Join us with our eco project in Celavisa, Portugal

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  Description

  Bom dia, Tudo bem?
  Welcome to our advert! - I’m Cate from 🇬🇧 , he’s Rob from New Zealand 🇳🇿
  
  We live in a traditional Portuguese village, surrounded by nature ,olive and orange trees with 3 cats and 3 hens & bee hives
  If you are curious to learn about living foods, raw veganism, are honest and open minded, non smoker, vegan or vegetarian we look forward to hearing from you!
  Help with the permaculture garden, digging swales, a pond, planting food crops and harvesting olives
  
  We welcome people who are keen to prepare healthy meals, juices, smoothies, salads and dressings and wash the plates with enthusiasm
  
  About the location, we live in an isolated mountain village, we have internet and there are places to treck from the doorstep -there are only two of us and we are usually busy working on projects, you will be expected to entertain yourself during free time. With the exeptions of when we go to town for nights out or to the markets, volunteers usually come along
  
  As a manifestor generator myself curious to know what you are? All required is date of birth, place of birth and time you were born
  
  Thanks

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Art Projects

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance
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  Interests

  

  Politics / Social justice

  

  Events & social

  

  Sustainability

  

  Vegetarian or vegan

  

  Self development

  

  Music

  

  Books

  

  Photography

  

  Carpentry

  

  Animals

  

  Cycling

  

  Beach

  

  Architecture

  

  Art & design

  

  DIY & crafts

  

  Plant care

  

  Languages

  

  Gardening

  

  Cooking & food

  

  Yoga / Wellness

  

  Nature

  

  Dancing
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  What you put in makes the difference to what you will experience with us, we live as a small community when there is a small group of individuals who are working, living, eating and sharing life experiences together we become family for a short time. We are open to language exchange, practice your English with us!
  
  Learn how to live within a community construct, non violent communication - being clear, open and honest in all transactions.
  
  We offer space to create, space to just be yourself!
  Spaces are available for you to make art, play music, practice yoga, wild swim, food forage, ramble over the hills..
  Work can be used as a meditation, focusing on the task to the best of your ability, the outcome is an offering to the next person who comes to stay a while..
  
  We can teach how to make life force foods from simple ingredients, such as plant based milks, healthy sweet treats, soups and salads from raw vegetables, nuts and seeds! Learn how to select herbs from the garden to make vibrant healing teas.
  Learn about bee keeping, honey is collected in the month of September
  
  I can teach you how to make natural plaster from lime and sand, also clay and show you how to apply to walls to a good standard
  We can show you how to make natural cleaning products from a few basic items
  
  Learn how to grow food on a terraced garden, using traditional Portuguese gardening tools!
  Relax in the hammock, or on the sun terrace during the summer months
  
  During Autumn there may be an opportunity to harvest olives with the Portuguese families in the village, helpers get to join us for a day at the olive press to see the olives being processed into oil.
  Spend time with our friendly cats, hens and ducks - collect fresh eggs, and organic produce from the gardens
  
  Consider rising at 6.00am morning meditation and yoga before you start your day!
  
  Bring yourself, your ideas and inspirations we are looking forward to learning from you also

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  Help

  Help dismantling a dry stone wall in a garden, placing stones in groups of size in order to re build the wall using traditional dry stone or clay methods, there may be other tasks such as helping make food, cleaning or light gardening, there is always something different to do on a daily basis, pick and chose a task for the day that feels inviting

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  Languages spoken

  English: Fluent
  Portuguese: Beginner

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  Accommodation

  Private room in a village house, double or adult size single bed with mountain views.

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  What else ...

  Information for volunteers - getting here
  What we ask of you during your stay, no chemicals please!
  Use the toilet bin for all waste paper no matter what!
  Kitchen etiquette for all to avoid tension over unwashed plates
  
  Welcome to our world in a tiny hamlet in the hills of Adcasal, another World in the midst of nature, wild, rugged and free. Up you health routine, work hard, play hard!
  
  We look forward to sharing our lives with you for a short or 'longer period of time', depending how we get along and if we share a vision for creating a better environment together!
  
  If you are taking public transport our nearest City is Porto
  From Coimbra - Bus Terminal Rodoviário de Coimbra → Moita da Serra -free wifi at Café Paisanas next to the bus stop
  
  is a great resource for arranging travel
  
  
  
  Personal care: We are building a vermicomposter toilet system, this means worms do to work on the waste from the solid waste from the toilets. To keep the worms healthy they must be protected from chemicals, most supermarket shampoo conditioner is highly perfumed and laden with chemicals toxic to plants and animals as well as to humans. Please only use bio products during your stay if unavailable, please inform me if this is an issue.
  
  No high street perfume, body spray or hair products to be used while volunteers stay in our home- why is this important? These products are loaded with toxic chemicals which are airborn and released into the atmosphere, some of us are highly sensitive and cannot tolerate to be around it, sorry!
  
  Household duties - dishes, pots and pans are the responsibility of all volunteers, stick to the rota, the work top should be clear and clean for the next person to use. Volunteers avoiding there fair share of tidying and cleaning up after meal times will be asked to leave.
  
  
  Portuguese houses have a bin next to the toilet, why because the toilet paper blocks up the pipework and causes blockages!
  Call out fees to unblock 300 euros,. please don't be the person who blocks up the toilet waste system. Toilet paper goes in the bins provided.
  Nights out, we go to town at the weekends for local music events, any parties, gatherings, dances - your invited too
  
  The fun stuff..
  
  Day markets - Thursdays Arganil, locals sell Portugues baskets, fruit and vegetables, dairy - Thursday evenings we sometimes go to Jam night at our local bar
  
  Fridays - Karaoke night at our favorite local Kikos place Arganil
  Saturdays - dancing or other events depending on whats happening locally, it's up to volunteers to make suggestions
  Sundays - Swimming at the local river beach and waterfall - - are you ready for the Wim Hoff challenge during Autumn and Winter

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  My animals / pets

  

  Nárnia (1 year)

  Narnia

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