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Help at a rural place in beautiful Central Portugal
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Country: Portugal

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Last Activity: 19/01/2012

Description

Urgently looking for a helper NOW! (or a couple)just for A few weeks, possibly a month, to help our other long term helper with some building work..and clearing and tidying the land ready for spring planting. Also booking helpers for the spring and summer now please..
We are Rik & Pat and came out to Portugal 6 years ago now, to live a better, healthier more peaceful life, we try to live carefully on the land, we grow all our own veggies, wine, and olives. We like to live as simply as possible, no tv, nor internet at home, but we do also have a good social life with real community spirit. We socialise the Portuguese way, over a good home cooked meal, with good friends and a happy atmosphere.
## Please note!! Our house is still very basic, and very rustic, but comfortable, So be prepared for a rustic experience###

Area

Figueiro Dos Vinhos

Type of work

Other,
Language practise,
Help in the house,
Help with Eco project,
General Maintenance,
Cooking / shopping,
Building,
Gardening

Work

Looking for helpers for NOW!! Plus March 2012 and through till the Autumn. We are Patricia & Rik, both English speaking living in Portugal for 5 years now, with a working holding, growing all our veggies, olives and grapes. Plus a newly planted orchard,with hopes to plant a nut tree area soon, We have many projects that are ongoing, we need help to get our land under control, strimming, clearing, log splitting, weeding and planting , pruning, most general tasks about the place.We also have some building projects that we need help with . we hope to have the land cleared for the planting of the nut trees by autumn, there is plenty of stone work /dry stone walls etc to be built/repaired. Late summer there will be much help needed for the picking , preserving drying pickling etc of all our produce to store for the winter.. Grape harvesting, olive picking... Come... we need you!
we provide 3 good meals a day, all organic homegrown, homecooked produce, some vegetarian but we do eat a little white meat sometimes. I'd also love someone to swap recipes and share the cooking with, so we can all benefit from different types of food. anyone with knowledge of herbal remedies would be interesting.
We can offer the chance to learn dry stone walling techniques, food growing, wine making, medical herb experience and recipes, making creams and salves. plus the chance to see and experience the real rural Portugal...
### At the moment, we seriously need help with outdoor work, wood collecting , strimming, tidying the land for readness for Spring planting

Languages spoken

English and basic Portuguese

Accommodation

Accomodation is a very nice 2 berth caravan, with shower and loo ect, , we provide 3 good meals a day, all organic homegrown, homecooked produce, some vegetarian but we do eat a little white meat sometimes. I'd love someone to swap recipes and share the cooking with, so we can all benefit from different types of food. You must love dogs, we have two. This is not a place for those who want nightlife, the nearest town is 5klm and while very lovely, its also very quiet, this is a gorgeous location, on the edge of a forest, superb for walking, hiking, relaxing with a book or just exploring... There are fluvial beaches nearby, plus many cultural and tourist places to visit .We are almost exactly Central Portugal, Porto or Lisbon is 2 hours away, we reccomend you fly to Lisbon and then train to Pombal where we will collect you. #Please note we cannot provide transport to and from town very often, .##

What else ...

The local town has all the amenities you would ask from a small rural market town, a indoor swimming pool, a cinema, free internet space, library, a excellent local market and lots of good places to eat and drink very cheaply...
Host ref number: 1147325854b7

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