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Last minute: *** To start immediately: We are looking for someone that loves to cook to join the kitchen team and cook lunch for the team 👩🍳🙏
*** Between April and May, we are looking for carpenters, masons, painters and wood sculptors, to ......
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 ......
We are a family living in the sw alentejo, costa vicentina, working in 3 different fields: -Horsetraining / Horsetrails -pedagogical work w. teenagers and also medical mushrooms in the winter season. Our ranch is 12km from the ocean in the middle of ......
We are a Portuguese couple, with a little girl born in July 2016, and a baby boy born in the 1st of January 2020, who lives in a small village, very isolated, laid abandoned for 20 years. The river Mega runs through the valley. We moved to the ......
We are an English couple Ruth (44) and Graham/Gray (42) who spent two years travelling Asia and Europe in search of a new place to call home, before finding our perfect spot in September 2020 in the countryside of Portugal's Silver Coast.
During ......
We are a patchwork family: Gaisma, Jörg and my daughter Laira.
We decided 2009 to leave Berlin and start a new life in Portugal. On the property, I bought already 1998, when I was pregnant with my daughter. Step by step, we created our little ......
We are a family with kids, living offgrid with lots of dreams in our hands. We would like to plant more trees giving support to this forest, eat more and more from our garden and sharing it, provide conscient confortable house to ourselfs and people ......
Hello, we are a family of 5, but that's me my husband and our 2 fury friends. 2 dogs (for now) and a very old cat.
We live next to Lagos and are building our dream house. We are in the finishing stage but lots have or can be done!
Hi ,my name is Alex I am Portuguese ,my husband Julian is English and we live in a large slightly rundown 18th century manor house near to Anadia in the centre of Portugal with our extended family of dogs (8 currently) cats (7) & guinea pigs (5)! We ......
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Our project is a sustainably built and functional off grid retreat centre located in a valley where 2 rivers meet and not far from the Serra da Estrela Mountain Range ......
*Currently accepting applicants* MUST SPEAK ENGLISH.
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We are a Canadian Portuguese family living in the Obidos area. We have had such a wonderful time with our Workaway experience. We are welcoming help with house keeping, light ......
Help with animals on a family farm and building a retreat center in Baixo Alentejo, Portugal. We moved from Germany to Portugal in January 2023 to grant our animals a life in freedom and to build a retreat for people who want to take a break from ......
We're a family of 4 (a couple and two children), living off the grid in a self built wooden house in the middle of the forest. Alice is a mother, an artist, doula and herbalist that spent the last few years dealing with the question of being a woman ......
A small alternative family farm in the heart of Serra do Caldeirao / Algarve, with 20 hectares, we starting over again, the legacy left by our ancestors, looking forwards to implement farming principles based in Agroecology, Biodynamic Agriculture, ......
We, Anne and Winfried, are a retired couple, who has always been interested in travelling.
From 1982 till 1989 we worked and lived with our four chidren, three daughters and one son, in Lisbon. Then we returned to our home in the Black Forest for 14 ......
We are just getting settled in the Serra de Estrela national park.
Love to host and get to know people from around the world.
We have a big beautiful remote farm, that got burned in 2017, so at the moment there is a lot of the land that still ......
We live in a beautiful quinta in the algarve countryside, with about 4 acres of gardens and paddocks, and a pool. We have 3 dogs of our own, and sometimes a few friends dogs in the garden. I have 3 beautiful gentle horses, who I ride often. I am 59 ......
We are a family starting up a eco-agriculturismo in the heart of the Algarve, Portugal. Near surfspots and beautiful hiking trails and the lively village Aljezur, we found a amazing farm. Now we need help with planting, seeding, building and ......
My boyfriend & I moved to Central Portugal in 2017 to follow our dream of building an off grid homestead from scratch, fast forward 5 years and we need some extra helping hands to complete some big projects we are currently working on. We are ......
I am a Portuguese living with our two kids Tilda and Ivo at a wonderful place close to Porto.
Architect born in Porto, I lived and work in Paris and Berlin for 10 years. Together with my family we decided to dive into a new adventure here ......
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