📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Three days to change the world, three days to change your life. This festival takes place only with the mobilization of volunteers who set up all the structures, spaces, recovering spaces in nature for sustainable use, preparing workshops, concerts and other workshops for children and adults, in a festival aimed at the whole family. During the festival, participants will have the chance to meet different people, prepare workshops but also engage in other workshops from dances, meditation, arts, communication, education, gardening and many other subjects related to ecology and personal development, but also take part in the concerts and dj sets that happen during the evening and night, discovering world, folklore and indie music from different regions of the world. The Ecofestival https://www.facebook.com/terramaeecofestival plays an important role in community life and local development in what concerns awareness raising on ecology and sustainability and it is nominated in 2025 for Best Small Festival, Best Cultural Programme, Contribution to Sustainability and Best Venue (Quinta do Minhoto) pelos Iberian Festival Awards 2025.
💼 What the programme involves
The tasks are as described: to maintain and increase an organic, educational and community garden; to implement the aromatic garden and create spaces and dynamics to support activities and workshops with children and families as part of the Terra MEpounde Ecofestival; to build composters for organic recycling (for the Ecofestival and for awareness-raising workshops); to recover 6 dry toilets for use at the Festival; to recover spaces for leisure and socializing among families at Quinta do Minhoto; to support the workshops and concerts happening at the Ecofestival, ensuring security of the spaces, hosting artists and other tasks related to the festival.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Participants will be living in tents (for individuals or two people) in a part of the farm with available hot and cold showers and dry toilets. A kitchen complex is an indoor building where participants will have breakfast, lunch and dinner. Snacks in the morning and in the afternoon will be displayed for those who want in the outdoor space of the kitchen. The kitchen complex has an electrical corner to plug devices for charging, but we highly recommend participants to go offline or reduce the use of digital devices to take as much from the experience as possible. There is no internet in the place as we are in the middle of the nature.Meals offered are exclusively vegetarian and inside the farm you should not bring meat (if having meat is very important for you, please be aware to choose another workcamp). Participants can wash their clothes the manual way and dry it to the sun (we will provide natural soap and conditions for it).
📍 About the location
It is a very natural place by the river, but with all conditions for camping, hygiene (dry toilets and showers). It is located in Fornelos at the Quinta do Minhoto (http://quintadominhoto.com/), in a rural place in the north of Portugal (Fafe city, 20 minutes from GuimarEpoundes city centre and 50 minutes from GuimarEpoundes to Porto airport). From the camp location, participants can easily reach small shops to get personal items, a caffe and a church. It is also possible to reach on foot the city centre of Fafe (25minutes walking), where more services can be found.
ℹ️ Additional information
Sleeping in tents for 10 days can be a tough experience, come with open mind for a natural, simple and enriching experience (you will be surprised if you are willing to make that challenge and also be more distant from mobiles or computers).
