Nosso ParaísoSmallholding, Algarve hinterland
Four days a year

Harvest days

Four working days across the year, on real dates, with small numbers. They are not tours. You come and do the job we would be doing anyway, and it goes faster with more hands.

Flat illustration of a table with crates of oranges, a drying tray, jars and aprons on a rail

This is also the only way we do visits. We do not do drop ins, tours or tastings, and we do not publish the address. Four days a year is what we can do properly alongside the actual work. Two of them are in the citrus block and one of them makes the marmalade.

Next up

The olive harvest and pressing day runs on 7, 14 and 21 November 2026. It is the longest and hardest of the four, and the only one where you follow the fruit all the way to the mill.

After that, orange picking on four January Saturdays, and the preserving kitchen day in February.

Booking is by email. We hold a place, confirm, and ask for the full amount by bank transfer. Cancel more than seven days before and you get everything back. Inside seven days we refund half, because at these group sizes an empty place is one nobody else could take.

Each page below says plainly what you actually do, what to wear, what happens in bad weather, and who the day is not for. Please read that last part. The olive day is seven hours of physical work and the fig afternoon is 35 degrees in August.

The four days

Flat illustration of an olive tree over a net, a hand rake, a demijohn of new oil and a crate of olives
7, 14 and 21 November 2026

Olive harvest and pressing day

The hardest of the four days and the one that shows you the whole chain, from the tree to the net to the crate to the mill, inside a single day.

55 eurosSeven hours, up to 10
Flat illustration of an orange tree with a ladder against it, a picking bag and crates of oranges
9, 16, 23 and 30 January 2027

Orange picking morning

Three hours on a January Saturday in the citrus block.

28 eurosThree hours, up to 12
Flat illustration of a kitchen table with a preserving pan, a thermometer, a funnel and filled jars
13 and 27 February 2027

Preserving kitchen day

Five hours in the kitchen in February, making marmalade and curd from fruit picked that week.

48 eurosFive hours, up to 6
Flat illustration of drying trays of split figs on trestles under muslin, with a fig branch above
7, 14 and 21 August 2027

Fig and drying afternoon

Three and a half hours in August, in the middle of the main fig crop.

35 eurosThree and a half hours, up to 8

Where to next

Questions

Weather, cancellations, ages and accessibility.

The pantry

What gets made from the days you would be joining.

Contact

Ask about a date.