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Hi !
We are a family living in a paradise land in Central Portugal : Marie (Belgian), Gabor (Hungarian) and our son Elouan (9 years old). We are also living with three dogs (Guanche, Zinnia and Kizu), a cat (Fluffy) and seven chicken.
Our land is a magical place of 2.3 hectares. We are completely off-grid, with our own water and solar powered electricity. We are very lucky to have more than a hundred fruit trees of all kinds : olive, apple, peer, peach, figs, lemon, orange, tangerin, apricot, vines, almond, chesnut,… and many more ! And, of course, we love to cultivate as many vegetables and medicinal plants as we can !
We came here 8 years ago to find our true home, a place where we could live in real harmony with Nature, and create an abundant Heaven to be as self sufficient as possible.
Gabor is a sound therapist, a Reiki master, and a has long professional experience in organic agriculture and forest management. On my part, I am an herbalist, a Bach Flowers practitioner, and a Reiki master. And I dedicate an important part of my time to creating and preparing various herbal remedies.
We are developing an holistic therapy project where we give 1-1 sessions but also organise regularly various events, courses and workshops. And we invest a great part of our energy in the care and extension of our pedagogic medicinal garden.
We are looking for motivated helpers, open minded people who love to work and are interested to experience and develop with us an healthy and sustainable lifestyle.
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Jardinería
Construcción y bricolaje
Ayuda en una granja
Cocinar para toda la familia
Intereses
Sostenibilidad
Mascotas
Autodesarrollo
Agricultura
Blogging
Libros
Cuidado de plantas
Jardinería
Animales
Fitness
Actividades al aire libre
Baile
Yoga / bienestar
Naturaleza
Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Here is a perfect place to (re)connect deeply with nature and with yourself.
With us, you can experience and learn about self sufficient and off-grid life style, about the questions and challenges this way of life brings and how to find and put into place solutions !
You will also learn about gardening : permaculture but also bio intensive, ecologic gardening and food forest designs and techniques (specially those adapted to warm and dry environment). Vegetables and fruit trees, seeds. Water saving systems and natural fire breaks. As well as food transformation and conservation.
The most interesting opportunity you will have with us will probably be to learn about the culture, the harvest, the transformation and the use of many medicinal plants and Bach flowers. We will also be glad to share with you what we know about holistic health, Reiki and Sound Therapy.
And you will have the possibility to join our guided medicinal garden tours, our herbalist workshops and our Bach Flower workshops!
We are going, one to three times a month, to local alternative markets where we sell our herbal remedies. Joining us might as well be an interesting and enriching experience.
We also have experience about life in community, and we will enjoy to share about it with you if you want to.
Ayuda
The tasks we are going to be doing together will mainly depend on the season and on what is needed at the time.
There will be work on the land:
- clear a mimosa forest and use the cut trees to mark the borders of the vegetable and medicinal plants bed.
- collecting and splitting fire wood
There will also be various missions in the vegetable and medicinal garden (integrating permaculture but also bio intensive, ecologic gardening and food forest techniques) : installing a dripping system, preparing the soil for new vegetable and medicine plants beds, seeding, weeding, watering, mulching, composting, harvesting, making our own seeds…
We started to build a beautiful terrace and we would love to finish the work this spring. For this, we will have to be moving rubbles.
When we organise events or workshops, we will ask you to help us prepare everything, and you will be welcome to join the activities!
We are expecting you to help us 5 hours a day, 5 days a week. Furthermore, we also ask you to share with us the daily life tasks (cooking and dishes).
Please, note that the summer weather can be very warm, so we will probably want to adapt our working time around this.
(Please, take into account that most of the labour we will do here is going to be physical. Farm life and autonomy are exciting and a great opportunity to learn what we believe are the most valuable knowledge and skills. But it also involves a fair amount of hard work ! If you have any reservation about this, please do not apply! )
Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Francés: Fluido
Hungarian: Fluido
Portugués: Principiante
Alojamiento
For your stay with us, we will offer you a comfortable bed in a guest room in our house. We didn’t had the possibility to build doors yet, but we installed a curtain to give you as much privacy as possible.
