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Gabriel & Tish & Tish

World, Europe, Portugal, Portimão

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Work to be done

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Tish: "Love & Sparkles" - Gabe: "Mostly calm and collected, yet enthusiastic about my work being perfected." - Felix: "FIRETRUCK!!!! Oh no... THE WHEELS!!!"

Volunteer since
2021

Speaks

I understand some French.

Last seen online
more than 6 month ago

About me

Gabriel was born & raised in rural Algarve, he moved to England in 2010 to pursue music industry studies and work as a live music engineer. He works a couple of hours a day trading crypto-currencies.
Tish was born in the UK. She is a friendly, chatty person but also needs her own space to recharge from time to time.
Tish is preparing to stream online Zumba fitness classes in the evenings.
Interests:
• Communicating well
• Permaculture design
• Natural building
• Land stewardship
• Water retention
• Organic no-dig gardening
• Composting
• Natural pest control & fertilizers
• Playing music together
• Cooking and food as medicine
• Nature Walks
• Foraging
• Indian Head Massage
• Aromatherapy & essential oil distillation
• Baking sourdough bread & vegan cakes

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Gabriel was born & raised in rural Algarve, he moved to England in 2010 to pursue music industry studies and work as a live music engineer. He works a couple of hours a day trading crypto-currencies.
Tish was born in the UK. She is a friendly, chatty person but also needs her own space to recharge from time to time.
Tish is preparing to stream online Zumba fitness classes in the evenings.
We have been in Portugal since November. We’re saving up to buy our own piece of land, and in the meantime seeking to gain more experience and skills that we can use to build our own little permaculture paradise one day.
We were let go from our jobs in the UK due to the pandemic, and then we were served notice to vacate the flat as the owner wanted to sell, so we decided to move in with family in the Algarve, whilst we find something more aligned with our goals.
Felix is being raised bilingual, He is a vibrant, sociable and independent child.
He loves animals (especially dogs), being outdoors, meeting new people and learning new things, and basically anything with wheels.
In terms of child-care, depending on the task, Felix might be able to join in where suitable. If not appropriate then we take it in turns to look after him whilst the other parent works. Our schedule as it stands:
Tish makes breakfast and looks after Felix till midday whilst Gabe works.
Felix naps about 12 ish for an hour or so.
Gabriel makes lunch and dinner and looks after Felix whilst Tish works.
Felix usually goes to bed about 7ish.
Tish does all the laundry and cleaning. Gabe does all the driving, diy and cooking.
If you would like to talk more,
Please reach us here.

Skills

Experience:
So far we have cultivated a 100 square-metre vegetable patch, including an oyster mushroom tent from March until October last year.
We spent 3 months living and working on an off-grid permaculture farm in Monchique in 2015. Working on projects such as:
- Cooking for large groups
- Cob oven
- Yurt
- Swale digging
- Planting
- Terraced food forest
- Compost toilets
- Felling eucalyptus
- Firewood prep & woodwork
Gabriel knows how to use most power tools.
Tish knows how to use an axe.
Interests:
• Communicating well
• Permaculture design
• Natural building
• Land stewardship
• Water retention
• Organic no-dig gardening
• Composting
• Natural pest control & fertilizers
• Playing music together
• Cooking and food as medicine
• Nature Walks
• Foraging
• Indian Head Massage
• Aromatherapy & essential oil distillation
• Baking sourdough bread & vegan cakes

Additional info

I am not a smoker, I have a drivers license, I am a vegetarian and I have no allergies.

Type of work I want to do

  • computer help
  • eco projects
  • farming
  • gardening
  • maintenance tasks

Where I want to volunteer

Europe

Portugal, Spain

More photos about me

Felix's 2nd birthday
Beamsy cat
Thithi cat