Join our family, help grow veggies and play with our daughter and dog in Santa Luzia, Portugal

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  Description

  Hello lovely workawayers!
  
  I'm Kim and living with my (Portuguese) partner Bruno and 2,5 year old daughter Ivy. We look over the Ria Formosa on a lovely spot in East Algarve.
  
  We have a garden company and during my pregnancy I picked up my old job online again (organising events and booking agency).
  
  We live at a big land with many fruit trees and I created many veggie beds in the past years.
  My passion is growing food and flowers, to feed ourselves and other around us. I did permaculture and agroforestry courses and I'm so eager to work more on the land to create food, flowers and herbs in abundance again.
  
  Because of our busy life my veggie garden is at the moment quite messy and really needs attention. I have many many many ideas but just not enough time to get it going. I also want to create space for chickens and maybe some other animals.
  
  In the weekends we love to go away with the van. To visit friends, go dancing (on one of our free parties that are organised by us/and our friends) of just go to the beach and/or stay in nature. If we don't leave with the van we/I go to markets, love to cook, doing sports and/or go for a nice walk somewhere.
  
  I come from the Netherlands and I have been told that we need to be independent but since my years here in Portugal, and since I have my daughter, I realize that it is even more important to live in community. There is a reason that they say 'it takes a village to raise a child'. I get that now. And although I don't ask for a village, it would be so nice to have someone who can help me in the garden, or with my daughter, or with daily tasks.
  
  So, that's why I made my profile here. I would love to meet a girl/woman who is interested in a peaceful life on a beautiful land with lots of potential. We have a caravan in which you can stay but you are also more then welcome in your own van. And spend some time with our little family.
  
  I would love to get in contact with you if you are interested or would like to know a bit more.
  
  Thank you for reading and reaching out and who knows what we can create together!
  
  Lots of love,
  Kim

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Light gardening

  Creative DIY projects

  Babysitting and creative play

  Help around the house
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  Interests

  

  Sustainability

  

  Van life

  

  Events & social

  

  Pets

  

  Farming

  

  Plant care

  

  Music

  

  Gardening

  

  DIY & crafts

  

  Cooking & food

  

  Animals

  

  Outdoor activities

  

  Nature

  

  Hiking

  

  Fitness

  

  Dancing

  

  Camping

  

  Beach
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  We can show you around in this area, learn you about garden work and life. Showing you the Portuguese lifestyle.

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  A female guest who would like to help me in the garden to let it flourish again and create a part of our daily meal. Or maybe you would be interested in helping me with my daughter and/or daily house tasks!
  We can make it as crazy as we want because the garden gives us all the possibilities of growing lots of things and creating projects which we enjoy!
  All the tasks are of course things for ourselves and not for any profitable activities!

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Dutch: Fluent
  Portuguese: Fluent

  This host offers a language exchange
  My partner is Portugese. I'm Dutch. Together we speak English. So all these languages can be used and exchanged
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  Accommodation

  You can stay in our caravan on our land. There is a little kitchen and bathroom (without toilet and shower). That you can use in our house.
  
  We will be sharing our kitchen and/or meals with you! This includes: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
  If you’d prefer to cook for yourself (sometimes), that’s also possible. We’ll share our ingredients with you. Both the campervan and the caravan have a kitchenette that guests are welcome to use.

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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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  Can host digital nomads

  If your work takes all day, it's for us not so interesting since I need help during the day. But if the work is not daily and can be done flexible, it's possible to combine.

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  Space for parking camper vans

  It's a piece of land and we can find you a nice spot. We can supply electricity till a certain usage.

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  Can possibly accept pets

  I guess we prefer no pets. Bút if you are really nice, we can think about it ;-) We have a dog (Thor) ourselves and we have a little girl walking around. So obviously it needs to be a pet that is kind for other dogs and children.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  My animals / pets

  

  Blackie

  

  Thor

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