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CURRENLY LOOKING FOR HELP FOR OLIVEPICKING AND WORK AROUND THE HARVEST END OCT/ NOV
I am living in an old 'farm' in an abandoned hamlet located in the Serra do Acor in Central Portugal. I am Jean (37) from Belgium. There is some close neighbours and regularly friends staying.
In the beginning of 2015 we moved in to the farm and immediately started to work the land and improving infrastructure.
There are two cats and 2 donkeys living here with me who require their portion of the attention :).
There is several old natural buildings in several stages of renovation and a lot of land with olivetrees, grapevines, fruittrees, over grown areas, watersprings, brooks, vegetable and herb gardens and lots of young woodland. The land is divided in terraces and quite mountainous. Getting your way around the larger valley can be adventurous!
My aim is to build an organic smallholding embedded in nature, using permaculture principles and aiming towards selfsufficiency where possible.
The farm is fully offgrid, but solar powerd and using water from our springs.
The village of Luadas is just 5 to 10 minutes away and has a nice bar/ with a view overlooking the mountains and valleys. Here you can get basic supplies and local products.
It's a cozy village with friendly people whom are very welcoming.
ot very far away there is the beautiful waterfall of Fraga da Pena, a national park, and above us is a very nice mountain area (a wildfire this august unfortunately burnt really big areas in the surrounding, luckily not in our valley and village.
To make sure we all get along and have a pleasant time, we have 1 week trial period. Then we can see whether all of us like it :-)
We prefer a minimumstay of three weeks cause it takes some time to get into the farmlife.
If you deceide to write us, please use the codeword avocado, then I know you ve read the full description, not too fond of random requests :D. Thanks!
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Jardinería
Construcción y bricolaje
Cuidado de animales
Ayuda en una granja
Cocinar para toda la familia
Ayuda doméstica
Mantenimiento general
Intereses
Política / justicia social
Sostenibilidad
Mascotas
Agricultura
Cuidado de plantas
Bricolaje y manualidades
Jardinería
Cocina y alimentación
Carpintería
Actividades al aire libre
Montaña
Naturaleza
Senderismo
Ciclismo
Deportes de aventura
Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión
Proyectos con niños
En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.
Ayuda
- Planting, watering, mulching of fruit trees.
- Sowing and planting annual vegetables
- Weeding the vegetable garden
- Establishing the forestgardens
- Harvest ( olives, grapes, fruit, chestnuts)
- Firewood
- Land clearance
- Woodland management (cutting, restoring tracks, promoting the native forest)
- Some cobprojects: Cobbing walls, building oven,
- all kind of carpentry, prepping wood
- Baking bread, preserving harvest: juices, jams, wine, oil etc.
- We do not provide any insurance.
Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Francés: Fluido
Holandés: Fluido
Portugués: Fluido
Español: Intermedio
Alojamiento
From springtime to the autumn camping is a great option (if necessary provided).
For the wintertime: there is a mezzanine above the communal living room with beds and blankets.
There's a good spot to park up if you're travelling with a van.
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there is some nice touristic sites and the riverbeach in the summer is a couple kilometers walk.
Please bring :
- Torch, since it can be really dark and tracks and stairs outside can be dangerous
- ! proper shoes with grip (its steep here ) !
- raincoats, except from july to september
- biodegredable soap and toothpaste
- in summer sunprotection if you need it.
Un poco más de información
Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
Este anfitrión puede proporcionar un sitio para autocaravanas.
Podría aceptar mascotas
Este anfitrión dice que acepta a viajeros con mascotas.
¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?
Más de dos
Mis animales / mascotas
Two donkeys named Charisma and Turbo
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Comentarios (6)
Hope you are going well! Staying there was a great experience : we felt straight at home in a couple of days, they are nice, energetic, full of project, open-minded and smiling people! The place is a wonderful piece of nature surrounded by beautiful shcist houses and villages. The work they are doing is quite impressive and full… read more
They were very friendly, enthusiastic and eager to learn, always up for any task. Was a pleasure hosting you both and hope to see you again next year
They are super helpfull, hardworking, friendly, easygoing, handy people!
Having an extra hand and motivated spirit helped both us and our neighbours to carry on.
In a charcoaled landscape they kept going with motivation :-) . We would love to have them back!! ;-) XXX
For the other people who are wondering if to go or not to go to your place :
Go !
It's a great experience , we were there… read more
I've learnt a lot, a lot, a lot, about gardening as well as about life projects. I felt totally in love with this area, so green and full of streams and wonderful abandoned sheper schist houses.
Days flied by: it was intense work, but… read more
We ve laughed a lot and i look forward to see you again! Big hug!
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Comentarios
Hope you are going well! Staying there was a great experience : we felt straight at home in a couple of days, they are nice, energetic, full of project, open-minded and smiling people! The place is a wonderful piece of nature surrounded by beautiful shcist houses and villages. The work they are doing is quite impressive and full… read more
They were very friendly, enthusiastic and eager to learn, always up for any task. Was a pleasure hosting you both and hope to see you again next year
They are super helpfull, hardworking, friendly, easygoing, handy people!
Having an extra hand and motivated spirit helped both us and our neighbours to carry on.
In a charcoaled landscape they kept going with motivation :-) . We would love to have them back!! ;-) XXX
For the other people who are wondering if to go or not to go to your place :
Go !
It's a great experience , we were there… read more
I've learnt a lot, a lot, a lot, about gardening as well as about life projects. I felt totally in love with this area, so green and full of streams and wonderful abandoned sheper schist houses.
Days flied by: it was intense work, but… read more
We ve laughed a lot and i look forward to see you again! Big hug!
The best oranges in the world, a cosy caravan, a "self-sufficient" dog, fresh food from the… read more
Thanks for coming here :)
Was great to have you here and look forward to see you again.
They were a great help in a period we really needed some!
Do not hesitate to give a hand helping Mara and Jan making this beautiful place even… read more
At the time we were there, their set up was… read more
They adapted really good to our primitive circumstances and are cool and easygoing.
We enjoyed sharing the evenings with you and we look forward if you want to come by again.
