Welcome!
Horta do Baldio is Portuguese for ‘vegetable garden of the community‘. This farm of almost 6 acres has been carrying that name for as long as the oldest available documents show.
Although we live here with just two people, we love to go back to the idea of sharing this exceptional place. For now it’s just us and many different animals, but we would like you to come and enjoy it too.
At the moment we are working hard to bring back the vegetable garden. And we are learning as much as we can about the more than 250 olive trees, all kinds of fruit trees and other plants that grow here. There’s a lot to eat and harvest already.
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Pruning grapevines we didn’t know we had
This task was actually not on our to do list, but now we know it should be
Christmas in the sun
A picture gallery of Christmas time in our little paradise
Rebuilding the chicken coop
Working to welcome eight new inhabitants to Horta do Baldio
Our very first olive oil
Almost two months after the harvest, we received our delicious olive oil
Bring on the fava beans
Taking our first steps in reviving the old vegetable garden
The sheep are here!
Finally our neigbour’s sheep have come to keep us company
Asparagus Albus
What a pleasure to discover food on our land we had never heard of or seen before.
Feira da Castanha in Marvão
Autumn in Portugal is not complete without eating roasted chestnuts. So we had to go and visit this festival in Marvão!
Our first olive harvest
When two city people from northern Europe try to harvest olives in Portugal