Come and learn on a biodynamic farm with vineyard and olive grove in Central Portugal

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  Description

  Urgent message: *** the person who was supposed to come just cancelled! We need immediate farm, domestic help,and help with the animals**. - JL has had surgery and will not be able to work on the farm for 3 months. I will do all his outdoors work in the meantime. This means that some of the domestic work (cooking and cleaning), animal care tasks (feeding the whole zoo, herding back to shelter, shelter cleaning, grooming horse and walking large but friendly dogs), and garden care (planting, harvesting, weeding) need to be handled by a guest visitor. (Note: I'll do the brunt of it but I need back up).
  
  If you are interested for period 22 April to 15-30 May, please contact us. Please I need a person who can work independently and "gets it" pretty quickly and has some knowledge of farm/rural life/farm animals. We would consider compensation if you are involved more than 20-25 hours/week. Thank you.**
  
  We purchased a badly neglected property 10 years ago. We have achieved amazing results. We need Workaway help with our ongoing tasks on the property, from animal care to organic gardening or reforestation. We are experimenting with small-scale agroecology projects to explore how we can best bring wildlife back onto the property and expand our self-sustaining food forest.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Aide avec des éco-projets

  Jardinage

  S’occuper des animaux

  Cuisine/repas pour la famille

  Aide à la maison

  Garde de maison et d'animaux
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Dev. durable

  

  Animaux de compagnie

  

  Ferme

  

  Soin des plantes

  

  Musique

  

  Jardinage

  

  Animaux

  

  Yoga / bien-être

  

  Nature

  

  Activités en plein air
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  Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

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  Qu'est-ce que c'est ?
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  we are passionate about teaching land care and mostly land repair, and we practice biodynamics. I am a keen permaculturist which I learn long ago in Australia when it wasn't even a word. I recently completed a local Portuguese diploma in agricultural management. I believe that sustainable small farms are the way forward for our next generations and please prepare for a big download of our knowledge! Portugal is very special and though we are foreigners here (French/Australian) we have fully integrated with our small village community and will be able to tell you a lot about Portuguese history, culture, food and more. You will partake in the village and district festivals and we will drive you to places of interest on your free days if you do not have a car.

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  Aide

  We need help all year round with our Quinta and our feather and fur friends. Right now, we need help with domestic jobs and looking after the animals because my partner is undergoing surgery and won't be mobile for a little while.

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  Langues

  Langues parlées
  Anglais: Courant
  Français: Courant
  Japonais: Intermédiaire
  Portugais: Intermédiaire

  Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
  I am trilingual. And always practising one of my languages with whoever is interested. So if you wish to exchange, I am very happy to do this!
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  Hébergement

  very comfortable. high-speed 5G internet. in the Quinta with owners. lots of space. you will have a choice to either: occupy your bedroom (bath might be shared), park your camper van, or bring your tent along. In those latter cases, you will have access to electricity, hot water, a bathroom, kitchen. We provide 100% of your food, which you cook on your own or we have shared meals: let's keep it organic. We can cater for omnivores and vegetarian meals. We are not vegan.

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  Autres infos...

  Time off: plenty of local sights and conveniently located for individual transport. district town is 40 min by foot. buses can bring you to the regional town where you can hop on express buses to several other regions. We can drop you in town or at the bus stop.
  Work: 4 hours per day, generally in the morning, with 15 min or so at sunset to bring the animals back to their pen. 5 days a week unless it is vine harvest time (September) or olive harvest (October/November) at which time things get messy! We would discuss with you to which extent you wish to be involved in those 2 harvests.
  How we live and our expectations: let's discuss it with a video call before you firm your visit!

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  Informations complémentaires

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    Accès Internet

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    Accès Internet limité

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    Nous avons des animaux

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    Nous sommes fumeurs

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    Familles bienvenues

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  Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

  5G connected, through cable or wifi at 120 mbps minimum down/up loads. desk in two rooms. Good for remote workers, However, please keep your morning free to help us on your workaway!

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  You can park on our land, there's electricity, amenities, hot water. You can camp too.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Plus de 2

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  Mes animaux

  one dwarf pig and 2 very naughty dwarf goats

  the guinea pigs...... and the bees.

  Mara

  Stark

  3 of them!

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