Give us a hand in our lush garden on Santa Maria, Azores, Portugal

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  Description

  We’re a young British/ Dutch family who have recently moved to Santa Maria Island, Azores. We live in a traditional home surrounded by a beautiful, 7500 sq m garden, filled with fruit trees and year round blooms. It’s incredibly calm, surrounded by green and close to some of Europe’s most beautiful beaches. We work in arts, culture and media, recently founding Meander Magazine, a magazine for regenerative living. Our work and toddler keep us busy, so we’d love a helping hand in the garden, which in the long run we hope to develop into a kitchen garden and food forest.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Jardinage d'entretien

  Projets DIY créatifs
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  Centres d’intérêt

  

  Végétarien ou végan

  

  Dev. durable

  

  Événements/vie sociale

  

  Culture

  

  Art et design

  

  Musique

  

  Livres

  

  Langues

  

  Jardinage

  

  Arts du spectacle

  

  Nature

  

  Yoga / bien-être

  

  Sports nautiques

  

  Cyclisme

  

  Randonnée

  

  Plage
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  As a young family with a 3 year old, much of our life revolves around food and coffee! We have backgrounds in design, print media, and in community-facing arts programming which we're happy to share more about. We have a deep interest in regenerative practice and through our magazine Meander are building a global network on the topic, which we also love talking about.
  Throughout your stay you'll have your own place to cook and eat, but we'll make sure we share some meals and coffees to make the most of our time together.

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  Projets impliquant des enfants

  Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.

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  Aide

  We predominantly need a hand in the garden. Depending on your interests and experience this can be anything from general maintenance - pruning and helping to remove invasive plants - to helping with landscaping and helping to set up raised beds for a kitchen garden.
  
  In autumn and winter the focus will predominantly be on lots of pruning, some plants are quite tough so it can be hard work!
  
  If it's of interest, we would also love help with light diy and carpentry, e.g. building outdoor furniture, improving parts of the guest accommodation.
  
  This is the first time we're taking care of such a big space, so we're very open to learning from and/ or together with our workaways, with the aim of in the long run developing a permaculture garden and food forest, and would like to replace many of the non native species with endemic ones. We're very open to any ideas visitors bring!

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  Langues parlées

  Anglais: Courant
  Hollandais: Courant
  Portugais: Débutant

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  Hébergement

  You will have your own studio apartment, with a bathroom and a basic kitchen.
  The apartment has a double bed, so it's ideal for a single person or a couple. If travelling as friends, we can arrange for a second separate (single) floor mattress.
  We will provide ingredients requested so that Workaways can cook their own meals at a time that suits (our mealtimes with a small child are on the early side) but we also hope to share a few meals per week with the Workaways.
  There is a desk and office chair for anyone doing remote work, plus a yoga mat.

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  Autres infos...

  Weather in the Azores in spring is unpredictable, it can be sunny and warm, or cold, rainy and stormy. In the winter months it can be very humid and rainy, but the sun does peek through a few times in the week.
  
  The surrounding nature is gorgeous whatever the weather, there are several beaches driving distance, and many great hikes in the vicinity, including straight from the house.
  
  We are located walking distance from Santo Espirito, but travelling into town will require a car as public transport is infrequent. We will pick you up from the airport and can drive you places to for excursions, or you can make use of the car to explore the island.
  NB: we usually have two cars which makes logistics a little easier, but one is currently in the garage which means it's a bit trickier to arrange logistics. We would recommend looking into car hire if you prefer having more freedom to explore without relying on the car / our availability to drive you.
  
  We still have desk jobs with meetings at fixed times, plus a daily school run, meaning we might not always be readily available. This means that in terms of hours we operate a lot on trust: we don't set specific hours in which we expect you to work, it's up to you to decide when you'd like to do the work. If weather permits a spontaneous excursion then you should feel free to do that! But we therefore do also expect a degree of independence and taking initiative.
  
  So far we’ve found it to work well when workaways come as a couple or pair to be able to venture out together when we’re not available.

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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

  There is a desk with an additional screen in the studio apartment for digital nomads to use.

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  Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux

  Cet hôte a dit qu’il acceptait les personnes voyageant avec un animal.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Deux

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