Homestays, Volunteering & Working Holidays in Portugal

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Help me with projects at my countryside house near Sertã, in central Portugal
My name is Pedro and I'm a freelancer graphic designer & illustrator living in the bucolic county of Sertã deep in the Portuguese countryside. It was in the inspiring depths of Portugal that I chose to reinvent myself. Among quietness, rurality and ......
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Help with gardening and eco-projects in Alvares, Portugal
We, Angelika (70) and Christof (68) are living in an old shist-house at the edge of the village Chã de Alvares in the mountains. The house is completely restored with 4 rooms, 2 guestrooms, kitchen and bathroom with solar warm water. There is a ......

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Come and join a retired couple in Serta- Coimbra and Center, Portugal
We are a couple of retired folks who decided life could begin at 70 and on our first visit to Portugal 10 years ago fell in love with the place and its people. When we saw the place, nestled in a secluded valley, we immediately knew it was for us ......

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River beaches, olive groves and schist villages
HELLO!! We, Cami and Iain, moved to Portugal 6 years ago on a whim, spending all our long-saved travelling money to buy this piece of land with 200 dead blackened trees, a burned out Toyota, and a ruin with four walls and not much else. Today the ......

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Join our small family in the beautiful countryside of Mexilhoeira Grande, in the Algarve, Portugal
We are a small family of 4 who moved to the Algarve 3 yrs ago. We have completed renovating our house, and are now trying to work towards creating a smallholding farm. We are situated in the beautiful countryside, 20 mins drive to Alvor or Portimao, ......
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Share our family life near the picturesque towns in Vale de Maceira, Portugal
We are a family of four, nestled near the picturesque towns of São Martinho do Porto and Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Our little slice of paradise spans an acre of land, brimming with potential. Our cosy independent apartment awaits you, complete ......

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Pet and home sitting near São Pedro do Sul, Central Portugal
Pet & Home sitting My name is Rita (48), and I live since a little less than one year in the Magic Mountains of Portugal together with my son Leo (9) and our dog Lufa (5). If you have never had the chance to deeply connect to the land, you will ......
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Help with the house and garden in the Portimão countryside, Portugal
We are a couple (Arlindo and Natália) we are about 60 years old. We work in the field of fine arts (sculpture and painting). We live in Algarve, the municipality of Portimão, in the countryside, where we have our house with a large garden, swimming ......

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Help with projects at an old house in Lombo Galego, Madeira
Hi I'm Jan - recently bought a house in Faial (Lombo Galego) on Madeira. I have less time than I had thought so i need some help:P It's just me here for now or the house is empty as I normally live in Camara de lobos. A little bit about me - I've ......

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Join the co-creation of an off-grid conscious community in Sarzades, Central Portugal
✨ Fancy learning some hands on eco-building skills in the Portuguese summer Sun? 👐 How many volunteers: three at one time What we'll be doing: • Landscaping our event space; • Building two walls, one with earthbags and the other a dry stone wall; • ......
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Join our permaculture farm and learning community on Madeira island, Portugal
OUR STORY Eight years ago our founder Markus began restoring an abandoned terraced valley in Tábua, Ribeira Brava. What started as one person rebuilding stone walls has flourished into a 7-hectare permaculture farm and intentional community on ......

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Join our green fingered and plant based home near Braga, Portugal
Come and visit our sanctuary near Braga, north Portugal! You are so welcome 🙂 We have a small and beautiful country home at the foot of the Gere mountains and we are in need of some help with creating vegetable and herb gardens, building an area ......
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A syntropic farm and garden experience , good food and comfortable living in Tomar, Portugal
We are an international couple in our early sixties. We live on a farmstead in the Ribatejo area of Portugal, 5km from Tomar. We have travelled, worked, and lived in many parts of the world but have now decided to settle here since 2020 and to ......
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Join our family of 4 living on a quiet hill top in Quinta grande, Portugal
We are a family of four, 2 young kiddies, living on a quiet hill top, yet south side facing for good summer weather and sometimes above the clouds, and great for star gazing :) We are a mixed ethnicity family speaking English, Portuguese and Polish.

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Activities with rescue horses and dogs in beautiful Alentejo, Portugal
A non-profit organization We take care of the rescue animals ( horses and Dogs) in Portugal close to Evora Goal and vision of the organization is: • We rescue animals, especially horses that are mentally, physically damaged, no longer welcome to ......
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Join us at our land and yurts, stay with us in nature in the Algarve, Portugal
Creating a paradise in the Algarve. Me and my best friend bought a abandoned and wild land in the middle of nature, but close to Aljezur and the best beaches of the west coast. Our dream is to transform this land into a divers and welcoming place, ......

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Interaction and collaboration in a friendly atmosphere in Vila do Bispo, Portugal.
I am a carpenter who came to this beautiful piece of land 20 years ago. Starting with a pocket knife and living in a van I slowly made this my home moving from the Nomad life into something more stable. Having created everything by my own I can now ......

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Daily life and in our garden on the hill overlooking the ocean on Madeira Island, Portugal
Welcome to our cosy little corner of the world — a cheerful farmhouse nestled in the hills above Santa Cruz, on the lush and lovely island of Madeira. I’m Tom, and I live here with my daughter Eli, our wise old dog Murphy, two slightly mysterious ......

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Take part in an eco-building project and learn about Sacred Geometry and permaculture near Bajouca, Portugal
Hi, my name is Paul Bruno, my father is Italian and my mother is Dutch, and I mostly grew up in the Netherlands, where in 1998 I got my diploma as an art teacher, after which I worked as an independent artist with my own company called arti parti - ......

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Become part of our Azorean Paradise adventure, Portugal
I'm Susana and with my partner, we're restoring a house and making it a beautiful place. We have an enormous land with stunning views and we think it's a beautiful project to create a garden and finishing some work in a lovely property, surrounded ......