Quinta da Coruja is a farm and retreat center in southern Alentejo. Coming from Finland and looking for a way to increase our level sustainability.
We are welcoming creative and handy volunteers for all kind of farm tasks as helping with animal care, land clearing, milking goats (if you stay long enough) taking care of horses, gardening, compost making, olive picking (October-November), landscaping, forest work and making firewood, house cleaning, painting, maintaining fences, natural construction, making our surroundings more beautiful...
At the moment we are also looking for one person who has experience in training horses.
If you want to learn how to milk the goats you need to stay with us for a longer period! At this moment we have 8 goats to milk and 12 in total including castrated males. From the milk we make different cheeses and yogurt. We treat our goats with lot's of love and respect! They keep giving us milk for many years without having kids in between, so we don't need to slaughter or sell extra animals. We never separate the mothers from their kids.
We appreciate serious requests from people who really want to stay with us and not sending the same request to many other farms same time! If you request to stay with us and change your mind without canceling we report no-show to the organizers. We ask you to read through the whole description before applying to stay with us.
We expect volunteers to be ok with being far from the next village and enjoying peace and nature. It's good if you are independent, able to think, willing to learn. A great bonus if you already have skills in gardening, animal care or natural building!
Smoking, drugs or daily alcohol consumption are not welcome on the farm!
We are in Portugal since October 2017 and happy to have found a beautiful farm in Alentejo with lot's of possibilities. Shanti has a lifetime of experience with Eco-farming, gardening and keeping animals, producing cheese etc, in Finland. We decided to move to Portugal to enjoy a better climate and to be able to produce our own food basically around the year and for our goats to live a real goat life in an environment of mountains and bushes. We mix principles of permaculture and bio-dynamic gardening with a lot of intuition.
Our vision is to create a Sanctuary where we can receive people, looking for a silent place to contemplate or meditate, just being in harmony with nature, animals and wild life. Also with time, create a place for people in the neighborhood to come together for dancing, singing, playing and sharing.
We, Shanti, Simon and Anna, are looking to share our skills both on the farm and in Portugal in general.
You can read more about us on our website.
Practical details:
Accommodation in our guesthouse or camping, yurts, depending on the amount of people and time of year.
Some meals we share and other meals woofers can make together from food that we provide. No meat!
Working 5 days/week, 6hrs/day. If you exceptionally come for only 2 weeks you will have only 2 days off!
Internet access available
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Learning opportunities
Vegetable farming
Fruit or nut farming
Horse or donkey farming
Sheep or goat farming
Dairy farming
Forestry
Aromatic or medicinal plants, teas
Cheesemaking
Green Building
Renewable energy production
Methods or systems
Biological pest control
Biodynamic agriculture
Holistic management
Permaculture
Regenerative agriculture
Host type
Self-sufficiency property
Former WWOOFer
50
Hectares
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123.6
Acres
Accommodation
