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!Special help needed in March for building a natural pool!
We are a group of 12 friends from Germany, who bought a piece of rural land with a big old ruin close to the Serra da Estrella. We came here to live closer to nature and to have more opportunities of personal development.
Together we are learning a lot about different topics like permaculture, natural building, community building, agroforestry, apiculture and selfsustainability.
Our little project startet in August 2021, when we, a mix of biologists and social workers, first arrived on our new home.
We had to clean the land from bushes and wild growing trees, because the property was not touched for many decades before our arrival.
Even though there is still a lot of wilderness on the land, today there are more or less 5 of our group living full time on the property and working on it, while the others are coming by from time to time when their jobs in Germany allow it.
Our community involves three couples and 5 individuals in their 20s and 30s. There is also a 2 year old child and a newborn, as well as two dogs and two cats.
We share a lot of time together, but everyone is also doing their own stuff and projects. We appreciate to have privacy as well as shared quality time. For that reason we don't live all under the same roof, but instead everyone has their own little island on the property.
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Proyectos artísticos
Práctica de idiomas
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Enseñanza
Jardinería
Construcción y bricolaje
Cuidado de animales
Ayuda en una granja
Cuidado de niños y juegos creativos
Cocinar para toda la familia
Ayuda doméstica
Mantenimiento general
Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
During your stay you would be a part of our group and get to know the early stages of a new born community. Since we started we learned a lot about community building and living together. We try to practice open communication and grow together as much as possible. We would like to give a little example of how you could make a project like this happen.
We do a lot in a learning by doing way, but looking back at how we started, we can definitely share some of the experiences we gained on the way. We increased our knowledge about permaculture design, gardening, composting, fermentation and sustainable living a lot while beeing in this project.
We can exchange about water management and restoration and managing a land with more people.
We are all beginners and learners in what we do, but very curious and willing to listen to nature and people that know already more than we do.
We are also interested in artistic projects or alternative schooling (we have three kids here) and rural tourism. We would not define ourselfes as experts in these topics. Everyone of us is still learning and participating in workshops or doing investigations on their own.
Proyectos con niños
En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.
Ayuda
We need help with:
-Cleaning the water mines, if you like to get your hands dirty ;)
-Ridding the land from weed like broom, bramble and mimosa trees,
if you would like to release pressure. This is what we do the most.
-Building sheds, to store material and keep it away from heat/rain.
-Weeding and gardening in our recently established mandala garden.
Permaculture experienced people welcome!
-take care of kids sometimes, if you like.
We expect you to be quite independent in your free time. We value our private space and time as much as the community time and hope for you to be able to also entertain yourself in nature. The group here is always changing and most of the time we are a bigger group and have friends visiting. But depending on when you come it could be quiet and family-like.
List of special work on the land around the year:
Spring:
all Spring - a lot of garden preparation for the upcoming season, growing little plants etc.
February/March - Planting potatos, wine trimming
Mai - Festival (prepare a festival with us, decorate the land and work on the nessecary infrastrukture)
June - wine is ready, filling wine in bottles, a lot of wine drinking is possible but not necessary
Summer:
Juli - Potato harvest, forest work, cleaning the land
August -
!Building of a cabin/addition to a yurt!
Harvest and preservation of harvest (cooking loads of veggies in glasses, do fermenting etc.)
Autum:
September/October
- Wine harvest
--building of natural pool and retention ponds
All Winter:
Work in the forest and burning/shredding biomass
Work on the Watersystem on the Land (Lake building, cleaning watermines...)
Cleaning the land from bushes etc.
Idiomas
Idiomas hablados
Alemán: Fluido
Inglés: Fluido
Español: Principiante
Portugués: PrincipianteEste anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
Learning portuguese is important to all of us because we want to integrate and adapt to the local culture. We would love portuguese mothertongues to help us with this! Most of us learned the basics of portuguese or do at least understand a lot, but it would be amazing to practice more. In exchange we can teach german, as we are native speakers and we can use and improve our english all together. The group changes sometimes, so it would be important to talk about the languages which are spoken here before you come. We are all fluent in english, but there is not always a person on the land speaking spanish or greek.
