Quinta da Cotovia
Quinta da Cotovia is an organic farm in Sonega, Cercal do Alentejo, producing fruit, vegetables, bread and olive oil sold through baskets an…
Local & Seasonal Produce
Eating with the calendar and the map: the food co-op Colmeia in the Alentejo, family farms like Quinta do Arneiro, and the veg-basket schemes rescuing produce from Fruta Feia. Fresh, nearby and in season.
Projects in this focus
Fajã dos Padres
Fajã dos Padres is a secluded organic farm, beach and restaurant on Madeira's south coast, reached by cable car down a 300-metre cliff or by…
Herdade Aldeia de Cima
Herdade Aldeia de Cima is a 3,500-hectare montado estate in the Serra do Mendro, Alentejo, producing organic wine, medronho spirit, olive oi…
Monte da Casteleja
Monte da Casteleja is an organic wine estate and farm stay near Lagos, Algarve, run by Guillaume Leroux, who inherited the property from his…
Gaia Rogil
Gaia Rogil is an organic shop and kitchen with a co-working space in Rogil, Aljezur, serving a daily dish made from organic and mostly local…
Biocoop – Cooperativa de Consumo de Produtos Biológicos
Biocoop is a consumer cooperative in Prior Velho, near Lisbon, selling organic food to its members since 1993. It also organises farm visits…
Paisagindo Bio
Paisagindo Bio is an organic tea and spice producer based on a farm in Alandroal, Alentejo, making infusions, tisanas and condiments by hand…
CCBio – Centro de Competências da Agricultura Biológica
CCBio is a national competence centre based in Serpa that supports organic farming through research, technical guidance and partnerships acr…
Quinta do Freixo & Quinta do Mel (SAIA)
SAIA is a fifth-generation family business running two organic farms in the Algarve, Quinta do Freixo inland and Quinta do Mel by the sea, p…
Tapada de Coelheiros
Tapada de Coelheiros is a family-owned wine estate in Arraiolos, Alentejo, spanning nearly 800 hectares where regenerative and organic farmi…
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…
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…
PREC - Processo Regenerativo em Curso
PREC is a food hub, canteen, café and grocery store in Mértola run by the Terra Sintrópica Association, offering vegetarian, plant-based mea…
Prato Certo
Prato Certo is a food education campaign run by Associação In Loco that promotes healthy, affordable and sustainable eating based on the Med…
O Rapaz da Quinta
O Rapaz da Quinta is a certified organic farm in Leça do Balio run by Tiago Ferreira, delivering fresh fruit and vegetable baskets to homes …
Quinta da Herdeira
Quinta da Herdeira is a family-run certified organic farm in Foros de Amora, growing vegetables and fruit without synthetic chemicals since …
Projecto Matéria
Projecto Matéria is a Portuguese non-profit platform, founded in 2016 by chef João Rodrigues and Vânia Rodrigues, that celebrates and connec…
Terras de Sal
Terras de Sal is a cooperative in Castro Marim, Algarve, bringing together producers of traditional sea salt and fleur de sel harvested from…
TryBio – Associação para a Promoção da Produção Biológica
TryBio is an association dedicated to promoting organic farming in the Azores, bringing together producers and consumers across the archipel…
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…
Living Seeds Sementes Vivas
Living Seeds Sementes Vivas is a Portuguese company based in Idanha-a-Nova that produces and sells certified organic and biodynamic, open-po…
Unidos Contra o Desperdício
Unidos Contra o Desperdício is a national movement, under the High Patronage of the President of Portugal, that brings together companies, i…
Quinta dos Medronheiros
Quinta dos Medronheiros is a certified organic farm in Lazarim, Almada, offering fresh biological produce through weekly organic boxes. It p…
Graneleiro de Janas
Graneleiro de Janas is a community storage and distribution space for local agroecological produce, located within the Janas Ecovillage in S…
Albustan - Hortas do Sol
Albustan - Hortas do Sol is a certified organic farm in Bensafrim, Algarve, growing seasonal vegetables through regenerative agriculture and…
Cabaz da Grela
Cabaz da Grela is an agroecology project based at Quinta da Grela, in Pessegueiro do Vouga, offering certified organic seasonal produce boxe…
Colmeia
Colmeia is a non-profit local food distribution network operating across the Algarve and South Alentejo, distributing organic and local prod…
Biofrade
Biofrade is a family-run Portuguese company producing and selling organic food, with shops and a vegetarian grocery-café across the Lourinhã…
Bruga
Bruga is a Portuguese urban planting brand that helps people grow their own food at home and turn ordinary gardens into productive, edible s…
Horta do Pé Descalço
A small, family-run organic market garden in Caldas da Rainha that has grown over 6.5 tonnes of vegetables in a single year, across 65 varie…
Quinta Regadinha
A natural, family-run farm near Gouveia, in the Serra da Estrela, bringing life back to a hidden valley and producing organic products.
