Enjoy remote nature and learn to live sustainably in Alentejo, Portugal

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  Descrição

  😃🌿Welcome to our peaceful off-grid home in the countryside, with sea views, 10 km areal distance to Odeceixe Beach.
  
  We restarted hosting Workawayers after a tough period following the devastating bushfire in August 2023. It destroyed our guest and Workaway accommodation, but we’ve restored water and electricity and have almost finished rebuilding a new space for Workawayers. Until it’s finished, we offer our guest bedroom and bathroom.
  
  We’re a friendly couple (60 & 70) from Switzerland and Germany. Due to some health limitations, we appreciate energetic, self-motivated helpers. We share our home with an adopted dog who now enjoys the freedom of a safe, loving space.
  
  ♻️Living sustainably, we value respect for nature and resources—so minimal waste and mindful use of water and electricity are essential.
  
  🚐 Best suited for those with their own means of transport. It's well-accessible with any vehicle but not connected to public transportation. Still, we can also give you a lift to and from São Teotónio (20 min away) , from where the bus goes to the beaches or to Lisbon or Lagos.
  
  In the dry season, the direct route to Odeceixe Beach is passable in just a 20-minute drive. In winter the road via São Teotónio is safer and our home is well accessible with any vehicle, even big vans.
  
  We enjoy peaceful countryside life, working outside, walking our dog, seeing friends and occasional beach trips. We cook healthy meals at lunch and usually have quiet evenings. Jeannette works as an English coach, and Herbert is a retired software engineer.
  
  If you’re open-minded, honest, proactive, love nature and dogs, and are happy to take on a variety of tasks, we’d love to welcome you! 🤗

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Projetos artísticos

  Ajuda em projetos ambientais

  Jardinagem

  Construção/faça você mesmo

  Cuidar de animais

  Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras

  Ajuda a cuidar da casa

  Manutenção geral
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  Interesses

  

  Autodesenvolvimento

  

  Sustentabilidade

  

  Mascotes

  

  Fazenda

  

  Cuidar de plantas

  

  Música

  

  Naturaleza

  

  Ciclismo

  

  Idiomas

  

  Jardinagem

  

  Faça você mesmo

  

  Carpintaria

  

  Animais

  

  Arquitetura

  

  Arte e design
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  Welcome to our peaceful home in nature in Alentejo, Portugal, just north of the Algarve. ☀️🌳 You’ll be surrounded by Medronho and Cork trees, wildflowers, and a regenerating landscape after the fire. Enjoy nature, learn about herbs for cooking and tea, and take in the sea view (10 km areal distance to the sea).
  
  We love exchanging knowledge and learning from our Workawayers and are happy to share what we know!
  
  🌿 What You Can Learn:
  
  💚Explore local trees, fruits, and vegetables.
  
  ♻️Learn about solar energy, water filtration, and grey-water systems. Are you interested in how sustainability connects to water, electricity, and heating without relying on public supply? 🤓 We welcome individuals who appreciate this and seek to understand these systems.
  
  👨‍🌾Gardening, permaculture, composting
  👨‍🍳Cooking and baking – Swiss cakes, Portuguese dishes, and fresh garden produce.
  🚜Meeting local farmers when we buy eggs and fresh milk
  🎹Playing piano or 🏓table tennis
  🐸Swimming in our rainwater-fed lake (still needs stairs for easier access)
  
  🥗 Food & Meals:
  We eat fresh, healthy meals with lots of veggies, salad, and fruit. We occasionally enjoy wine, local meat, and fish a couple of times a week, but we also cook vegetarian meals. Vegans are welcome, but you’d need to cook those meals, as I have little experience with vegan cooking. On warmer days, we can sometimes grill together.
  
  We provide all the food. Lunch is our main shared meal (between 1–3 p.m.), while breakfast, supper, and snacks are self-served.
  
  🌙 Evenings & Atmosphere:
  We enjoy quiet evenings in our peaceful area. We often go to bed early. Mutual respect, tolerance, honesty and open communication are key to a great experience here.
  
  If you love quiet nature, simple living, sustainability and cultural exchange and dogs, we’d love to welcome you! 💚

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  Ajuda

  We need various forms of help. If you enjoy working with nature, have skills to share, or wish to learn new skills, and you are proactive, we'd love to have you!
  
  Depending on your skills, there are various possible projects. Lots of this is still needed because of the fire in August 2023 and support needed because of some current health issues:
  
  - pruning, cutting wood
  - support diy tasks- sheds with wood, simple furniture with pallets and help creating an outside dry toilet
  - gardening, land care
  - cooking healthily (main meal at lunch)
  - general support, organising, cleaning
  - creative sewing (curtains, cushions, etc.)
  - designing and creative tasks if you are skilled
  
  👒🥾🧴🕶️Important:
  You want to be protected in the rough countryside, so please bring good clothes, good shoes for the countryside and garden, a hat, and necessary sun or rain protection!
  
