I can only imagine how the years rebuilding the homestead in Canada made you decide on doing your family property in Portugal. It was a kind of apprenticeship for making your dream a reality. I love that you are not scared of tackling loads of different things to do with homesteading, it's the right attitude to have to do something like this. I'm really pleased to be able to follow along, thank you for sharing. 👍❤️
Hi from New Zealand 🥰, so glad that I found your channel.. how wonderful to return and renovate your families property. Good luck, I look forward to seeing your progress.
This video is so charming. I look forward to seeing happy ducks 😂 Its heartwarming that this particular home means so much more. I hope you will tell us more stories of your childhood and grandparents who obviously meant so much...
I have watched quite a few others working on bringing back to life abandoned, derelict and ruined homesteads. I like it better when the history is known. However, yours is more special. The history you tell and this homestead was and is part of that history, not someone else’s history. Your soul is part of this and I am honored to watch. You also have a great voice for telling and teaching. God Bless you and your family as well.
Always such a good time when watching your videos. I so enjoyed the drone footage in thebegining...every thing has turned so green from the rain. The grapes are so beautiful , too! Thank you
Nice process in wine making. Brings me memories of my dad and his friends would gather in the fall to sing folk songs, making wine in a drunken stupor.
Wow Joaquim, another great video! Awesome to see your nr. of subscribers increasing, so kudos to you! I thought you were going to jump inside the "pipa" and stomp the grapes like in the old days!😅 Nothing like a fresh green wine to make a minhoto happy, especially served by the bowl, 😀 so typical in Minho. Great you hv your family with you to help. Seeing you and your wife collecting the corn brought back wonderful childhood memories of my mom, my aunts and me (watching them) get the ears of corn, cutting the dry creaky stalks, to later feed them to the cows. Living in Minho is magical, so is and seeing the l❤ve relationship you have with your fur baby. He is your best friend Joaquim, and you his...so beautiful to watch❤️. Build him his own pool for Summer and keep up the great work!
I love seeing how the place keeps coming together, including the harvests and production of foods! I also love seeing Alabaster. At my home we are expecting to adopt a Great Pryenees that was run over by a car and had his femur broken. He is recovering well and should be with us soon.
Greetings from San Diego, California in USA. I was very interested to see how you made your wine. I just had my first harvest of Ribier grapes, a table grape from France, I'll get about 8 liters of wine from it (just a single grape vine), and will be transferring the liquid to a secondary fermentation container tomorrow. I was pleased to see that I was making what they call a country wine the same way you are making your wine, although on a much smaller scale. Love to see the progress on your land
Thank you so much for sharing details of your life. So very interesting. I grew up in a rural setting where, amongst many other things, we had a beautiful jersey house cow. Her milk fed a large family for many years. Such good memories.
Excelente vídeo, Joaquim. Eu estava curioso sobre o teu passado no Canadá, que te tanta experiência em vários campos. Muito interessante tudo. Estou a gostar muito de acompanhar este teu novo projecto. Muita sorte!
Great video. I feel for your dog in the Portugese summer. Your house and the countrside look magnificient at present. Four inches of rain is a good rainfall. Thank you.
Great video Joaquim. I'm finding a lot of similarities in our paths, I just haven't pulled the trigger on Portugal yet but will be in my near future. I wouldn't worry too much about divulging too much personal information, I know people are interested but I think you explained all you needed to. Love the work you're doing and admire the process and pride you take .
Thank you. A move like this is like uprooting a mature tree without killing it. It takes careful planning and a crap load of roughing it out to have fun while at times struggling.
I understand exactly what you mean. We went from the prairies now to the west coast, away from the city to build a new home (still building, neverending) and next move will be like you to my ancestors homeland. Again great work and love seeing the progress
That’s what we do also here in Serra da Estrela we got a water mine that first fill the drinking water then the watering tank around 20k litres then another couple of other tanks and then goes an small river once leaves the property , flowing water is energy ! Keep it up man I’m on the same path you are too , take good care
How very nice of your neighbour to loan you the grape crusher and allow you to pick the grapes to make your own wine. It looks like you installed your drains to the duck pond just in time. I hope you are able to salvage enough corn to feed the fowl. Did you get the feed storage building that you bought moved and set up?
Thanks for the wonderful videos. Excellent job. You have the skills, know what you are doing and plan ahead. It is great to develop the legacy of your predecessors.
