool, but i guess this is inevitable. Of course that reading, writing, listening and talking are four different things that increase in difficulty, for you have time to think about something that you are writing, but you don't have when you speak, this is why i don't speak that well, my brain is translating from Portuguese to English, which takes just enough time to delay or to confuse my speech, but this happens because you're not talking to anyone often, you're not training everyday.
Great that you're getting to grips with Portuguese. As for Jackie, being a native German speaker (and furthermore familiar with French and Spanish) she should have no bigger difficulty learning the language also, as German grammar is more complicated that the Portuguese (declinations, articles, so on) i once met a German that was here for around 3 years or something and he was speaking almost perfectly.
The looking like a fool part is an important step towards fluency... 😂 And way better than the part that comes before that which is to have no idea what is happening.
se quiseres aprender a falar Português , fala comigo
38 euros is nothing
I have seen some of your videos and like very much your honesty and sincerity and the way you both talk about your experience here in Portugal.
I am a Portuguese person, living in the suburbs of Oporto on a small piece of land that was part of what was for many years, a traditional farm of about 6 ha.
Due to the changes on the economy and on farming, those traditional farms are becoming extint and this one, sadly is waiting to be transformed in cement by the urban expansion that is taking over many places on the suburbs of Oporto and Vila Nova de Gaia.
This is very sad because much of those land which is being destroyed by the urban expansion is very good agricultural land that took millions of years to form and, once destroyed is gone forever. With the increase of human population on the world and the increasing degradation of agricultural soil, this is a huge problem that could lead us to a tremendous food crises. (For more information on this, you could see the following website: savesoil.org)
Now that this place is abandoned by about thirty years, it is becoming very beautiful, full of oaks, cork tress, laudel trees and others.
In my small piece of land of about 2000 sq meters I am doing a bit of home farming, trying to do some regenerative farming and producing the usual horticultures for the family. When my surroundings would be destroyed, probably I would have to leave and find some other place to live, like the place you have found.
All the best to all of you three!!
Thank you for your kind comment. It is sad to see good land get developed into concrete structures. At least there is plenty of land available in central Portugal. And it will be very nice to see more Portuguese people move back into the area 🙂
@@oakolive The "only" problem is that it seems that the vast majority of good agricultural land here in Portugal is located near the littoral, with the center and interior of the country having less fertile land and also less rain and water available in many places...
And it is many of this good agricultural land that is being destroyed by the urban expansion and by more and more people leaving the interior and coming to the littoral, searching for a better life and more well-paid jobs.
But the living costs here are also higher, specially the costs for housing and properties so, even if they could earn more money, life here could be more difficult and the quality of life also maybe lower, at least in many cities and suburbs...