Join our permaculture farm and learning community on Madeira island, Portugal

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  Beschreibung

  OUR STORY
  Eight years ago our founder Markus began restoring an abandoned terraced valley in Tábua, Ribeira Brava. What started as one person rebuilding stone walls has flourished into a 7-hectare permaculture farm and intentional community on Madeira’s sunny south-west coast.
  
  WHO WE ARE TODAY
  • 3 resident adults, and an ever-changing circle of volunteers
  • A menagerie of cows, pigs, chickens, ducks, dogs, bees—and the wild birds that visit our food-forest edges
  • Multilingual household (English, German, Portuguese, Spanish) that enjoys shared meals.
  
  OUR VISION
  We exist to demonstrate and teach regenerative living. That means:
  – Natural building projects using cob, SuperAdobe and reclaimed wood
  – Holistic animal care with daily rotational grazing and compost systems that close the nutrient loop
  – Self-directed education for the kids, with volunteers welcome to share skills or languages
  
  WHY COME?
  If you’d like to swap screens for soil, learn hands-on permaculture or test your natural-building muscles—while living in a friendly off-grid valley ten minutes from the sea—you’ll fit right in here. We share knowledge freely, cook hearty vegetarian food, celebrate successes and laugh at our mistakes.

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  Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

  Kunstprojekte

  Hilfe bei Ökoprojekten

  Gartenarbeiten

  Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten

  Betreuung von Tieren

  Mithilfe auf einem Bauernhof

  Zubereiten / Kochen von Mahlzeiten für die Familie

  Handwerkliche Arbeiten
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  Interessengebiete

  

  LGBTQ

  

  Events & Sozialleben

  

  Vegetarier / Veganer

  

  Nachhaltigkeit

  

  Haustiere

  

  Kultur

  

  Leben im Camper-Van

  

  Selbstentwicklung

  

  Farmarbeit

  

  Gärtnern

  

  Musik

  

  Heimwerken & DIY

  

  Bücher

  

  Kunst & Design

  

  Fotografie

  

  Sprachen

  

  Gartenarbeiten

  

  Kochen & Backen

  

  Architektur

  

  Zeichnen & Malen

  

  Tischlerarbeiten

  

  Tiere

  

  Yoga / Wellness

  

  Natur

  

  Camping

  

  Tanzen

  

  Gebirge

  

  Strand

  

  Outdoor-Aktivitäten

  

  Wandern
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  Was ist das?
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  Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

  Living at this place is an immersion into Madeiran village life and hands-on permaculture. You’ll:
  
  • Learn practical regenerative skills – compost making, food-forest design, natural building (cob & earthbag), holistic animal care.
  • Experience community living – weekly circles, consensus decision-making.
  
  • Share knowledge both ways – volunteers often teach yoga, music, languages or fermentation.
  
  • Explore outdoors – we map secret levada trails, cliff-top sunsets and surf spots, and lend camping gear for weekend adventures.
  
  • Language & culture exchange – practice Portuguese with locals & residents.
  
  Whether you’re a novice gardener or seasoned builder, you’ll leave with a toolkit of regenerative practices, new friendships that span continents.

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  Projekte mit Kindern

  Dieses Projekt schließt möglicherweise den Umgang mit Kindern ein. Mehr Informationen findest du in unseren Verhaltensregeln und Tipps hier.

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  Arbeit

  ☘️ YEAR-ROUND CORE TASKS
  • Animal care – morning feed/water, moving cows to fresh pasture, checking eggs, muck-out and bedding change.
  • Food-forest maintenance – mulching, pruning, turning compost, planting support species.
  • Community chores – keeping common areas tidy, sorting recycling, weekly infrastructure day (tool shed, water lines, compost toilets).
  
  🌱 FEB–OCT (GARDEN SEASON)
  • Preparing and maintaining garden beds, sowing & transplanting seedlings, daily harvest and post-harvest washing.
  • Building compost systems (thermophilic hot piles, Johnson-Su bioreactors).
  
  🏗️ NOV–MAR (NATURAL BUILDING SEASON)
  • Landscaping terraces with stone and living retaining walls.
  
  🍲 KITCHEN & COMMUNITY
  • Help cook a vegetarian communal lunch and wash up.
  • Fermentation projects – sourdough, kombucha, kefir – if you’re keen.
  
  ⌚ TIME COMMITMENT & RHYTHM
  Approx. 25 h/week, Monday–Friday. We usually start at 09:00, finish by 13:00 so you have free afternoons to explore or rest. Tasks rotate so you won’t be doing the same job every day.
  
  🤝 WHO FITS WELL
  • Physically able for outdoor, hands-on work (terrain is steep).
  • Communicates clearly in English (other languages welcome).
  • Enjoys community living, takes initiative and respects shared spaces.
  • No prior farm or building experience needed—we teach everything.
  
  What you contribute keeps the farm thriving; what you learn can travel with you anywhere in the world!

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  Gesprochene Sprachen

  Deutsch: Fließend
  Englisch: Fließend
  Italienisch: Fließend
  Lithuanian: Fließend
  Portugiesisch: Fließend

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  Unterkunft

  Volunteers are accommodated in the two converted container bedrooms, they come with beds & all bedding provided, although we do recommend you bring your own sleeping bag.
  
  Accommodation on the land, use of shared facilities (kitchen, bathrooms, laundry etc) and vegetarian meals are provided to all volunteers. During workdays Mon-Fri, at 13:00 lunch is served in the shared kitchen area, by our resident farm cook.
  For breakfast and dinner, and also during the weekends, everybody manages independently. The kitchen space can be used for preparing meals, storing food etc. Usually, it's our social space, and we get together to cook and share food and laughs.

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  Was noch ...

  Madeira island (& island of Porto Santo) is part of the Macaronesian bio-region, with mild sub-tropical climate, dramatic landscape of volcanic origin, and endemic Laurisilva forest- an UNESCO world heritage site.
  In your free time, there's abundant hiking trails all around the island, black sand beaches and swimming spots to explore, cultural events and a rich digital nomads & expats community to connect with.If you'd like to understand the process of designing your own project or joining a larger community, we're happy to share what we've learned so far about project design, community management, Permaculture farming, soil & water management, animal caring, bio-housing, alternative education etc.

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  Etwas mehr Information

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    Internet Zugang

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    Eingeschränkter Internet Zugang

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    Wir besitzen Tiere

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    Wir sind Raucher

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    Familien möglich

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  Kann Digital Nomads unterbringen

  We manage independently with the internet, some of us have MIFI/ pocket wifi device, it's a portable mini-router that gives you wifi on the go, it worked for us so far. The shared kitchen area can be used for computer work, it has a seating area indoors & outdoors, and most of the time there will wifi available there.

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  Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

  Campers, caravans, motorhomes, more than welcome- 7 hectares of land you waiting for you.

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