Caro Joaquim, você não pode imaginar quão inspiradores são estes teus vídeos, além de deliciosos de se assistir. Nada mais português que fazer vinho! Precisei buscar um pouco para te acompanhar melhor. Aguardo ansiosamente pelo próximo vídeo, como toda semana. Um abraço.
Thanks for another video and a bit of background about yourself. We have a similar history as I worked in the corporate world and then farming. We are also your neighbors (sort of) as we live in Mentrestido. We often take the twisty drive through Covis to Caminha on our beach days. Moved here from the northwest coast of Oregon so very used to the winter weather. Perhaps we can meet for cafa at the Saturday market in Cerveira sometime? Would be fun. Keep in touch and thanks for sharing. PS, we have the same wine making equipment ao that’s a very high interest to us.
Hi Joachim, Find the videos relaxing and fascinating at the same time. They do jump around a bit. The progress is amazing! What is the status of your Prospector’s tent installation?
Ola Joaquin. Thanks for sharing your life journey with us. I too noted the writing on the wood crate behind you. Is there future car video for us car guys to look forward to? Best regards from Bermuda 🇧🇲🇵🇹
Hello to Bermuda. Perhaps there will be some classic car action, but first I need to have a roof over my head, and a solid source of sustenance. Thank you for a great comment
Quim, it just so happened I raised two wild ducklings this summer, I never knew how much ducks love water, luckily I have a pretty big Koi pond, I couldn't get them out of the pond, lol with this being said, ever think of putting a liner down for the duck pond? The closest thing to aguardente I would say is moonshine, I use Moonshine for the Chourico, lol
Yes, águardente is great to roast the chouriço when strong and clear. The pond liners work well and are great for low water conditions, I’m hoping to have enough water that I can do without one. Thanks for your great comment
Muito interessante a sua trajetória de vida. Muito rica! Que bom que você conseguiu realizar seu sonho de trabalhar com o que gosta. Seus videos sao inspiradores! Parabéns!
I have now finished watching every VL 🙂 very nice, Look forward to the next. Like the story's and your progress. Took me 2 weeks, But now just watched the up to date VL 🙂. Did you say your wife is a Artist ? Love your Dog his cute. Take care.
Good work on the drainage and the wine making, can I ask how long before you will be able to enjoy the wine? Also a 1965 Austin Sprite in a crate? wonderful little cars and will be a lot of fun on the local roads, do you have any pictures of it? Thanks for sharing, stay safe
Thank you, will be pressing and transferring to the tank this week, then in the waning moon of January will transfer from the lees into a fresh tank. Should be ready to enjoy when it settles, sometime in March. The Sprite is my first personal restoration project, and a basket case that I’m hoping to complete when I have the big stuff out of the way.
Thanks for asking, this season’s corn will be stored in a provisional way. There just wasn’t enough time to move the Caniço over. The good thing is that it’s still there and I’ll get to it with plenty time for next harvest season
Greetings from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania! Becky and I (Jim) send best wishes on your journey. May I ask if the 1965 Sprite is a Frog-eye/Bug-eye? Thanks very much
@@Joaquim_Conde love the Frogeye! This is a friends #59 and my son’s Austin Mini. We enjoy vintage racing. Recently ran at Watkins Glen. Fingers are crossed for your shop and spare time! Hope to see it on your channel at some point
Enjoy seeing how traditional wines are made. Wild yeasts in California are good for many things, just not wine. So Jack cheese yes, sourdough bread yes, but sourdough wine is no. Have to heat and kill the local wild yeasts then introduce yeasts. This prevents regions from having a strong fingerprint of location, the fingerprint is more the grape variety and the yeasts used by a specific vintner.
Coloca mosto da pipa na panela contudo a panela sendo metal arrefece tenta colocar manta térmica ou leva para uma zona interior mais quente para manter a fermentação
When you say Cider , are you talking as in American soft or hard Cider ? or as a European alcoholic rough cider , or as we brits call it Scrumpy . Many a happy night drinking Scrumpy !! ( but paid for the next day )
I can only imagine how the years rebuilding the homestead in Canada made you decide on doing your family property in Portugal. It was a kind of apprenticeship for making your dream a reality. I love that you are not scared of tackling loads of different things to do with homesteading, it's the right attitude to have to do something like this. I'm really pleased to be able to follow along, thank you for sharing. 👍❤️
Thank you, I like to think that it was more like an PHD, with the time to plan what I couldn’t do there. Like growing 🥑
Hi from New Zealand 🥰, so glad that I found your channel.. how wonderful to return and renovate your families property. Good luck, I look forward to seeing your progress.
