Homestays, Volunteering & Working Holidays in Coimbra and Center, Portugal

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Help us with some DIY projects and daily life in Sertã, Portugal
We are Robert and Asheba, in 2020 we left Holland to retire in Sertã , we have a cat she enjoys roaming our and our neighbours- land. Our three grown up children live and work in The Netherlands. One project that was offered is Cambridge English ......
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Join a lively family community and experience the simple life in beautiful nature near Castelo Branco, Portugal
Hello work-awayer, let me introduce ourselves, our visions and our daily live: We are living in a peaceful neighborhood together with a group of families with homeschooled kids between 6-10. Our off-grid farms are settled in a lovely green ......

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Donkey whisperer welcome in our farm in Alquerubim, Portugal
This farm is owned by Amelia whose lifelong dream was waking up every day to donkeys on a farm and whose dream has come true!!! We have a large double story house (well I think it's a mansion! And live in a little village far enough away to feel ......

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Experience off grid living in rural wild and wonderful central Portugal
It is a beautiful 2 hectare farm with stunning views of Estrella Mountain and the surrounding valleys. We have here a drinking water spring , fire bath, bamboo forest, oak forest, a well, eco toilet, clay oven and a community event space called A ......
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Learn about permaculture, natural building 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 anon-profit basis and as self-sustainable as possible. Four years ago we followed through on our big dream, to settle in ......

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Learn about ecological gardening on the Silver coast, Portugal
Changing our environment in central Portugal into a more sustainable micro-world. We are a gay couple doing vegetable and floristic gardening in an ecological way. The gardening we do for our fun (physically and mentally) and for our own ......
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Become a co-creator on our land and learn about the principles of permaculture in Portugal
If you have plumber skills and can help us before the yoga retreat that starts on the 22nd of September 2025 to change some taps, repair leaks, a toilet, a sink, etc. we welcome you with open arms! Professional plumbers are not easy to find in the ......
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Help with my garden and maintenance in Meruge, Central Portugal
Hello, hello, My name is Mieke and I am the happy and proud owner of a very beautifull, small and cozy campsite in Central Portugal. Because of my busy life I'm looking for volunteers to help me with the maintenance in general, there is always ......

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Help us to keep our peaceful quinta in good condition near the Serra da Esterela, Portugal
We are a Dutch retired couple . UNFORTUNATELY MY WIFE HANNIE PASSED AWAY IN JULY !!! you must be able to cook for yourself i take care of the things you need for it. And we been living 20 years in Portugal We live in the middle of Portugal, near ......

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Help our family garden, care for the land and improve our home in Alvaiázere, central Portugal
We are a Portuguese-American family of 3. We have a five-year-old son, three dogs and three cats. We have been in our home in Central Portugal for about four years, and we have been slowly building up our homestead: creating a self-sustaining ......
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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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Learn about yoga and meditation near the beaches in Figueira da Foz, Portugal
Hi I have retired and bought a small farm of 6000sqm near the beach at Figueira da Foz Portugal, We have land but no animals. I am a yoga teacher, a builder, architect, farmer, and cook. I was born in New Zealand, lived most of my life in Australia, ......
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Produce good qualtiy food using organic methods and permaculture principles in Viseu, central Portugal
I'm Scott and I've been travelling around Europe since 2004. I recently got my own piece of land to settle on where I can put into practice all of the different techniques and principles of ecological building and growing I've picked up over the ......

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Join us recreating a beaten land at a beautiful quinta in Avô, Portugal
We look for support in this current phase of re-building and landscaping from October 25 until March 26. Hello, we are Andi and Graciela from Bavaria. A few years ago we acquired a beautiful quinta in central Portugal, which we want to turn in to 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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Join our low-tech, tiny-scale, earth-honouring permaculture project in Monsanto mountain, near Castelo Branco, Portugal
Hi there, thanks for choosing to read our entry :)) We live on a small farm (2.5 hectares) inland of Central Portugal, 30km from the Spanish border in a beautiful wild area. From our land you can see the mountain of Monsanto (Sacred Mountain). We ......

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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 summer tribe and take part in contributing to our vision in Gonçalo, Portugal
Hi, and welcome to my workaway profile! I am Luca, 44 yo mixed race, half Italian half Philippino. In the past 4 years, since moving to Portugal, I have been learning, and I still am, how to craft a new lifestyle, after getting myself a 5ha ......
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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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