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Hello and welcome to our profile :) We are Mariana and Luís, a portuguese couple of 34 yo current living at our small farm that we received as an inheritance.
Our dream is to create a self-sustainable farm, with animals, breed and training horses. In the future we would love to have a farm where kids can visit and experience nature and taking care of animals as well as horse riding lessons.
But to achieve our dream we still have a lot to do...
Currently we have 4 horses (Noah, Tilly, Branco and Charuto), 2 dogs (Lord and Mel), 1 rabbit (Joaquin), 7 goats, 3 geese, 1 peacock, and a lot of birds
We speak Portuguese and English, we would love to hear from you and maybe see you soon in Portugal.
I (Mariana) traveled 6 months through Europe moving from workaway to workaway and lived 3 years in Bristol UK, where I met Luis and we started to date, since he was living there for 10 years already. Althought we grow up in the same city and have friends in common we fell in love more than 2000kms away from home.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Our farm is located at 4kms distance from Palmela train station, 8kms from Palmela centre and 7,5kms from Setubal centre. You have beautiful beaches 17kms away.
Palmela and Setúbal are beautiful place to visit if you like nature and castles.
We can exchange skills and knowledge, help us around while you can have a turistic experience too.
Help
We would love to welcome any person who are willing to help us around the farm.
There is allows something to do, so whatever your skills, there will definitely be something you can help us with, as long as you have the desire to help.
You can help us with cleaning up the farm, building horse stalls, carpintery, general mantenece, fixing the fence, gardening or feeding the animals.
We ask you to help at least 3/4 hours per day, 5 days per week, happy to have you more time if you want to.
Languages
Languages spoken
Portuguese: Fluent
English: Intermediate
Spanish: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
We can improve our english and spanish, learn french and italian in exchange to teach portuguese
Accommodation
For now we are leaving in a off-grid mode since we don't have piped water or electricity with normal power, just for the minimuns.
We can offer you a cosy caravan to sleep and share our bathroom and kitchen with you.
There is a lot of space to park if you are comming by car or on your van, we also have a tent if you prefer.
We ask you to always keep everything as clean and tidy as possible and to be careful with the use of water and electricity.
We have internet, TV and Netflix.
We will have food available to cook, share meals cooked by us or by the workawayers, other times they cook for themselves.
What else ...
We can pick you up from Palmela or Setubal train station an you can use our bycicle to move around or schedule with us if you want to go somewhere.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
I'm (Mariana) currently working from home on my computer most of the time on the phone. So if you want it's possible to work, the internet connection is good
Space for parking camper vans
We have a lot of space where you can park and we are open to share our bathroom and kitchen.
Can possibly accept pets
You can bring your pet as long as your pet don't attack our farm animals.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximum 3-4 hours a day, 5 days a week