Thanks so much! 😊
This video is so charming. I look forward to seeing happy ducks 😂 Its heartwarming that this particular home means so much more. I hope you will tell us more stories of your childhood and grandparents who obviously meant so much...
I have watched quite a few others working on bringing back to life abandoned, derelict and ruined homesteads. I like it better when the history is known. However, yours is more special. The history you tell and this homestead was and is part of that history, not someone else’s history. Your soul is part of this and I am honored to watch. You also have a great voice for telling and teaching.
God Bless you and your family as well.
Thank you
Always such a good time when watching your videos. I so enjoyed the drone footage in thebegining...every thing has turned so green from the rain. The grapes are so beautiful , too! Thank you
Nice process in wine making. Brings me memories of my dad and his friends would gather in the fall to sing folk songs, making wine in a drunken stupor.
The old traditions are a ton of fun
You have a very special story. And I want to thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks💙, the stonewalls look wonderful in the rain, I smell the earth getting wet..you are a blessed man🍀✨️👍🙏🏿
So nice of you
Caramba, quem bom. Basta ver para sentir todos os cheiros. O som final da roda a parar é mágico. Até para a semana.
Obrigada
Wow Joaquim, another great video! Awesome to see your nr. of subscribers increasing, so kudos to you!
I thought you were going to jump inside the "pipa" and stomp the grapes like in the old days!😅 Nothing like a fresh green wine to make a minhoto happy, especially served by the bowl, 😀 so typical in Minho. Great you hv your family with you to help. Seeing you and your wife collecting the corn brought back wonderful childhood memories of my mom, my aunts and me (watching them) get the ears of corn, cutting the dry creaky stalks, to later feed them to the cows. Living in Minho is magical, so is and seeing the l❤ve relationship you have with your fur baby. He is your best friend Joaquim, and you his...so beautiful to watch❤️. Build him his own pool for Summer and keep up the great work!
I was thinking of getting into the barrel when I washing it, as I did as a kid. I do think that my grandpa’s barrels were bigger though. 🤣
@@Joaquim_Conde u missed a great chance! Next year há mais!
I love seeing how the place keeps coming together, including the harvests and production of foods! I also love seeing Alabaster. At my home we are expecting to adopt a Great Pryenees that was run over by a car and had his femur broken. He is recovering well and should be with us soon.
Our pleasure!
Great video as always!
Love what you are doing and the way you preserve the old way 💪🏼
Greetings from San Diego, California in USA. I was very interested to see how you made your wine. I just had my first harvest of Ribier grapes, a table grape from France, I'll get about 8 liters of wine from it (just a single grape vine), and will be transferring the liquid to a secondary fermentation container tomorrow. I was pleased to see that I was making what they call a country wine the same way you are making your wine, although on a much smaller scale. Love to see the progress on your land
Thank you, glad to know you are making wine with your own grapes. It’s going to be a real connection when you finally enjoy the wine
Thank you so much for sharing details of your life. So very interesting. I grew up in a rural setting where, amongst many other things, we had a beautiful jersey house cow. Her milk fed a large family for many years. Such good memories.
Thanks for sharing!
Love your life story, thaks for sharing.
You are so welcome!
Good to have you back. Bring on the next week.
Thank you so much for Sharing!
I love your Videos very much! 🧡
You are so welcome!
Excelente vídeo, Joaquim. Eu estava curioso sobre o teu passado no Canadá, que te tanta experiência em vários campos. Muito interessante tudo. Estou a gostar muito de acompanhar este teu novo projecto. Muita sorte!
Obrigado
I love your workshop, so neat, tidy and well put together. The sofa looks like a really excellent place to rest while you plan your next project.
I feel asleep on it last night 🤣
@@Joaquim_Conde I can only imagine how tired you get with the hard work and fresh air. I think you earned a little shut eye.
Lots more rain coming so I hope it all works as planned. I think the ducks will be happy.
This was a very interesting episode, thankyou.
De nada, obrigada
Yay! We back in Portugal! ✨️💛
Loved the video! Thanks for a little bit of your background! Can't wait to see upcoming videos! Greetings from Ontario Canada! Well done
Cheers, obrigado
Gorgeous grapes
Great video. I feel for your dog in the Portugese summer. Your house and the countrside look magnificient at present. Four inches of rain is a good rainfall. Thank you.
