#37 A game changing kind of week at the homestead

[@rainerhasler135]

Your videos impress me a lot! You are coming home to the earth and home of your grand parents where only ruins and memories are waiting for you. But you are going on transforming this place in a wonderful new home. I admire your handicraft skills and your efforts. Wish you all the best and a lot of energy!

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thank you, I appreciate that. Cheers

[@jackwest3282]

There is something truly magical about a fire outdoors and roasting chestnuts are so delicious when made this way too. Your new home and farm is such a haven of peace in this often mad and fast paced world of ours. Thank you for sharing your beautiful place with all of us and the journey of building and rediscovering part of your family's heritage with all of us too. Cheers and God Bless you and your family!

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thanks for your great comment

[@wileycoyotesr8623]

I have smelled roasted chestnuts fresh from a bed of burned pine needles. Everyone should experience them at least once in life. Thanks for bringing back my memories. 👍👍👍

[@Joaquim_Conde]

You’re welcome

[@melissaeden1219]

Those simple daily pleasures that come from old ways of cooking and gathering and being are so lovely!

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Yes they are! Thanks

[@JeriStults]

Love the church bells. You are so lucky in such a beautiful place as rhis. Thank you for sharing your journey with all of us.❤❤❤❤❤

[@andersdottir1111]

Your dog approves of the beautiful home you are creating for him 😊

[@Alfablue227]

Beautiful Joaquim. So wonderful to see the ancient cobbled little roads of Minho, and those stone walls... (like in Ireland) if they could talk !! What I miss most about Minho is the sense of community and friendship amongst the population. They all help each other, then they ask if you are stealing chestnuts! 😂😂Soo funny! They probably know you from when u were a boy. Such great people! "Magustos" and open fires during the "desfolhadas" are some of my most cherished memories of childhood visits to grandparents homestead in Minho; tks for bringing them back. So happy your work is coming along even better now you hv your tools. God bless you.

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thank you, yes the simple things are wonderful

[@deborahwhite2339]

Nice to have all your stuff from 🇨🇦. Now you don't have to stress about it any more. 🙂👍👍🇨🇦

[@Joaquim_Conde]

You got that right!

[@billoxiiboy]

Starting with that beautiful morning glow and the aroma of fresh coffee, then finishing with the scent of roasting chestnuts in pine needles..... Mmmm delicious!

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thank you

[@Simpaulme]

Don't forget the church bells - it really was a beautiful opening 👌

[@awsome7201]

Hello João! I saw your latest video yesterday. Although you dont post the location of the property, i can see from the mountains behind you exactly where you are because my family has a farm about 3km away from you, and i know the scenery by hard! I also noticed you said you were looking for a place to rent while you are building the property. I think i can help with that, we have a seperate house in our farm that is ready for rent, so if you are interested respond to this comment so we can discuss it further. Love what you are doing by the way, great job! Cheers 🙂

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thank you for your offer. I’d be interested in knowing more about it.

[@mozdickson]

Que legal!

[@mozdickson]

Que legal!

[@monalingan9523]

I am just so pleased for you when I see the progress on your land. Those stone fences and the building walls are just beautiful.

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thanks

[@kiprawiramli819]

you got a great son giving a helping hand. ya he a great boy. at the same time, he helped you rebuild a family old house to remind where he was coming from. great for him, I guess. Identity a sense of belonging. All the best, dad.

[@joannadrawe6654]

Your neighbors are sweet ! So glad your things arrived.

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thanks

[@ekojsp]

Hi Joaquim, I love watching your videos because they are 20% talk and 80% work, unlike other channels that often talk too much. Please don't forget to enable the KZbin auto-translate, because I'm watching your video number 9 right now. Thanks for sharing, and keep up the good work. Warm regards.

[@teresaamaral3889]

The opening scene was like something taken out from a movie! Beautiful.

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thank you.

[@SweetOne.]

Hopefully you are able to keep all your stuff dry until your tent is up. You are moving so much better this week! Great progress and I enjoyed the drive to the wood lot - such a pretty area.

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thanks, I feel 100%

[@allanbuchan350]

You are now fully equipped all your favourite tool and possessions at hand 😊

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Can’t wait to set up my shop

[@mariliaamaral4921]

Thanks I enjoy this video today the chestnut brings to my time in primary school every year in October we have a Magusto. Good memories . See you soon 😊

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Wonderful!

[@rasferrastfarian739]

Lovely to see a true old village still with walls and narrow roads. Great to see outdoor cooking the way it used to be! (we're not even allowed to have a lit fire outside here!)

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thank you

[@leannecampbell3296]

You have a beautiful place

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thank you

[@brendenbrewer2956]

Will be a good home again love your work on the old farm . and cheers from Australia.