Vale do Rodrigo
A small permaculture farm in Ferreira do Zêzere. It uses no-dig, pesticide-free methods to produce weekly vegetable boxes, potted medicinal …
Quinta da Caria
Quinta da Caria is a pedagogical organic farm in Torres Vedras that grows biological aromatic herbs, fruit and vegetables using agroforestry…
Projeto A Nossa Terra
A family project going back several generations near Leiria, Pombal and Figueira da Foz, growing food with regenerative, no-dig, chemical-fr…
Quinta Vale Do Tourão
A 38-hectare organic farm in Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, run by the Lourenço family since the 1960s, produces almonds and sheep's milk and …
Âmago Wellness Farm
A small regenerative dairy farm and wellness centre in Achadinha, Azores, selling raw milk and offering farm tours and health coaching. The …
Monchique Homestead (Terra do Milho)
Monchique Homestead is a self-sufficient organic farm in the Serra de Monchique, Algarve, where a family grows vegetables and keeps chickens…
CATCH Permaculture
CATCH (Centro de Arte, Tecnologia e Criatividade Humana) is a family-run initiative in Porto Brandão, Portugal, that combines permaculture, …
Salina Greens
Salina Greens produces certified organic halophyte plants and products made from them, such as salicornia, sea salt substitutes and infusion…
NOMEDA
A small wine producer in the Mêda highlands of the Douro Superior, making single-variety, minimal-intervention wines through regenerative vi…
Quinta dos Sabores
Quinta dos Sabores is an organic farm on São Miguel, Azores, with a farm-to-table restaurant and cosy countryside accommodation. It combines…
Al-Bio – Associação Agroecológica do Algarve
Al-Bio is an association of organic farmers and agroecology advocates in the Algarve. It works to strengthen sustainable small and medium-sc…
Vilar da Monteirinha
A family-led project in the village of Sonim, Trás-os-Montes, growing certified organic blueberries, strawberries and currants while regener…
The Landscape Farm
A 16-hectare organic farm in Ribatejo that produces more than 50 products, from olive oil and honey to wild herbs and vegetables, following …
Vivid Farms
Vivid Farms grows seasonal, certified organic vegetables and raises animals in living, nutrient-rich soil near Golegã and Santarém, using re…
Quinta Maravilha
Quinta Maravilha is an agroecological farm near Palmela, founded in 2017, that grows organic vegetables and distributes them through a CSA/A…
Sintropia Temperada
Sintropia Temperada is a regenerative farm in Palmela that grows food in syntropic agroforestry consortia while restoring soil and water cyc…
Quinta da Abelheira
An organic farm in Sobral da Abelheira, Portugal, selling fresh produce, honey, eggs and artisanal bread through an online shop and a physic…
Quinta do Arneiro
A certified organic farm in Azueira, Mafra, producing a wide variety of vegetables, fruit and bread, delivered weekly in baskets directly to…
Peneda Eco Farm
A certified organic family farm and ecotourism project near the Peneda-Gerês National Park in northern Portugal, offering B&B accommodation,…
Quinta da Comenda
A historic agro-wine farm in São Pedro do Sul, certified organic since 1987, offering rural tourism accommodation, nature activities and a S…
Quinta da Fornalha
Quinta da Fornalha is a 35-hectare organic farm in Castro Marim, Algarve, that combines regenerative agriculture, ecotourism, a farm restaur…
Vale da Sarvinda
Vale da Sarvinda is an organic farm and sustainable business in Vila Velha de Ródão, combining biological production, renewable energy and w…
Fruta Feia CRL
Fruta Feia CRL, a Portuguese cooperative founded in November 2013, rescues “ugly” fruit and vegetables from going to waste. It distributes t…
Atelier Terra Viva
Quinta Terra Viva is an agroecological farm in Baião growing a wide variety of certified organic seasonal vegetables, using soil regeneratio…
Terramay
Terramay is a 560-hectare regenerative farm on the banks of the Alqueva reservoir in Alentejo. It produces nutrient-dense food without GMOs …
Local and seasonal produce in Portugal
Portugal exports a great deal of what it grows and imports a great deal of what it eats, often the same vegetable in the same week. The projects here shorten that loop: a farm, a box, a pick-up point, a neighbourhood.
Quinta do Arneiro packs weekly boxes out of Mafra. Atelier Terra Viva grows certified organic vegetables in Baião. Colmeia Cooperativa da Terra buys collectively for the Alentejo and Rizoma runs the same logic from a Lisbon storefront. Fruta Feia sells the crooked produce the supermarkets refuse.
Seasonal here means five dry months and a winter that grows brassicas and citrus, so a box in February looks nothing like a box in July, that is the point. Related focuses: organic farming, CSA and food sovereignty. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.