Homestays, Volunteering & Working Holidays in Portugal

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Porto and North, Portugal

Help our growing family on our off grid farm in the Magic Mountains of Sul, Portugal
Au Pair Wanted – Family of 4 in Rural Portugal (Room & Board + Pay) We're a friendly, easy-going expat family living near São Pedro do Sul, in Northern-Central Portugal. Our organic, off-grid home & farm is part of a small village in the Portuguese ......
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Algarve, Portugal

Take part in a natural permaculture project in Algarve, Portugal
We are Nimea and Vittoria (from 1983), Paolo and Edoardo (from 1981), and the little ones Oceano and Deva (from 2022). We are two Italian families who chose to build our lives here in Portugal. In 2021, we moved into our home, located on a ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Learn about permaculture with our family, surrounded by mountains in Gouveia, Portugal
We are a Portuguese couple with experience on Permaculture and self-sufficient-living that in 2015 got 15ha of abundant land in a beautiful valley and an amazing community at the highest mountains inside the biggest natural park of our country. ......
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Algarve, Portugal

Spend an amazing winter with us in the beautiful Ria Formosa natural park, Portugal
Hi! We are Alexia and Laurent, a Belgian family living in the Algarve with our two sons, two dogs, and a few horses. During the high season, we run the guest house, and over the years we’ve built a place that we truly love sharing with others. Our ......
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Porto and North, Portugal

Experience family life and cultural exchange in Guimarães, Portugal
We are a family of 3 (Mother, Father and 13-year-old Daughter). We are a quiet family and live in the splendid city of Guimarães - the city where Portugal was born. We have 2 small dogs, Nala and Albi (they are siblings and are 18 months ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Experience our sustainable off-grid life in Vila do Mato, Portugal
We’re looking for hardworking, enthusiastic and practical people to come and help us look after our land. We’re just a couple creating and maintaining our home, not a business, so the help is very much about sharing the work that comes with living ......
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Algarve, Portugal

Help with some DIY tasks at our offgrid home in Portugal, Algarve
OFFER - PORTUGAL ALGARVE: starting immediately Hello everyone! We’re looking for some support on our cozy off-grid property located between the south and west coasts of Portugal. Tasks: working with the horses ( i have some rescue horses what I ......
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Algarve, Portugal

Peaceful rural homestead, surrounded by nature, van life friendly amazing park-up East Algarve, Portugal
Home is in a once abandoned beautiful traditional village in the foothills behind Santa Catarina, It is situated in the east Algarve ... just 20 mins drive from the stunning Rio Formosa coastline, between Tavira and Faro. We are a creative, active ......
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about 5 days ago

Algarve, Portugal

Eco-queer regeneration project close to Silves, Portugal
Olá, we are André and Heiko - from Portugal and Germany - and we are starting a small off-grid eco-queer project in the Algarve region. The land has 4 hectares and is home to olive, carob, oak, and strawberry trees (medronheiros), as well as ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Come hang out with our three dogs in Malhada do Cervo, Central Portugal
Hi, potential workawayer(s)! We're Ben & Louise, a young-ish Irish couple living in Central Portugal. As you may have guessed from our pictures, we're very much dog people and have three - Kacamak, Bambi, and Pippa (in descending order of size). ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Experience a growing non-profit community and help recover from wildfire in Benfeita, Portugal
We are the core community of this special land in Portugal — 11 founders who came together to invest in and care for this land. IT is 2-5 of us living here. Around us, volunteers join for shorter or longer stays, bringing their presence and energy ......
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Alentejo, Portugal

Experience slow living in the nature of Baranco de Vale Francisco, Portugal
Hi we are Mike and Jette and live in the southern Alentejo on 2.7ha land in the middle of the Portuguese nature and are just rebuilding an old farmhouse. With us there is a bathing lake we start to create our garden according to the model of ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Join our multi-generational family near Serra da Estrela, Portugal
***Currently seeking a couple of people to help on the olive harvest, last week of October would be ideal, it will be probably a week of picking olives with other small jobs in between including clay painting in the cabin**** Kids welcome! We ......
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Lisbon, Portugal

Become part of our family on the Silver Coast in Bombarral, Portugal
*Currently accepting applicants* MUST SPEAK ENGLISH. MUST LOVE BIG DOGS. Hello everyone! We are a Canadian Portuguese family living in the Obidos area. We have had such a wonderful time with our Workaway experience. Our home is located 15 mins ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Live off-grid in a yurt, surrounded with mountains of Vila Longa, Portugal
We are a Danish couple who have recently started a new chapter in our lives in the mountains of Portugal. We love nature, animals, gardening and simple living, and we are slowly turning our beautiful piece of land into a small off-grid ......
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Lisbon, Portugal

Join our permaculture project on our farm in Alentejo, Portugal
I want to participate in the turning point of humanity by preparing the world of tomorrow according to the principles of permaculture on the farm that has chosen me to renovate it, to wake it up from the long years of abandonment. Now it is an oasis ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Pet and house sitting or help in garden and home with a view of the Serra de Estrela mountains near Seia, Portugal
Hi, would you like to stay for a house and pet sit? I have a year old mixed breed, medium to small size dog . It would be for some days, up to a week so partly usual workaway exchange if you want to stay for longer. If you are used to taking care of ......
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Algarve, Portugal

Learn more about the goats while staying with me and explore Monchique, Portugal
This is an old abandoned farm up in the mountains of Monchique which we (Roi & Ana) had bought about five years ago. We are now starting to live here and slowly attempting to revive it according to the principles of natural farming. We have 70 goats ......
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Lisbon, Portugal

Look after our family home and garden while we are away, South of Lisbon, Portugal
Hi there! We are a young(-ish) Portuguese-German family who loves nature and the outdoors. We are looking for house sitters to look after our summer house during the winter months, when we cannot go there that often. Our spacious summer house is ......
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Azores, Portugal

A rewarding atlantis family experience on the Azores, Sao Miguel, Portugal
German family living on Sao Miguel with 6 cats, surrounded by beaches and vulcanoes. Moved here to ensure healthy eventide for our mothers and stayed after their passing on. Quinta consists of two houses (barrier-free) and big garden. Min. stay 2 ......
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