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thanks 👍

[@victorgoncalves2442]

Lá para baixo no Alentejo, temos as Bolotas de Azinheira (doces) , bem me lembro de por nas cinzas da lareira , ou os meus avós fazerem um colar de bolotas e por dentro da lareira para fumar , como se faz com os chouriços. Saudades . Take care my friend

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Adoro a bolota de Azinheira, e os porcos beneficiam imenso de as comer

[@pamsmith7369]

Wonderful work! Glad you got your container! The tent is looking good; the water storage looks great! I never knew about roasting chestnuts on burning pine needles. I love roasted or boiled chestnuts! Can’t get much more fresh than you got from your neighbor! Nice video!

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@lindagage7315]

Greetings from ontario Canada, you will be happy getting your own tools for sure! Can't wait to see your next video! Well done

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thanks 👍

[@robintait1688]

Congratulations on such a beautiful outcome of all your hard work. Truly inspiring. Much love to you coming back to live on your ancestors home.

[@truckya22]

Başlangılar güzeldir

[@Joaquim_Conde]

I like to think that it’s a restart. Thanks

[@leapingkitties]

So exciting seeing your container show up. It's always interesting to me to see things like roasting the chestnuts. I look forward to your content. Cheers from Manitoba.

[@Joaquim_Conde]

So nice of you, thanks

[@mariaaugustavieira6721]

Eu assumo, que more perto do Minho,se não mesmo no Minho, já deu para perceber que mora no Norte de Portugal, Que Amei! 🎉😂

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Sim, no alto Minho

[@tiogoala7654]

The chestnuts would taste really good in the cool evening sky.

[@Joaquim_Conde]

💯

[@cindyblair1283]

I have enjoyed all your videos!! It’s such a blessing even a honor to be able to Recreate such a beautiful property and your doing a fantastic job and needless to mention very hard work!!! Thank you for sharing your journey and a big part of your life with us. Cindy🇺🇸

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thank you so much!

[@patrickrussell1888]

Very labor intensive!

[@Lisboooa]

So glad you came back and brought life to that special place. Grandpa is smiling for sure. It’s becoming so beautiful. I hope you are very happy here. Canada has turned into a very weird place, unfortunately.

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thanks, I often think about how they would think of what I’m doing

[@analuizadelpino]

Bom dia! Assisto teus vídeos daqui do sul do Brasil e tenho gostado muito de ver o progresso que estás fazendo na propriedade de teus anscestrais! Excelente trabalho! Muito inspirador!

[@Nulife23]

Multi purpose is a good thi g! Love your ranger!

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thanks, best part is not having to put fuel or even plug it in

[@AnnemarieWillcox]

Love watching your progress

[@Joaquim_Conde]

There’s lots to do and it’s been a lot of fun. Thank you

[@oldladylinda]

You poured that coffee and now I want some coffee. haha But seriously you have done a wonderful work there. The place continues to look better and better. Also I think you have lost weight and put on some muscle there. A really good by product of your hard work! Your son as well looked as if he had built up muscle and was looking tone and fit. I have learned a lot from this channel. Including how to roast chestnuts. Thank you.

[@Joaquim_Conde]

That’s great, a big incentive for me to get out of the city was the lure of the active lifestyle. Thanks for your support

[@chillnophone2024]

Magnificent canine, yours of course..lol Happy for you, chesnuts and your shipping container! 🎉

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thank you

[@TheInfinityTravel]

Thanks for sharing your journey. Wonderful video.

[@tinahardy9361]

Love the video, absolutely love your dog!! Just precious.

[@allanbuchan350]

I'm loving your channel

[@luisagarcia3961]

Joaquim tenha paciência logo estar como você quer obrigado um grande abraço ❤

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Obrigado

[@brunogaspar3977]

👍 força na jornada 🇵🇹❤

[@arjanvogel6444]

Thanks Joaquim for your vid 😇💗💗💗 love and bless you guys, good work 👍😁.

[@elaineschiefer-feria516]

Boa Noite Joaquim (meu português é brasileiro como voce poder ler☺️É noite aqui em Greenville SC US 19:29) Seu canal apareceu para mim ontem, 14 de Setembro de 2024. Que maravilha a sua história! Que bom poder fazer oque voce está fazendo 🙌. Fique tranquilo, logo sua esposa está aí contigo e tudo vai se encaixando, seus avós provavelmente estão te observando lá da outra vida! Está tudo ficando muito bonito! Obrigada por compartir seu projeto com todos nós seguidores! Meu vovozinho era de um vilarejo chamado Argozêlo? em Tras os Montes

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Obrigado por comentar

[@thomperry1187]

Eating chestnuts is what I miss most about my days of youth in Portugal. To this day we have land with plenty of beautiful ouriço-filled trees. Me and the village kids - when there were kids - would bring down branches of the trees, open the prickly ouriços with our feet and pick at the delicacies inside. It was a question of timing but the inner skin would peel off and we would munch on the sweet and delicate unripe castanha.

