Quinta da Zira
Quinta da Zira is a pesticide-free farm in Albufeira producing vegetables, fruits, herbs and eggs, paired with a rebuilt local accommodation…
Composting
LIPOR composts at municipal scale near Porto, while NÃM Mushroom Farm turns used coffee grounds into food and compost. Farms also close the loop by returning organic material to the soil.
Projects in this focus
Quinta do Mitra
Quinta do Mitra is a certified organic farm in Arco de São Jorge, Madeira, growing vegetables, aromatic and medicinal plants, and subtropica…
The Quinta Project
The Quinta Project is a queer permaculture farm and ecovillage in the São Mamede mountains, growing food, regenerating land, and hosting vol…
Nave Mãe
Nave Mãe is a bulk grocery store and ethical catering project in Portalegre that promotes conscious, local and seasonal consumption with a z…
Mushroom Compadres
Mushroom Compadres is a specialty and functional mushroom producer based in Rogil, West Algarve, making tinctures, coffee and cacao blends r…
Projecto Agroecológico do Soajo
Projecto Agroecológico do Soajo is a community initiative in the Peneda-Gerês National Park promoting agroecology, permaculture training and…
Horta do Pé Descalço
Horta do Pé Descalço is a small-scale organic market garden in Caldas da Rainha producing thousands of kilos of diverse vegetables per year …
Vale do Rodrigo
Vale do Rodrigo is a small-scale permaculture farm in Ferreira do Zêzere producing weekly vegetable boxes, potted medicinal plants, and herb…
Monte da Vaquinha
Monte da Vaquinha is a family-run regenerative farm in Moura, Alentejo, practicing holistic cattle grazing and agroecology while also operat…
Projeto A Nossa Terra
Projeto A Nossa Terra is a multi-generational family project in the Leiria/Pombal/Figueira da Foz region of Portugal, practicing regenerativ…
Monchique Homestead (Terra do Milho)
Monchique Homestead is a self-sufficient organic farm in the Serra de Monchique, Algarve, growing vegetables and raising chickens and goats …
CATCH Permaculture
CATCH (Centro de Arte, Tecnologia e Criatividade Humana) is a family-run initiative based in Porto Brandão, Portugal, combining permaculture…
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…
NÃM Mushroom Farm
NÃM Mushroom Farm is a Lisbon-based certified B Corp urban farm that transforms coffee waste into fresh gourmet mushrooms using a circular, …
Carbon Conscious Creations
Carbon Conscious Creations is an innovative Algarve-based producer of high-temperature biochar, wood vinegar, and biochar production equipme…
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…
Composting in Portugal
Portuguese soils are typically low in organic matter, and the summer burns off what little there is. Compost is the cheapest answer to both problems, which is why it is one of the first systems a land project sets up here.
The scales differ enormously. LIPOR composts the organic waste of Greater Porto. NÃM Mushroom Farm grows gourmet mushrooms on Lisbon coffee grounds and composts the spent substrate. Várzea da Gonçala and Aldeia do Vale do it at smallholding scale, and Carbon Conscious Creations turns the woody fraction into biochar instead.
Separate collection is now obligatory for municipalities, so household habits and public policy meet directly here. See also food waste reduction, organic farming and regenerative agriculture. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.