Información de perfil
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Evaluación del anfitrión
100 %
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Last replied
14 oct 2025
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Comentarios
4
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Correo verificado
Country info
Medallas (2)
Estancia mínima: Al menos 2 semanas
Detalles
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Descripción
Hello Volunteers !
My name is Dom, and together with my partner, I live on our homestead in Central Portugal. We are located at the very edge of a small hamlet, nestled in the middle of a beautiful olive grove.We left our busy lives and corporate jobs behind to cultivate our own food, with the ultimate goal of coming as close as possible to self-sustainability. Come and experience an alternative, fulfilling lifestyle with us!
Please also read the `What else `section.
What we offer & what you can learn:
Permaculture Mastery: Benefit from over 30 years of permaculture experience.
Daily Farm Life: Every season brings different tasks. You will help with preparing seedlings, building garden beds, weeding, composting, pruning fruit trees, planting, and harvesting whatever is ready (including harvesting olives and pressing them for oil).
Local Culture & Leisure: Visit vibrant farmers' markets and our village's famous local wine cellars. There is also a beautiful swimming lake within biking distance and some rivers sides.
Accommodation & Privacy (Important Note): We provide you with a comfortable bedroom or a tent. A water kettle for making hot drinks is always available for you.
Please note: Our main house is a large, open-plan space that serves as our private quarters, kitchen, living room, and bedroom. Because my wife lives, works, and rests in this shared space, the main house is strictly our private sanctuary. We kindly ask our volunteers to fully respect this boundary so everyone can enjoy their personal downtime after a productive day in the garden.
Meals & Food:Breakfast: Self-service between 7:00 AM and 9:00 AM in the kitchen, or we will prepare your breakfast essentials the evening before so you can enjoy them at your outdoor/downstairs seating area.Lunch & Dinner: We will discuss food arrangements together when you arrive. Sometimes we cook a warm meal together, and sometimes it is just quick sandwiches—we like to keep it flexible! -
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Práctica de idiomas
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Jardinería básica
Proyectos creativos DIY «hazlo tú mismo»
Cuidado de animales
Ayuda en una granja
Mantenimiento básico
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Intereses
AgriculturaCuidado de plantasLibrosCocina y alimentaciónJardineríaIdiomasPlayaBaileNaturalezaYoga / bienestar -
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Expect to learn Permaculture by experiencing it on our land. We live in the portuguese campo, surrounded by fields owned by the locals, who still live by their culture and tradition. Its interesting !!Expect to get better in speaking english, german, africans as we can speak these languages fluently. Practice a language we speak, or brush up your portuguese with the locals.
Get immersed into Permaculture, food preserving. -
Ayuda
It all depends on what is needed at that moment, but we grow our own food.
Help in garden, Harvesting Olives.
Everything according to season and time, one by one. -
Idiomas
Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Francés: Intermedio
Portugués: PrincipianteEste anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
We d love to speak to you in our languages and we d love to practice our portuguese and french. -
Alojamiento
There are two beds for sleeping .
Shared bathroom
You can pitch up your tent on the property , we also have a big tent as well as plenty of blankets. Our tents sleeps two, Thai mattress and big enough to stand in.
There is a parking for a camper.
We get our drinking water from a spring nearby. -
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Important Notes & Insurance:Insurance:
We are a private homestead. For your safety and ours, you must have your own active travel health insurance (like the EHIC card for EU citizens) and a personal liability insurance (Haftpflicht) that covers volunteering abroad.
Workaway Profile: We only accept volunteers with a verified, active profile on this platform to ensure standard insurance coverage.
We do live isolated. We have neighbours, yes. But its countryside. No public transport on weekends, no frequent public transport on weekdays.
On foot Podentes is reachable : it has a 1 woman small shop which is closed at noon and a café for drinks which only opens Sundays. Swimming Lake in biking distance- we have 1 old functioning bike.
Your own transport is a plus- supermarket towns take hours to reach on foot- 20 minutes by car.
Make sure you have your health insurance papers with you.
Portugal always needs a jacket at night a rain coat and gum boots are advisable. -
Un poco más de información
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Acceso a Internet
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Acceso a Internet limitado
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Tenemos animales
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Somos fumadores
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Puede alojar familias
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Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
There is parking space for a moderate size van, the entry has a sharp curve, big vehicles Cant take the curve. Tested and tried 😁
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¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?
Más de dos
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Comentarios (2)
Thank you Mathéo, your work is excellent as well as your eagerness to learn, it was a pleasure to have you in our home.
We recomend Mathéo,
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Precisión del perfil:
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Intercambio cultural:
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Comunicación:
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Thank you Mathéo, your work is excellent as well as your eagerness to learn, it was a pleasure to have you in our home.
We recomend Mathéo,