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Hi, new host here hoping to find a decent workawayer for my first time! I'm James, I am 40 years old. I am an English man living in Central Portugal. I have been living here for about 6 years now. I live by myself with my 10 cats and now up to 5 ......
Born in Texas and I've been traveling around the world for 15 years. I’ve been fortunate enough to to visit 45 countries and lived on 6 continents. This all has been funded by a myriad of weird jobs along the way from combat soldier, gem dealer, ......
About me:
Hello! My name is Carlos, I'm 47 and I'm portuguese. I grew up in a city close to Lisbon, went to college in Lisbon to study computer sciences and I started to work as a programmer. 6 years later I started to feel meaningless and took a ......
A Unique Opportunity to Live Close to Nature in the Heart of Portugal
🌿 Looking for a lifestyle change? Slower pace, fresh air, real connection to the land and yourself?
Join our off-grid farm in central Portugal – a peaceful, wild place full of ......
We are a family of four people, with our dog Alma and the cats.
We love the quiet life and peaceful nature, so we moved to the southwest of Portugal to start a new life in 2017. In 2021 we found this piece of land and have been cultivating our ......
We are a couple with 2 daughters. Our move to the country side serves the purpose of having a new experience. Although we continue to work remotely, we are developing our knowledge about gardening, farming and land care. In a near future we also ......
!!UPDATE!!
We, alongside many of our friends, were affected by the wildfires in the Serra da Gardunha. (August 2025)
We now need more immediate help and will also be on the farm for the most part the coming months to rebuild. Fortunately the living ......
Welcome 🌿✨
I'm Clara Lala, an ARTivist — an artist and activist working at the intersection of art, co-creation with nature, and social change — born, raised and socialized on the wild, free-spirited grounds of the electronic music mecca Berlin, ......
Let's just get right into what in the world exactly are we trying to do here: In 1988, a book was published titled "Permaculture - A Designer's Manual," and towards the end of chapter 12, it talks about species of plants that can stop the spread of ......
Hi there, I am River an Englishman of mature years living on a terraced hillside of olive trees, bottoming down to a mixed woodland of Chestnut and Walnut and a swirling meandering stream as the border.
Its over two years since my partner Emma died ......
I am a retired Brit living in village close to Almeirim in the Santarem area of the Ribatejo. I have acquired an old house that used to be an adega ( facility for commercial wine making) and have been restoring from it's ruinous state into a ......
“” Urgent ””
We're embarking on an exciting journey of restoration and creation, and we need your help!
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We are Rick and Yasmin, a couple from Manchester...Between the mist of the madness in 2020 and with an end date for Brexit set..
We found ......
Hello, I am Mark, Dutch but living close to Monchique. 9 years ago I started doing workaway myself in order to find a place where I felt home. I had 3 workaway experiences in Portugal which I enjoyed a lot. Finally, I ended up in Monchique which I ......
We are William, Laure and we have 2 little boys: 4;5 year old Rafa and 4 month old baby Boris. We are originally from Belgium, but moved to Central Portugal 6 years ago to live off-grid. We live on 2 hectares of land ("a quinta") in a valley next to ......
Update spring/summer 2026
I would love to host some dedicated people who carry love for living beeings and earth in their hearts and some skills in their hands.
You will have your own beautiful space.
Hi People
After some years of traveling i ......
This is an old abandoned farm up in the mountains of Monchique which we (Roi & Ana) had bought about five years ago. We are now starting to live here and slowly attempting to revive it according to the principles of natural farming. We have 40 goats ......
I love life and love people,music is my passion and food is my pleasure.
I'm a happy go lucky kind of guy
I believe in freedom and deny restriction, its our planet and it belongs to the 8.2 billion people and not the 100 controller's.
I'm always ......
Looking for volunteers June 15th until the end of September.
Hi there,
Thank you for checking my profile :)
My name is David and I'll tell you a bit about me. I grew up in Lisboa and always lived, studied and worked there, until a few years ago I ......
😊 Hello, I’m Eilis,
Magical land between Lagos and Aljezur, about 22 minutes drive from the nearest beach. It’s peaceful, with a lovely old well, and a winter ribeira, olive trees, cork oaks, fruit trees and horses nearby, a semi abandoned village ......
Home is in a once abandoned beautiful traditional village in the foothills behind Santa Catarina, It is situated in the east Algarve ... just 20 mins drive from the stunning Rio Formosa coastline, between Tavira and Faro.
We are a creative, active ......
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