Agrofloresta de Campolide - Bela Flor Respira
Agrofloresta de Campolide - Bela Flor Respira is a community-led pilot project that transformed a degraded hillside in Lisbon into an urban …
Syntropic Farming
Syntropic agriculture builds dense food forests in successive layers. Terra Sintrópica in Mértola uses it to turn dry Alentejo land into productive ecosystems.
Projects in this focus
Quinta da Caria
Quinta da Caria is a pedagogical organic farm in Torres Vedras producing biological aromatic herbs, fruits and vegetables through agroforest…
Terra Sintrópica
Terra Sintrópica is a community-driven regenerative initiative in Mértola, Alentejo, restoring semi-arid ecosystems through syntropic agrofo…
Horta Cá de Casa
Horta Cá de Casa is a family-run ecological farming project in the Azores that teaches and practices permaculture, syntropic farming and agr…
Sintropia Temperada
Sintropia Temperada is a regenerative agriculture farm in Palmela that produces food through syntropic agroforestry consortia while restorin…
Associação Nascentes de Luz
Associação Nascentes de Luz is a non-profit family support organisation in Maceira, Leiria, that combines social care with a large-scale per…
Carbon Conscious Creations
Carbon Conscious Creations is an innovative Algarve-based producer of high-temperature biochar, wood vinegar, and biochar production equipme…
Quinta Kania
Quinta Kania is an ecological permaculture homestead in Tábua, central Portugal, offering courses, workshops, farm tours, and hands-on natur…
Herdade do Freixo do Meio
Herdade do Freixo do Meio is a protected agroecological estate in Montemor-o-Novo, Alentejo, combining organic food production, biodiversity…
Terramay
Terramay is a 560-hectare regenerative farm on the banks of the Alqueva reservoir in Alentejo, producing honest, nutrient-dense food without…
Várzea da Gonçala
Várzea da Gonçala is a 7.5-hectare permaculture smallholding near Aljezur in the western Algarve, developed over 18 years into a thriving fo…
Ekogaio
Ekogaio is a Portuguese agro-regenerative collective based in Tomar that designs and implements permaculture, agroforestry, and regenerative…
Syntropic farming in Portugal
Syntropic agriculture plants dense, layered systems and manages them by pruning, the cuttings feed the soil, and the planting is designed to move through successive stages the way a forest does. It came from Brazil, via Ernst Götsch, and it is being adapted to a Mediterranean climate that is far drier than the one it was developed in.
Terra Sintrópica works in Mértola, on some of the driest land in the Alentejo, which makes it a useful test of whether the method travels.
Courses and demonstration plots are central to how the method is shared here. The agroforestry and regenerative agriculture focuses sit closest to it. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.