Join our permaculture farm and learning community on Madeira island, Portugal

Detalles

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  Descripción

  OUR STORY
  Eight years ago our founder Markus began restoring an abandoned terraced valley in Tábua, Ribeira Brava. What started as one person rebuilding stone walls has flourished into a 7-hectare permaculture farm and intentional community on Madeira’s sunny south-west coast.
  
  WHO WE ARE TODAY
  • 3 resident adults, and an ever-changing circle of volunteers
  • A menagerie of cows, pigs, chickens, ducks, dogs, bees—and the wild birds that visit our food-forest edges
  • Multilingual household (English, German, Portuguese, Spanish) that enjoys shared meals.
  
  OUR VISION
  We exist to demonstrate and teach regenerative living. That means:
  – Natural building projects using cob, SuperAdobe and reclaimed wood
  – Holistic animal care with daily rotational grazing and compost systems that close the nutrient loop
  – Self-directed education for the kids, with volunteers welcome to share skills or languages
  
  WHY COME?
  If you’d like to swap screens for soil, learn hands-on permaculture or test your natural-building muscles—while living in a friendly off-grid valley ten minutes from the sea—you’ll fit right in here. We share knowledge freely, cook hearty vegetarian food, celebrate successes and laugh at our mistakes.

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  Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  Proyectos artísticos

  Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos

  Jardinería

  Construcción y bricolaje

  Cuidado de animales

  Ayuda en una granja

  Cocinar para toda la familia

  Mantenimiento general
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  Intereses

  

  LGBT+

  

  Eventos y sociedad

  

  Vegetariano o vegano

  

  Sostenibilidad

  

  Mascotas

  

  Cultura

  

  Vida en autocaravana

  

  Autodesarrollo

  

  Agricultura

  

  Cuidado de plantas

  

  Música

  

  Bricolaje y manualidades

  

  Libros

  

  Arte y diseño

  

  Fotografía

  

  Idiomas

  

  Jardinería

  

  Cocina y alimentación

  

  Arquitectura

  

  Dibujo y pintura

  

  Carpintería

  

  Animales

  

  Yoga / bienestar

  

  Naturaleza

  

  Acampada

  

  Baile

  

  Montaña

  

  Playa

  

  Actividades al aire libre

  

  Senderismo
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  Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión

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  ¿Que es esto?
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  Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  Living at this place is an immersion into Madeiran village life and hands-on permaculture. You’ll:
  
  • Learn practical regenerative skills – compost making, food-forest design, natural building (cob & earthbag), holistic animal care.
  • Experience community living – weekly circles, consensus decision-making.
  
  • Share knowledge both ways – volunteers often teach yoga, music, languages or fermentation.
  
  • Explore outdoors – we map secret levada trails, cliff-top sunsets and surf spots, and lend camping gear for weekend adventures.
  
  • Language & culture exchange – practice Portuguese with locals & residents.
  
  Whether you’re a novice gardener or seasoned builder, you’ll leave with a toolkit of regenerative practices, new friendships that span continents.

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  Proyectos con niños

  En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.

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  Ayuda

  ☘️ YEAR-ROUND CORE TASKS
  • Animal care – morning feed/water, moving cows to fresh pasture, checking eggs, muck-out and bedding change.
  • Food-forest maintenance – mulching, pruning, turning compost, planting support species.
  • Community chores – keeping common areas tidy, sorting recycling, weekly infrastructure day (tool shed, water lines, compost toilets).
  
  🌱 FEB–OCT (GARDEN SEASON)
  • Preparing and maintaining garden beds, sowing & transplanting seedlings, daily harvest and post-harvest washing.
  • Building compost systems (thermophilic hot piles, Johnson-Su bioreactors).
  
  🏗️ NOV–MAR (NATURAL BUILDING SEASON)
  • Landscaping terraces with stone and living retaining walls.
  
  🍲 KITCHEN & COMMUNITY
  • Help cook a vegetarian communal lunch and wash up.
  • Fermentation projects – sourdough, kombucha, kefir – if you’re keen.
  
  ⌚ TIME COMMITMENT & RHYTHM
  Approx. 25 h/week, Monday–Friday. We usually start at 09:00, finish by 13:00 so you have free afternoons to explore or rest. Tasks rotate so you won’t be doing the same job every day.
  
  🤝 WHO FITS WELL
  • Physically able for outdoor, hands-on work (terrain is steep).
  • Communicates clearly in English (other languages welcome).
  • Enjoys community living, takes initiative and respects shared spaces.
  • No prior farm or building experience needed—we teach everything.
  
  What you contribute keeps the farm thriving; what you learn can travel with you anywhere in the world!

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  Idiomas hablados

  Alemán: Fluido
  Inglés: Fluido
  Italiano: Fluido
  Lithuanian: Fluido
  Portugués: Fluido

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  Alojamiento

  Volunteers are accommodated in the two converted container bedrooms, they come with beds & all bedding provided, although we do recommend you bring your own sleeping bag.
  
  Accommodation on the land, use of shared facilities (kitchen, bathrooms, laundry etc) and vegetarian meals are provided to all volunteers. During workdays Mon-Fri, at 13:00 lunch is served in the shared kitchen area, by our resident farm cook.
  For breakfast and dinner, and also during the weekends, everybody manages independently. The kitchen space can be used for preparing meals, storing food etc. Usually, it's our social space, and we get together to cook and share food and laughs.

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  Algo más...

  Madeira island (& island of Porto Santo) is part of the Macaronesian bio-region, with mild sub-tropical climate, dramatic landscape of volcanic origin, and endemic Laurisilva forest- an UNESCO world heritage site.
  In your free time, there's abundant hiking trails all around the island, black sand beaches and swimming spots to explore, cultural events and a rich digital nomads & expats community to connect with.If you'd like to understand the process of designing your own project or joining a larger community, we're happy to share what we've learned so far about project design, community management, Permaculture farming, soil & water management, animal caring, bio-housing, alternative education etc.

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  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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  Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

  We manage independently with the internet, some of us have MIFI/ pocket wifi device, it's a portable mini-router that gives you wifi on the go, it worked for us so far. The shared kitchen area can be used for computer work, it has a seating area indoors & outdoors, and most of the time there will wifi available there.

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  Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

  Campers, caravans, motorhomes, more than welcome- 7 hectares of land you waiting for you.

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  ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

  Dos

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