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Hostel, surf camp, exchange great experiences and happiness in Ericeira, Portugal

Open in 2012 in the center of the lovely fishing village and surfing Meca of Ericeira. The hostel is set in a fully recovered 1933 typical house with a big garden. It is the biggest and one of the best located hostels in Ericeira and works as a Surf ......

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Experience rural lifestyle at a watermill in Ponte de Lima, Portugal

Hi! I'm Mario, I spent 12 years working for a humanitarian aid organization in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. For the last couple of years I've been living in a small farm in Ponte de Lima together with a bunch of chickens, 3 ......

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Join various small outdoor and garden projects in Alentejo, Portugal

The three of us – José (68), (58) and Alessandra (36) – moved from Switzerland to Portugal a few years ago. We recently moved to a smaller quinta as we wanted to downsize. Naturally, there’s a lot of work to be done now, as we’re keen to create a ......

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Join me on my community farm in Travanca de Lagos, Portugal

I am in my early 60s , fit and healthy and have two wonderful girls in their 20s who are at university in England and who visit regularly to help out. I am developing a community syntropic/agroforestry farm in Central Portugal. The land is 8 ......

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Join our family in wooden cabin in nature, Aljezur, Portugal

We are a family with 3 children : 18, 15 and 10 years old. We are on a beautiful place near Aljezur, Algarve. We are living in wooden's cabin and yurt in the middle of the nature. We have a simple life, connecting with the nature. We planted an ......

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Share skills and enjoy community life on a beautiful farm and vineyard in Pedrógão Grande, Portugal

Come join a 5 acre farm in stunning central Portugal! This unique building was designed by its previous owner, an architect who poured as much love into the house as he did into the surrounding grounds, which feature a working vineyard, fruit trees, ......

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Enjoy time with our pups in São Mamede, Portugal

We live in São Mamede - very close to Fátima. We have a lovely multilevel house with 2 very sweet (and entertaining) dogs. Hank loves balls, and Madi loves taking balls away from Hank. The village of São Mamede has some incredible caves nearby that ......

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Join our family eco tourism project in South Alentejo, Portugal

We are looking for volunteers for a minimum of 2 weeks, (please check the updated calendar on our profile). We are a couple with a 13-year-old daughter, a 8-year-old boy, 1 dog, 4 cats, and 15 chickens living on a beautiful piece of land in South ......

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Help at our animal welfare association on a farm in Sabóia, Portugal

Please contact us in German only. Hello! We are a German family living on a farm in southern Portugal. Steffi and Marko are around 60 years old and live with 10 dogs on part of our very large property. Next door lives our daughter Pia (33) with ......

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Reforest a valley and bring an old farm to life in Folques, Portugal

Hey! Welcome! My place is about natural building, Syntropic forestry (kind of food forest) and rewilding. I always try to have 2 or more workawayers, so you can go on adventures with other persons when you have your time off. Natural ......

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Help at a new riverside eco-village in Nelas, Central Portugal

This ecovillage land is held by a cooperative and is slowly being shaped by the people who live here. We are currently 9 adults and 8 children, organizing ourselves through a sociocratic structure where decisions are made by consent. We are in the ......

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Off-grid homestead close to the beach in Alentejo, Portugal

Close to the beaches of Zambujeira do Mar in Alentejo, SW Portugal, we are Jason and Isabel, a Swiss/English couple with a young family living on a beautiful, off-grid homestead of 5.7ha. We are looking for a couple / two friends to help us out in ......

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House sitting and in a beautiful countryside town of Montalvao, Portugal

We are Americans living in the Alentejo region of Portugal. Our home is located in a small village in the interior of the country. The house is a furnished small village house in an old but beautiful, typical, small Portuguese village. Because of ......

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Ecological garden, animal care and home projects in Alentejo/Algarve, Portugal

Our property/house is in the Alentejo,on the border to the Algarve, near the coast. We are Gabi and Jo, a german couple, I am a veterinarian and animal protector, my partner is an artist, schamane and a professional autodidact and photographer. We ......

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Experience the project on our ecological yoga and meditation farm near Trafaria, Portugal

family farm project - current state: Applications closed. Availability to host. Please motivate your reasons and how you relate to what we ask here if you can join? Looking for help from a kind and respectful couple or 2 friends with kills to ......

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Tranquility and family connection in the mountains of Monchique, South Portugal

We are Emily (34), James (37), our daughter Delma (6) and our son Reuben (3 months) We live in a peaceful valley 20 minutes from Monchique, completely surrounded by nature with our dog & 2 cats on a 1.8 hectare plot of mountain land. Ideally we ......

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Share your skills and passions with our creative family in south Alentejo, Portugal

hello:) We are Shootzi, Liron and our 4.5 year old daughter soli , a family of 3 that just recently moved into this beautiful land. We are located in south Alentejo, an alternative area with a lot of small growing Communities , gatherings, and many ......

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Non-profit cooperative for permaculture and sustainable health in Viseu, Portugal

We are a group of Permaculture teachers, gardeners, natural builders and health practitioners. We function as a Cooperative, on a non-profit basis and as self-sustainable as possible. Six years ago we followed through on our collective dream, to ......

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Garden help, DIY and household tasks in Ilha do Pico Azores, Portugal

Ilha do Pico is like a Garden of Eden in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Overwhelming nature, culture, safety and nice people. It has a pleasant climate all year round (winter minimum 15 degrees, summer maximum 30 degrees). You can take several ......

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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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