Olive harvest help in Montes da Senhora, Portugal

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  Description

  Fall olive harvest help on a homestead in central Portugal
  
  We are looking for two volunteers to help us with our olive harvest October 25-November 5th (2025) . Read below for more details.
  
  We are a small homestead in central Portugal, trying as much as possible to be self sufficient and learning as we go.
  We have 70 olive trees, 4 prolific cherry trees, some citrus trees and about 10 other varieties of fruit trees. We try to grow most of our vegetables and also raise a few chickens for eggs (they also make a great pet!) and have 2 cats and a young dog who are great helpers ;-)
  We also do a lot of other handyman projects such as simple woodwork projects, home renovation, old furniture restoration, and building things for the home and land. If you are a handy person we would love to hear from you!
  We are an American-Israeli couple and speak English, Hebrew and get by with Portuguese.
  Our home and land are located in a traditional Portuguese village in central Portugal, it's peaceful and beautiful here! We have woods, hiking trails and river beaches for swimming all in very close proximity.
  We are a smoke-free home, thank you.

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  Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

  Jardinage

  Bricolage et construction

  S’occuper des animaux

  Aide dans une ferme
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  Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

  When you stay with us you will get a taste of life in a traditional Portuguese village and the vibes of the olive harvest and cherry harvest seasons, It's quite unique! And the Portuguese people are very welcoming and friendly.
  We ourselves also love to meet people from various cultures and backgrounds, we have traveled throughout our lives and would love to hear about your experiences and share ours.
  We ourselves are quite new to living the homestead lifestyle and are learning as we go, but we are very happy to share our knowledge with you!

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  Aide

  We will most likely take in help during olive (in the fall) and cherry harvest (in the spring) which will include harvesting the fruit, sorting through it, preserving it. With cherries its pitting, dehydrating, making vinegar, liquor, and more. And with olives it's preparing the olives for the oil making process and pickling them.
  But we might take in helpers during other times of the year, we always have woodworking and home/land improvement projects going on, and during the spring time there's lots of work preparing the soil for planting, seed sowing and transplanting, weeding and more.
  We will be glad to guide you through all the above, we expect you be curious and open to learning, and able to follow (simple) instructions.

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  Langues parlées

  Anglais: Courant
  Hebrew: Courant
  Portugais: Intermédiaire

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  Hébergement

  You will get your own bedroom and private shower in our house and can use our kitchen for light food preparation (we will also offer meals).
  We might also be able to offer a small private studio apartment, it's part of the house with a separate entrance.

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  Autres infos...

  Other activities to do in our area: during the warmer months there are many river beaches to enjoy in our area, and in the fall and winter there are lots of trails and woods you can hike and forage mushrooms.
  Other things to note:
  We can only host adults, the stay is not suitable for children, sorry.
  We are a smoke-free home.
  Getting here: there are buses to the near by cities Castelo Branco and Proença a Nova and we'll be glad to come pick you up from there.
  We are usually up and active between 7:00- 22:00 and hope this suits your lifestyle.

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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

  We have 2 home offices so we can offer a pretty comfortable set up for digital nomads

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  Espace pour garer des vans

  we can share our private (gated) driveway with you but it will require a little adjustments from both of us to make this work.

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  Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

  Deux

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  Mes animaux

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