Thank you! 😃
Great video Joaquim. I'm finding a lot of similarities in our paths, I just haven't pulled the trigger on Portugal yet but will be in my near future. I wouldn't worry too much about divulging too much personal information, I know people are interested but I think you explained all you needed to. Love the work you're doing and admire the process and pride you take .
Thank you. A move like this is like uprooting a mature tree without killing it. It takes careful planning and a crap load of roughing it out to have fun while at times struggling.
I understand exactly what you mean. We went from the prairies now to the west coast, away from the city to build a new home (still building, neverending) and next move will be like you to my ancestors homeland. Again great work and love seeing the progress
❤ your dog.
Não és só tu
Thank you Joaquim. Love watching these on a Sunday.
My pleasure!
Very nice video. Obrigada. You are getting good at filming and editing.
Joaquim: you are a true portuguese soul ;)
Thanks
Heyecanla bekliyorum seni harika çalışmalar
great vid once again,thanks for sharing,good luck.
Thanks 👍
That’s what we do also here in Serra da Estrela we got a water mine that first fill the drinking water then the watering tank around 20k litres then another couple of other tanks and then goes an small river once leaves the property , flowing water is energy ! Keep it up man I’m on the same path you are too , take good care
Obrigado, good luck on your project
How very nice of your neighbour to loan you the grape crusher and allow you to pick the grapes to make your own wine. It looks like you installed your drains to the duck pond just in time. I hope you are able to salvage enough corn to feed the fowl. Did you get the feed storage building that you bought moved and set up?
Thanks for the wonderful videos. Excellent job. You have the skills, know what you are doing and plan ahead. It is great to develop the legacy of your predecessors.
Thank you very much!
Muito interessante conhecer as várias atividades da quinta. E as cores do Minho são maravilhosas!
Obrigada por comentar
Great video.❤
Thank you! 🤗
Caro Joaquim, você não pode imaginar quão inspiradores são estes teus vídeos, além de deliciosos de se assistir. Nada mais português que fazer vinho! Precisei buscar um pouco para te acompanhar melhor. Aguardo ansiosamente pelo próximo vídeo, como toda semana. Um abraço.
Obrigado
Thanks for another video and a bit of background about yourself. We have a similar history as I worked in the corporate world and then farming. We are also your neighbors (sort of) as we live in Mentrestido. We often take the twisty drive through Covis to Caminha on our beach days. Moved here from the northwest coast of Oregon so very used to the winter weather.
Perhaps we can meet for cafa at the Saturday market in Cerveira sometime? Would be fun.
Keep in touch and thanks for sharing.
PS, we have the same wine making equipment ao that’s a very high interest to us.
That would be fun, VN Cerveira has a great market, I much enjoy attending.
Another very enjoyable video. Look foreward to more.
Many thanks!
Don’t forget about installing filters because if pipes start filling up with stuff then you’ll have to dig it back out
nice bit of drone flying .
Thanks 👍
Hi Joachim, Find the videos relaxing and fascinating at the same time. They do jump around a bit. The progress is amazing! What is the status of your Prospector’s tent installation?
The wet weather made me switch to harvest mode, so had to put the tent on the back burner for a bit
Ola Joaquin. Thanks for sharing your life journey with us.
I too noted the writing on the wood crate behind you.
Is there future car video for us car guys to look forward to?
Best regards from Bermuda 🇧🇲🇵🇹
Hello to Bermuda.
Perhaps there will be some classic car action, but first I need to have a roof over my head, and a solid source of sustenance.
Thank you for a great comment
Yes indeed. Priority items first..🍻
Quim, it just so happened I raised two wild ducklings this summer, I never knew how much ducks love water, luckily I have a pretty big Koi pond, I couldn't get them out of the pond, lol
with this being said, ever think of putting a liner down for the duck pond?
The closest thing to aguardente I would say is moonshine, I use Moonshine for the Chourico, lol
Yes, águardente is great to roast the chouriço when strong and clear. The pond liners work well and are great for low water conditions, I’m hoping to have enough water that I can do without one. Thanks for your great comment
Bom domingo , começando organizar sua oficina ❤
Boa semana, sim o tempo chuvoso é propício para isso
Muito interessante a sua trajetória de vida. Muito rica! Que bom que você conseguiu realizar seu sonho de trabalhar com o que gosta. Seus videos sao inspiradores! Parabéns!
