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Be Part of Our Permaculture Farm in Portugal 💚 🌱

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The experience

A big focus of the farm is gardening and growing food for ourselves and our guests.

We work in the gardens every day of the year.

We are growing perennial vegetables and fruits in the food forests; we grow annual vegetables in the growing gardens; we have sunken beds, raised beds, wood chip beds, hugelkultur beds, herb gardens, a herb spiral, traditional beds, a kitchen garden! 🌳

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

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

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

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

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.

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

Yoga classes: Take free yoga classes at our place.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Fluent English or Intermediate Portuguese

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Usually, the work is either in:

- Our Market Garden, planting, weeding, composting or harvesting
- Working in our forest systems, reforestation and agroforestry
- Possibly helping with some natural building

There are usually a few volunteers here who will all cook on rotation and live in a mini communal setting

Generally, you will be helping manage our small market garden; this is where we grow vegetables to sell in veggie boxes to the local community

Activities & Shift

The usual tasks are watering plants, Harvesting, Planting, Managing the garden, composting and weeding.
We work about 5 hours per day with weekends off.