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Hello we live here in Portugal, two children and 3 dogs .. a sunny mountain location surrounded by countryside and beauty. Currently renovating our annex.
July 2022, Lars, our dog Athos and Ayla moved from the Netherlands to Portugal.
We found our dream home in de Gouveia area.🍀
There are two big houses that we have to renovate and 4.5 hectares of land. The land is surrounded by boulder rocks to ......
We are a retired couple (in our early 60's) living a somewhat isolated and off-grid existence with some animal companions (6 goats, 4 sheep, 4 chickens, 2 dogs, 3 cats) on a densely forested 10ha plot in the mountains of the Serra da Estrela Nature ......
I came to Portugal to live in nature and develop my creative and healing work and live a healthy off grid living.
My creative work involves with wool in always different forms.
I love to take a fleece from the sheep in my valley where i live, or ......
We (Natalie and Michael) and our 3 children (Paula, Jonathan and Noah) have fulfilled a dream and currently live together with 11 chickens, 5 goats, 3 ducks and a bunch of pigs and piglets on this beautiful Quinta. Surrounded by various fruit and ......
Margarida and my lovely wild kid Adriana here :)
We live in a cute village near Fundão.
I need some help with my daughter (she is two years old), the house and the dog. Simple stuff, around 4 hours per day (mornings), 5 days a week.
I am ......
Welcome! Come and join us in our totally off-grid home in a forgotten magical valley in Central Portugal. We are located in the Beira valley, with a river close by the old house we have been slowly renovating over the past few years. We live partly ......
We have just bought a couple of houses and land in rural Central Portugal, on the edge of a small village. As quiet as quiet can be.
Depending on who we connect with, we’re looking for:
🌟DIY potentials (working alongside my partner): eco ......
I am Chris a dreamer, an art teacher, a tourist guide, a traveller and a lover of life. The more I grow the more i appreciate simplicity and quietude, with some quality sharing of course. This is why I bought this piece of land and a house here, I ......
Hi, I have a small holding in a beautiful area of Central Portugal. Apart from a garden I have a lot of woodland that needs to be kept clean. I also own an abandoned village nearby that also has a lot of land where I intend to plant trees. I earn my ......
This is a new Ecovillage project near Nelas, close to the Serra da Estrela Mountains, North of Central Portugal.
We are looking for people to help develop the project and also to join as resident members!
If you want to come and get to know us as a ......
We are a family of three. Kayley, Rick and our son Martin. We have lived in Portugal since 2018 but come from The UK. We moved here to start a family and live more sustainably. We have achieved the first of those things and know the second is a ......
Urgently looking for help from responsible,
caring people able to follow instructions 16th-30th March. To take care of dogs, cats, horses,, pigs and sheep.
cleaning animal areas and cleaning and painting the volunteers house. It's physical work, ......
We are a Portuguese couple, with a little girl born in July 2016, and a baby boy born in the 1st of January 2020, who lives in a small village, very isolated, laid abandoned for 20 years. The river Mega runs through the valley. We moved to the ......
We are an English couple Ruth (44) and Graham/Gray (42) who spent two years travelling Asia and Europe in search of a new place to call home, before finding our perfect spot in September 2020 in the countryside of Portugal's Silver Coast.
During ......
Hello! We are a Dutch/South African family living on a Quinta an hour north of Lisbon. During spring and summer we have a rural tourism activity. Meanwhile we are working on our piece of land with the aim to become more self sufficient in the ......
I'm Scott and I've been travelling around Europe since 2004. I recently got my own piece of land to settle on where I can put into practice all of the different techniques and principles of ecological building and growing I've picked up over the ......
Hello, hello,
My name is Mieke and I am the happy and proud owner of a very beautifull, small and cozy campsite in Central Portugal. Because of my bussy life I'm looking for volunteers to help me with the maintenance of my flower garden and ......
Hi, would you like to give us a hand on our little farm in the country side, surrounded by meadows with horses and cork trees? We have cats, dogs, chickens, and goats and 3000m² of land to maintain. We could use anyone who is fit and does not mind ......
Hi ,my name is Alex I am Portuguese ,my husband Julian is English and we live in a large slightly rundown 18th century manor house near to Anadia in the centre of Portugal with our extended family of dogs (8 currently) cats (7) & guinea pigs (5)! We ......