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URGENT: Looking for help to build our outdoorkitchen!
We are looking for strong, motivated people, best with some building experiences. Since I'm pregnant and my husband has an injured arm, our progress is quite slow ;)
here are our details:
You like to be deep in nature with the feeling to be far away from the civilisation and you are keen on landwork and putting your hands in the earth? then you are right here :)
We are Johanna (32), my husband Maro (40) and our son Janko ( 4) + our friendly dogs Maya and Momo, our cats canelo and Morla and 5 chicken and we are living nearby the village Marmelete (Sierra de Monchique/West Algarve) in the mountains of a beautiful nature reserve on 37,5 ha big land, that we are bought together with 10 other people. For now, here are living 9 adults and 7 children. We are living together like a village, that means, we are not a tight community, it's more like everybody creates and shapes his own living spaces and we do things together, where it happens naturally, where it's necessary or where is common interest.
We're living here off-grid, so you reach the land only by a mudroad (~3km). On the land we settled in a beautiful valley where a brook and small river are meeting, surrounded by beautiful nature. We live in a geodetic dome and have our little vegetable garden in front. Our live looks like that we are starting our work when the sun is crawling over the hill and finish when it's getting dark, all week.
I take mainly care for the garden, the animals and the household and our child.
Maro's subject is the landshaping and he is a really gifted allround handcrafter, so by working with him you can learn a lot, while he is also always happy for new input.
Our diet is mainly vegetarian/vegan (with some exceptions from time to time, no cowmilk products). I buy our veggies and fruits at the local farmers market and more and more is coming from our own garden. And I bake yummy sourdough bread :) milk products are all selfmade from the goatmilk of our neighbours, who are hiking sheperds. We will be happy to share our lunch and dinner with you (but sure, we provide you also breakfast).
We don't have a bathroom yet, so you need to wash yourself out of a bowl or heat up the bathoven for our outdoor bathtube, or take a refreshing bath in little lake or in the river, or use the garden shower. Make sure to bring only ecological soap stuff, if you need. We are using only bigarbonate for washing, and If You're happy with using bicarbonate, we can provide this
As we are living in the valley, here is no mobile phone reception (only up the hill), but you can use are satellite internet
our dirt road is partly steepy and in the rainy wintertime hard accesable for normal cars and campervans. so if you come here with an own vehicle and have the fate that there is a rain period, you need to expect that you are stuck here for a while. If this is too much adventure for you, you can also park your car outside the land close to the mainroad, from there it us about 35-45min walk to us.
Usually i'm driving out to the civilisation to aljezur once a week on saturday to buy vegetables, and go to the café afterwards, so on saturday you would have the possibility to spend some time in aljezur meanwhile.
We can create the working time freely and are open for your needs for freetime.
We would be happy to host people who have already at least a little experience in landwork, who are fast learning, and able to work on their own.
We speak german and english and me a little portuguese
Sounds all good for you? We are looking foward your message :)
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
On our place you can experience proper off grid life. Here is no street noise, no air pollution, no light pollution. A place where you can take a rest of the rush of the world.
Our goal is to live as much as possible self sustainable life, but still quite a way to go there ;) at least we're trying to buy as few as possible industrial made food. Also we recycle a lot of things and try to avoid plastic.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
these are the current things to do on our place:
-Extend the chicken area
-build an outdoor kitchen
-free the land from bushes
-finish the roof of the bycicle shelter
and many other little things :)
Optional if you speak german: taking care for our son
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Portuguese: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
Accomondation is our cosy campervan we lived in for 5 years before we moved in the dome. there you have a big bed in the alcove, a gas stove for cooking and a wood stove for heating. we still store some things there, so it might happen that we need to come in there from time to time
What else ...
The next village (Marmelete) with three little shops, two bars, a post office, petrol station and a multibanco is about 10km (20minutes by car) away.
The next bigger village is Aljezur which has a lovely typical portuguese old town and nice bars and restaurants. here you can find also supermarkets and public washing machines and biological shops. It's 30 minutes by car, and from there it's about 15 minutes by car to the beautiful westcoast.
To the sierra de monchique it's about 45 min by car. Monchique is also a very nice town to see and just next to it you can drive (or go) up to the Foia, the biggest mountain in the area where you have a magnificent view all over the algarve and where you can drink the famous monchique spring water
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
If you come with a campervan, make sure you have good driving skills. The plot we're you can park has no facilities yet. but sure you can use our lovely compost toilet :)
Can possibly accept pets
You can bring your dog if he/she is easy with other dogs, cats , chicken and children
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximal 4-5 Stunden am Tag, 4-5 tage die Woche