Alojamiento
Our big ruin is still waiting to be restored, so we cannot offer proper accomodation. You will have to come with your own van or tent and find youself a nice spot on the land. If you don't have a tent just talk to us, we have a few small ones to lend out.
We have a well equipped community kitchen/communal area, where you can prepare your meals. We will expect from you to be responsible for your food, and maybe connect with other volunteers for it. Out of logistical reasons we will only provide the living space and sanitary facilities such as hot shower and composting toilet.
But depending on the time you are here it's also very likely that we share at least one meal all together. Especially when the group is a bit bigger it's nice to end the day with good food in company.
It depends on the situation, but normaly we expect 4 hours a day, 3 days a week (its nicer to have full work days and full free days).
Algo más...
Our land is located near Covilha, just under the Serra da Estrela National Park- Portugals biggest mountain area. The mountains are a very good place for hiking and short trips. A lot of cold lakes and river beaches invite for a bath and the view from up there is incredible.
The city Covilha is the biggest in the region. Because it has an univerity there are a lot of students and different possibilities to go out in the night. If you come by bus you will have to get off at the busstop in Covilha. We will then pick you up and drive together to the land.
Our place is a bit isolated and it will be hard to get into town without a car. If you don't have a car you will be able to join into shopping trips and other adventures that we do. We are always happy to show people around in the beautiful mountain area close to us.
A taxi into town is around 10 euros.
The next supermarket (Continente) is 4,5 km away.
Our favourite Pizza Place is 3,4 km away ;)
There are also a lot of opportunities to hike around our place. For example there is the river Zézere in more or less 25 minutes walking distance, which is a nice opportunity to have a refreshing dip into cold water.
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Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
It's very welcome, if you bring your own home or car, that gives you a lot of freedom to explore the beautiful area around, but not necessarily required. We have only a dirtroad as access to the Quinta, that can be quite rough, but so far every vehicle made it to the land and could also leave with no problem. The largest Vans that visited so far where about 6-7 meters long and up to 2.5-3m high. We have good flat places to park Caravans and Vans. Though it´s on a field and if it rains a lot it can get a bit muddy.
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Their sense… read more
Everyone living here is lovely and easy to talk to - we loved their set up and how open they were, but also how easy it was to have our own space. They have a great space for campervans.
Marlon is an… read more
She is a lovely person and really easy going.
She adapted to our chaotic circumstances (we all got sick during her stay) and helped where she could.
We would definitely host her again.
Hope to see you… read more
He was very autonomous throughout the whole time and did not need to be supervised all the time. He integrated himself into the group and was a part, even though… read more
I arrived a few days before the festival, which gave me the opportunity to help with preparations such as building tables, seats, platforms, and even some decorations. After the festival, I assisted with tidying up and various other tasks.
The ambiance was always super… read more
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Their sense… read more
Everyone living here is lovely and easy to talk to - we loved their set up and how open they were, but also how easy it was to have our own space. They have a great space for campervans.
Marlon is an… read more
She is a lovely person and really easy going.
She adapted to our chaotic circumstances (we all got sick during her stay) and helped where she could.
We would definitely host her again.
Hope to see you… read more
He was very autonomous throughout the whole time and did not need to be supervised all the time. He integrated himself into the group and was a part, even though… read more
I arrived a few days before the festival, which gave me the opportunity to help with preparations such as building tables, seats, platforms, and even some decorations. After the festival, I assisted with tidying up and various other tasks.
The ambiance was always super… read more
They left the accommodation cleaner than they found it and brought fresh wind into our project. We would definitely host them again!
We've had some very enjoyable little trips to nearby rivers and lakes, exploring the beautiful surroundings.
Each visit is a unique… read more
For me it was really cool to see a young group actually taking the leap and starting a community.
The community is still at its beginning stages, so I’m sure it’s just… read more
