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Dear community,
We are a young couple that chose to live a different life.
We bought a house in northern Portugal which we will completely rebuild using natural building techniques. Our aim is to build a circular living concept that integrates elements of permaculture and co-living/working.
This will be the adventure of our lifetime which we can only achieve with the support from a worldwide community.
Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado
Ajuda em projetos ambientais
Jardinagem
Construção/faça você mesmo
Cuidar de animais
Ajuda em fazenda
Ajuda a cuidar da casa
Interesses
Arquitetura
Vegetariano/vegano
Sustentabilidade
Mascotes
Fazenda
Cuidar de plantas
Música
Desenho e pintura
Jardinagem
Faça você mesmo
Culinária e comida
Carpintaria
Animais
Yoga/bem-estar
Esportes aquáticos
Velejar/navegar
Atividades ao ar livre
Naturaleza
Montanhas
Caminhada
Fitness
Dança
Camping
Esportes de aventura
Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir
Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado
We can share our experience from a classic career oriented path to using what we have and know early on to build a sustainable minimalist lifestyle. We can teach natural building techniques, permaculture design, yoga and surfing.
Ajuda
More infos on events, availabilities and projects you can find below ⬇️
GENERAL AVAILABILITY
We have availability from March onwards and strongly prefer workawayers with pre-knowledge in handcraft related practices or agroforestry. If you don't have any of these, don't worry and still get in touch, Precondition definitely is that you are passionate with animals and happy to get your hands dirty :) We prefer stays between 1 - 3 months. You are living as part of our family and enjoy to get into the flow with people.
OPEN SLOTS & FOCUS:
September: natural building (places full - exception: bring your own tent / van)
October: natural building (places full - exception: bring your own tent / van)
November: only experienced handypeople - you'll be staying in the tiny house (heated / insulated)
March: Permaculture (places available)
DAILY SCHEDULE
08.00 - 12.00 morning session
12.00 - 13.30 Lunch break
13.30 - 14:30 afternoon session
The layout of helping hours may change depending on weather and tasks.
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ECO-CONSTRUCTION
We are currently doing projects with wood / straw and clay. We welcome craftsmen experience and are happy to pay a small compensation for people with relevant craftsmen backgrounds,
PERMACULTURE
I am driving a 1000 sqm homestead Agroforest, that will have edible trees, berries and medicinal plants. It’s still a young project with the design being established to reality. This year I want to build and plant one more swale. Anytime, the garden need maintenance like grass cutting and weeding. If you are a Permaculture designer - please get in touch 👋🏻
CARE HELP
We always need someone who is willing to spend time caring for the others, caring for the house, and animals around.
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If you can, please arrive Friday night / Saturday morning. We need the weekend in order to get you started to the tasks and introduce you to everything. You have 2 days off during the week.
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Please don’t bring animals - we already have a lot of them :)
Idiomas
Alemão: Fluente
Inglês: Fluente
Francês: Intermediário
Português: Iniciante
Acomodação
YOUR TENT
You have a spacious "glamping" tent (3x3m in size), high enough to stand in. The tent is equipped with a bed and a real mattress.
SANITATION
We have an outdoor shower, which is the only warm water source and an indoor composting toilet. As it came to a surprise to one or the other: anyone staying with us might also be involved in emptying and cleaning the composting toilet. If you use it - you also take care of it :)
WATER
We have well and are connected to the tap water (not drinkable). There is a river with water from the mountains next to the property. We collect drinking water from nearby natural springs.
ELECTRICITY & WIFI
Provided + super speedy glass fibre internet. It's the best.
NUTRITION
We provide all meals always. We are living mostly vegan and sugar reduced - so will be our food. We are still developing the habits around it, and it’s very difficult if we’re continuously surrounded by other types of food. Therefore, if you need sweets to survive, I’d ask you to keep these things out of the “main” areas - otherwise the munchies are hitting and we’ll go back to spooning Nutella 😂
LAUNDRY
There will be a washing machine available for use and a communal washing line, cost is 1 EUR per wash (including organic washing liquid). You can also share this with other guests.
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HOW TO GET AROUND
The place is 15 mins by car from amazing surf spots and 10 mins driving to Vila nova de Cerveira. You’re close to mountains for hiking and mountain biking.
