Treehouse cider project - rural
Portalegre
Coming from childhood dream, we are building an oasis for the next generation.
We look for collaborator with personal project! :)
We are a family with 2 children (9 and 12 years old), the project start in 2016.
Fred is french happy Carpenter trade :)
Using permaculture, we create a small garden, bees, food forest, treehouse, brewing etc...
To care Mother hearth and people, we create this refuge in a very privileges place to live in harmony with nature and especially children, where people can care people, eat well, learn and experimente art-craft (bioconstruction) and care the earth using simple agriculture.
Contact with wild nature, observing, drawing, cleaning and restoring the place to live with, is how we do it.
The land is 2,4 hectares south-east face on terraces, with 3 water mines working all the year. Big cork aok on the top, olive trees, figura, orange trees, pear tree, cherry tree and grapes...
Small but intensive!
There is dry compost tolet, shower and small workshop.
Now, we have electricity!!! And a wasmachine. We have a workshop in castelo de vide with pizzeria and kids workshop project . Every month we organise pizza party with live music.
Your accommodation will be tent, tipi or caravan and we will share the kitchen.
Is really basic but is fun!
Hope to meet you.
Organic methods: Usamos permacultura para o design e um Methode de agroforesta
Certifications: We don't sell ours product, just exchange
Type of work: Now we are working on landskaking, dry stone wall, and project in wood, clay, stone, wood,
-the pizeria (clay hoven)
-The kids workshop (clay plastering)
But also clearing the land with steamer and playing with the kids :)
Every day we practice meditation :)
Yoga teachers are really welcome!
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Learning opportunities
Vegetable farming
Fruit or nut farming
Forestry
Beekeeping
Beer, cider, wine, or juice making
Traditional crafts
Green Building
Renewable energy production
Methods or systems
Biodynamic agriculture
Holistic management
Permaculture
Regenerative agriculture
Host type
Self-sufficiency property
2.4
Hectares
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5.9
Acres
Frederic
Member since 2020
Languages spoken:
English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
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Response rate: 100%
Response time: typically within 7 days
Portalegre
We are 2,5 km from Castelo de Vide (30 mins walk) and 15 km from Portalegre.
Quinta d'o Sol) carreiras 7300-355 Portalegre
Reviews
Héléna
Belgium
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April 2026
Très chouette expérience d'un mois sur ce terrain super accueillant et apaisant! Merci beaucoup à Fred de m'avoir pris sous son aile ;) J'ai appris pleins de choses que je n'oublierais pas de si tôt! Vou voltar :)
beijinhos, héléna
Céline
France
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March 2026
Merci Frédéric pour ce temps partagé à la quinta do sol ! Tu as milles idées géniales et porteuses de sens pour une vie plus ensemble et plus joyeuse. Quelle robustesse ;-) et persévérance même dans l'adversité car ce n'est pas toujours simple de conserver son âme d'enfant dans le cadre de cette société. Muiti Prazer et heureuse d'avoir pu contribuer au démarrage du potager et à la super Pizza Party si conviviale et pleine d'humain-es simples et ouverts.
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Jennipher
Italy
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November 2024
Frédéric, une personne au grand cœur. Tout ce qu’il a créé au fil des années, de ses propres mains et avec l’aide de bénévoles, est incroyable. Mais surtout les idées qu'il a pour construire et créer. La cabane dans les arbres est quelque chose de merveilleux !
Quinta do sol, une petite communauté en construction; un lieu magique, où vous pourrez trouver paix et tranquillité. Il est possible de faire tout type d'activité: se consacrer au yoga, créer des objets en argile, participer à divers événements organisés, nager dans le lac, mais aussi s'amuser à déplacer d'énormes rochers pour la construction de cloisons sèches ou des réservoirs contenant des litres de cidre et de la bière, que vous pourrez évidemment ensuite déguster :)
Merci pour ces moments magiques que je garderai avec moi pour toujours.
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Jana
Germany
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September 2024
Quinta do Sol is a small oasis of sunshine. There are these wonderful green fig trees, brambles, the gardens around, these beautiful wooden houses, the yurts, a tipi, tents, a caravan, the lake lovely animals & people with sunny souls. When we built stone walls, we did hart physical work, but I really liked to learn how the people built over hundreds of years ago. After work, we jumped in the lake, in the afternoon we did yoga sessions with the collective, learned how to meditate, went to the village (Castelo de Vide), did game evenings, went to the river with everyone & watched the sunset on the rocks and in Mervão. At the beginning the communication has been a bit difficult, but after a few days we all got to know each other better and we grow together. I am really grateful for this amazing experience. I already miss the Quinta with its shining souls.
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Verena
Germany
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July 2024
I‘ve spent 3 weeks in June/July at Quinta do Sol and had a lovley time.
It was me, another volunteer and Fred, the owner. He got me from the busstation, and first I stayed in a tent, but then moved to the caravan to the other volunteer, cause there are 2 beds.
We usually worked in the morning and then someone cooked for all of us and we were eating together- sometimes also with Freds kids or the family that right now also lives here.
The tasks were quite different - the other volunteer helped a lot by changing the landscape for a new building with a lot of hard body work. I instead do love working in the garden , so Fred gave me a lot to do there: weeding, compost shifting, harvesting beans or oregano, planting tomatoes…but we also filled up his homemade beer all together, helped cleaning the airbnbs, peeling trees…and then of course the pizza partys: doing the dough, preparing the location, there working at the bar - that was a great fun!
We were only 2 volunteers, so Fred took us to a lot of adventures around with him and his kids - just as a big family: we went together to a singing circle, climbed the mountain to see the sunset, went to Castelo de Vide, to Marvao, to the River and the lake…
Most of the evenings we were also eating together, speaking about life in portugal, life in general, meditation and dreams…
But i also had a lot of time for myself in the hammock or taking a swim in the beautiful lake :)
All in all a wonderful experience!
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Flore
France
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June 2024
Quinta do Sol est à l'image du maître des lieux : accueillant, chaleureux, attachant, inspirant et fourmillant de possibles et de projets !
On a adoré notre trop courte semaine chez toi, mille mercis Fred !
