Homestays, Volunteering & Working Holidays in Portugal

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Get a taste of the quiet, simple life in the beautiful Ribatejo-Region, Portugal
Hello! We are Sonja and Holger, a german couple of 58 yo and are living the simple life on a small farm in Portugal since 2017. As farm-life goes, we are not able to travel a lot. So we really enjoy to sometimes have people from all around the world ......
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Help maintain our house and land while experiencing family and wider community life in Alentejo, Portugal
We are looking for another person to cook, re-create gardens, plant vegetables, help in the household, make kombucha, to clean up the kitchen after we eat together, daily tasks and finishing some clay constructions (final layer). You will stay in ......
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Countryside home with dogs near Melides, Alentejo
🏡 Welcome to My Countryside Home in Melides Olá 👋 I’m Laura (47), HR manager working remotely in the startup world for 15+ years. I live in a family home in the countryside near Melides, really in the middle of nowhere 🌿✨. If you love dogs, nature, ......
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Bush Retreat and Holistic Sanctuary – Looking for Help-full Volunteers in Vila Ruiva, Portugal
Hi, we’re Lucy and Millo. We live here with our two kids (Leo, 2 and Aria, little baby!) Paul joined us in 2020 and now lives here. He’s helped to regenerate the soil and now runs his own market garden on the land. Gardening is what gets him up in ......

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Join to build this off grid paradise filled with olive and cork trees in Aljezur, south west Portugal
After years of travelling all over the world (from Australia to Brazil and Africa) I found a beautiful off grid land in South West Portugal. It's not even 10 minutes from the closest beach, 5 min from Aljezur town and close to many surf spots and ......

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Help us on our off grid farm while being surrounded by olive fields in Tentúgal, Portugal
Ola! We are Jorg (37) and Lisa (27) an adventurous young couple from the Netherlands. The past 3 years we have been traveling with our camper and a few months ago we found our dream place in Portugal. When we found this place we fell in love ......
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Welcome to our little farm in Figueiredo das Donas, Portugal
Welcome to our little farm in Portugal🌿🐾 We are looking for help with daily tasks from February to early April 2026. We live on a small, quiet farm in Portugal, surrounded by nature and animals. Our farm is home to dogs, cats, pigs, and ......
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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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Learn about the animals in the Algarve countryside near Guia, Portugal
We live in a beautiful quinta in the algarve countryside, with about 12 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 4 beautiful gentle horses, who I ride often, with my ......
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Friendly conversations and sharing skills while improving our Quinta in Algarve, Spain
Our Story: We’re Michelle & Tony and have been restoring an old Quinta in the Algarve since 2019. The house is now complete and we’re preparing the property for long-term tenants from the end of February. Our focus for February is on gardens, ......
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Revive an off-grid mountain land and explore the surroundings of Monchique, Portugal
I am living my dream to revive this beautiful old farmstead in the Algarve hills and turn it into an organic food forest farm. Since arriving in 2020 we have planted a lot of fruit and nut trees, berries, medicinal plants, mushrooms, and many beds ......
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Help welcome at our dog shelter in a beautiful, mountainous and authentic part of the Eastern Algarve, Portugal
My husband & I moved to the Algarve in October 2016. Our home is situated within 5 acres of land. We run a registered dog shelter that also has charitable status. We love the workaway scheme which enables us to meet some truly amazing people and to ......

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Help us to create living space in Marmelete, Portugal
We are part of an association that bought 36 hectares in the Serra Monchique. Within the 36ha, groups have turned to individual areas in order to shape them individually according to their needs and to live together in good neighbourhood. We David, ......
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Help us improve our quiet place in the Algarve countryside near Lagos, Portugal
Hi, we are Phaon and Annabelle. The work will be mainly outside. It will be fairly physical work such as sweeping up leaves, strimming, mowing the lawns, trimming trees and hedges, making bonfires, washing and cleaning cars, clearing drains and ......
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Project of medicinal plants, fruit trees, bees and love in North East Portugal
Hi, I am Kathleen, 37. I have a 5 hectares land in the Natural Parc of Douro International (north-est of Portugal). I am creating an agricultural project inspired by permaculture, with medicinal and aromatic plants, fruits trees and bees ( don't ......
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Enjoy a unique cultural exchange on our environmentally conscious land in Vila do Bispo, Portugal
Since about 20 years we own a property in the southwest of the Algarve. Since then, many projects have developed around 2 small houses, a groundwater borehole, solar energy, a composting toilet and a way of life that is as self-sufficient and ......

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Enjoy nature, eco-projects, beekeeping and gardening in rural Benfeita, Portugal
~ This spring we will be preparing our communal gardens, preparing and checking beehives, putting bee boxes up to catch swarms and do more tree planting on my new piece of land to turn it into a fruit yard. Also work on the house as this is a work ......
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Experience a playful, creative and green community project in Coutada, Portugal
Hi! Welcome :) There is always a lot going on here. We have a small farm (1ha) with a vegetable garden, mature and young trees of all kinds (food forest in the making) and rescued animals (sheep, chickens and cats). We have a fermenteria where we ......

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Social family with Alojamento local and different farm animals are looking for positive-minded people in Algarve, Portugal
Bom dia, We are a family with 2 daughters (°2008 and °2010) and moved from Belgium to Portugal in 2016! We did it because we wanted a completely change of our lifes. In the meantime, we live in an organically formed Fazenda and rent out different ......

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Be a part of an eco-community in the Serra de São Mamede, Portugal
We're a little eco-community in the making in the heart of the Serra de São Mamede. We moved on our land in September 2024 with the vision of creating a sustainable, intentional community. "We" includes my partner Miriam and our Kids (7, 3 and 3 ......
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