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Help us grow our permaculture nursery and enjoy a peaceful place!

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The experience

What we want to share is an immersion into 'campesinos life', hands in the ground, close to nature, adapting the rythm to the season, simple life, and also our reflexions and actions for regenerative agroforestry (we start to follow syntropic principles and are working with the notion of preservation of a living soil, adapting to our dry and extreme conditions here in Serra Sao Mamede)

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

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

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.

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.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English or Intermediate Portuguese

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Activities & Shift

We build our house with eco-materials, we prepare the land to start a nursery for regenerative, medicinal and foodproduction plants, schrubs and trees, we make olive oil, all of this on a family scale. So tasks are really depending of the season and needs of the moment
+- november : picking olives and processing olives (oil and to eat)
+- december/february : planting and pruning trees and schrubs and implementing syntropical agriculture
+- february/november : taking care of the garden and land
+- spring and autumn : health of the trees + irrigation
all year long : construction, care of the land, cooking, ...

Rules

We use to live a lot with the season, so our summer/winter rithm is adapted. A lot outside with the dailylight, more calm at night during the winter. We also have strong inside seasons : we have times for exchanges, giving and receiving from interactions, and we also have times for our 'inner world'. So we want to host people who love to exchange, but who also can be happy on their own, respecting our need of family intimacy, not expecting us to entertain them.
Also, we want to host people who are aware of what is physical work, but we're really respectfull of the 'contract'.
We are what is called 'flexitarians', so we mostly cook with our vegetables, but sometimes we eat meat or fish. Of course vegan meals are available.
We ask people not to be on smartphones and internet all day long, and we ask to switch off WIFI and 4G when not used and at night.