Obrigado
Thank you Joachim for showing youre beautiful graves.
Do you eat the leaves aswel?
I love to see the making of the wine.
You’re welcome.
Eating the grape leaf is not in the local cuisine.
👍👍👍
I have now finished watching every VL 🙂 very nice, Look forward to the next. Like the story's and your progress. Took me 2 weeks, But now just watched the up to date VL 🙂. Did you say your wife is a Artist ? Love your Dog his cute. Take care.
Awesome, thank you!
Yes, she is an Artista and an odd cat at that. 😉
Love your video’s. Was wondering how the watercress that you planted awhile back is doing?
Me, too!
Good work on the drainage and the wine making, can I ask how long before you will be able to enjoy the wine?
Also a 1965 Austin Sprite in a crate? wonderful little cars and will be a lot of fun on the local roads, do you have any pictures of it?
Thanks for sharing, stay safe
Thank you, will be pressing and transferring to the tank this week, then in the waning moon of January will transfer from the lees into a fresh tank. Should be ready to enjoy when it settles, sometime in March.
The Sprite is my first personal restoration project, and a basket case that I’m hoping to complete when I have the big stuff out of the way.
video top! boa sorte!
Obrigada
I was wondering if the canico (corn drying building) got moved. I finally managed to watch all the videos.
Thanks for asking, this season’s corn will be stored in a provisional way. There just wasn’t enough time to move the Caniço over.
The good thing is that it’s still there and I’ll get to it with plenty time for next harvest season
Greetings from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania! Becky and I (Jim) send best wishes on your journey. May I ask if the 1965 Sprite is a Frog-eye/Bug-eye? Thanks very much
The Frogeye is an MK1. This is an MK 3 basket case I started 30 years ago, waiting for me to have a workshop and spare time.
@@Joaquim_Conde love the Frogeye! This is a friends #59 and my son’s Austin Mini. We enjoy vintage racing. Recently ran at Watkins Glen. Fingers are crossed for your shop and spare time! Hope to see it on your channel at some point
I am enjoying your Vlog. It is very informative, as well. Is your dog a Great Pyrenees? He is handsome.
Yes and yes, thank you
Enjoy seeing how traditional wines are made. Wild yeasts in California are good for many things, just not wine. So Jack cheese yes, sourdough bread yes, but sourdough wine is no. Have to heat and kill the local wild yeasts then introduce yeasts. This prevents regions from having a strong fingerprint of location, the fingerprint is more the grape variety and the yeasts used by a specific vintner.
We trust wild yeasts, they have done well for us for millennia.
Thanks for your great comment
When the wine is done make a video were u drink around two liters of it.
Not an easy challenge 🥂
@@Joaquim_Conde you can do it champ!
I love the big hat - where can I get one?
Coloca mosto da pipa na panela contudo a panela sendo metal arrefece tenta colocar manta térmica ou leva para uma zona interior mais quente para manter a fermentação
Sim é boa idea, nao fez falta pois a fermentação já iniciou.
When you say Cider , are you talking as in American soft or hard Cider ? or as a European alcoholic rough cider , or as we brits call it Scrumpy . Many a happy night drinking Scrumpy !! ( but paid for the next day )
I like to make Asturian Sidra. Where the fermentation is done with the whole apple for more tannins. I can relate to the payment system
Am I correct that this will be your first winter back on the property?
Thank you for commenting. I landed here on the 1st of January, it has been my first every season so far.
Eu volto a Portugal em Novembro, se quiser ajuda...só dizer que combinamos qualquer coisa
Obrigado
soo, a 1965 austin? \o/
Good day I like watching your progress but it is difficult to hear what you are saying
Thank you I’ll try to speak more clearly and perhaps a bit louder.
hi,how big is your land? thx
It’s pretty small, just under 2 acres
Manageable! (None of us are getting younger 😉.)
that downspout joint ought not to be 90 degrees . The water flow direction needs to join at a 45 degree angle .in the direction of drainage .
I agree, but the tube down below is 125mm in diameter, it can take a lot of water moving very fast.
We made apple cider in 5 gal buckets .. cut up apples cream Tatar a cup of sugar. 😊
Watching an older man grow their hair as if it will bring him back to where he once was young is kind of sad.
Your comment is kinda sad. Odd thing to be critical of. Oh well hope your day turns around for the better.
Oh tempo volta para tras…
Sorry, it does not happen….
Esse cabelo…..Nah….
O tempo disso acabou pa.