After several decades of organic farming my husband and I moved to the Azores islands (1,000 km west of Lisbon) to continue our self-sufficient lifestyle, but with less
land and fewer animals (just a dog and a few hens now.). We’re interested in producing as much food as we can on the few acres we now have and in just having a simple, quiet life in a beautiful place with a climate that allows year-round
gardening. In our growing, whether plants or animals, we avoid the use of any substances that would be harmful to us, the environment or our fellow creatures, but we don’t adhere to any strict gardening/farming “rules”. We use a lot of
common sense and
experience in whatever we do and working outdoors is an essential ingredient in our lives. We would like very much to find a like-minded person who would like a different kind of life. We can not offer wages, but we can offer a separate house, some land and the food we can produce together, in addition to a beautiful view of the ocean. What we ask in return is someone who can work with us in our ever expanding gardens and help us out with other projects when needed. We don’t have a clearly defined plan for cooperation, some things just have to be worked out at a later stage. I know it’s a long shot that we find someone on this forum, but we’ve often been very lucky at finding what we needed at exactly the right time, so maybe someone out there is looking for an opportunity like this.
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