Off-grid, Self-sufficient living on our mountain farm in Figueiro da Serra, Portugal

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  Ola and welcome to our volunteer page!
  
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  Winter Update:
  looking for some extra helping hands the comming months!
  
  But this one is only for the real-roots nature loving souls !!!
  Winters up here in our remote mountain valley are real, especially with our VERY BASIC LIFESTYLE as We live very connected with nature and all its elements, challenges and blessings.
  We are quite high up on the mountain so it can freeze at night, or rain for a week solid, but also it can be amazing warm and sunny, all a surprise!
  
  You will have your own small but cozy wooden barn, we call “ the stable” with double bed and woodburner to stay in, we also have a small caravan with woodburner available.
  You need to be a bit of a self- reliant handy person with basic skills like how to gather and cut your own fire wood to heat your woodburner …Being comfortable and enjoying to live WITH NATURE in basic conditions.
  
  You will help out for around 3 hours in the morning with different daily farm jobs and projects of your own choice. We usually don’t provide the food/ cook the meals but you can pick some vegetables from the garden and get fresh goat milk and eggs from the chickens and gather wild edibles!
  Much more info about our farm below!
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  Ola and welcome to our volunteer page!
  
  We are Clara and Rohan, the grateful owners of this 5 hectare Organic Offgrid farm in the beautiful mountains of the Serra da Estrela, the biggest natural park in Portugal!
  We love living, working & creating together with nature in a self-sufficient positive way. We grow our own veggies, make goats cheese, sometimes brew some beer and other creations, bake bread, grow medicinal herbs and make natural cosmetics like olive soap, natural deodorant and perfume , medicinal creams and oils... lots more!
  
  We live together on our Quinta ( Farm in Portugese ) with our small heard of cheeky goats, chickens, 2 dogs, Findus the cat, around 20 honey bee colonies and would love to also get a donkey and some ducks in the near future.
  All the animals are part of and contribute to the dynamic system on our farm. Our farming methods are inspired by living in nature, time & experience and by Organic, Bio-Dynamic and Permaculture principles. We believe in working and creating together with nature, building up the soil in our gardens so we can grow healthy crops to feed ourselfs, and our animals.
  
  We are located in a green vally that's quite REMOTE. Surrounded by only nature, the mountains, old chestnut, oak and willow trees and clear mountain streams. We have a very nice community of friends living around us in the surrounding valleys who share, each in there own way, a similar life style and we sometimes work and celebrate life togther.
  
  in the past our Quinta was abandoned for a long time as the local people slowly moved away to the cities and villages. step by step we are bringing life back to the fram. re-opening the old traditional irrigation systems of water channels. Planting lots of fruit trees and bushes. Cultivating crops on the old terraces. We also build a polytunnel as a nursery and to extend our growing season, a small stable for the goats and we created a nice volunteers area. On the land is a old ruine that was build with natural granite stone which we are renovating with ecological building materials. There also is a small but cozy wooden house/ workshop on the land in which we live at the moment and a outside kitchen made with round wood and green roof.
  
  Meanwhile we are also creating a small educative center on our farm. Here we organize courses and workshop weeks on natural and self-sufficient living.

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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

  Ajuda em fazenda

  Manutenção geral
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  At our organic offgrid farm we offer you the oppertunity to exerience our selfsufficient lifestyle. You will learn many skills abouth selfsufficient living and farmlife!

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  Ajuda

  As a volunteer there is a lot to experience and help out with! Like helping us out in the vegetable gardens and greenhouse. Harvesting medicinal plants, vegetables, fruits, seeds for our own sowing material, nuts, mushrooms and other wildfoods and drying and processing them into many diffrent products like herbal teas, fermented vegetables, fruit juices, jams, flower wines etc. Planting trees, planting and planning the Food forest area. Helping out in natural building projects like the traditional granite farm house and other farm structures. Some general farm maintenance like moving the electric fences for the animals, regenerative landscape maintenance, creating compost heaps and lots more!

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  Idiomas

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

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  Acomodação

  As a volunteer you have a shared caravan as a comunial space with woodburner, small indoors and outdoors kitchen to cook food, gas and running water and solar electricity. Ther's a dry compost toilet and solar shower (heating the water only during warm sunny days) and chill out space underneath the big sweet chestnut tree and camp area to puth your tent. In wet and cold weather its also possible to sleep inside the caravan. We also have a comunial tipi and tipi tent available as sleeping accomodation. Just below the camp area is a clear mountain stream with small pools to take a refreshing bath and have a cool siesta time.
  We like to work with the system where you help us out for max. 3 hours a day. In return for accomodation and use of the facilities. ( shared caravan with woodburner, kitchen area with gas to cook food, running water, and solar electricity. Compost toilet and solar shower. Camp area with your own tent or our tipi/ tipi tent) You buy and cook your own food or together with the other volunteers. ( there is a farm shop with a small variety of fresh and preserved products like vegetables, eggs, bread, goats cheese, and crafted beer) In the nature around us you can find fruits like grapes, cherries, figs , blackberries, sweet chestnuts, mushrooms and many edible herbs. Sunday is a day off!

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  Algo mais...

  Our two closest villages are Figueiro da Serra ( +- 2km.) and Linhares da Beira ( +- 1km.)
  Linhares da Beira is a beautiful historical village with castle. It has a couple of cafes, restaurant, and small tourist shop. Figueiro da Serra also has some cafes and has a small grocery shop where you can do your shopping
  
  There is a diverse community of nice people living in our close-by area with diffrent projects and activities you could visit like; yoga, tai massage, horse riding, praragliding, a variety of healing therapies, woman circles and a Buddhist center. We sometimes come togther to make music, have a reggae dance night or just to have a good time!
  We live in a beautiful natural area where you can have nice walks and explore the mountains, abandoned farms and other projects.

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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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  Espaço para estacionar campervans

  Este anfitrião pode fornecer espaço para vans.

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  Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

  Mais de 2

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  Horas previstas

  Maximum 3 hours a day, 5 days a week

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