Homestays, Volunteering & Working Holidays in Alentejo, Portugal

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Experience off-grid living and permaculture in the Guadiana valley, Portugal
You want to slow down, listen to birds and bees whilst doing something lasting for the planet? Come and join us! We are an English-German couple living on a small off-the-grid farm near Serpa in the Guadiana river valley. Our focus is on ......
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Help with gardening, animal care and various handy projects in our valley near the west coast of Alentejo, Portugal
We are looking for helpers to build our new sheep barn, care for the sheep, and help set up the garden for the new gardening season… We’re happy if you bring skills or an interest in life here 🙂… We’re happy if you plan to stay with us for at least ......
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Join us in the forest of Alentejo, Portugal
Permaculture project with idea and space to create an eco-village. The quinta is located in Alto Alentejo 2 km from Portalegre. Fifteen hectares with magical forests and a beautiful valley provided by seventeen sources and several mines with ......
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Help at our animal welfare association on a farm in Sabóia, Portugal
Hello! We are a German family living on a farm in southern Portugal. Steffi and Marko are around 60 years old and live with 10 dogs on part of our very large property. Next door lives our daughter Pia (33) with her little daughter Ivy (4). We ......
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Join our small farm community in beautiful Alentejo, Portugal
We are a couple from Denmark that bought a farm in the beautiful Alentejo. The long term goal for the farm is to become a self-sufficient camping site, and also a community with room for everybody! It has changed a lot in how many people we have ......
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Come to a paradise and help us with looking after our animals while we are away in São Bartolomeu da Serra, Portugal
Update: ============== The family that ihas sucefully been living with us, will move back home on the 4th May. So, we are looking for people to stay at the farm, in exchange for accomodation If you are willing to do farm work, we have a pay day ......
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Help out on our beautiful family land and enjoy peaceful life in São Teotónio, Portugal
We are a Portuguese / English family who have been living on our beautiful piece of land in southern Alentejo's Parque Natural da Costa Vicentina with our two children (3 and 6 years old) for the past three years. Our land is 2.7 hectares of nature ......
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Join us with outdoor projects in a beautiful village near Sao Luis, Portugal
My name is Julia I'm Dutch and I live with my amazing dog and two cats near Sao Luis in a small beautiful countryside village, 20 min from the beach of Vila nova de Milfontes. This part of the coast has amazing and quite beaches that I love to go ......
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Collaborative Land Guardianship and re-imagining education in North Alentejo, Portugal
A Land, a home base, an alive biodiverse ecosystem to relate with. In collaboration with the Land, we discover co-livingnes(t). 🌿 Im a mother, a realms re-imaginer, interested in Creation, embodiment, wilderness, Sovereignty, poetry, vibration, ......
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Enjoy remote nature and learn to live sustainably in Alentejo, Portugal
😃🌿 Welcome to our off-grid home in the countryside with beautiful sea views, about 10 km from Odeceixe Beach. We are restoring and caring for our land after the bushfire in 2023. With the help of Workawayers, we’ve created a simple and cosy guest ......
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Join a regenerative project with our family in São Mamede Natural Park, Portugal
Hello there! We're a family of human beings, Ana, Ale and our baby, and 2 cats, Fletchie and Micio. We have very recently (2025) found the piece of land we have been dreaming of for years and have committed to being its guardians. The farm needs ......
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Restore our beautiful quinta in Marvão, Portugal
Hello! We are Rosie and Sam, we live in a beautiful old Quinta in Marvão in the Alto Alentejo, Portugal. We are raising our two girls while also renovating and restoring our house to its former glory, and also maintaining the land and growing our ......
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A conscious place in the middle of Alentejo, Portugal
We are two city guys who have decided to change their lives and start their personal utopia. We try to combine the benefits of technology with the beauty of living with nature. Farming, construction, and work with the animals are daily tasks. Our ......
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Live in the quiet and serene area of Sao Teotónio, Portugal
Hello! My name is Vitor, I’m half Portuguese and Spanish. Lived abroad for over 30 years in countries like; Germany, Nederlands, France, Doain, Brazil, USA, Lithuania and Italy. I used to be a ballet dancer then worked in the fashion industry for ......
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Community living, nature and personal development in Alentejo, Portugal
This is more than a regenerative project. It is a living, rotational community space in the Alentejo, where we have spent more than five years growing as an educational and cultural exchange rooted in land stewardship, community living, and ......
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Experience slow living in the nature of Baranco de Vale Francisco, Portugal
Hi we are Mike and Jette and live in the southern Alentejo on 2.7ha land in the middle of the Portuguese nature and are just rebuilding an old farmhouse. With us there is a bathing lake we start to create our garden according to the model of ......
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Off-grid homestead close to the beach in Alentejo, Portugal
Close to the beaches of Zambujeira do Mar in Alentejo, SW Portugal, we are Jason and Isabel, a Swiss/English couple with a young family living on a beautiful, off-grid homestead of 5.7ha. We are looking for a couple / two friends to help us out in ......
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In the heart of nature we've built up our secret paradise in Sabóia, Portugal
We bought this nice property with two old clay ruins 1998 with a lot of work and helping hands it became a nice modern country house our dream became true since 2009 we live permanently here. To our little family belongs one cat and three dogs.Also ......
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Join me in a beautiful and peaceful area in Vila Nova de Milfontes, Portugal
Hello lovely folk, Long term volunteer opportunity available, preferably 3 months minimum. Our family home has been in Portugal for over 40 years, near Vila Nova de Milfontes (approximately 1.5 km outside town). It is a traditional Alentejo house, ......
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Join our family and help us with horse handling in Sao Teotonio, Portugal
We are a family living in the sw alentejo, costa vicentina, working in 3 different fields: -Horsetraining / Horsetrails -pedagogical work w. teenagers and also medical mushrooms in the winter season. Our ranch is 12km from the ocean in the middle of ......