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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 please contact the embassy in your home country BEFORE travelling.

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Help us create a paradise community while learning about permaculture, eco-building in Covilha, Portugal

We are a group of 12 friends from Germany, who bought a piece of rural land with a big old ruin close to the Serra da Estrela. We came here to live closer to nature and to have more opportunities of personal development. Together we are learning a ......

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Join us to restore and create a thriving habitat for wildlife in sunny Salguero do Campo, Portugal

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 ......

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Be part of a sustainable project in Marco de Canaveses, Portugal

Olá and hello! We, Johannes and Claudia, warmly welcome you here, a unique place in the green north of Portugal. Here, we are building a sustainable project focused on self-sufficiency, permaculture, and living with nature since 2023. Our wish is to ......

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Find your new home in our permaculture tribe and nature life with gardening, eco projects in Serta, Portugal

Hello everyone! 🏠🙋👋🌺🎉🌿🏵️🌱 Small young tribe in middle Portugal, Serta area, search volunteers to live with us. We have a huge garden full of bio fruitrees and vegetables with a sound of river all day, in the green mountains🌱🐜🍋🍊🍇🥝🥔🥬🍓🍍 We create food ......

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Learn about rural life and help all round on our quinta in Arcozelo das Maias, Portugal

Hi there! We are Annemiek, Martijn and young daughter Nelli, a family from the Netherlands that moved to Portugal three years ago to start a new, more quiet life in the countryside surrounded by nature. To pursue this dream we are renovating a ......

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Eco-queer self-sufficiency project in the beautiful natural park of Sao Mamede, Portugal

Hi and welcome to the Quinta Project, my 5.5-hectare ecoqueer farm in the heart of the São Mamede Natural Park, where Portugal meets Spain. This is a place of wild beauty, where cork oaks and olive trees share the land with a food forest, two ......

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Revive an off-grid mountain land and explore the surroundings of Monchique, Portugal

I am living my dream to revive this beautiful old farmstead in the Algarve hills and turn it into an organic food forest farm. Since arriving in 2020 we have planted a lot of fruit and nut trees, berries, medicinal plants, mushrooms, and many beds ......

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Beautiful new permaculture food forest and healing community near Viseu, Portugal

Heya :) I'm Andrew, a 37 year old English guy, and have very recently bought a small quinta (just under 1 hectare) near to Sao Pedro do Sul in the Viseu area of central Portugal. This is the very start of an exciting long term project where the ......

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help to build our permaculture farm and community space near Odemira, Portugal

hello, we are Eran and Neta, and we want to welcome you to our little farm, in south Alentejo, surrounded by nature. Eran has been living in Portugal for the last 7 years, and bought this farm in 2020. before that he was like you, working and ......

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Step into conscious living surrounded by the raw beauty of Sintra’s mountains, Portugal

Hey traveler, Thank you for stopping by. Please read this carefully before contacting us. We are Jon & Eva, a couple walking a long path in holistic health, retreats, and practices that support human consciousness and well-being. We currently live ......

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Wild swimming and off-grid adventure near Oliveria do Hospital, Portugal

Are looking for a longer term escape in nature- back to basics, un-plug from the world and re-connect to your wilder side - or maybe you are interested in a taste of living off grid and what it really means! (we ask for a mimimum two week stay, but ......

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Come and gain experience of sustainable practices with our family in Algodres, Portugal

We are a family of three. Kayley, Rick and our son Martin. We have lived in Portugal since 2018 but come from The UK. We moved here to start a family and live more sustainably. We always have plenty to do so if you’re looking for a long stay or ......

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Learn how to restore old stone houses in the mountains of Serra da Lousã, Portugal

When a singer and a cook come together and start a community in the mountains of Serra da Lousa, there are many evenings with delicious food and good music sessions. Musicians welcome. We live in a nearly abounded village in the mountains of Serra ......

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Plant an agroforest in Alentejo, Portugal

2026 feb : We're accepting volunteers until the end of the month to work on agroforestry and river maintenance, building a tree nursery and a space for different types of composting, etc. Scroll for more details 😁 -- Hey! I'm Isabel and I have a ......

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Help reforest a valley and bring an old farm to life in Folques, Portugal

Hey! Welcome! I now have a basic wooden cabin you can stay in. My place is about natural building, Syntropic forestry (kind of food forest) and rewilding. I always try to have 2 or more work awayers, so you can go on adventures with other persons ......

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Learn about permaculture, enjoy the surf and beaches in Aljezur, Portugal

We are a family with an eco-agriculturismo in the heart of the Algarve, Portugal. Near surfspots and beautiful hiking trails and the lively village Aljezur, we created an amazing farm. We always need help with planting, seeding, building and ......

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Help build mud houses and grow plants in a self sustainable non-profit community in Santa Bárbara, S.Teotónio, Portugal

We are Sabine, Tom from Germany and Lucy, our Border Collie from Portugal. We are in the process of building a kind of centre for holistic healing and are looking for you to help us. We will build the communal kitchens, construct houses out of ......

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Families coming together experiencing farm living, Animal sanctuary, forest garden and Permaculture in Viseu, Portugal

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Family and community life in the outback of Marmelete, Portugal

We live here between aljezur and marmelete in the outback. in a kind of community We started the community 5 years ago . The land is 37hectars big with three houses ,The houses need to be renovated,a small river and a small lake! As the land is so ......

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Learn about permaculture and sustainable living near Coimbra, Portugal

Hey, my name is Inês, I am 34 years old, and I have been renovating my family house, for the past 3 years with my friend Simone, after 30 years of being abandoned. Now it has a new life by being a learning and regeneration centre, and a rural ......

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Permaculture oasis between Olhao and Tavira, in Algarve, Southern Portugal

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Help in the garden and woodlands near Coimbra, Central Portugal

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Learn about permaculture in the Paredes de Coura area of the Minho, northern Portugal

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Come and learn more about permaculture and family life in nature. Campelo, Portugal

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Join our ecofarm in Benfeita, Portugal