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Beschreibung
We are Ilka and Yves, a couple from Germany, who started a new way of life for us in the beginning of 2015 on a beautiful piece of land in lower Alentejo/Portugal (district of Odemira).
We wish to live with nature and animals. Getting back to the basics of life :-)
We have a nice community with our neighbours and like to be social with our friends. Come and join us for a while, we'll love to share our ideas and knowledge with you.
Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten
Sprachpraxis
Gartenarbeiten
Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten
Betreuung von Tieren
Mithilfe auf einem Bauernhof
Zubereiten / Kochen von Mahlzeiten für die Familie
Hausarbeiten
Handwerkliche Arbeiten
Interessengebiete
Nachhaltigkeit
Selbstentwicklung
Haustiere
Events & Sozialleben
Farmarbeit
Tischlerarbeiten
Gartenarbeiten
Zeichnen & Malen
Heimwerken & DIY
Kochen & Backen
Kunst & Design
Tiere
Wandern
Natur
Tanzen
Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten
Yves has an immense knowledge in constructing, since he did that in his former life in Germany. He knows on a professional level how to work with wood, tiles, drywall construction, electrical installation, plumbing, roofwork and so much more...
He also became a compost fetishist in the last years and provides our garden with lots of really good soil.
Ilka loves to make delicious meals and cakes with fruits and vegetables from our own garden. She is a passionate cook.
Since she started organic gardening here, she can tell you quite a bit about the cicle of a whole garden year with all its necessities, about upgrading the soil and good or bad plant neighbors.
In her heart she is an artist and loves to do all different types of artwork with various materials and in diverse sizes, if she finds the time for it and peace and quiet.
She is a Forró lover and likes to go dancing.
Arbeit
If you want to learn how to keep chicken, sheep or cats and dogs and you are generally interested in farm life and gardening and would like to work on a bio-ecological farm, you may have found the right place to be.
The volunteers actively help with the daily farm work and building projects. The activities range from caring for animals (feeding, grooming, mucking out, bedding, collecting eggs etc.), maintaining outdoor facilities (e.g. repairing and building fences), garden work (clearing garden beds from weeds/old plants and distribute new compost soil, mulching, planting seedlings, harvesting and preserving fruit and vegetables).
In addition to the mostly manual tasks, you will also do general work around the house, as well as the fruit and vegetable garden on our organically run farm, which does not use any artificial fertilizers or pesticides. We use different approaches on how to garden. There is a lot of aspects of permaculture, but also no-dig-garden-beds and the use of mixed cultures. You can immerse yourself completely in the simple, sometimes hard but very fulfilling country life.
As most of the work is happening in the great outdoors, you should not be bothered by dirty clothes, aching muscles, all-weather work and hot climates. You should not be allergic to animals or hay/straw, have a generally good level of physical fitness and be willing and able to learn.
Also mentally you should be well-balanced and stable so that you feel comfortable far away from your comfort zone and city distraction, because our farm is absolutely in the countryside (next village is about 7km away).
From a volunteer we do expect the best work you can offer, reliability, honesty and an easy going character. This also includes treating each other with honesty and trust. If something goes "wrong" (be it damage caused or interpersonal issues) we want to find solutions in an honest and open discussion. On the other hand laziness or bad behavior will end in terminating the stay.
About the working hours: As we aim to finish an activity before starting something new, there is no "clock-in" work. However, we try to arrange it so that the daily working time of volunteers is about 5 hours, 5 days a week. It can happen, that one day is longer to finish something, but then another day may be shorter. We try to create a varied work schedule in order to take into account the skills and inclinations of the volunteer.
Living close together, sharing meals and being involved in everyday life and work creates a special bond and the volunteer often becomes almost a member of the family. We are therefore happy to invest a lot of time and attention, interest and goodwill. In general we live by the motto „giving and receiving“. However, we also expect that anything entrusted to you (whether animals, machines or tools, etc.) is treated with the same care and respect as if it belonges to a family member.
Duration of the stay: The minimum stay as a volunteer is 4 weeks. Shorter stays are not possible, but when it comes to project experience with a deeper insight, a period of 3 months or more makes sense.
Volunteers must have liability and health insurance in their home country!
Right now we need help with gardening and all sorts of outsidework like making firewood, collecting rocks from our fields, preparing the meadows and grassland for the sheep, working with a brush cutter to clean the land, take care for the animals and lots of other things.
The next main building projects are gonna be: renovating our main house! Laying tiles (floor and walls) For that work you have to be a professional!
We love people who can cook well and like to prepare good meals and share recipes :)
So if you are interested in working with us we would be more than happy to share our knowledge with you :-)
Please tell us your intentions for why you do workaway and inform us about your skills and what you expect from your stay.
Sprachen
Gesprochene Sprachen
Deutsch: Fließend
Englisch: Fließend
Niederländisch: Fließend
Portugiesisch: GrundkenntnisseDieser Gastgeber bietet Sprachaustausch an
We'd love to learn Portuguese.
