We are an on grid small scale farm that serves the local community.
Azores
Work Hard and Play Often! Permaculture Farm with beautiful view, reasonable work, and nice amenities. My two sons and I are doing a Permaculture style farming experience from the beginning.
I am an organic farmer doing Permaculture, a registered artisan (a fiber artist), a trained massage therapist and a highly educated Jane-of-all-trades. I started a new sustainable living project and try to do things with a small carbon footprint. I have eleven years experience living off grid, doing an independent living project with my ex-husband. Now I am a single mother with two boys, ages 12 and 14, Odin and Mitra.
I need help in the gardens, feeding ducks, moving goats pasture to pasture, and general farm work and maintenance. We’ll build rabbit hutches and garden structures with wood.
.Work exchange with me means that you will have a bed of your own, work about four days (total of 25-30 hours a week), have three days off, have all meals provided, all housing, and you will be integrated as a family member. You will be treated with respect and dignity and nothing will be asked of you that I myself cannot or will not do. You will be treated as a nephew or niece who travels to stay with an aunt with adolescent boys. You will learn to garden, to cook, possibly to slaughter animals, to survive on a medium income, to have fun and get many things accomplished in your day.
You will learn what you choose and nothing will be obligated to you to learn. My plan for the future is to open a food truck similar to a farm to table bistro open three days per week, and continue massage therapy three days. Currently I host Food Experiences on Airbnb. I love to cook, to entertain, to have fun, and to get to know people and share life stories. Essentially, I love to host!
I live on a beautiful island, a photographer's delight, a nature reserve full of waterfalls, natural swimming pools both saltwater and freshwater, two beaches, nature parks, camping spots, epic hikes, whale watching, spear fishing, and snorkeling. Flores Island, Azores is a forager's paradise with the forests full of flowers and edibles, mushrooms in the right season, blackberries in the summer, saltwater fish in the ocean, trout in the fresh waters.
The local people are kind, generous, and love to help foreigners. There are traditional folk festivals from May to October, blending traditional music and dances to rock concerts and a lot of socializing. There is large expatriate community of French, Spanish, German, Belgian, American, and Chinese. (I am from Laos and my boys have an American/British father.)
I am looking for mature and hardworking individuals, of average to high intelligence, kind and thoughtful, who can be self motivated, because I prefer not to micromanage. The main work I need is garden work, planting, weeding, tilling, hauling things like manure and compost. Experience is a plus, but I can teach the skills. I need some help doing general house maintenance, so a strong pair of hands that can do small repairs would be ideal. Also farm work requires some strength and stamina, so I need strong women and strong men, who like to work hard and play hard.
Not sure when exactly, but in near future I will need some help to build a greenhouse, so I need someone who knows how to generally put things together in a logical and sensible way, but often this is not necessary if you can take direction well.
I will need some help preparing meals or setting table and washing dishes (normal stuff you do already for your parents!),
I have a cozy home with five waterfalls in my area that I call “my backyard”. You have the choice to sleep in a tent everything provided or you could sleep on the couch, or on a spare bed in my children’s bedroom when they are not here, but are with their father. They are with their father every seven days.
I have full plumbing, hot showers, kitchen. There is electricity. Internet access is available. And I expect you to limit yourself during our work times to urgent notifications only. You will have ample time after work to be on the Internet. I have a washing machine for your dirty clothes. Line drying in summertime, indoor drying for wintertime or spring or any rainy day!
All three meals is provided by me. I am a conscientious omnivore, but I also cook vegetarian, and pescatarian. I have spent many years catering food, so providing tasty and atttractive food is no problem for me. Breakfast is quick and simple, nutritious. Lunch is hearty and energy giving. Dinner is delicious and colorful. All food is seasonal. We will be invited and included in social gatherings, and we will go to festivals and music performances, drum circles, etc. It’s your choice to participate. And it’s also your choice to rest and have quiet time as needed. You know yourself best. I hope you feel welcome and contact me. I know that you are awesome already and I welcome you to my island when you are ready.
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Learning opportunities
Vegetable farming
Poultry farming
Sheep or goat farming
Raising of other farm animals
Forestry
Flower farming
Aromatic or medicinal plants, teas
Seed saving or production
Meat processing
Vegetable or fruit preservation
Methods or systems
Biodynamic agriculture
Community-supported agriculture (CSA)
Holistic management
Permaculture
Regenerative agriculture
Rotational grazing
Host type
Self-sufficiency property
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Konswan
Member since 2018
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Azores
Get to Flores island, Açores, Portugal. Airport code FLW. A week before your flight, contact me and make arrangements for me or a taxi to pick you up from the airport.
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