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Workawayers needed
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Hi, new host here hoping to find a decent workawayer for my first time! I'm James, I am 40 years old. I am an English man living in Central Portugal. I have been living here for about 6 years now. I live by myself with my 10 cats and now up to 5 ......
About me:
Hello! My name is Carlos, I'm 47 and I'm portuguese. I grew up in a city close to Lisbon, went to college in Lisbon to study computer sciences and I started to work as a programmer. 6 years later I started to feel meaningless and took a ......
A Unique Opportunity to Live Close to Nature in the Heart of Portugal
🌿 Looking for a lifestyle change? Slower pace, fresh air, real connection to the land and yourself?
Join our off-grid farm in central Portugal – a peaceful, wild place full of ......
We are a couple with 2 daughters. Our move to the country side serves the purpose of having a new experience. Although we continue to work remotely, we are developing our knowledge about gardening, farming and land care. In a near future we also ......
!!UPDATE!!
We, alongside many of our friends, were affected by the wildfires in the Serra da Gardunha. (August 2025)
We now need more immediate help and will also be on the farm for the most part the coming months to rebuild. Fortunately the living ......
Let's just get right into what in the world exactly are we trying to do here: In 1988, a book was published titled "Permaculture - A Designer's Manual," and towards the end of chapter 12, it talks about species of plants that can stop the spread of ......
Hi there, I am River an Englishman of mature years living on a terraced hillside of olive trees, bottoming down to a mixed woodland of Chestnut and Walnut and a swirling meandering stream as the border.
Its over two years since my partner Emma died ......
We are William, Laure and we have 2 little boys: 4;5 year old Rafa and 4 month old baby Boris. We are originally from Belgium, but moved to Central Portugal 6 years ago to live off-grid. We live on 2 hectares of land ("a quinta") in a valley next to ......
Community care is Self care.
Ubuntu (interconnectedness).
"The good of other people must be invoked as well as the good for oneself. It is quite clear that purely inter-psychic individualist psychology without reference to other people and social ......
We are a family of 5 living in central Portugal. We at the end of a small village surrounded by fields and forest.
Thanks for our 3 kids our house and garden is very family friendly and baby safe. We have enough toys, books (in Czech, Russian and ......
Hi there!
We are Annemiek, Martijn and young daughter Nelli, a family from the Netherlands that moved to Portugal four years ago to start a new, more quiet life in the countryside surrounded by nature. To pursue this dream we are renovating a ......
Hello everybody! We are a Portuguese family living in a peaceful little village called São Vicente do Paul, near Santarém, and we would love to welcome you into our home ☀️
I’m José (57), and I live with my wife Claudia (55) and our son Miguel ......
I am living in an old 'farm' in an abandoned hamlet located in the Serra do Acor in Central Portugal. I am Jean (37) from Belgium. There is some close neighbours and regularly friends staying.
In the beginning of 2015 we moved in to the farm and ......
I moved into my family house in a small village, just off Cartaxo, 5 years ago. Working from home for a company in Lisbon. Mum to 2 crazy puppies and a cuddly kitty. I live a simple lifestyle with the main goal of doing no harm to people, animal and ......
Hello, hello,
My name is Mieke and I am the happy and proud owner of a very beautifull, small and cozy campsite in Central Portugal. Because of my busy life I'm looking for volunteers to help me with the maintenance in general, there is always ......
Welcome…..
Hi, I am Janine , my partner Terry both originally from the UK, we have two boys of 11 and 12yrs old and we live on a Quinta (tiny farm) in central Portugal next to the country's second biggest lake Castello Do Bode. We own 2 acres of ......
Hello,
For the coming weeks, I'm looking for some lovely people who could help with my garden and light house maintenance. Most of all, to connect, enjoy shared company and find a good balance in our exchange. Most suited to a single person or a ......
We are a couple in our 50's- Andreea (55) and Yoav (60), living on our beautiful farm near Castelo Branco, Central Portugal with our dog- Heevie and our cats- Tikki and Vanessa, and our sheep and chicken.
After 20 years in NYC, we decided to set ......
I am still settling into my new house. Gardening and lots of small DIY chores that cannot be done by local professionals. You need absolutely skills for chopping kindling and sawing and stacking firewood. The last bits of indoor painting when the ......
We are a small, evolving farm on the Magic mountains of north central Portugal.
My name is Roni. I bought this beautiful lush land 3 years ago and I keep discovering the magic of the life here.
I'm a nature lover, a forager, a dreamer and sometimes ......
Language exchange
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