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We are a Portuguese couple with experience on permaculture and self-sufficient-living that in 2015 got 15ha of abundant land in a beautiful valley and an amazing community at the highest mountains inside the biggest natural park of our country.
Now we are a family of 5 living in abundance willing to share our experience with you
3 hours of help per day
Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.
Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.
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 Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!
Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!
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.
Permaculture Course: Take part in our Permaculture course for free.
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
Beginner English or Beginner Portuguese
Over 21 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Caravan, with woodburner, and Kitchen, dry toilet and hot shower.
We can only provide a veggie box of whats available from our garden and 6 eggs per week. So you will have to buy most of your food.
There's also a natural pool in the stream and according to the season, mushrooms, edible and aromatic plants, berries, acorns and chestnuts.
We ask for 3 hours/day, 5 days/week to help maintaining the vegetable garden and food forest, harvesting herbs, vegetables, fruits and processing them, farming maintenance (cutting and caring fire-wood, moving electric fences of the farm animals, cleaning the stable), enjoying live, sharing experiences and much more ....
We want to share our daily life with people that like us search for a balanced life style opened to change and cooperation. So we hope your willing to practice this principles:
-Work with Nature not against it;
-Value edges, marginal and small;
-See solutions inerente in problems;
-Produce no waste;
-Value people, their skills and work;
-Respect for all life;
-Use public transport and renewable energies;
-Calculate food miles;
-Reduce your eco-foot print.
