At the moment we can have only one wwoofer. The house needs to be renovated.
We are 2 people, father and son, living in a beautiful existing Portuguese village north of the Serra Estrela among the original inhabitants. So you will most of the time only working with me, Arjan, together. Th vilige is slowly growing.
We normaly have space for 2 wwoofers .
For health reasons, we can't have people in our home who.are vaccinated.. I know this sounds strange and may be offensive. However, we must consider our own health first.
In this village there is a biodynamic farm, with cows, from our neighbors with whom we regularly work together and have roughly the same ideals. Sometimes we help with the cows .
My father need some help in the household. We, you and I, make food a few days a week and we are working on different things. For example we work on a ruin to become a house. We also make our own bio bread. My father has two houses. All houses need to be refurbished and/or renovated. they are livable.
Land:
We have 2 pieces of land. This concerns the parental couple's backyard and a 2000m garden.
To be clear: We are building things up and that takes a lot of time and energy in addition to caring for my father.
So you can't expect an existing eco-village, but I try to stick to the core goals as much as possible and make them visible in and during the work.
Slowly more people, who want to work and live with nature, are coming to live in this in this environment.
They want to work and live with nature or are interested in the idee of Espaçio da Vida. www.ecodorpportugal.nl
Our very broad vision is biodynamic agriculture and art.
We have interaction models such as on Tamera. We like to build a new family together with new people who are now coming to participate.
If you like you can learn a lot about b.d. agriculture and anthroposophy.
We, I and my neighbors, offer also:
learn, or do, eurithmy.
And in the field of healing:
yoga.
massage
therapeutic eurithmy
Average program:
Starting every morning at 8.30 with Eurithmie.
Start working at 9.00
At 10:30 there is a break. Then we work again from 11.00 to 12.30 and continue the meal that has already been prepared together.
Warm food at 13.00 and then rest until 15.00. In the afternoon we continue to work until 17.00. After that you are free to do what you want and we eat a sandwich around 18.15, if you like, and you are also free in the evening to make music or whatever you want. Or we organize some thing together.
My hobbies are :
swimming, eurythmy, classical guitar, percussion and singing (folk music), reading and studying books about anthroposophy. I also like to work in the garden. In the future I want to take up my old hobby of making instruments again. We don't have a wood workshop yet. So this is for the future.
The Area:
In the area you can enjoy beautiful walks. Possibly with the dog. you can also swim in the river. This is 6 minutes away by car..
You Accommodation:
There is a house for wwoofers for two persons with living room, badroom, kitchen and two sleeping rooms but this must be renovated. It needs a new roof. It's the house where I live, but when volunteers come, I sleep in a caravan.
November we will have the wood stove ready. One sleepingroom we stil working on and is simple. I Sleep sometimes in a caravan and there is a smal tent for the summer. We can have more tents if necessary. Next year , 2026, we will build the first organic house, but for now this is it. . So the pictures on the website are a indication of what we want to create in the future.
if you have any questions feel free to ask.
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Learning opportunities
Vegetable farming
Poultry farming
Aromatic or medicinal plants, teas
Seed saving or production
Vegetable or fruit preservation
Green Building
Renewable energy production
Food justice / sovereignty
Mechanics / tools / technology
Methods or systems
Biodynamic agriculture
Holistic management
Permaculture
Regenerative agriculture
Host type
Nonprofit / Community
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