If you prefer, you can bring your own tent. There are plenty of very beautiful spots to camp on the land.
If you are travelling by van or camper, we have a very nice and flat spot for you to instal yourself.
We have solar powered electricity. So you can charge your phone, computer, camera… We also have a good internet connection that you can use if you wish to.
We will provide for you three meals a day : breakfast (muesli, fruits…) , lunch (sandwiches) and dinner (cooked food). The food will be vegetarian and, as much as possible organic. If available in the garden, we are going to eat seasonal fruits and vegetables of course. And we will probably be playing a lot, to find new ways to prepare the vegetables and fruits that we will harvest.
Depending how we organize ourselves, we might not eat our breakfast at the same moment. But we will eat the lunch together. And cook the dinner together (our take turns). The dinner is usually the moment for us to exchange about our day, and to plan what will be done on the next day.
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With no neighbor in sight and its abundant trees and flourishing nature, the land offers plenty of privacy. During your time off, you can enjoy its peace and ressource yourself in the soft shade of the trees. Practice yoga, meditation, observe the birds… or just read a book in the hammock.
Even if it feels isolated, we are only ten minutes walk from the village. There you can find bars, nice pastry with free wifi. We are about 15 minutes drive from Tabua and Oliveira do Hospital, and about 40 minutes from Serra da Estrella. The nature around us is magnificent and there is plenty of walk to do. The Mondeigo river is very close and there is possibility to make Kayak. We also have many very beautiful river beaches around, where you can refresh in the cold water.
The alternative life is very active in our area ! There is plenty of projects in the same spirit than ours to discover, and as many interesting people. Many workshops are organized. And there are several free hippie markets every month. You can also find yoga courses and Ecstatic Dance. And of course some partys from time to time.
The locals are very welcoming and open hearted, and the local markets and festas are a very good opportunity to discover about the rural Portuguese culture.
A bit further, we are about 1h from Coimbra, 1h30 from Figueira da Foz and Porto. And about 3h from Lisbon. There is a train station close by and we can drive you/ pick you there if you need.
Un poco más de información
Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
If you are travelling by van or camper, we have a very nice and flat spot for you to instal yourself.
¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?
Uno
Mis animales / mascotas
Fluffy
Zinnia
Guanche
Kizu
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She is kind and funny, but also really smart and never afraid to work.
She perfectly integrated our family. She was extremely helpful, and I will remember for long the meaningful talks we shared for hours and hours. She was also absolutely wonderful with our son, who… read more
Although there wasn’t much variety in the work I… read more
Even though the tasks we had to do when she was there weren’t the most exciting ones, she putted her heart into… read more
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She is kind and funny, but also really smart and never afraid to work.
She perfectly integrated our family. She was extremely helpful, and I will remember for long the meaningful talks we shared for hours and hours. She was also absolutely wonderful with our son, who… read more
Although there wasn’t much variety in the work I… read more
Even though the tasks we had to do when she was there weren’t the most exciting ones, she putted her heart into… read more
i spend 2 weeks at Marie and Gabor place at the end of july and helped them with the big renovation works on their land. i had really good times here sharing stories, learning a lot of useful thinghs about herbalism (essential oil, aromatic plant, etc.) and enjoyed the cheese party and pizza night!
i slept in… read more
Thank you Ben for your great help !
Gabor's knowledge about sustainable horticulture I second to none and Marie is the best mother I've seen. Nobody could not be amazed by Lu Lu, or their beautiful land with over a hundred organic fruit trees.
Highly… read more
Susanne is truely great ! She found her place easily and adapted to us very fast. She could understand very fast and do any kind of task we would ask from her, and always did it at her best. She actually… read more
First of all, thank you so much for this experience and for sharing all the knowledge!
They are quite new on this land, so this is perfect if you want to see how to start this lifestyle. I learned a lot about sustainable gardening. Things we did: preparing the vegetable beds, put mulch and shade on it, weeding, seeding, fed… read more
She was truly interested and involved in everything (garden tasks,… read more
