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Workawayers needed
Possibility that workawayers are needed
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Meaning of this:
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marked as available. This means that some of the months might be marked red (no availability.) If
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We live in the Castelo Branco region/ Central Portugal since 2020. Covid brought us here and we fell in love with the area. We bought a piece of land (4 ha) and want to live a simple self-sufficient lifestyle. It is a long way to get there but with ......
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
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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 cherry trees, some citrus trees and about ......
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 ......
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 ......
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 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 ......
I am still settling into my new house. Gardening and lots of small DIY chores that cannot be done by local professionals. You need absolutely skills for chopping kindling and sawing and stacking firewood. The last bits of indoor painting when the ......
Hi! I’m a 27-year-old who last year bought a piece of land on my own in the Oeste region of Portugal. I’m starting everything from scratch, and my dream is to create a livable space where I can welcome people and begin a project of syntropic ......
We are looking for people to stay with us for 2026 to help with compost, implementing permaculture design, planting, building, etc.
Free water, electricity, internet, access to veggie garden, chickens, etc
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At the foot of the highest mountain ......
We are Tim and Nicola (Nic but never Nicky!)
We have had numerous travel experiences which we hope to continue and be able to share our stories with others.
We have both spent many years working overseas from inside the Arctic Circle (in winter) ......
** LOOKING FOR LAND SITTER LONG TERM OVER WINTER FROM NOVEMBER ~ APRIL** You will have our beautiful land to yourselves, we have a lovely accommodation, cosy bus with kitchen and burner. You need to love cats as we have two cats that need caring for ......
Hey fellow adventurers!
We’re Simone (34), Salah (33), and our wild little daughter Yara (4), living the good life somewhere between “off-grid dreams” and “where did all this chicken poop come from?”
Simone’s Dutch roots run deep—especially in the ......
Hello, nice you find us here. My name is Frank. Together with my son I went to Portugal in 2020 to pursue my dream of reforesting former agricultural land. We plant domestic trees to restore biodiversity, to reduce CO2 and to combat desertification. ......
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