[@twobrokeguyz1214]

I watched your last video, and this video. I love what you are doing with your grandparent's homestead. Please share when you rebuild your grandmother's bread oven. I bet she made a lot of cornbread in it. I love that you saved the old grape vine. Now you will have many great new memories with your family.

[@barondoppelbockvonhops9293]

You are truly an inspiration to me to get off my ass and work my land.

[@MartinaBrigitteZimmer-Heil]

😊I love it👍your dog is the best💙😘

[@kiprawiramli819]

Wow, you have a great neighbourhood. a great place you get there. 😊

[@rethacorpening7838]

Absolutely lovely, I enjoy your journey. Love family connection. Keep it up praying for you to have great success 😊

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thank you so much!

[@joaobaixinho1512]

Só pela foto de capa percebi que estavas no minho! Boa sorte com a renovação!

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Obrigado

[@gavinsloan5046]

Well done I really hope you Well

[@JucaraRossi]

I came for Portugal, with the same dream kkk, nice see your job, congratulacions, never give up, waiting for new video, see .....

[@Joaquim_Conde]

🥂

[@MartinaBrigitteZimmer-Heil]

It smells great too 😊👍

[@tonyatippetts2316]

Dude safer to stand up the pitchfork since it cant really accidentally stab something over the roof. a plastic pipe with a cap in the gap will support it and it can be used for all kinds of tools.

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Yes. Thank you. I have a couple of grips to install vertically but that need to be welded to the frame.

[@vfranc0]

When I saw it I remember my granma always saying " nunca apontes a forquilha para ti, sempre ao contrario!" Always keep the fork pointing outwards, not at you 😅 Do not take any risks, you are doing an excellent job!

[@boa1793]

Very cool what you’re doing. But when you’re putting that fork prongs toward you on the vehicle, well, I see a possible future problem. They would make interesting scars if you had an accident.

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Agreed and plans are in the way to correct it. Thank you

[@patrickwiklund2039]

👍

[@rjmontz]

A new subscriber here in the Philippines. Love your content.

[@Joaquim_Conde]

My wife (Amor) will be glad to know this. Cheers

[@janliljeberg3769]

Juaquim, thanks for sharing, love this stone region your in, could you tell us where, region, nearest town?!

[@Joaquim_Conde]

The Minho region has mountains of granite. It was a building material for as long as people settled here.

[@hwinny2]

I sure hope you got your stuff from Qaasim without too much hassle. When my shipping container came in all of a sudden they wanted to start adding so many charges and so I called my attorney and just said you mind if they send all the receipts to you and you verify that they’re legitimate, she said no problem. I told my custom broker that he was to send all the receipts to my attorney. She’s going to verify everything and all the sudden there were no additional charges and he said a few of them didn’t apply that they didn’t need to be charged and I was so thankful.

[@mariaaugustavieira6721]

Nunca vi assar castanhas dessa forma, será que ficam mais saborosas? No Ribatejo,assamos as castanhas em potes de barro,com furos e dentro deitamos sal, para dar mais sabor às castanhas!

[@michaelhayden5264]

So it's work before play. BYW how do you get use to those church bells. I know that many of the villagers, who may not have watches would use them to tell time, remind then of something,. I see that the does the dog get to ride in the " side by side" work vehicle?? . Maybe you could use the outer husks of the chestnuts as fire starters?? Cheers

[@desireebaender5112]

Are you Safe?We Hope so!

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Yes, thank you. The valley here has so far been spared the fire season.

[@carochatito6344]

Hard working man and multi talented! Tenho uma ruina em Alcoutim....quer vir ajudar??😉

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Já visitei Alcoutim e adorei, coragem

[@SharonBowman-k2b]

I can’t believe he did all of this for 5 or 6 chestnuts

[@tanimereleal8556]

Vocês vão voltar para morar em Portugal? 🎉Brasil

[@horacio9432]

Nice to see you get your tools, I'm thinking I'll have to do the same when we move there. Did the sea can ship from the East Coast? We lived in Manitoba but now are on Vancouver Island so I know I'll probably pay more. Was it pricey and did you have a 20 or 40 footer? Will you need new chargers for your tool batteries or just using a voltage adapter?