If you don’t have a car, be prepared to cycle or walk. You can get anywere by bike, and the rides are very beautiful. Beach is 30 mins by bicycle. The next train station (seixas) is 30 - 40 mins walking. You’ll find trains to all beaches and bigger cities. We have a bicycles you can lend from us that will be a great help in reaching beaches and mountains.
We have surf boards & wetsuits for beginners and rent them out for 10€/ day. Initially we didn’t take any money for sharing our boards, but beginners luck includes that damages on the board come quickly. In order to repair / replace the boards from time to time, we decided to take a little fee.
TRAVEL INSTRUCTIONS
Big sorry beforehand: We don't pick-up workawayers from train stations. Most of the time, your arrival times are somewhat within our working hours and with the flow of workawayers in and out of this house, we can’t handle it. But there are ways to get here even without our help, and many have done it before you ;)
> Generally, Seixas is the clostes train station. If you don't find trains to Seixas, try Caminha.
> Take the Autna Bus from Porto Airport to Vila Nova de Cerveira. Take a train from Vila Nova de Cerveira to Seixas.
> Take the train from Porto to Seixas. Walk from Seixas.
> Sometimes there are Blablacars around, too.
> A taxi from Caminha to Vilar de Mouros should be around 10 - 15 €.
Trains and Buses in Portugal are super cheap - so don't hesitate to try them out.
THINGS YOU SHOULD BRING (SUMMER EDITION)
- A mosquito net to throw over your bed
- Working gloves (we have some you can use, but some people prefer their own)
- A hat
- Mandatory: Biodegradable Sunscreen (mineral based), 100% Biodegradable toothpaste and soap (our water directly flows out watering our plants. If you don't find suitable products, you can buy homemade soap and shampoo (each 5€) and toothpaste from us.)
- Yoga mat and games if you like :)
THINGS YOU SHOULD BRING (WINTER EDITION)
Same as in summer, and:
- A warm hat, warm socks, and warm clothes in general. It gets really chilly during the night and in the mornings.
DONATIONS
Do you know how many trees you have chopped down for use for toilet paper, cardboard packaging, paper etc? How much carbon are you responsible for due to buying food, cars ad flying. If you would like to offset your carbon footprint you can help us by purchasing trees for the nursery. Please ask us when you get here and we can pick these up from the market. You can then plant them and make your own sign to go with them in your name or for a friend.
If you want to bring us anything we need that would be amazing. We always need arts and crafts, books, paint brushes, paint, seeds, old clothes for working, essential oils, musical instruments, mugs, crockery and art.
HOUSE RULES
These may seem obvious to you, but we have a few issues with every group, so I would like to put them here so everything is clear.
- No smoking and drinking around the house and land anytime. Only off property. No smoking in summer in anywhere outside concrete (fire risk).
- Upon arrival: Please do not pet, talk or interact in any ways with our dogs, as it it impacts their training.
- Do not chase or frighten our animals. We have free ranging chicken. They are friendly. Behave calm and friendly around any animal you encounter. When you are stressed, they are stressed.
- Do not remove anything from our land, such as rocks, flowers, plants etc.
- Give people their own space when they need it.
- Remove shoes when accessing the house.
- If you break something due to incompetence or maltreatment, please offer to pay for it.
- If you move something, put it back. If you borrow something, then please put it back.
- Only use organic soap and shampoo (we have these for sale if you need them), as all used water goes to our organic
gardens.
- Don't pull a weed out or take a plant unless you know what it is and have been asked to do so. We have lost so many lovely plants due to people being unaware that the grass was onions. Also, this is a good learning exercise for you.
- Do not use a tool or garden machinery unless you have been shown how to use it.
- If something is broken, please let us know so we can fix it.
- Sharpen all tools before you use them.
- Clean and return all tools to where they should be before finishing work.
- If a tool doesn't feel like it is working right, or maybe it isn't the right tool for the job, stop using it and check.
- Attend all morning work meetings and weekly community meetings.
Mais alguns detalhes
Acesso à internet
Acesso à internet limitado
Temos mascotes
Somos fumantes
Pode hospedar famílias
Pode hospedar nômades digitais
We have Fibre glass super high quality internet and one room with a desk.
Espaço para estacionar campervans
You can park either on a public parking space close to a nearby chapel or on a piece of land next to our property. The access to the land is very steep and requires you to drive carefully. Very deep vans might have difficulties.
Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?
Mais de 2
Meus animais / animais de estimação
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Chicken & Ducks
Benjen
Totoro
Cat
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