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This autumn, the Quinta Project opens space for ecoqueer community through two seasonal gatherings and a renewed call for volunteers. Whether you're keen to harvest or support daily life on the land, you're welcome here.

Come Harvest With Us:
Two Autumn Gatherings at the Quinta Project

Craving grounded connection? queer community? And time on the land? This is your invitation!

This autumn, the Quinta Project welcomes you to the Portuguese mountains for two very special gatherings:
Harvest Celebration Week (22–26 September) and Olive Harvest Week (3–7 November).

Each week offers a different rhythm, and both are rooted in ecoqueer kinship, seasonal flow, and a deep sense of place.

Harvest Celebration Week is a time to pause and honour the close of harvest season. This isn't a work week. It’s a spacious, joyful gathering where we share meals, walk the vineyard and the woods, taste the earliest signs of fermentation, and celebrate what the land  - and we - have made possible. If you’re looking for reconnection, inspiration, or simply space to breathe among queer kin, this week is for you.

Olive Harvest Week is more hands-on. We’ll spend our mornings harvesting olives and learning how oil is pressed, with afternoons for rest, fire-side conversations, and a quiet closing ceremony to honour the end of the agricultural year. It’s a beautiful way to slow down, work with your body, and feel the rhythm of this wild place as winter approaches.

You don’t need any farm experience. Just curiosity, care, and a readiness to show up. Whether you come for one week or both, you’ll be part of something bigger: a growing ecoqueer network grounded in land, joy, and connections.

Volunteering at the Quinta:
Calendar Now Open for 2026

The volunteering calendar at the Quinta Project is now open. If you're drawn to living simply, close to nature, and want to support an ecoqueer space in a meaningful way, we’d love to hear from you.

Volunteering here means becoming part of daily life: looking after the house and furry family, tending the vegetable garden, helping with cooking, and assisting with small, land-based tasks - and helping organise our monthly potluck for the queer community around us.

Work is for four hours a day, and accommodation and board are free. During your stay, you'll have plenty of time to explore the area and connect to this little, wild part of Portugal. The minimum period is 3 weeks. But longer is preferred. NB: It’s not a retreat, but a chance to live lightly and intentionally on the land.

If this sounds like a good fit, reach out. We’ll set up a Zoom call to connect and explore the possibilities.

More info: quintaproject.org/volunteering

Wherever you are this season, we’re glad to be connected. And if the borderland is calling to gather, to harvest, to root into queer rural life: I’d love to welcome you here. 
Got an idea, proposal, or question? Just reach out. I'd love to hear from you.