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We are Catherine and Simon, our project involves the renovation of large farmhouse and 5 acres of surrounding land. Our aim is to create a retreat space for holistic practices like yoga and Qi Gong and creative workshops. We have been here for almost 6 years but there is still a lot to do, from remodelling and decorating work in the house, lots of sanding, filling and painting, to the up keep and maintenance of the land. We are very keen gardeners, and have an extensive ever expanding vegetable patch as well as a kitchen garden and medicinal herb beds. We have a natural swimming pool, that is self cleaning through the water garden planted along side and a wood powered hot tub. We enjoy cooking and love using produce straight from the garden, we have an outside kitchen with its own pizza oven. We have internet connection, a games room and an outside ping pong table. There are also plenty of nice walks and wild swimming spots in the local area, to explore. At the moment we are looking for help harvesting our olives, this involves pruning the trees and separating the olives for pressing for oil and preserving for eating.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Learning organic gardening methods, some medicinal plant knowledge, building and maintenance skills, composting.
Help
we are looking for some gardeners, also help with preserving ,pickling ,dehydrating and eating all our veg..
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Intermediate
Accommodation
We have a converted truck as a motorhome and caravan if you want more secluded accommodation.
What else ...
We are close to Aveiro, sea side town, 1 hour from Porto , also many beautiful walks and waterfalls near by.
Part of Aveiro is famous for the canals that run through it, bridges and beautiful painted boats called moliceiros, similar to the gondolas of Venice. For this reason, the city is called the "Portuguese Venice", although the comparison is obviously exaggerated.
The real charm of Aveiro lies in its coast, with its fantastic sandy beaches has São Jacinto, Barra and Costa Nova. This local coast is well known as Silver Coast, due to the beautifull and clean beaches.
Aveiro has humid wet temperate climate, coolish in the summer and not so cold in winter. November, December, and January make up the rainy season, while July and August are the driest months. Autumn and Winter tend to have strong coastal winds, excellent for kite or wind-surf, as well as amazing sailing conditions.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
Can possibly accept pets
Needs to be chicken friendly as our free roam
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
My animals / pets
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From the magic peaceful beauty of the place to the authentic, true kindness and generosity of the hosts. We are afraid we have been spoiled!
There is always a lot to do (and to learn) in the… read more
As there is a lot to do on Simon and Cath's quinta, they let us choose what we want to do most. We also could organise our working shifts by ourselves. We spent there almost two weeks.
We've been provided with a… read more
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From the magic peaceful beauty of the place to the authentic, true kindness and generosity of the hosts. We are afraid we have been spoiled!
There is always a lot to do (and to learn) in the… read more
As there is a lot to do on Simon and Cath's quinta, they let us choose what we want to do most. We also could organise our working shifts by ourselves. We spent there almost two weeks.
We've been provided with a… read more
it was pleasure to have 2 lovely people to come and help out.
Interesting work in the natural swimming pool and vegetable garden. Lots of laughs and good times. Great food. Catherine is a mine of… read more
