Portugal Homesteading Diaries

At the Orange Bloom Homestead we are working toward living off the land by growing and storing food for the year. This is how we do it.

Here’s a short video of how we harvested and stored giant sweet potatoes from one of our veggie gardens. What a surprise!

Join me for a January veggie gardens tour. Take a peek at what is going on at the homestead. Plus tips for planting broad beans and peas!

Watch us as we go on a mission rescuing and transplanting fruit trees that were doomed to become ashes. Not on our watch!

Enjoy our guesthouse walk-around! One bedroom cottage, located in the Arrábida Natural Park, in Portugal. Relax. Recharge. Rejoice.

This week we are excited to show our first made-to-order project! A DIY wood shelf and wood mantlepiece, both made with reclaimed wood.

Watch our guesthouse DIY renovation before and after. One bedroom country cottage in Azeitão. Contact us for enquiries.

We are so happy to show you our latest project: a DIY wood headboard for the bedroom. We used reclaimed wood from a local recycling station.

Our DIY guesthouse renovation is almost done! In this episode, we finished installing the vinyl plank flooring and most of the paint work…

Our DIY guesthouse renovation is going smoothly. Things are moving fast! Take a peek at what we’ve been up to this week.

This week’s video is all about progress! Follow along to see how we are doing with our DIY guesthouse renovation project.

Super excited on day one of our DIY house renovation! We started working on the guesthouse, which is an outhouse next to the main house.

In this video, I take you on a garden tour, show you our last harvest and a caterpillar invasion of our kale! Let’s do this!

We became homesteaders in Portugal! After travelling for 18 months looking for a place to start a new chapter, we ended up where we started!