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Help us in our off-grid permaculture farm :)

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The experience

Enjoy our beautiful land and help us with the following :
- garden tasks in both veggies garden & medicinal garden (planting, weeding, harvesting, watering...)
- care to all our animals
- care to our trees (watering, pruning...)
- small construction work, as ecological as possible
- fencing and general maintenance of the land when needed
We train our horses 3 times a week and may need a help on that (people experienced with horses are welcome!)

What you offer

30 hours of help per week

Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

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

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

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.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.

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.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

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

Requirements

Intermediate English or Beginner French

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

Travel insurance

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Join our family house/farm in Central rural Portugal! We're located among olive trees lands, in the calm and the nature, near a small village.
We are therapists of alternative medicine (shiatsu, herbalism). We try to be as much self-sufficient as possible in food and energy. We eat from our garden, and we do remedies from our medicinal herbs. We plant trees and support the biodiversity on our land as much as we can!

We are currently looking for help from 20th of April till October - 2 weeks minimum is required! But we encourage you to apply for 1 month :)
You will need to enjoy physical activity and like to work independently (but no worries, you won't be alone!). if you have already some experience in gardening, it is great! If you don't but you're still very eager to learn, that's OK too.
Here we have a deep respect for the nature, for life and for animals, so we're requesting our guest to align with these values. We cook vegetarian food (we can also adapt to vegans) so you'll have to be OK with that!
We're very happy to receive volunteers who are experienced with horses!

Activities & Shift

We try to offer a variety of tasks in order to let our visitors learn as much as possible how to live on a farm, but of course, type of tasks all depends on the season and the current needs.
Work can be physical and is mostly outdoors (if it rains lightly, we may still work - bring your rain clothes!)
For the sun, bring a hat and long sleeves of light fabric.
Schedules can vary according to the season and the weather : in summer we start work earlier, we don't work in the afternoons, and we water the garden in the evening.

Rules

We expect our visitors to :
- help us in the kitchen for preparing meals and tidying afterwards
- keep the room and common space clean
- knock on the door when entering our private space
- keep away from drugs and heavy alcohol drinking
- strictly avoid smoking inside the house, and smoke only in the designated areas (there is a high risk of fire in Portugal!)
Shampoos, soaps and other cosmetics must be ecological as we have a phytodepuration system for our grey water (contact us if you don't have such products).
Thank you for your understanding ! :)