The seasonal produce that is served in their restaurant, "A Cozinha", is supplemented by the harvest from their 10 hectares of olive groves, carob, fig and pomegranate orchards and a herb garden.
Most of their business is juicing, but they produce just under 70 hectolitres of cider from their 6.5 hectares (16 acres) of orchard, selling it at farmers' markets, fairs, shops and a pub.
Although the Kirkires grow rice, millet and finger millet on their 2.5 hectares of land, the produce is not enough to sustain them throughout the year.
She was very happy as their 0.05 hectares of land had production of 80 kg of maize.
The bison, skittish and nervous despite their huge size, walk off the lorries and up the path to their 15 hectare (150 acres) site (in September their range will expand to 160 hectare).
And yet, out of fear or a neocolonial mindset, farmers refuse to take up the offer, lest they offend their European masters.I see my neighbours, small landholders, desperately trying to extend their acreage and continually being pushed back to their one hectare.
Their two-hectare (five-acre) plot of maize and beans keeps their plates full when the rains are good; in dry years they go hungry.
The owners, Carlos and Marie-Isabella, have opened their 28-hectare farm to agrotourism and love to introduce guests to their homemade fig jams and breads.
The Davis family run 600 Friesian cows on their 570-hectare property near Camperdown in south-west Victoria.