Unterkunft
We are in the lucky situation to be able to use the guest house of our friend just up the hill. It is a fully furnished, warm and clean house with almost everything you could wish for.
Was noch ...
We are non-smokers and appreciate not to have too much smoking directly around us ;)
We do the grocery shopping for the week. The Volunteers always have breakfast on their own. We will have either lunch or dinner together and the other meal is then again seperately. We eat mostly vegetables, but also some meat (our own sheep and chicken).
Vegan meals can not be provided unless you want to take care of your own food preparation.
An overland bus (rede-expressos.pt) runs several times a day daily from Lisbon to Odemira (12km away).
The closest train station is Santa Clara/Sabóia (25km away).
On agreement we could pick you up at either place.
Etwas mehr Information
Internet Zugang
Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang
Wir besitzen Tiere
Wir sind Raucher
Familien möglich
Kann Digital Nomads unterbringen
We can provide 4G at the moment via WiFi in the house where you stay.
Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans
Dieser Gastgeber bietet Platz für Wohnmobile.
Kapazität - wie viele Workawayer maximal
mehr als zwei
Meine Tiere/Haustiere
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Both worked well with all sorts of different tasks like building fences, concrete work on little walls, cleaning the land with a brushcutter, removing large weeds in the pasture with a pickaxe, lawnmowing in… read more
Each morning, I had breakfast in my own house up the hill, then met Yves to start the day's work. My main task was weeding and preparing garden beds for spring, layering different soils and compost. On rainy days, I painted inside their new house. Lunch was… read more
Frey was punctual and did the best she could in all the tasks we gave her. Even physically hard work she did.
Also she offerd her sewing skills which made Ilka… read more
She is a hard worker and loved to do real physical garden and forest work. Her handling with the animals was very… read more
During my stay, I… read more
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Both worked well with all sorts of different tasks like building fences, concrete work on little walls, cleaning the land with a brushcutter, removing large weeds in the pasture with a pickaxe, lawnmowing in… read more
Each morning, I had breakfast in my own house up the hill, then met Yves to start the day's work. My main task was weeding and preparing garden beds for spring, layering different soils and compost. On rainy days, I painted inside their new house. Lunch was… read more
Frey was punctual and did the best she could in all the tasks we gave her. Even physically hard work she did.
Also she offerd her sewing skills which made Ilka… read more
She is a hard worker and loved to do real physical garden and forest work. Her handling with the animals was very… read more
During my stay, I… read more
From the moment they arrived it clicked and we really had a marvelous 7 weeks together.
No matter what work had to be done, Jarla + Hannes went the extra mile to get it done as well as possible. As large… read more
Sadly she had to leave earlier than planned for family reasons.
We hope she finds a good place to use… read more
We enjoyed having you around!
It's always different if a volunteer is free like a bird with an own car. So we felt very much at ease with you, since you were able to explore the neighborhood all by yourself in your free time.
We hope you can find… read more
thank you for giving us your time and energy for four weeks. You were a big help with all the different tasks you were doing. A mostly quiet person, but when you say something it's funny and open minded. It was a pleasure to host you, have nice conversations, meals, laughs or fun time at the big campfire.
We wish you all the best for… read more
Thank you for an enriching exchange of food, knowledge, ideas, good talks and laughs. You are both hard working and full of curiosity. The time with you around was flying. So many… read more
Also she helped cleaning the guesthouse and preparing food. We had inspiring conversations and good laughs… read more
We had good talks and some nice times together.
All the best to you, Ingrid, and thank you for your time and hands.
We had a very good time with him. He is a fast learner, good working and a nice person to be around with. He is respectful to everybody and eager to learn new skills. He helped to cover a metal container with wood, cleaned the land from cut out trees and got used to working… read more
Only the language was sometimes a bit of a barrier, since his English is… read more
I really liked your little paradise, pure and beautiful nature around and the idea of creating community with your neighbours. In general, the idea of living close… read more
All the best to you.
We did miss getting in real touch with her though, because she was in a difficult phase with herself at that… read more
Thank… read more
As a person he is quiet but very interested in everything and a nice partner for good conversations. All the best to you… read more
Tausend Dank! :)
Sophie
The 4 weeks you stayed were the best! You were such a great help in any way. Gardening, cleaning, cooking, working in the wood, having great conversations and laughing together.
We don't regret a second to have welcomed you in our lives. We really hope to see you again one day.
♡ Ilka + Yves
The 4 1/2 months you stayed with us were very valuable and precious for us! You were such a great help with your very special skills of being able to work with an excavator. We also enjoyed having great conversations with you and laughing together.
We don't regret a second to have welcomed you in our lives. We… read more
I had my first workaway experience with Ilka and Yves in March/ April 2016 and I had a very great time there!
I really enjoy thinking back to all the different kinds of work and what I´ve learned through that but also thinking back to the good time we spent together:… read more
We had lots of cooking-fun together and many good laughs as well.
Marlene, all the best to you and we'd be happy… read more
We are glad, that he will come back again!!!… read more
All the best to finding your way of life!!! Thank you Michael
