Homestays, Volunteering & Working Holidays in Portugal

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Help us run our small surf guesthouse on the coast of Portugal
Hello everyone! We are a couple in our thirties and are running a small surf guesthouse on the coast of Portugal. Our house is located walking distance to the beach where the waves can be very nice, so our clients are mostly surfers. The village is ......
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Restore soil, grow vegetables and manage the forest and infrastructure for self-sufficiency near Aljezur, Portugal
*Before you continue, we have a 4 week minimum stay* Hi I'm Nathaniel. My girlfriend Diana and I live on this little farm which has a very lucky location, with breath taking views to the highest Algarvian mountains, close to the beautiful beach of ......
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Help us create a paradise community while learning about permaculture, eco-building in Covilha, Portugal
We are a group of 12 friends from Germany, who bought a piece of rural land with a big old ruin close to the Serra da Estrela. We came here to live closer to nature and to have more opportunities of personal development. Together we are learning a ......
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Become a part of a non-profit agroforestry project and enjoy the stunning nature of Rubiães, Portugal
Come and spend your days on 1.5 hectares of young food forest near Paredes de Coura, in northern Portugal in exchange for you 3 hours a day. Help and get your hands in the soil and learn about food forest design. This is our way of facing the many ......
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Help with garden maintenance and DIY near Serpins Lousa, Portugal
We are a mature, active couple from Britain and came to live in Portugal about eleven years ago. We are generally busy most days with garden maintenance and the usual household tasks. We have two smallish, friendly dogs.
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Off-grid Fablab and a food forest in Barão de São João, Lagos, Portugal
Who we are We are a non-commercial, not-for-profit initiative, building a FabLab within a once-abandoned farm. Our goal is to create a place where thinkers, artists, makers, and farmers come together to learn, share, and create. This is not a ......
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Food forest, reforestation project and small permaculture farm in Aljezur, Portugal
Some people wonder why I do the things I do. I wonder why they don't. Hello! Thank you for visiting my profile. I’m Dirk, living in this beautiful part of South Portugal since a couple of years. I am a vegetarian, non-smoker, 60 years old and ......
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Celebrate new beginnings and try our daily off grid adventures in Viseu, central Portugal
Hello EVERYONES!! We are LIGIA,TOMÉ, ZÉZÉ and PEPE! Our family is part of a group of 57 beings from all over the world, that got themselves together in an amazing valley to experiment a more conscious and cooperative action in this planet. 2011 was ......
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Join me at my simple home while enjoying the Algarve coast in Portimão, Portugal
----------- UPDATE: Please read to the end. If in the calendar is marked red, I have NO availability to host in this period. I’ll be away from April 2nd to April 9th, so I won’t be replying to messages during this time. Thank you for ......
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Off-grid crystal mountain community in Vila Longa, Portugal
Hello lovely people, I am your host Matias, from Denmark. I live in a small community together with two old friends and some other good friends that own the land next to us. There are 3 other communities (in total, we are around 50 people) based in ......
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Learn about permaculture with our family, surrounded by mountains in Gouveia, Portugal
We are a Portuguese couple with experience on permaculture and self-sufficient-living that in 2015 got 15ha of abundant land in a beautiful valley and an amazing community at the highest mountains inside the biggest natural park of our country. ......
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Enjoy remote nature and learn to live sustainably in Alentejo, Portugal
😃🌿 Welcome to our off-grid home in the countryside with beautiful sea views, about 10 km from Odeceixe Beach. We are restoring and caring for our land after the bushfire in 2023. With the help of Workawayers, we’ve created a simple and cosy guest ......
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Experience a slower pace of life on our beautiful riverside farm near Guarda, Portugal
Welcome to our little slice of paradise in the beautiful Mondego Valley. Our riverside farm is home to a vibrant mix of fruit and nut trees, a small vegetable garden, and plenty of peaceful corners to enjoy the rhythm of nature. The land was once ......
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Join a community based organic farming project in Campelo, Portugal
We are a vibrant, heart centered Christian family/community. We work, live and eat from abundant, organic gardens that are spread out below beautiful terraces, surrounded by a wonderful river with a waterfall and many secluded places to find peace ......
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Join my house and garden project in the quiet of nature near Tomar, Portugal
Update! -> House sitter(s) needed for 2-3 weeks in June, 2nd to 19th (and other periods)! -> Regular Workaway: > Help with reconstruction. > Help and learn from an experienced guy to build a stone wall to the neighbour (plus a terrace for sitting ......
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Join us and experience family life near Silves, Portugal
Hello! We are Lisa, Steve, and our two children, Molly and Sebastian. Alongside our theee rescue cats and numerous chickens. We left the rat race in the UK three years ago to pursue a simpler, more fulfilling lifestyle in the beautiful Algarve ......
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Creating the future with friends near Tomar, Central Portugal
Hi lovely workawayers I'm Wendy, from Johannesburg/London/Kerala and now from a small cottage in a lovely fertile fruit-growing valley, in a very old village (possibly Roman, there are wonderful ruins nearby at Conimbriga). This little stone house ......
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Welcome nature and off-grid lovers to take part in a mystical project in Caldas Sangemil, Portugal
Ola beautiful people, We are looking for some nature loving people on our magnificent quinta bordering the magical mystic Dao river in Caldas De Sangemil “central Portugal” 20min from Viseu city.
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join us at our place of tranquility in Lagoa, Algarve, Portugal
We are a non-profit small project where we share information about meditation, oriental and western natural remedies, healthy vegetarian food and how to grow and prepare your own. Since 2020 our focus is on inner growth and staying healthy ......
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Experience our sustainable off-grid life in Vila do Mato, Portugal
Sebastien is from France originally and lived in Switzerland then Indonesia where he met Felicity from Uk. We moved to Portugal 5+ years ago with our original cat Odin traveling around in a truck searching for the dreamland, we found it and now work ......
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