  🐶Do you love dogs? That's great because we adopted an abandoned dog, a lovable female. Unfortunately, she is always scared of new people, but she’s friendly, and a few workawayers made close friends with her within less than a week, which was great progress for her :-).

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas
  Alemão: Fluente
  Inglês: Fluente
  Francês: Intermediário
  Português: Iniciante

  Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
  Jeannette is an online English Coach. We are happy to exchange languages if you wish to improve your English or learn Swiss German or German. We are still learning a little more Portuguese.
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  Acomodação

  Remote and Peaceful Stay in Beautiful Nature. Our place is off-grid but with stunning sea views (10 km areal distance away) and a mix of traditional and modern living.
  
  Currently, you can use our guest bedroom. and separate bathroom.
  We are soon finalising a comfortable, furnished space in a shed with a separate sleeping area for the workawayers.
  In that space the kitchen corner for Workawayers is nearly ready, but it still needs the final touches. You might also like to use your skills of design and some woodwork to make the whole Workaway space look friendlier. A warm shower and dry toilet still need to be installed. But until then, you can use our separate guest bathroom, accessible from the backyard.
  
  We cook a warm lunch daily in our main kitchen (weekend cooking can vary); if you like cooking, you are welcome to take care of that, on working days during your working hours. For breakfast and supper, you get food to serve yourself (in the Workawayers’ kitchen area if you also wish to cook in the evening).
  
  🌿 Important to know
  We live fully off-grid, relying on solar power and our well. Respecting water and electricity use is essential.
  
  🌞There will be no heating in the Workaway living area, so we won't take on helpers in cold seasons.
  
  🚭 No smoking, drugs, or excessive drinking allowed. Moderate alcohol consumption is acceptable—we enjoy sharing wine or beer occasionally.
  
  💚🫠This is a quiet place, best for a couple who loves nature and tranquillity. (Many younger volunteers without transport found it too remote and quiet after a few days, even with occasional lifts.)
  
  We'd love to welcome you if you enjoy peaceful countryside living and value nature!

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  Algo mais...

  😎Free Time & Local Sights
  Having your own transport🚗🏍️ is ideal. It's well accessible.
  
  Having said that, it’s also possible we can give you a lift to and from São Teotónio. Buses and coaches run from São Teotónio to Lisbon (about 3 hours) and Lagos (about 1 hour) to and to beaches.
  
  If you’d like to explore more, you can work longer hours on some days and take 3-4 days instead if 2 days off on weekends.
  
  🌿 ☀️Things to Do in Your Free Time:
  
  🚶 Go for walks or runs in the peaceful countryside
  🏊Swimming in our new lake (has no pier and stairs yet)
  🏖️Going to nearby beaches (25+ minutes driving distance)
  ☀️Enjoy barbecues (meat, fish, or veggie options)
  🎹Play the piano
  🏓 Play table tennis
  😎Relax on the roof terrace with a sea view ☀️
  📖Read, 😎sunbathe, or have a glass of Portuguese wine or herbal tea.💚
  
  We are a quiet couple and can’t entertain much in the evenings due to health reasons, but we’re happy to share our space and enjoy good conversations during the day.

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  Mais alguns detalhes

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    Acesso à internet

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    Acesso à internet limitado

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    Temos mascotes

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    Somos fumantes

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    Pode hospedar famílias

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  Pode hospedar nômades digitais

  The mobile reception is at 4G within the area for the workawayers. If you have no mobile internet, we can offer you to borrow our hotspot and upload it at its current cost. We work part-time online. Unfortunately, our separate WIFI is not stable enough for several people to work online simultaneously.

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  Espaço para estacionar campervans

  Our place is well accessible also for big vehicles. There's a lovely space between the cork trees, with a sea view (10 km aerial distance to the sea), gorgeous sunsets, a connection to water and electricity (solar power) and a newly installed outside shower for warmer days. You can also use our separate bathroom, accessible from our house's backyard and our kitchen. We cook warm meals for lunch. For breakfast and supper, you can help yourself. We have a almost finished newly created covered outdoor space with a kitchen corner for the workawayers for breakfast and supper. That space just needs the final organisation and pretty touches. Campervan or motorhome owners are very welcome, particularly since our Workaway accommodation container burnt down in 2023.

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  Pode aceitar animais

  You can bring your pet with you if it's social with other pets. Our dog has always been social with other dogs. She has no experience with cats.

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