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Description
I am living in an old farm in an abandoned hamlet located in the Serra do Acor in Central Portugal. I am Jean (31) from Belgium. There is some close neighbours and friends staying with us usually.
In the beginning of 2015 we moved in to the farm and immediately started to work the land.
There is several old natural stone buildings that need some restoring, and a lot of land with olives, vineyards, fruittrees, over grown areas, watersprings, brooks, vegetable field, woodland. The land is divided in terraces and quite mountainous. Getting your way around the larger valley can be adventurous!
We've started an big vegetable field and are selling weekly organic fruit and vegetableboxes. Our aim is to have an organic smallholding embedded in nature, using permaculture principles and aiming towards selfsufficiency.
At the moment we are finishing renovation work on a small building, using a lot of cob. We are fully offgrid, but solar powerd and using water from our springs.
The village of Luadas is just 5 to 10 minutes away and has a nice bar/ with a view overlooking the mountains and valleys. Here you can get basic supplies and local products.
It's a cozy village with friendly people whom are very welcoming.
Around these villages and valleys there is a lot of stuff going on: alternative markets, movienights, transition movement, permaculture projects and social happenings from time to time.
Not very far away there is the beautiful waterfall of Fraga da Pena, a national park, and above us is a very nice mountain area.
October 2017 came with massive wildfires which destroyed a part of our farm. We and our neighbours are carrying on. The woods are still black and a part of the work is still dealing with the aftermath of the fires.
To be sure we all get along and have a pleasant time, we have 1 week trial period. Then we can see whether all of us like it :-)
We prefer a minimumstay of three weeks cause it takes some time to get into the farmlife.
If you deceide to write us, please use the codeword avocado, then we know you ve read the full description, we are not too fond of random requests :D. Thanks!
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Aide avec des éco-projets
Jardinage
Bricolage et construction
S’occuper des animaux
Aide dans une ferme
Cuisine/repas pour la famille
Aide à la maison
Entretien général
Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre
Projets impliquant des enfants
Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.
Aide
- Planting, watering, mulching of fruit trees.
- Sowing and planting annual vegetables
- Weeding the vegetable field.
- Establishing the forestgardens
- Harvest ( olives, grapes, fruit, chestnuts)
- Firewood
- Restore watersystems
- Land clearance
- Woodland management (cutting, restoring tracks, promoting the native forest)
- Some cobprojects: Cobbing walls, building oven,
- Woodworks: new composttoilet, tables, prepping wood, all kind of.
- Baking bread, preserving harvest: juices, jams, wine, oil etc.
- We do not provide any insurance.
Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant
Français: Courant
Hollandais: Courant
Portugais: Courant
Espagnol: Intermédiaire
Hébergement
Some facilities are rather primitive but now we do have warm water.
From springtime to the autumn camping is a great option (if necessairy provided).
For the wintertime: there is a comfortable caravan, and we have a 2 pers bedsofa in the livingspace where the stove is lighted, it's a warm and dry space. During the day other people might use the rest of the room aswell.
We do have solar power, and limited Internetacces.
Autres infos...
We have a mountainbike that you can borrow, there is some nice touristic sites and the riverbeach in the summer is a couple kilometers walk.
Please bring :
- Torch, since it can be really dark and tracks and stairs outside can be dangerous
- ! proper shoes with grip (its steep here ) !
- raincoats, except from july to september
- biodegredable soap and toothpaste
- in summer sunprotection if you need it.
Informations complémentaires
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Espace pour garer des vans
Cet hôte a de la place pour les vans.
Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux
Cet hôte a dit qu’il acceptait les personnes voyageant avec un animal.
Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?
Plus de 2
Nombre d'heures attendues
5 hours per day
Feedback (6)
Hope you are going well! Staying there was a great experience : we felt straight at home in a couple of days, they are nice, energetic, full of project, open-minded and smiling people! The place is a wonderful piece of nature surrounded by beautiful shcist houses and villages. The work they are doing is quite impressive and full… read more
They were very friendly, enthusiastic and eager to learn, always up for any task. Was a pleasure hosting you both and hope to see you again next year
They are super helpfull, hardworking, friendly, easygoing, handy people!
Having an extra hand and motivated spirit helped both us and our neighbours to carry on.
In a charcoaled landscape they kept going with motivation :-) . We would love to have them back!! ;-) XXX
For the other people who are wondering if to go or not to go to your place :
Go !
It's a great experience , we were there… read more
I've learnt a lot, a lot, a lot, about gardening as well as about life projects. I felt totally in love with this area, so green and full of streams and wonderful abandoned sheper schist houses.
Days flied by: it was intense work, but… read more
We ve laughed a lot and i look forward to see you again! Big hug!
Feedback
Hope you are going well! Staying there was a great experience : we felt straight at home in a couple of days, they are nice, energetic, full of project, open-minded and smiling people! The place is a wonderful piece of nature surrounded by beautiful shcist houses and villages. The work they are doing is quite impressive and full… read more
They were very friendly, enthusiastic and eager to learn, always up for any task. Was a pleasure hosting you both and hope to see you again next year
They are super helpfull, hardworking, friendly, easygoing, handy people!
Having an extra hand and motivated spirit helped both us and our neighbours to carry on.
In a charcoaled landscape they kept going with motivation :-) . We would love to have them back!! ;-) XXX
For the other people who are wondering if to go or not to go to your place :
Go !
It's a great experience , we were there… read more
I've learnt a lot, a lot, a lot, about gardening as well as about life projects. I felt totally in love with this area, so green and full of streams and wonderful abandoned sheper schist houses.
Days flied by: it was intense work, but… read more
We ve laughed a lot and i look forward to see you again! Big hug!
The best oranges in the world, a cosy caravan, a "self-sufficient" dog, fresh food from the… read more
Thanks for coming here :)
Was great to have you here and look forward to see you again.
They were a great help in a period we really needed some!
Do not hesitate to give a hand helping Mara and Jan making this beautiful place even… read more
At the time we were there, their set up was… read more
They adapted really good to our primitive circumstances and are cool and easygoing.
We enjoyed sharing the evenings with you and we look forward if you want to come by again.
