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Description
We are a family with 3 children : 16, 13 and 8 years old.
We are on a beautiful place near Aljezur, Algarve.
We are living in wooden cabin and yurt in the middle of the nature.
We have a simple life, with the goal of getting clother to self-sufficiency, experimenting, human permaculture, trying to live non violent communication, connecting with the nature and the present moment.
We practice bio, ecological gardening with vegetables and fruit trees, self ecological simple buildings.
We have 2 dogs (australian shepard), a cat and chickens.
But we are a very normal family ! Don't have to much expectatives, we are not perfect 😀😀😀
Fanny is naturopath, working at home.
Luis is electrician, specialist in solar energy.
We are both passionate by our work.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Babysitting and creative play
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We are mixte french portuguese family, living in Portugal after travelling around the world.
We like to share about our experience and knowledge about simple life, naturopathy, natural health, solar electricity, rawfood, gardenning, permaculture, traditional local agriculture, travelling, attachement parenting...
We are passionate by life, plants, herbalism, we produce essential oils, and many DIY.
Luis is electrician, specialised in solar energy, solar systems.
Fanny is naturopath, natural health.
We are living connecting to the Nature, the Mother Earth.
We love music, playing guitar, clarinete, draw, playing games, pic nic at the beach...
The children enjoy join to play, learn skills, chat... 🌿
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We are looking for people who would like to help us on our new paradise : cleaning the land, building, gardening, helping at home etc....
Someone independant with autonomy and creativity that can work alone, in group and like the children's company would be nice !
We offer you to share our family life and we hope you will enjoy to spend time with our family.
(Who wants to make party, we are not the best place 😀)
There is always some work of cleaning, gardening, maintenance of the installations and maintenance on the place and of course playing with the children !
Help with children is always welcome : playing, sharing knowledges and experiences, playing music, video making.
If you want to be close to nature, experimenting a simple life with a family, Welcome !
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Fluent
Portuguese: Fluent
German: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
Our girls want to learn italian, german and others languages
Accommodation
Welcome with your own van.
For summer period, we have a beautiful nomad tent with matress in the middle of nature !
We share a compost toilet and an outside Solar shower (Cold if not enough sun).
We have a very simple way of life, that's mean with less confort but lot of nature !
We can share 2 meals during working days in our open kitchen and be independant for other meals (we provide basics food)
We will adapt according to the needs of each one.
Very flexible, almost vegetarian at home, but we can eat sometimes meat.
We are eating almost rawfood.
What else ...
no smooker, no drugs, no pets.
We would be happy to receive help to our natural nest in Aljezur 🍃
Gratitude 🌿
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
As Fanny is working online, we have to share the access, and Internet.
Space for parking camper vans
Access is via a dirt road, but ok. Welcome with your van 👍
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Around 4H / day with 2 or 3 days off
Feedback (11)
You have shown us a new way to live and you have given us the opportunity to see the world with different eyes.
For this we want to thank you once again and tell you what wonderful people you are.
The place is beautiful,… read more
They totally adapt to our family life style, in nature !
They were positive, they worked well (oiling wooden houses, cleaning land...), they played xith our children and teach them italian while playing, chatting.
They were really interesting by our way of life, good vibes and nuce guys 👍🙏
We… read more
She spend one month at home, sharing with our daughters and with us.
She helps in the garden, colecting and preparing, with the children, cleaning and mooving home, and she really help me for my communication on internet !
We shared a lot about food and she really adapted to our raw diet.
We miss… read more
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You have shown us a new way to live and you have given us the opportunity to see the world with different eyes.
For this we want to thank you once again and tell you what wonderful people you are.
The place is beautiful,… read more
They totally adapt to our family life style, in nature !
They were positive, they worked well (oiling wooden houses, cleaning land...), they played xith our children and teach them italian while playing, chatting.
They were really interesting by our way of life, good vibes and nuce guys 👍🙏
We… read more
She spend one month at home, sharing with our daughters and with us.
She helps in the garden, colecting and preparing, with the children, cleaning and mooving home, and she really help me for my communication on internet !
We shared a lot about food and she really adapted to our raw diet.
We miss… read more
I would repeat again and I really recommend you the experience.
Muchas gracias familia, volveremos a… read more
She was enthousiastic descovering everything at home and never juging, what we really appreciate.
We are really happy to met Nina and spend 2 weeks together, discovering also from her culture, country,… read more
I stayed in Fanny's and Luis' home for two weeks where I mostly did activities with the children and house work.
I had a very good connection with the kids and appreciated spending time with them, and getting to know their different personalities. We did everything from swimming to Harry Potter games to… read more
They are easy going, we all feel very comfortable with them.
They were helping on the garden, they spend time with the children and they were active to help at home (cleaning, organising, deashing, cooking...)
We spend nice moment speaking about travelling, children, life, sustainability,… read more
Fanny, Luis, Alya, Zia, Aymara (and Nazca!!!) we absolutely loved meeting you and we miss you already!! We left your beautiful home over a month ago and we still can't stop talking about it!!!
Luis spent a lot of time with us teaching us sooo many things about permaculture,… read more
He is active, helping, easy going and adaptable.
He helps to build, play with the children, cleaning at home. He is a very good italian cooker :fork_and_knife:
Thank you very much !
You can also learn a lot about their views and way of life, I… read more
She adapted really quickly to our way.
She is an active girl, responsable, calm and we appreciate that she was pro active, not waiting for direction to make activities with the girls, dishing, cleaning or help at home.
She is very sincere and our 3 daughters enjoyed this time with her… read more
We had a very good time together.
They connected easily and sincerely with us and especially with our daughters and the dog.
They are not afraid to work, they helped gardening, dishing, taking care of the land, cutting bamboo etc... they adapted easily of our simple way of life.
We had very nice talk,… read more
The girls are just wonderful, very sweet, with big imaginations. I really enjoyed spending time with them. Thank you Alya, Zia… read more
Danielle was interesting about unschooling and Non violent communication. NVC.
She participates actively and naturally in the daily activities and she quickly developed a confident relationship with the children by the game. She helps… read more
Our daughters were happy to share time with her, and we had good conversations about the life.
Alice is a nice womam who integrate easily in our family.
