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Help on our permaculture land near Alvaiázere, Portugal

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The experience

We are a young family in Central Portugal building a fitness & wellbeing retreat surrounded by nature, with dogs, ducks, and sheep. Our land features permaculture gardens, a saltwater pool, tennis court, domes for gym, music & wellness, and cozy living spaces. We seek motivated individuals/couples to help with daily tasks and promote our venue as a space for retreats and practitioners. 🌿✨

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

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.

What you get

2 days off per week

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

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

Requirements

Intermediate English

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Our space and work will suit a couple or individuals who are interested in living a healthy lifestyle, who love nature more than parties, are hands on, can work alone or as part of a small group.
Can learn & share ideas respectfully.

We don't accept any drugs or alcohol on site.
We mainly eat Vegetarian meals and sometimes on weekends we eat some meat.

We are happy to share our knowledge in detoxification, construction techniques, gardening, spirituality and exchange of language.

If we find the right couple or individuals who we trust and enjoy having around, we may offer the opportunity to work with us as part of our team long-term.

We offer the use of our pool, gym, roof terrace, entertainment domes, tv lounge & grounds.
Our massage & colon Hydrotherapy are not normally offered as part of an exchange.

We often visit local rivers / lakes with a paddle or kayak, go for hikes, etc.
We welcome and invite you to join our excursions to also see and experience the natural beauty Central Portugal has to offer.

Activities & Shift

Our work options are varied.

We seek individuals to help with the following...

Gardening - All things related to plant maintenance, weeding, pruning, strimming, planting, seeding, harvesting, etc.
DIY - We always have plenty of tasks to do indoors and outdoors depending on the weather.
We provide PPE and training with any tools to get the job done.
We currently have tasks involving wood work refurbishment, sanding, varnishing, painting, fixing, outdoor lighting, and small fixtures.
Outdoor water drip feed irrigation systems.
Digital - We always seek help with our social media, photos and video editing, marketing, etc.
Animal care - feeding, cleaning, etc.
General house maintenance, we love a clean space to live and work in, we would appreciate anyone staying to be active in helping maintain a healthy clean environment.
House sitting, we seek trustworthy individuals or couples we can rely on to sometimes stay alone and get on with tasks.
Cooking - We love to cook and prepare meals for others, we also welcome anyone who enjoys cooking to help in preparing meals.

We usually work as a small team each taking part in different aspects of a larger task, or sometimes we work alone on smaller projects we are comfortable and enjoy executing alone.

Andrew being raised within a construction background has designed and been involved in every aspect of the retreat buildings and grounds, and is happy to share his any knowledge and skills with anyone who enjoys DIY, including architectural design and implementation.

We will offer comfortable accommodation plus a basic minimum wage for any hours worked on our projects.

Rules

We don't accept any drugs or alcohol on site.
We mainly eat Vegetarian meals and sometimes on weekends we eat some meat.