Growers
Growers is a digital platform and app connecting people to regenerative hosts, communities and off-grid projects across Portugal for stays, …
Volunteering & Social Impact
Where showing up makes the difference: REFOOD's meal-rescue shifts, Fruta Feia's food co-op, beach clean-ups with Brigada do Mar, and wildlife care at RIAS. Volunteers keep the work moving, and new hands are welcome.
Projects in this focus
Lousitânea – Liga de Amigos da Serra da Lousã
Lousitânea is a non-profit association based in the schist village of Aigra Nova, Góis, dedicated to conserving and promoting the natural an…
Spirala Ecovillage
A regenerative camping site and eco-hub on 10.4 hectares in São Miguel de Acha, Castelo Branco District, offering community living, workshop…
Guardiãs da Natureza
Guardiãs da Natureza is a national network of women who act as local catalysts for ecosystem regeneration, biodiversity conservation and sus…
ATO — Associação Terras de Ourondo (Terra Divina)
ATO (Associação Terras de Ourondo) runs retreats, artistic performances, workshops and an itinerant clown school at Terra Divina, in Ourondo…
CooLabora
A social intervention cooperative based in Covilhã. For 18 years it has worked in Cova da Beira on gender equality and against domestic viol…
Rewild the Future
An off-grid community and education hub in a forest valley in central Portugal, working on ecological restoration, Montessori-inspired learn…
Folha Verde / Benfeita Ecozone
A bilingual natural education project and intentional eco-community of more than 270 people in the mountains of Benfeita, central Portugal. …
Loural Ecovillage
Loural Ecovillage is a sustainable community and retreat centre in Colmeal, Góis, Portugal, working towards food and energy self-sufficiency…
Live With Earth
Live With Earth is a Portuguese non-profit association, active since 2012 and formally founded in 2017, working on sustainable development a…
Vida em Transição
Vida em Transição is a family-run eco-project in Esculca, a village in the Serra do Açor, central Portugal, built around conscious living, p…
Living the Life Portugal
Living the Life Portugal is a family-run quinta near Figueiró dos Vinhos, where Tom, Ros and their children share their home, skills and kno…
Volunteering in Portugal
Conservation associations, farms, food co-ops and wildlife centres often depend on unpaid hours and take volunteers, and for several of them it is not a nice extra but the reason the work happens at all.
The commitment varies more than the subject does. RIAS needs regular shifts at its wildlife centre in Olhão. Quercus, MONTIS and VERDE run field days you can join once. Keela Permaculture Farm and Quinta do Vale da Páscoa host longer stays in exchange for work, and Brigada do Mar cleans coastline in short intensive campaigns.
Ask what is actually needed before offering; the honest answer is often less romantic and more useful than expected. Related focuses: community resilience and habitat restoration; dated volunteer days are on our events calendar.