Oasis dos 3 Sobreiros
Oasis dos 3 Sobreiros (also known as Oasis des 3 Chênes) is a permaculture garden and eco-living project in São Francisco da Serra, Portugal…
Foraging & Wild Foods
Reading the land for what it freely gives: the forest farm Monte da Vida in the south-west, Over the Edge Farm in the Alentejo, and The Landscape Farm in the Ribatejo. Old knowledge, quietly kept alive.
Projects in this focus
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 …
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 …
Monte da Vida
Monte da Vida is a regenerative forest farm on 90 hectares in south-west Portugal. It combines agroforestry, wild herb harvesting and tree e…
Foraging and wild foods in Portugal
Wild food here is not a novelty; it is what the countryside ate between harvests. Chestnuts, medronho, carob, wild asparagus, mushrooms after the first autumn rain, greens that most gardens treat as weeds.
Monte da Vida works ninety hectares of forest farm in the south-west where wild harvest is part of the system. Over the Edge Farm does the same off-grid near Odemira, The Landscape Farm grows and gathers in the Ribatejo, and Oasis dos 3 Sobreiros teaches it from a permaculture garden near Santiago do Cacém.
Go with someone who knows the ground the first time, and check who owns it, most of the Portuguese interior is private even when it looks abandoned. Related focuses: agroforestry, cork oak montado and local and seasonal produce. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.