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Help to entertain the children in Coimbra, Portugal

We are an English homeschooling family in Central Portugal with a 4 year old boy and a 13 year old girl. My husband and I both run online businesses and divide our time working from home. We welcome a workaway to enjoy our home in a rural farming ......

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Small farm with chickens, free camping, Community peace garden in Covas, Coimbra, Portugal

I am a woman born in 1966 in Belgium . I love to live wild and free . I have a husband who likes his privacy and two grown up daughters who live by them self . I can speak Nederlands ,English , Portuguese understand a little German and french. I ......

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Help build a dream, live together in harmony with nature and learn how to grow food without chemicals or pesticides in Satao, Portugal

Hello, we are two portuguese families, Xana and Paulo, Ari (7 years old), Rio (4 years old) and Litos and Marta, Manu (7 years old)living in a eco-village that cover 44 hectares with more 17 grown-ups and 18 children. Each of us occupy a part of the ......

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Come and help at a small, friendly hostel in Guimaraes, Portugal

We are a small Hostel in Guimaraes, with Central location, familiar ambience, confortable, for a friendly experience, our hostel is working in a 17th century rebuilt house. Also our city Guimaraes is a precious and well kept medieval city, World ......

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Mud building on the Green Hill in West Algarve, Portugal

Welcome on the Green Hill We are a family of 4, living off grid on a mountain near Budens (West Algarve). We moved to this beautiful part of Portugal a couple of years ago, where we are in the process of creating a self-sustainable place to live. We ......

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Help a our family with some building and gardening in Alentejo, Portugal

We are a portuguese family that just bought land in southwest Portugal. At the moment only me (Philippa) and my mother Kiki live here but most of the time we have friends and guests staying over. We are starting to garden and build the structure ......

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Help maintain and create spaces in total harmony with the nature around in Celorico de Basto, Portugal

Family with farm, trying to maintain and create spaces in total harmony with the nature around. We want to create gardens, using aromatic plants and permaculture design, we want to take care of the forest and use the material it provides to create ......

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Family eco-project in need of helpers! Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Welcome to our Quinta, home of Kate, Matt, Frankie and Pippin. Here we’re striving to build a life away from the rat race in a beautiful valley in Northern Portugal with our ever growing family. We’ve taken on a piece of land that was abandoned ......

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Need some help developing a permaculture garden in 5 hectares in SW Portugal

We are a couple who need some help developing a permaculture garden in 5 hectares in SW Portugal, with olive, cork and strawberry trees in beautiful wild rural hills. We are close to Aljezur and Rogil, 25 mins from Amoreira beach, a perfect surf ......

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Work and learn about organic farming near Tomar, Portugal

We are a Farm where we work with - Rural Tourism and Nature (houses, yurts , tipis , dormitories and camping) - Organic farming - Retreat Centre and trainings Somos uma Quinta onde trabalhamos com - Turismo Rural e de Natureza (casas, yurts, ......

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Help us build a "New Earth" in southern Portugal / Alentejo

This is a place, an idea and a project in southern Portugal / Alentejo. The place has a size of approx. 140.000m² with a typical landscape of the Alentejo. We live here for several years with our horses and some other animals self-sufficient. We ......

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Help with some woodwork to restore camper van, in Southern Portugal

We are a private 5ha big farm in the south of Portugal. At the moment we live here with 5 people. Some of them require pedagogica back up- That means in practical, sometimes they could have an attack of "I want to help you" and it could be a ......

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Come help to build an eco-house, plant trees and live in an authentic community. Portugal

Hi, my name is Mario and the place that I'm building is meant to be my personal refuge to fulfill my need of silence, peace, nature and to balance it with my need for chaos and adventure. I want to share this place as an escape and a retreat for all ......

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Enjoy this beautiful area and help me with harvest! - Algarve, Portugal

I have been living in the Algarve for over twenty years. During that time I have run my own business as a baker of artisan breads using traditional methods. I also work as an agriculturalist, growing fruit and vegetables on my own land and with a ......

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Helper and occasional caretaker in our Quinta, Alentejo, Portugal

We are retired and English and have a Quinta with 10 ha of land situated to the north of the Monchique mountains in Alentejo, Portugal. We have fruit and olive trees, vines and chickens which live in harmony in this very pretty and peaceful part of ......

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Volunteer with a German family living near Lagos, Algarve, Portugal

Hello, If you want to spend some time on a small farm with a spiritual background ( ZEN ) you are mostly welcome by Emilia Carl and Annette. We live in beautiful nature, 8 Km from the atlantic ocean (southcoast) and 1 Km from a fantastic, colorful, ......

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