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At Quinta da Tapada volunteers work outdoors on a 5ha permaculture-oriented farm. Tasks include organic gardening, reforestation, caring for medicinal plants, food preserving, and general maintenance of the land. A great opportunity to learn sustainable practices while living close to nature in Oliveira do Hospital. ✨
20 hours of help per week
Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.
Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.
Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
2 days off per week
Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.
Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.
Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.
Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.
Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely
Intermediate German or Intermediate English
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
I offer to stay in the converted, heatable van, breakfast, lunch and dinner provided, as well as use of the infrastructure, composttoilet, showers and electricity. In exchange i expect 20h of focused work, not necessarily spread trough the 5 weekdays, flexible, but to be properly communicated. I dont expect experience, its obviously advantageous but i prefer motivation.
Daily life here revolves around the rhythm of the farm, so you'll likely spend your volunteer time in the vegetable garden, the herb or tree nursery greenhouses, or looking after the animals. Alongside this, there's always a project underway — construction, maintenance, clearing land for fire safety, cutting firewood for winter, or caring for the areas I'm reforesting, among others.
Mornings usually begin with breakfast — either quietly on your own, surrounded by forest and birdsong, or together with the other volunteers. From there, we work sometimes as a group and sometimes on our own tasks, until lunchtime. That's when we harvest fresh vegetables from the garden, pull some stored provisions from the stone cellar, and cook a healthy meal together, usually vegan or vegetarian, though I do cook meat occasionally.
Afternoons are yours to spend freely — resting, taking a walk, or heading up to the village to soak in the local culture.
Evenings tend to bring everyone back together, over shared food and laughter...
