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Description
Come help us in our beautiful little valley in central Portugal, where we're creating off-grid homes surrounded by nature, with a small river for swimming and cooling off on hot days.
We are a small group (Dutch, Venezuelan, Portuguese, and Belgian) who bought this land together five years ago. Since then, we've been step by step transforming this beautiful place into our home. With natural building, gardening, tree planting, and improving and cleaning the land in general.
This season we're finishing several off-grid houses built with earthbags, straw, clay and other materials. We'll be doing lots of clay rendering, laying tile floors, and many other small construction projects.There is always plenty of work in the big veggie and herb garden we are cultivating. Also part of our group is a 3 year old kid who loves having people around to play with, and occasional help with taking care of her is always appreciated!! We have chickens, dogs, and a cat, plant trees, preserve food, and are always working on new projects around the land.
We love having people from April to October who are interested in learning about natural building, gardening, and many other practical skills. Life here is simple, hands-on, and in the middle of nature! We love to work hard, but also to enjoy a lot the life around here Sharing meals together, going to the plenty of parties that are around in summer, enjoying the nature and swimming in the river.
We can provide tents, mattresses, and sleeping bags.
Don't hesitate to contact us for any questions!!!
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Pratique d’une langue
Aide avec des éco-projets
Jardinage d'entretien
Projets DIY créatifs
S’occuper des animaux
Aide dans une ferme
Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs
Cuisine/repas pour la famille
Aide à la maison
Petits travaux d'entretien
Centres d’intérêt
Dev. personnel
Vidéographie
Politique/justice sociale
Dev. durable
Animaux de compagnie
Vie en van
Ferme
Bricolage / artisanat
Musique
Soin des plantes
Camping
Livres
Langues
Jardinage
Cuisine et alimentation
Montagne
Animaux
Menuiserie
Yoga / bien-être
Nature
Sports nautiques
Randonnée
Sports d'aventure
Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre
Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
We are a nice little group of 6 people from 2 to 62 years old. We all speak different languages. We love to work hard, but also to have a lot of fun. We will for sure share a lot of meals, work together and exchange about off grid living in general. We are all learning from each other everyday.
Projets impliquant des enfants
Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.
Aide
We're doing several bigger projects at the moment like:
Cleaning the land with hand tools
Building an earthbag house
Rendering walls with clay
Building wood structures for several purposes as wood shelters etc
Create a green house with recycled windows
Building a outside shower
Putting a floor with tiles and wood
There is also always a thousand things to do in the garden (cleaning, seeding, planting, weeding, harvesting, building structures...) and conserving food.
If somebody knows how to make an oven to fire ceramics would be very cool to try that out!
Also some help with babysitting and cooking can be a big help from time to time.
Langues
Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant
Espagnol: Courant
Français: Courant
Hollandais: Courant
Portugais: CourantCet hôte propose un échange linguistique
We love to mix and play with languages even if the main language we speak between all of us is english.
Hébergement
Everybody with a campervan is welcome and there are several nice spots on the land for you to stay where you like it. We have tents, blankets, mattress to give you during your stay. You will be able to put your tent next to the river, a bit higher in the forest, or on top of a big rock. As you prefer.
We have a common kitchen where you will have 3 meals a day (breakfast, lunch and dinner). In order to prepare the meals, we are working with a rotation system, which means that a different person will be in charge of cooking everyday. Some days one of us will do that and sometimes one of the volunteers.
We have a beautiful river where you can swim after work to get clean, refreshed and enjoy!
Also there's plenty of space around for your own shower.
Autres infos...
We live very remote from everything. So if you don't have a car, you can come with us when we go shopping once a week. We can pick you up in Sàtāo, Viseu when you arrive (or leave). We live in a beautiful valley with other communities around, a lot of big rocks, a beautiful river, some abandoned villages... It is ideal to have long walks and to swim. In summer there is many parties around and there's a nice pizzeria walking distance.
Informations complémentaires
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Espace pour garer des vans
The road is totally practicable, even if you need to be really slow. Every kind/size of campervans can get here and we have different spot to park your home. You will be free to chose where you want to camp.
Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux
Let’s talk about it.
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A real hidden gem in the Portuguese countryside!
Everyone there was nice and welcoming, and also a good feeling of community here.
I liked the work schedule too. A nice balance of work/life. Start in the morning then finish work, eat and the rest of the day you had to yourself.
This is a good place to learn about natural building… read more
We had big passionate chats and good laughs - what else could you want ?
Thank you so much for sharing your energy and your space! Sending you all lots of love, best of luck with the building! X
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A real hidden gem in the Portuguese countryside!
Everyone there was nice and welcoming, and also a good feeling of community here.
I liked the work schedule too. A nice balance of work/life. Start in the morning then finish work, eat and the rest of the day you had to yourself.
This is a good place to learn about natural building… read more
We had big passionate chats and good laughs - what else could you want ?
Thank you so much for sharing your energy and your space! Sending you all lots of love, best of luck with the building! X
Milly is this incredible person that feels straight away comfortable while taking her time to observe and get to know the place and the people around. She is incredibly adaptable, hard worker, autonomous, and generous. She is not afraid of heavy work, she is up for everything, she is curious and very… read more
Of course there's the landscape; really beautiful with the perfect swimming spot right by the summer kitchen area, the tent was generous and comfy with Julia and Issa being incredibly accommodating and willing to do anything that would make you most comfortable and at ease. Our time was split helping where… read more
We loved our (unfortunately short) time with Elliot. He is autonomous, he takes initiative, he's a hard worker, and we had a lot of fun. We could show him a job in the morning and knew at the end of the day that it would be done, he's really a great help !! We enjoyed our meals and all of our discussions switching from French to… read more
