Portugal from Scratch

Hi! I'm Kirsty and I'm from Canada but left in 2001 to travel and never found my way back there to live permanently. I've since lived and travelled in a bunch of places and now I found myself in Portugal where I bought a half acre of land with with ruin on it in September 2020. In my other life I make maps of Africa capital cities and so I expect I'll be travelling between the two continents at least once a year as I try to balance work and life here in Portugal... it's a hell of a commute but I love it!

My plan is to renovate the ruin using natural materials, build a few other natural buildings, and set up a small food forest and garden using permaculture principles and this channel is my attempt at documenting the process of setting up an off grid life here. I don't really know what I'm doing and I'm learning as I go, so if this sounds interesting, please follow along and join in the fun as I figure things out along the way!