Donkey whisperer welcome in our farm in Alquerubim, Portugal

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  2025 

 Geforderte Mindest-Aufenthaltsdauer:  mindestens 2 Wochen

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  • Beschreibung

    Beschreibung

    This farm is owned by Amelia whose lifelong dream was waking up every day to donkeys on a farm and whose dream has come true!!!

    We have a large double story house (well I think it's a mansion! And live in a little village far enough away to feel like we live in the Shire but close enough to the city to get out and about. Think Adams family meets pippi longstockings, meets faulty towers!
    The farm is a busy, unpredictable place and we are a boisterous irreverant bunch here, but full of love, fun, laughter and magic!
    We work 25 hours a week and all food is provided. We are mainly vegetarian but looove cheese and do eat a bit of meat here and there .
    We have a generously well stocked fridge and pantry and breakfast and lunch is also help yourself.

    We are all diy beginners so not much to teach volunteers regarding diy, so it is more of a bumbling along, following youtube tutorials, giving it a bash sort of project and every now and then we get a skilled volunteer or worker who can teach us a trick or two.

    I am always looking for skilled people like builders or carpenters, welders and we offer payment for these types of skills in addition to workaway hours too

    There is a lot of gardening, pruning, harvesting, building, painting, turning the barnyard into a nice place for our animals as recently its been a bit of a building site.

    This summer I am lovingly renovating some windows in some of the rooms so inside work in heat of the day and working on animals living spaces.

    We live 15 minutes from Aveiro in the countryside (we call it the Shire) Porto is 45 minutes away so on weekends theres always the possibility to leave the Shire end enjoy the city vibe.

    The farm is a fun farm for the pure pleasure of living and learning with our 3 donkeys, five ducks, 16 chickens, (5 cats and Annie the dog) who will want to try sleep with you!

    We aspire to make sure our animals have the best life. In fact it feels like most days we are their human slaves! We seem to always be putting up fences to stop chickens eating our veggies, dogs eating eggs, ducks bullying blind chickens! , donkeys escaping!

    The donkeys and all other animals need feeding, cleaning out, walking to the field and the garden is always begging for love and attention!
    We like to ensure we offer a fair exchange and value our volunteers and treat them like family.


    Amelia

  • Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Kunstprojekte
    Sprachpraxis
    Hilfe bei Ökoprojekten
    Gartenarbeiten
    Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten
    Betreuung von Tieren
    Zubereiten / Kochen von Mahlzeiten für die Familie
    Hausarbeiten
    Handwerkliche Arbeiten
  • Interessengebiete

    Interessengebiete

    Leben im Camper-Van
    Nachhaltigkeit
    Haustiere
    LGBTQ
    Kultur
    Events & Sozialleben
    Farmarbeit
    Darstellende Künste
    Gartenarbeiten
    Heimwerken & DIY
    Kochen & Backen
    Tischlerarbeiten
    Kunst & Design
    Tiere
    Outdoor-Aktivitäten
    Camping
  • Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

    Experience the Portugese countryside but not too far from Porto. Connect with other volunteers and learn and exchange skills and ideas.

  • Arbeit

    Arbeit

    Daily farm life cleaning out donkeys, ducks, chickens, feeding all animals, walking dogs, walking donkeys, CUDDLING DONKEYS!! helping with building, painting. Fences fences fences! We seem to always be making fences !

    Creating art installations, building a pond, sanding, painting, gardening, harvesting,

    Hours are 25 hours a week, 10 till 3 Monday to friday. These involve gardening, renovating our two cottages and workshop space or looking after animals.
    We are pretty keen for handy people right now with basic carpentry or plumbing or building skills OR if not skilled, not afraid to give it a go after a few youtube tutotials.

  • Gesprochene Sprachen

    Englisch: Fließend

  • Unterkunft

    Unterkunft

    accommodation is a lsrge room with sofa, big bed and desk and wardrobe. Shared bathroom, shared kitchen

    We provide all food and a generously well stocked fridge. Breakfasts and lunches are self served. We usually all eat together at night and Amelia cooks on week nights. Weekends everyone does their own meals or joins up for meals or we make pizzas.
    We are 95 percent vegetarian but eat a lot of cheese!

    The house is a large double story old house that is being renovated where we all live together, with volunteers who have their own large room.

    We do 5 hours a day Mon to Fri
    9.30 to 1.30 then 1.30 to 2.30 5 days a week and a communal cleaning deep cleaning day every Saturday for an hour which is not part of workaway hours but part of living in a community.

  • Was noch ...

    Was noch ...

    We are mostly vegetarian. We eat meat or fish maybe once a week but cook for the vegetarians separate stuff. We eat eggs from our chickens and eat a lot of cheese!!

  • Etwas mehr Information

    Etwas mehr Information

    • Internet Zugang

    • Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang

      Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang

    • Wir besitzen Tiere

    • Wir sind Raucher

    • Familien möglich

  • Kann Digital Nomads unterbringen

    Kann Digital Nomads unterbringen

    we have fibre

  • Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

    Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

    we have water and electricity for you to plug in and an outside loo

  • Hier sind Haustiere in der Regel willkommen

    Hier sind Haustiere in der Regel willkommen

    Any pets that arent chicken or cat killers.

  • Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

    Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal

    mehr als zwei

  • Meine Tiere/Haustiere

    Meine Tiere/Haustiere

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