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Hi,
I'm Margarida,a mom full of big dreams to transform the education in my town. I have a project of nature activities for children, where a small family community meet together every month to play free in the woods.
Now i'm starting a journey to ......
We are a German and English couple in our mid 60's. My mother who has Alzheimer and is 86 years old lives with us.
We spend 20 years sailing on our own small boat around the world and for the last 20 years we settled down 5 years in England and 15 ......
Update:
Our beautiful retreat was damaged by the recent wildfires in central Portugal. We are looking for a person or couple to help us clear the damaged trees on the land and clear space in the barn for winter. We will be cleaning and cutting the ......
We are living on our homestead at the very edge of a small hamlet, in the middle of an Olive Grove.
30 years permaculture experience. Medicine herb garden. Self sufficiency for delicious meals, Solar cooker . Visit Farmers Markets and our famous ......
Looking for two volunteers for our olive harvest Oct 25th-Nov 5th 2025
**FALL 2025**
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We are a small homestead in central Portugal, trying as much as possible to be self sufficient and learning as we go.
We have 70 olive trees, 4 prolific ......
Hello! We are a family of three and we live at a lovely quinta close to Tomar. The quinta is work in progress, we live here with our little boy of three years old, two dogs, chickens, two terrace cats and lots of visitors on the edge of a tiny ......
Hi, I’m Giel! My entire life I lived in the Netherlands but I’ve always had the dream to leave it all behind and start a new life abroad. In 2019 my dream came through when I bought a piece of land in central Portugal.
Since then my dog Máka and I ......
We're a family of four from Germany. Over the past years, we've traveled all across Europe and Africa in our beloved 52-year-old restored Mercedes truck, even crossing the Sahara Desert twice!
A year and a half ago, we traded our home on wheels for ......
Sebastien is from France originally and lived in Switzerland then Indonesia where he met Felicity from Uk. We moved to Portugal 5+ years ago with our original cat Odin traveling around in a truck searching for the dreamland, we found it and now work ......
Hello I'm Rachel,
Current needs - a helpful person that is happy to assist with tidying in and around my garden, including some trips to the recycle centre. Possibly a little olive picking and processing and other gardening jobs. Please get in ......
We are a retired couple (in our mid 60's) living a somewhat isolated and off-grid existence with some animal companions (6 goats, 4 sheep, 6 chickens, 3 dogs, 2 cats) on a densely forested 10ha plot in the mountains of the Serra da Estrela Nature ......
Seeking kind, grounded souls to grow something beautiful with us 🌱
Usual Availability: Spring through to Autumn 🍂
We are a small, busy, heart-led family tending and building a dream of a regenerative Quinta in the forested hills of Figueiró dos ......
We fell in love with a house in Central Portugal (between Fátima and Tomar) and are working on our dream of converting this space into a retreat center. We love our location up on a hill in a little village that provides you with the basics (train ......
Join us for a permacultural exchange!
On a series of abandoned stone terraces in a secluded valley, we - ( = one young man and his slightly decrepit parents) - are creating a permaculture Forest Garden. Simultaneously, on the opposite side of the ......
We are David & Eli, a Belgium couple and since 2014 we live and work on our 12 hectare beautiful land with view on the Serra da Estrellla mountains.
We have cats, dogs, chickens, ducks and goats and we have a (seasonal) organic fruit and vegetable ......
My name is Raymond and I live with my lovely wife Miranda and our two children Christiaan 12 and Tessa 11 and our 2 loving dogs Max &Joy.
We live in a small village right in the center of Portugal a beautiful place surrounded by nature with amazing ......
Let's just get right into what in the world exactly are we trying to do here: In 1988, a book was published titled "Permaculture - A Designer's Manual," and towards the end of chapter 12, it talks about species of plants that can stop the spread of ......
I am English, a retired teacher and have just moved to a house in Alfarelos, Portugal. It needs a lot of work and there will will be builders around working on the exterior from September onwards so I shall need help with my FIVE dogs and generally ......
We are looking for people to live in with experience to maintain the house, Are you our potential live in volunteers?
We are welcoming volunteers this Summer.
We are an English couple who decided to live closer to nature and create community. We ......
We are Julian and Mardi & Steve , friends and owners of a small piece of paradise in central Portugal near Castello Branco.
We are fortunate to own a few hectares of beautiful land and have two main objectives: rewilding and restoring the natural ......
If you are from outside of the EU and planning to visit Portugal to work, volunteer or study, YOU WILL NEED THE CORRECT VISA. To find out more information you need to contact the embassy in your home country BEFORE travelling.
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