Help us grow foodforest gardens and enjoy living in a nature park

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The experience

Hi there! We are Lars and Denise from Garden. We are passionate about regenerating landscapes on as big scale as we can. Since we are losing 12 football fields of fertile topsoil every minute on our planet due to destructive agricultural practices, we want to do something about it. As good soil is the key to good food. And good soil starts with trees.

We are inspired by the principles and practices of Syntropic farming — which respects and mimic

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What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

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What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

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Requirements

Intermediate English or Intermediate Portuguese

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

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What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

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Program Details

We offer volunteers their own room in our self contained 4 bedroom volunteer house, which has a fully equipped kitchen, bathroom with a hot shower, washing machine, bedding, fridge etc. We have compost toilets outside and a yoga deck over looking the river Mira. We eat mainly vegetables from our own vegetable gardens and/or have a local organic vegetable supplier where we order weekly vegetable boxes, the fruits and dried goods are provided weekly from local markets and local supermarkets. Vegetarian meals are cooked together or separately depending on the desires of the group.

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Activities & Shift

Volunteers help us with a variety of tasks, including reforestation, planting vegetable gardens, preparing areas for planting, setting up irrigation systems, plant propagation, and caring for our tree nursery and vegetable gardens. In return, we share our knowledge of Syntropic agriculture, no-dig gardening, and many other regenerative practices we have learned over the years. We work together as a team, sharing the daily tasks.