[@Joaquim_Conde]

We shipped it from Toronto through the port of Montreal. The current rate for a 40’ is 8k CAD from Toronto to anywhere within an hour or so from Porto. I’m staying off the grid, so I’ll use split phase inverters that output both 110 and 220 Volts so I can use my Canadian tools etc, as well an any new appliances, tools etc that we may acquire here

[@xavierwatteeuw8275]

Nice video! Next season, with some luck, you might have bees moving to your hives if they were already used… Is the Canadian standard hive the same as in the US?

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thank you for your comment. I believe they are. I’m hoping to buy a couple of nucleous colonies to quickly establish a population here at the homestead.

[@terencemitchao]

I love your videos!

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Thank you

[@mitohancke7475]

When half of Portugal is burnning you should know that, by law, is totally forbiden to make fires.

[@Joaquim_Conde]

Yes. Unless you make a fire to cook, and that needs to be done in an area that is far from dry brush.

[@aptyp3109]

Mano tu falas português normal da aldeia, e depois perfeito ingles, eu ficava chocado com a transição 😂

[@MeanOlNana]

Won’t the ashes from fires go into the water, or is that not really a problem?

[@Joaquim_Conde]

The tank will be emptied regularly as it will be supplying the irrigation water to the whole property. Wood ashes won’t pose a problem for the tank, lines or what the water is irrigating

[@nztitirangi]

What do they taste like?

[@loubob21]

Can you please tell me who you used for the shipping container and the cost? I'm moving too Portugal from USA (Coming Home) Thank you.

[@Joaquim_Conde]

I recommend that you consult with your local Portuguese consulate. They are probably the best to advise you on your local options. They have a program where the Portuguese government assists Portuguese nationals and their descendants in many aspects regarding the return to Portugal, including participation in the costs of shipping your belongings back home. Look online, I think it’s called “ Programa regressar a Portugal “

[@loubob21]

@@Joaquim_Conde I will look into that. Thank you.

[@charleslamontagne983]

off grid ! Why ? I can clearly see electric poles and wires right behind you near your back neighbour.

[@Joaquim_Conde]

A good question. My interest in self sufficiency includes the production and management of the energy that the homestead will require to function. My grandparents weren’t connected to any grids ( there weren’t any back then) and the homestead functioned well enough to raise four children. In essence they were responsible for producing the energy they required. I believe that I can do the same today. Thank you for your comment and question

[@mymachineroom3655]

is that a maremma.?

[@Joaquim_Conde]

He’s a Great Pyrenees

[@mymachineroom3655]

@Joaquim_Conde they are closely related i guess. I have a maremma. Just sadly she cannot enjoy the homestead she was supposed to guard in Ukraine. For now she has to do with runs on nazare beach and forrest… ;)

[@manny-perez]

With all that you have to do, why would you even bother to roast chestnuts? 🌰🥵

[@Joaquim_Conde]

🥂

[@ElectricScot]

Can I ask what you did in Canada? It kind of looks like you were in the construction industry.

[@Joaquim_Conde]

I was farming for the last 10 years, in the automotive industry for the previous 35, with a lot of building, rebuilding, fabricating, cooking, hosting etc etc etc in between.

[@chillnophone2024]

A true Renaissance Man.

[@WarzoneMian]

Sir you are looking a very hard working guy but sorry to say your dog is to lazy

[@Joaquim_Conde]

I agreed 💯

[@JimNichols]

Man that sky @11:50 Thank you for sharing your journey sir.

[@enlightndark6671]

IF YOU DOUBLE YOUR TENT- BUY TWO TENTS- ONE SMALLER- AND PUT ONE INSIDE THE OTHER- THE HEAT WILL STAY INSIDE FOR THE COLDER NIGHTS INTO THE FALL & you wont get WET! This is an old technique used by hikers. A small tent for your sleeping bag & bed goes inside a larger tent. It keeps your body heat from being drawn away DURING THE COLD NIGHTS. OR YOU CAN BUY A DOUBLE INSULATED TENT- REVIEWS RECOMMEND AYAMAYA Winter Cold Weather Ultralight Tent- it has double-wall insulation, a full rain fly with a snow skirt. .Even a small heater can keep it cozy inside your bedroom (they have safe TENT battery heaters/you can charge with a SOLAR PANEL). Then the larger tent can be used to store your food & clothes. Remember to never place objects against your tent walls or they will stretch & leak & MAKE SURE you tie the tent down TIGHTLY with PROPER ROPES that will last through WIND STORMS! you are such a hard worker, amazing! Remember to take care of yourself & take breaks. Best of LUCK!

[@karenklucas923]

Question .why didnt you set up temp housing in your new building..it seems to have alot of room..😊

[@Joaquim_Conde]

There was way too many things in that shipping container