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We are a growing permaculture living lab and eco-community stewarding 3.6 hectares of forest in northern Portugal. Our aim is to regenerate the land, support ......
The idea of this place to improve and enhance a beautiful valley become self sufficient in vegetables expand the bio diversity , provide a have for wild life and a meeting point for like minded individuals who understand that by looking after nature ......
(At this moment there are working on the village road right by the farm. There is a bit noise during the day)
Hello!! We (my cats, my plants, my trees, and I) live on a small quinta at the edge of a tiny village. The land has several olive trees, ......
I live on an organic smallholding and also help run my parents farm which consists of olives and sheep. Mine is a new venture whereas my parents have farmed all their lives in the Alentejo and have worked on many conservation projects.
It's an ......
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Hi, I'm Paul. I have big old beautiful (but basic and unfinished) farmhouse set in 6 ha of wooded valley in the middle of rural Portugal. It is 40 minutes walk from the lovely country town of Serta.
Over the past 10 years I've welcomed ......
Hello, I am Kendall and my husband is Karl.
We are looking for an individual or a couple that can come and take care of our place as well as our animals for the duration of May while we are away travelling, dates can be flexible. It would be great ......
Join us for a permacultural exchange!
UPDATE (Nov. 2025)
We are desperately trying to get a couple of hundred trees into the ground, mostly on a steep hillside. Anyone brave enough and fit enough to join us with this challenge would be very ......
We are Vlada and Francisco. We have a small farm, an embrionary project, open to new ideas. The cornerstone of the project is to take care of this land, under permaculture principles, and Ayuvedic values, help in the garden, having fun, apply well ......
We are a small family living in the mountains of northern Portugal. Our home is surrounded by forest, stone terraces, water streams, and quiet nature. It is a peaceful place, but also remote, so the people who come here need to enjoy simple mountain ......
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We are looking for someone from now till December for carob, olives and almond picking!!!
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I live in an old portuguese farmhouse and have organic vegetable production for own use.
The farm is 2km from the next village ......
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A project that aims to combine organic vegetable and animal production .
A LONG-TERM VOLUNTEER will be welcome, but I also accept volunteers for shorter periods.
We have officially certified organic vegetable production.
I need urgent ......
YOU CAN MESSAGE US IN ENGLISH, DEUTSCH, PORTUGUES OR SUOMEKSI (-;
We are happy to share with you our home located in midst of the stunning hills of naturepark São Mamede, where we have nearly 60 ha land around our house.
We moved to here two years ......
Welcome! Come and join us in our totally off-grid home in a forgotten magical valley in Central Portugal. We are located in the Beira valley, with a river close by the old house we have been slowly renovating over the past few years. We live partly ......
My name is Marie, I'm french and I have been living for 30 years. in Quelfes, near Olhão in the Algarve.
This is countryside, with view on the sea. It's a calm and charming environment, only 5 km away from the coast. This is a place to disconnect, ......
We are a Portuguese couple, with a girl born on July 2016, and a boy born on the 1st of January 2020, who lives in a small, isolated village, abandoned for 20 years. The river Mega runs through the valley. We moved to the countryside to be the ......
Our place is also suitable for familiarizing yourself with new, curious, hesitant first experiences in another location/in another country/with unknown people.
There are new tasks to discover every day, sometimes a brilliant find in a garbage can ......
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Dear Workawayers,
my partner and I are currently visiting his family in Brasil and unfortunately our current house and pet sitter got sick and would like to leave earlier. Therefore we need to find someone who ......
Hello, I'm Mindi I'm originally from The UK but I moved to Portugal in Summer 2017, to live a simpler, rural life.
I live in a village 6.6km south of Tomar so I am not 'off grid' but try to be as sustainable as I can by growing fruit and ......
Small farm by the sea, with horses, pigs, dog, cats and other animals, it is also a bed and breakfast house for guests but not all year round. close access to three surfing beaches
Sustainable project
Language exchange
