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We are a family of six building an off-grid homestead for some years now and trying to apply permaculture principles. We focus on regenerative land management with tree planting/protection and intensive rotational grazing running sheeps, goats and chickens in order to build soil. Right now we have nine sheep, 21 goats, 100+ chickens and a dog. Workawayers help with daily chores on the land and with the animals (milking, feeding, collecting eggs, rotating animals, weeding, making biochar, cutting, planting), do building projects (chicken tractors, sheds, furniture - mostly with wood), tutor/do languages with our homeschooled children (11/9/7), look after our 2 year old or help in the kitchen (cooking, baking or making joghurt, cheese and ice cream). We have three dammed lakes on our property - one of them is for swimming and normally has water until the end of summer. The kids have several trampolins, which they love to share :). We enjoy playing card and board games on rainy days. We don't have a house yet, but we live in a caravan and some nicely refurbished containers. Hence accomodation is in a spacious tent or in your own vehicle if you travel with a campervan or caravan. We have running water, electricity (may be limited in the winter and during nighttime), internet, hot showers and compost toilets. If you want to see a busy family homestead in the vastness of the Alentejo and enjoy being around animals and children, you will like our place. Families with children are very welcome - preferably with your own vehicle, so that we are able to go places together ;)
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Pratique d’une langue
Aide avec des éco-projets
Enseignement
Jardinage
Bricolage et construction
S’occuper des animaux
Aide dans une ferme
Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs
Cuisine/repas pour la famille
Aide à la maison
Entretien général
Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
We have travelled quite a bit, speak several languages and are interested in history, geography and regenerative agriculture. We'll always find something interesting to talk about ;-) At our place you can learn how to make cheese, ice cream and joghurt as well as biochar. You can learn how to bake sour dough bread, how to slaughter chickens, make beef jerkey, tallow and ghee. Furthermore you can improve and share your building skills and see how we apply permaculture principles to regenerate degraded land mainly by working with animals and establishing a silvopasture system.
Projets impliquant des enfants
Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.
Aide
No special skills necessary, we also learned everything from scratch ;-b
Langues
Langues parlées
Allemand: Courant
Anglais: Courant
Français: Intermédiaire
Portugais: Intermédiaire
Espagnol: Débutant
Hollandais: DébutantCet hôte propose un échange linguistique
We love to have people on the land for our children to improve their English.
Hébergement
Fully equipped tent with mattress (for one or two people) or your own campervan/caravan (especially if two or more people)
Meals are with the family (if single or couple living with the family) or on your own (when coming by campervan/caravan with a family for example). We can't cater vegans at all - eggs and other animal based products are a staple at our farm. We eat a lot of milk, joghurt and cheese, as we produce it ourselves. We do eat some fruit - mostly seasonal and our own, rarely something exotic. We are not eating a lot of grain, starches or vegetables, so even if you're "only" vegetarian, it won't be easy for you here, if you're not self-catered ;-)
Autres infos...
The beaches of the Westcoast are within 50 minutes and the Algarve is about 1h. We go there about once a week. It is very quiet an peaceful where we live. You can enjoy nature, watch the stars at night or go for a walk or cycling. There are some montainbike tracks passing our property. The nearest town, Ourique, is 7km away and has all the infrastructure needed (cafes, restaurants, supermarkets, shops, library, post office,...). We go there about three times a week. It is connected to the portuguese bus network (Rede Expressos) and we can pick you up there. The next train station is Funcheira, which has connections to Lisbon and Faro. This is also where the the closest airports are.
Informations complémentaires
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Espace pour garer des vans
Unlimited space available. You can stay close to the farm or 300m away at the lakes, where we have a solar shower and a compost toilet.
Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux
Dogs, cats - if not hunting chickens ;-) Please let us know if you plan to bring an animal.
Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?
Plus de 2
Nombre d'heures attendues
About 4h day / 5 days a week, less if self catered/self contained (families with a van, for example)
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Michaela, Michael & their three kids stayed nearly three months with us and we found it a perfect constellation. The kids blended in absolutely perfect and they became very good friends with our pack - to the point that there was the odd tear running, when they had to leave 😢
They arrived with their big caravan, which… read more
Well, it was not what I expected - 'cause it didn't feel like work at all. Flo picked me up at the station and made me see him more like a friend or mentor than a boss from the first minute on. He and his lovely family welcomed me so warmly in their container house, that the… read more
Boris is very open-minded and tolerant and we heard a lot of interesting stories from his job as a social worker. The kids loved having him around to play, build, and talk… read more
I learned a lot about regenerative agriculture, and had fun doing farm chores like milking goats, helping with the roataional grazing, picking eggs, gardening, and others.
We had the chance to learn how to make cheese, icecream and biochar, to name a few :)
The family was… read more
She is a bright young woman interested in working with farm animals and we were happy to share with her the experience in rotational grazing and regenerative silvopasture that we made in Portugal. She helped us… read more
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Michaela, Michael & their three kids stayed nearly three months with us and we found it a perfect constellation. The kids blended in absolutely perfect and they became very good friends with our pack - to the point that there was the odd tear running, when they had to leave 😢
They arrived with their big caravan, which… read more
Well, it was not what I expected - 'cause it didn't feel like work at all. Flo picked me up at the station and made me see him more like a friend or mentor than a boss from the first minute on. He and his lovely family welcomed me so warmly in their container house, that the… read more
Boris is very open-minded and tolerant and we heard a lot of interesting stories from his job as a social worker. The kids loved having him around to play, build, and talk… read more
I learned a lot about regenerative agriculture, and had fun doing farm chores like milking goats, helping with the roataional grazing, picking eggs, gardening, and others.
We had the chance to learn how to make cheese, icecream and biochar, to name a few :)
The family was… read more
She is a bright young woman interested in working with farm animals and we were happy to share with her the experience in rotational grazing and regenerative silvopasture that we made in Portugal. She helped us… read more
