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Help with animals, land and home near Benfeita, Portugal

Availability

  2025 

 Min stay requested: at least 2 weeks

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  • Description

    Description

    You are welcome and id be grateful for your help to share in the care of my quinta, (farm/smallholding), on this beautiful land 10 minutes walk from the village of Benfeita.
    In return there's the opportunity to learn about off grid living, wild food and other useful skills, to immerse yourself in nature and deepen your awareness and practice of concious care of our precious Mother Earth
    If you’d seriously like and intend to help, you’re very welcome.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Help with Eco Projects
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Animal Care
    Farmstay help
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
    Help with Computers/ Internet
    House sitting
  • Interests

    Interests

    Vegetarian or vegan
    Sustainability
    Pets
    Farming
    Culture
    Writing
    Plant care
    Photography
    Performing arts
    Music
    Languages
    History
    Gardening
    Drawing & painting
    DIY & crafts
    Cooking & food
    Books
    Art & design
    Animals
    Yoga / Wellness
    Nature
    Dancing
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    The local villagers are warm hearted welcoming folk and my friends, so you can meet them and enjoy and learn from their agricultural, cultural, language roots, much of which they still live and honor. I also love to practice languages, and you can learn from the land through work experience and from skills that I offer - earth care, sustainable living, growing food organically, wild food, preserving, clay render, natural paint.....

  • Help

    Help

    Im grateful for good help on the land with plants, watering, fencing, cleaning, simple care for animals, and in care of the house, packing, mending…and whatever the day calls for

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    English: Fluent
    Spanish: Intermediate
    French: Intermediate
    Portuguese: Intermediate

    This 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

    Accommodation

    Independant room
    Solar electricity.
    Outdoor kitchen
    Spring water
    Sustainable flush toilets, solar hot water shower and washing facilities.

    Camping with your own tent by the river
    With all the above facilities

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    There are many wonderful sights locally and even in the heat of summer the valleys and rivers hold their lush beauty and tranquility.
    The village of Benfeita is just 10 minutes walk from here with very friendly local people, a little shop, post office, the popular outdoor cafe in the square and a river beach for bathing in summer.
    From here old stone walkways link rivers, waterfalls, villages and off grid dwellers, interesting friendly folk forming a spontaneous mostly off grid creative community drawn here from all over the world.
    There are local markets, a very popular alternative school, musical events ….opportunities to meet interesting people.
    We've qualified as an 'Eco Fregesia', (eco local region).

    Obviously bring clothes suitable for work and weather.

    Food here is vegetarian, mostly organic, local, wild and simply delicious.

    Please only bring organic washing, hair, teeth and skin products as it all goes into the earth and river.

    I ask you please not to smoke here. Instead to let the fresh mountain air and our engagement with nature soothe and intoxicate us.

    2 dear cats and 2 dear sheep also live here.

    Read all this again before you come to be sure to b well prepared.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    Two

  • My animals / pets

    My animals / pets

Host ref number: 895783958153

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