Overgrown Garden Tour in Portugal | The Start of Our Homestead Journey

We finally filmed the before we’ve been avoiding.

This is our overgrown 3,000 m² garden in northern Portugal — the weeds, the fruit, the broken trees, and the dream hidden underneath. It’s the first real step in turning this hillside into a small farm and family homestead.

FIND US
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OUR STORY
Burnout, chronic illness recovery, years of travel—and the pull to finally root. We’re renovating a family home and learning to homestead on a slope (hello, terraces). It won’t be perfect, but it will be honest.

Chapters
0:00 Our Overgrown Garden in Portugal
0:35 Why We Finally Filmed This Garden Tour
1:20 House & Driveway Tour | First Look Around
2:30 Outdoor Kitchen & Patio Area
3:15 Starting Our First No-Dig Garden Bed
4:45 Orchard Tour | Lemons, Figs & Grapes
6:00 Pruning Diseased Fruit Trees
7:10 Compost Pile Setup | How We Built Our 2-Bay System
8:40 Hot Compost Temperature Check | 40°C and Rising
10:10 Fig Harvest & Summer Fruit Update
11:00 Chicken Coop Plans & Future Animal Area
12:10 Exploring the Old Animal Shed
13:30 Ducks, Chickens & Future Farm Plans
15:00 No-Dig Garden Explained | Building Healthy Soil
17:00 Lower Orchard & Vineyard Walkthrough
18:30 Dealing With Invasive Mint & Weeds
19:45 Garden Well & Drip-Feed Irrigation System
20:30 Hidden Stream at the Edge of the Land
21:00 Reflections | Turning 3,000 m² Into a Small Farm
21:30 What Would You Plant Here?

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