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We are Pedro and Nádia that started this agriculture project in 2012 when we returned to Pedro's birth town (Bragança) and wanted to revive the abandoned family lands.
Our family grew last years and we have with us Afonso (born in 2013) and Gaspar (born in 2016).
We have several interests and the farm is very diverse:
- Bees, polinization and honey
- Condiment herbs
- Mushrooms
- small and wild fruits
- Vegetables inside and outside greenhouse
- Fruit trees
- Ecological construction
Altough years pass, we still feel in an implementation phase so we are happy to receive anyone who want to share and help to build this project.
Our inspiration is permaculture and we try to learn and help nature.
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT OUR AVILABILITY
The farm is not financialy sustainable so we must have also other occupations.
Depending on the period, we might not be available a lot of hours a day or even every days. Talk to us about this if its an issue for you.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Interests
Self development
Sustainability
Vegetarian or vegan
Videography
Technology
Politics / Social justice
Culture
Farming
DIY & crafts
Music
Plant care
Languages
Gardening
Drawing & painting
Carpentry
Astronomy
Art & design
Yoga / Wellness
Nature
Mountain
Cycling
Hiking
Camping
Beach
Adventure sports
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We can share our agriculture project, help you to know the northeast of Portugal, share our points of view and challenges. Take you to the mountain river and other interesting places in the area.
Teach you a bit of Portuguese and organic farming.
People that will enjoy this volunteering (at least they should match one of this):
- Like nature (We are in a few population natural park)
- Dont mind to be in a very quite place in a very small village (The house is in a village with 20 people, 5km from a small town)
- Want to learn about ecological farming (mostly vegetable anf fruit garden)
- Want to have an experience in agriculture
- Are not afraid to be alone or with others (sometimes we are 10 sometimes there is only 1 person in the house)
- Who want to lean portuguese
Help
We are not a business. What we produce is for ourselves or to trade with people.
We are not financially sustainable, so we cannot pay you for your help. Also thats not the spirit.
The help we need is to maintain the house, the garden and everything arround this idea of sustainable farm.
The tasks can be very diverse and change along the year and we are happy reschedule our agenda if you want to work in a specific issue (if its possible for us)
All the work is volunteer, so you only participateon the tasks you feel confortable in helping with. The idea is that you pass a confortable time here., so we'll organize the tasks together.
Our inspiration is permaculture. Our dream is to have an off-grid, self sustainable farm tha we can share with others.
The is a lot of ideas and we are open to anybody that wants to help. Help with ideas, help with maintenance, help with anything arround this idea
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Portuguese: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
French: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
Nádia loves languages..
Accommodation
We live in the city, 5km from the farm
We have a 'new' old house in the vilage near the farm that is for the volunteers so you can have some independence. But we'll try to organize things together and share at least some meals from those some will be also in our house in the city.
The house in the vilage is a typical and simple village house with a fireplace, kitchen, bathroom, living room, dinning room (used currently as storage) and 4 bedrooms. There is also a balcony with a nice view.
FOOD
The meals are prepared by the volunteers for the volunteers. Usually we take turns in cooking so we can enjoy each culture flavours. But this depend a lot on the group. Some people are more individualistic others the oposite. But we want to promote comunitarian living.
We have a vegetarian diet but you are free to add anything you want to it at your responsibility.
The group meals should meet everyone's diet, but at the volunteers house, the volunteers decide.
BIKES
The house has bikes for the volunteers that sometimes need some maintenance. Can be one of the task we need help
What else ...
Its usualy dificult to write everything and to keep this webpage up to date, so feel free to contact us.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have very a good internet connections and we allways try to define the schedule acording to your needs.
Space for parking camper vans
space is not an issue. We have a village house with garden arround and also all the farm.
Can possibly accept pets
This host has said they are willing to accept those travelling with a pet.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
My animals / pets
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She is hardworking, allways willing to help and pro-active in all activities.
Hope you stay in Portugal and we can meet again.
Wish you the best
For sure one of the best volunteers we had.
Wish you the best
He passed by when traveling by bike and it was very nice for us to meet him.
Allways willing to help and he has the power to turn all the days joyfull.
We had nice conversations about a lot of things and i hope everything goes well in your travel and we meet again some time.
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She is hardworking, allways willing to help and pro-active in all activities.
Hope you stay in Portugal and we can meet again.
Wish you the best
For sure one of the best volunteers we had.
Wish you the best
He passed by when traveling by bike and it was very nice for us to meet him.
Allways willing to help and he has the power to turn all the days joyfull.
We had nice conversations about a lot of things and i hope everything goes well in your travel and we meet again some time.
It was our first Workaway ecpierience and we didn’t know what to expect, but Pedro, his family and the other volunteers made us feel very welcome and now we’re… read more
I’m sorry i couldn’t get to you before. I wanted to thank you for the experiences, so enriching, i had in Oleirinhos.
I recall with special pleasure the warm atmosphere of those who were there (Miguel, Martin, Paula, Johan, Gui, Sara, lauren...) Each one contributed with what they could (Cooking, starting a good fire, cleaning,… read more
She's a happy person that contaminates her surroundings with her enthusiasm.
Good luck on your adventures!
Hope you are well in your next adventure and that you visit some day!
I think we felt immediately comfortable since they have great sense of humor and are very easy to… read more
We could organise our day as we wanted and experienced a lot of different tasks : planting, watering, weeding, picking, making veggie beds, doing seedlings, helping with bees...
The house is spacious, has a great view from the balcony, bikes to use in the garage and a working washing… read more
She is a very nice person. Polite, helpfull, easygoing and know how to be in a group.
Wish you the best on your jorney and you are welcome here anytime
Our door is open for you, anytime :)
They are very educated, helpfull, organized...
We had very interesting coonversations and although we were in a very unorganized phase they manage to decide their own way of helping and help to push our project forward.
We felt like they were friends.
Hope to keep in touch with you and you… read more
Even though I didn’t have much the chance to know about farming since I stayed there for a short time due to unexpected change of plan, they still showed me… read more
She was the first to arrive this season and I was really happy to share some time with her. Not only in working but also in talking about different subjects about a lot of things.
Very hardworker and allways ready to help you when needed, she's also very organized and very sweet.
I confess I was a bit said when you… read more
Alberto was one essential piece. His unique way of thinking was special to the philosofical aura of the group.
Only excelent things to say about Alberto. Easygoing, honest, cheerfull, ...
I'm happy that we keep in touch and i'm pretty shure that we'll meet again
wish you the best
So Laura was the last one to arrive in this amayzing group of summer 17. And she had to come because something was missing.
Hope we meet again and wish you the best for the future plans.
Hope we keep in touch
Great conversations, work well done, house more clean with you arround (usualy is the oposite with people arround).
Wish you the best for your next adventure and hope we'll meet again
She is very dedicated, always trying to help and to get things running better.
Its difficult to describe everything in words but i can highlight the tiramisu she made :D
I hope to see u again
wish you the best
Pedro really cares about your well being (eating well and enough + resting enough) and he knows how to receive people (he also receives couch surfers). By that I mean that he also wants you to discover the region of Tras os Montes so after working in the morning he might take… read more
