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We are a young couple with some experience on self-sufficient-living that in 2015 got a piece of land close to a small growing community of close friends in a beautiful valley at the highest mountains inside the biggest natural park of our country. We need help on creating a Natural Farm to support our small eco-community!
Rita is a health-food enthusiast and loves to work with different kinds of art-craft. She likes to explore with Medicinal plants, Fermented food, ways of preserving food and appreciates doing basketry, wool-work and book-binding. Also likes to produce cleaning and hygiene products like natural detergents, soaps and salves. Walking in the nature, singing with friends and doing yoga are some of the other things she enjoys.
Gonçalo is a nature lover with a passion for Permaculture and Natural Farming. Studied Organic Agronomy and has been practicing it since 2008, with the help of volunteers, interns and apprentices. He enjoys sharing and to make music with friends.
Unfortunately in 2017 a massive fire went over this beautiful valley but in the same year we were blessed with our first home-birth daughter Dana. Lukcly, in 2020 Rui, Rita's brother, decided to join us to broad is farming knwoledge and improve is carpentry skills. In 2021 we were double blessed with the home birth of our twin sons, Aziz and Arsu. In 2022 the valley burned again in the Summer, we managed to save all the animals and structures but most of the trees and bushes died. With us lives also 2 female dogs and 2 female cats besides many wild animals.
Until now, with the help of lots of amazing people we build two yurts, a greenhouse dome (toilet and nursery), recovered a ruin for a kitchen and build a rootcelar with eartbags and a workshop with a greenroof. For the volunteers we build a small kitchen, toilet and shower. Also built a roundhouse shelter for the volunteers but in 2020 a group of 4 young volunteers with 18 years burned it so since then wen can only camping is possible. This year, we are doing a crowd funding to pay a neighbor to make us a Tipi to replace the burned shelter for the volunteers. Also done a stable for the farm animals with roundwood. Made a vegetable garden with huegel beds a small food forest and planted many trees and bushes. We have the help of horse,goat, sheep, chickens, ducks and bees to regenerate pasture where we plant trees and shrubs in order to convert it to an poly-crop system. Some small earth works like dams and swalles have also been made in other to extend the already existing ancient irritating system.Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Jardinería
Construcción y bricolaje
Cuidado de animales
Ayuda en una granja
Cuidado de niños y juegos creativos
Cocinar para toda la familia
Mantenimiento general
Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
In north Portugal we have strong culture of family agriculture that is still practiced by beautiful old people and some young new amazing neighbors. You will meet some of those and can get to visit them to chill-out or help on farming maintenance in exchange for services, products or money and learn some knowledge or skills with joy!
Proyectos con niños
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Ayuda
This year we will need help babysitting our twins and maintaining the vegetable garden, implementing and maintaining food forests, building simple structures with roundwood and recicled materials, harvesting herbs, vegetables, fruits and processing them, farming maintenance (cutting and caring fire-wood, moving electric fences and farm animal summer shades, cleaning the stable), enjoying live, sharing experiences and much more ....
Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Español: Fluido
Portugués: FluidoAlojamiento
We only need help for around 3 hours/day according to goals, therefore we only provide accommodation (camping tent, mattress and blankets) and shared facilities (kitchen, dry toilet and solar shower) so, you buy your own food. Minimum time of stay of 4 weeks.
There's also a natural pool in the stream and according to the season, mushrooms, edible and aromatic plants, berries, acorns and chestnuts.Algo más...
We are at north-central Portugal, in a mountain with two glacial valleys, a lot of water on lakes, rivers and streams, that you can follow to find abandoned farming and shepherd houses surrounded by wilderness. There's tow villages close to us: Linhares da Beira (+/- 5km), an historical place with a military castle, a local association, a craft-shop, a cosy bar, a gourmet restaurant and two hotels ; Figueiró da Serra (+/- 2km), with more vivacity has tow local associations, a grocery-shop, tow bars and a hotel with restaurant. We have a car that we use often to bring needs from outside but there's also a bus passing in Figueiró da Serra every day at 9am that goes to the closest town (Gouveia +/- 20km) and comes back at 5pm.
Un poco más de información
Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
Puede acoger a nómadas digitales
You have to bring your own internet connection.
Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
We only have 2 flat spaces to park Campervans.
Podría aceptar mascotas
Can accept dogs if they are not good chicken hunters!
¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?
Más de dos
Horas esperadas
3 hours
Comentarios (39)
I will never forget the hospitality and lifestyle in synergy with nature.
A hug for Dana, Rita, Rui, Gonçalo and the Twins.
Thank you very much
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I will never forget the hospitality and lifestyle in synergy with nature.
A hug for Dana, Rita, Rui, Gonçalo and the Twins.
Thank you very much
I really enjoyed the work there, we mostly did cob walls for the new bathroom.
Thank you Rui for always smiling and being friendly… read more
We are very grateful for meeting this kind brave girl and wish her all the best!
They own a huge and amazing property where you can experience the permaculture principles in real life. It is a place where you are able to connect with nature and connect with yourself. You will start to realize what truly matters in life while going back to basics. It is a bit of a… read more
They are very respectful and responsible people, always willing to help and share what they know. If you need help with building and daily farm tasks you will be very lucky to have them!
Work includes gardenwork in their huge veggigarden, prozzessing food and help them… read more
Gonzalo and Rita are very knowledgeable about permaculture, farming, building and all things nature. They are hard working and genuinely nice people running a wonderful place… read more
It was a pleasure to have you with us and we hope to have your visit again.
I stayed with Gonçalo, Rita and Dana for 2 weeks. And how huge was this experience. Emotionally and physically. If you want peace, nature and good vibes, this is the place. Gonçalo masters the knowledge in permaculture, Rita is the best chef and also has a wide knwoledge about… read more
* Because they had other volunteers over during… read more
Rita and Goncalo are lovely and warm-hearted people that share their little paradise with volunteers. Thank you for that guys!
Living outside and being close to nature was a wonderful experience for me. I couldn‘t get enough of the view over the surrounding mountains.
Moreover, I learned a lot through the work… read more
If you want to re-connect with nature & nature within yourself, feel your mind soften, your body strengthen with each new day of work & unlock this joyful feeling that you just want to sing out & dance out & share, then this place is for you.
Rather simple living conditions made me… read more
Humble and social life, chilling and enlightening life, to much to say, go and discover by yourself !
Our stay at their farm was unfortunately cut short due to the weather conditions. We were not fully prepared for sleeping in a tent, with nightly lows of 1 degrees, however, our hosts did… read more
We helped them with moving electric… read more
Hope to have you visiting us again!
sooo inspiring to see how much can be done in a short time!! such a beautiful and deliscious veggie garden, from which they shared everything! THANK YOU!
they are very flexible on working hours and always considered that we were doing well! I really enjoyed the time on the farm and if winter wouldn't… read more
We slept in a caravan, there was always enough of… read more
It was a pleasure to have the company… read more