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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 like we live in the Shire but close enough to the city to get out and about. Think Adams family meets pippi longstockings, meets faulty towers!
The farm is a busy, unpredictable place and we are a boisterous irreverant bunch here, but full of love, fun, laughter and magic!
We work 25 hours a week and all food is provided. We are mainly vegetarian but looove cheese and do eat a bit of meat here and there .
We have a generously well stocked fridge and pantry and breakfast and lunch is also help yourself.
We are all diy beginners so not much to teach volunteers regarding diy, so it is more of a bumbling along, following youtube tutorials, giving it a bash sort of project and every now and then we get a skilled volunteer or worker who can teach us a trick or two.
I am always looking for skilled people like builders or carpenters, welders and we offer payment for these types of skills in addition to workaway hours too
There is a lot of gardening, pruning, harvesting, building, painting, turning the barnyard into a nice place for our animals as recently its been a bit of a building site.
This summer I am lovingly renovating some windows in some of the rooms so inside work in heat of the day and working on animals living spaces.
We live 15 minutes from Aveiro in the countryside (we call it the Shire) Porto is 45 minutes away so on weekends theres always the possibility to leave the Shire end enjoy the city vibe.
The farm is a fun farm for the pure pleasure of living and learning with our 3 donkeys, five ducks, 16 chickens, (5 cats and Annie the dog) who will want to try sleep with you!
We aspire to make sure our animals have the best life. In fact it feels like most days we are their human slaves! We seem to always be putting up fences to stop chickens eating our veggies, dogs eating eggs, ducks bullying blind chickens! , donkeys escaping!
The donkeys and all other animals need feeding, cleaning out, walking to the field and the garden is always begging for love and attention!
We like to ensure we offer a fair exchange and value our volunteers and treat them like family.
Amelia
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Proyectos artísticos
Práctica de idiomas
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Jardinería
Construcción y bricolaje
Cuidado de animales
Cocinar para toda la familia
Ayuda doméstica
Mantenimiento general
Intereses
Vida en autocaravana
Sostenibilidad
Mascotas
LGBT+
Cultura
Eventos y sociedad
Agricultura
Artes escénicas
Jardinería
Bricolaje y manualidades
Cocina y alimentación
Carpintería
Arte y diseño
Animales
Actividades al aire libre
Acampada
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Experience the Portugese countryside but not too far from Porto. Connect with other volunteers and learn and exchange skills and ideas.
Ayuda
Daily farm life cleaning out donkeys, ducks, chickens, feeding all animals, walking dogs, walking donkeys, CUDDLING DONKEYS!! helping with building, painting. Fences fences fences! We seem to always be making fences !
Creating art installations, building a pond, sanding, painting, gardening, harvesting,
Hours are 25 hours a week, 10 till 3 Monday to friday. These involve gardening, renovating our two cottages and workshop space or looking after animals.
We are pretty keen for handy people right now with basic carpentry or plumbing or building skills OR if not skilled, not afraid to give it a go after a few youtube tutotials.
Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Alojamiento
accommodation is a lsrge room with sofa, big bed and desk and wardrobe. Shared bathroom, shared kitchen
We provide all food and a generously well stocked fridge. Breakfasts and lunches are self served. We usually all eat together at night and Amelia cooks on week nights. Weekends everyone does their own meals or joins up for meals or we make pizzas.
We are 95 percent vegetarian but eat a lot of cheese!
The house is a large double story old house that is being renovated where we all live together, with volunteers who have their own large room.
We do 5 hours a day Mon to Fri
9.30 to 1.30 then 1.30 to 2.30 5 days a week and a communal cleaning deep cleaning day every Saturday for an hour which is not part of workaway hours but part of living in a community.
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We are mostly vegetarian. We eat meat or fish maybe once a week but cook for the vegetarians separate stuff. We eat eggs from our chickens and eat a lot of cheese!!
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Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
Puede acoger a nómadas digitales
we have fibre
Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
we have water and electricity for you to plug in and an outside loo
Podría aceptar mascotas
Any pets that arent chicken or cat killers.
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Amelia communicated jobs to us well and gave us lots of autonomy/trust to do them. This was great,… read more
It is amazing to have volunteers like this who changed your life, improved and achieved so much in just two weeks
They designed and built me a hay pulley system, a pump house,… read more
we found Amelia last minute as we had to leave a workaway host due to not feeling very comfortable... Amelia opened her home to us very quickly, she called us that day and within 24 hours we were at her home! we are very very grateful she was… read more
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Amelia communicated jobs to us well and gave us lots of autonomy/trust to do them. This was great,… read more
It is amazing to have volunteers like this who changed your life, improved and achieved so much in just two weeks
They designed and built me a hay pulley system, a pump house,… read more
we found Amelia last minute as we had to leave a workaway host due to not feeling very comfortable... Amelia opened her home to us very quickly, she called us that day and within 24 hours we were at her home! we are very very grateful she was… read more
Dale pushed my project forwards in leaps and bounds with his plumbing skills and I am super greatful to have 2 new bathrooms in just 2 weeks. He is a highly knowledgeable and competent guy, as well as creative and a… read more
He threw himself into unfamiliar farm life, mucking out the barnyard and dealing with the donkeys like he had… read more
It was my first workaway after the pandemic and I can't be happier to have been in Alquerubim with them.
Amelia has incredible cooking skills and her love for animals is unmatched. I came in as a person who had never touched an animal (except for cats) to a person… read more
I've been at Amelia's place at the end of August and spent two wonderful weeks with her and her family.
Was their first time hosting people and it has been absolutely great!
they live in quiet tiny piece of land in a small village not far from touristic areas and I had great time building fences, fixing things and… read more
