Joseph Marsh, or Farmer for Fun, and his partner Marianna talk about their journey to self sufficiency, running their hobby farm in Fundão – growing vegetables, raising meat and harvesting their organic cherry farm in Portugal’s Beira baixa. Joseph has been an xpat in Fundão, central Portugal since 2015.
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Fundao
Fundão is a city and a municipality in the Castelo Branco District in Portugal. Fundão proper is an old city with 8,369 inhabitants in 2001, situated at the point where the slope of the Gardunha range meets the Cova da Beira plains, 500 metres above sea level. The municipality population in 2011 was 29,213