Experience life on a small organic farm with magic mountains🍄‍🏔
The experience
We have many fruit trees, a small veggie garden. Lots of future projects. We are looking forward to meeting the right people to help make this place reach its full potential. participate in our work, play, and rest here. And to create magic together.
What you will do here is based on your abilities and wishes and our needs.
Gardening, fruit picking, mushroom and herbs foraging and preserving, building, pruning, composting, art projects and more
What you offer
12 hours of help per week
Kitchen Hand:
Help prepare, finish and serve meals.
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
What you get
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.
Free Laundry:
You can use our laundry room freely.
Free Parties:
Get free entrance for the best parties in town.
Free Events:
Get free entrance for the best events in town.
Pick Up:
We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.
Use our equipped kitchen:
Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
Fast Internet Access:
High-speed internet for you to work remotely
Requirements
Intermediate English
Over 18 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
What's not included
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Program Details
You will experience running an organic farm with various earth friendly organic methods.
Welcome to practice with us: Chi-gong, dance, Ho'oponopono, honest communication in various languages and much more.
Acknowledge and connect to the traditional Portuguese mountain village social life which still exist in this area.
Participate in various art projects and workshops which we plan to create with and for our guests.
We offer volunteers a cozy caravan under the shade of the trees, overlooking the forest and the green terraces.
there is an outdoor kitchen with all you need for cooking and a small fridge in the caravan.
We do not offer meals (hence you are asked for only 2 hours of work per day) so you are in charge of getting and preparing your own food. you are of course free to use the garden veggies and fruits and sometimes we will be happy to cook and eat together.
The caravan has a double bed and a table with benches that can be transformed into another bed.
We have an outside shower with hot water and a compost toilet.
For refreshment, we have 2 concrete water pools you can dip in the summer (or in the winter if you are into it) and a few rivers, water falls and natural pools just a few minutes drive from here.
public transportation is very little here, but lots of cars coming up and down from the village to the nearest towns and you can quite easily get a ride from locals or from us.
earest shop is in the next village 5 minutes drive away from the farm. The town with supermarkets, banks, cafes etc is less than 20 minutes away.
the city of Viseu is 45 minutes away from us.
Porto airport is 1.5 hours away by car.
Activities & Shift
Shifts are of 2 hours: Usually in the morning, but it is flexible.
Usually it will be in the farm
There are plenty of mature fruit trees, the purest water you can imagine. a small veggie garden. lot's of future projects. We are looking forward to meet the right people to help making this place reach it’s full potential. to participate in our work, play and rest here. And to create magic together.
what you will do here is based on your abilities and wishes and our needs.
Gardening, fruit picking, mushroom and herbs gathering, food foraging, preserving and preparing, building and construction, tree and vine pruning, composting, Carpentry, art projects and more.
Rules
We believe in open and honest communication. and practice it all the time. please try to be true and honest about how you feel here, your needs, what bothers you etc. everything is easy to solve when the communication is authentic.
Alcohol is tolerated in moderate manner. it is fine if you like to have your lunch with a glass of wine or have a beer in the evening. but if you go around all day with a beer in your hand, it is not the vibe we are looking for here.
Same with tobacco smoking. it is tolerated if you smoke next to the caravan, but if you go around all day with a cigarette, you will make others suffer from your habit and we wouldn't like that to happen.
No bone-fires during summer time. in Portugal it is illegal and very dangerous.
Showers and dish-washing are done only with ecological soaps. for the dished, we will provide the soap. for the showers, you need to bring your own. We don't use no chemical on the land. please respect that.
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