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Learn to prepare a veggie garden in central Portugal

Availability

  2025 

 Min stay requested: at least 3 weeks

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  • Description

    Description

    Hi,

    For March & April 2025
    We are hoping for someone ( a couple or 2 single people) to help us with our annual Spring cleaning and preparing the Veg garden during March & April please. Inside the house all surfaces needs a wet wipe to remove dust, dirt and spiderwebs. There are also loads of windows that needs cleaning.

    In the garden, there is plenty of pruning, weeding and spitting to soil over to prep it for planting the seedlings out.
    We have a private room with en-suite bathroom for your use.

    For mid June, July, Aug & Sep
    We have an organic Veg garden, supplying us with plenty of fresh veggies during summer, we use drip pipes for daily watering, but the taps needs to be opened manually for 30 mins for each plot, plus watering the other gardens with a hose pipe and some by watering can.
    Apart from this there will be various small general cleaning jobs , like removing leaves from the swimming pool, etc, to make up the 5 hrs because we will be in the kitchen all day long cooking for the retreats we are hosting.

    We have a private room with a double bed and shared bathroom for your use.

    Your help will be appreciated, enthusiastic and self-aware people will be welcome to come and give us a hand in exchange for good home made food and your own room. We ask 5 hrs a day, 5 days /week, and we will provide all your food for 7 days/week.

    We also have a cat & 2 dogs.

    The house/farm is isolated in a small valley and you need a car to get to the next small town (10 mins) or lake (5 mins) and surrounded by manned Eucalyptus forests. You could catch a flight to Lisbon, then a 2 hr train to Tomar, where we can pick you up by car if possible, otherwise you can take a bus to our local village; Cernache do Bonjardim where we can pick you up.

    Smoking only outside the house. We are Vegetarians and although we grow organic fruit & Veg, we cant buy it locally while ours are not grown yet.

    Looking forward to hear from you.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Gardening
    Farmstay help
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    We prefer to think of our helpers as visitors to long lost uncles, 😁 we want you to feel at home and share your experiences and lifestyle with us and visa versa, we love to chat about deep things in life, but when we work, we do it with equal passion and commitment.
    However, we will be very busy in the kitchen during this time, so spending quality time getting to know each other will be limited.

  • Help

    Help

    We are looking for self disciplined person or couple to help us right now (March, April, May) with Spring cleaning and Gardening to get the Veg patch ready for planting this year's seedlings please.

    Main job during summer months (Mid June, July, Aug & Sep) is to water the gardens, but also cleaning the pool for 5 mins a few times a day and various small jobs. There will be retreat running during this period, so there will be many amazing guests in the property to get to know.

  • Languages spoken

    Afrikaans: Fluent
    German: Fluent
    English: Fluent
    Portuguese: Beginner

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    A 100 year + old Manor house, with some outbuildings and courtyard. It has a lot of character and we think a very nice vibe. All rooms on 1st floor are en-suite
    We have an organic Veg garden, supplying us with plenty of fresh veggies during summer.

    The house is isolated in a little valley and you need a car to get to the next small town (10 mins) or lake (5 mins) and surrounded by manned Eucalyptus forests.

    3 healthy Meals a day, main meal for dinner

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    We are located on a farm. You would need a car to reach any shops. You are obviously welcome to join us when we go shopping.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    we live on a farm

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    Two

Host ref number: 224686428212

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