FUTURO – Projeto das 100.000 Árvores na Área Metropolitana do Porto
FUTURO has planted native trees across the Porto Metropolitan Area since 2011 and passed its target of 100,000 trees. It is run by the CRE.P…
Agroforestry
Trees and farming as one system: Herdade do Freixo do Meio's montado agroforestry is a national reference, and projects across the country are following. Old wisdom, new urgency.
Projects in this focus
Pro Nativa
Pro Nativa is a rewilding and habitat management business based in Aljezur that restores native forest in south-west Portugal. It removes in…
BLC3 – Campus de Tecnologia e Inovação
BLC3 is a non-profit research and innovation association based in Oliveira do Hospital, with hubs in Alfândega da Fé and Ourique, focused on…
SerQ – Centro de Inovação e Competências da Floresta
SerQ is a scientific and technological association based in Sertã that drives research, development and innovation for the forestry and wood…
Bee Serra da Estrela
Bee Serra da Estrela is a regenerative project in Manteigas that combines syntropic agriculture, forest restoration and nature-based tourism…
AIM Forest
AIM Forest is a natural capital investment platform developing sustainable, irrigated cork oak forestry projects in southern Portugal, combi…
NBI - Natural Business Intelligence
NBI – Natural Business Intelligence is a Portuguese consultancy specialised in biodiversity, ecosystem services and natural capital, helping…
Carvalhal (RH Florestal)
Carvalhal is a 220-hectare forest property near Penha Garcia, Idanha-a-Nova, managed by RH Florestal since 2019, combining cork oak, holm oa…
Broto de bambu
Broto de Bambu is a specialised bamboo nursery and education centre at Bambuparque, Herdade da Fonte, in Alentejo. It's recognised as Europe…
Quinta do Silverto
A fusion of regenerative agroforestry and quiet living in Northern Portugal.
REA Alentejo
Led by ADPM (Associação para a Defesa do Património de Mértola), REA Alentejo develops and tests a replicable model for restoring degraded s…
Ilhas de Biodiversidade
Ilhas de Biodiversidade plants dense native mini-forests with the Miyawaki method in industrial, educational and community settings across P…
Idanha-à-Vida
Idanha-à-Vida is a large-scale ecological, social and cultural regeneration project covering 1,600 hectares around the historic village of I…
Regen Waves
Regen Waves is a non-profit movement working to regenerate the Arrábida bioregion through native “superforests”, community-led Regen Walks a…
Agroflorestal Lameira
Agroflorestal Lameira is an agroforestry project in Samões, Portugal, focused on growing trees and crops together to manage the land sustain…
Viveiro Campesino
A small family-run nursery near Marvão, Portugal, growing reforestation, fruit and medicinal plants with regenerative agriculture techniques…
Mud Valley Institute
Mud Valley Institute is a nonprofit near Lagos that uses regenerative education and action to combat desertification and restore ecosystems …
OArborista
OArborista is a certified arboriculture company based in Sesimbra and Lisbon, led by the professional arborist Ruben Oliveira, who has over …
GEOTA
GEOTA (Grupo de Estudos de Ordenamento do Território e Ambiente) is a national non-profit environmental NGO, active since 1981, working on e…
EcoAtivo
EcoAtivo is a nature protection and conservation association in Fundão that works to improve the relationship between people and the environ…
Associação Cabeço Santo
Associação Cabeço Santo is a Portuguese environmental NGO working to restore degraded landscapes on the western slopes of the Serra do Caram…
Faia Brava – Associação de Conservação da Natureza
Faia Brava - Associação de Conservação da Natureza is a Portuguese environmental NGO with more than 25 years of history, and a pioneer in th…
Wild Forest Garden
A registered NGO in southern Alentejo, Wild Forest Garden creates biodiverse forest gardens using syntropic agriculture and no-dig methods, …
Reflorestar Portugal
A non-profit NGO working on ecological regeneration, biodiverse reforestation and agroforestry across Portugal, helping communities restore …
Terra Agora
Fundação Terra Agora is a Portuguese public-interest foundation working on a land stewardship model in which donated land is permanently pro…
Biggest Mini Forest
Biggest Mini Forest is a Portuguese movement that has helped plant over 85 mini food forests across Portugal, Spain, and Ecuador since 2023,…
Eternal Forest
Eternal Forest is a long-term art and ecology project founded in 2018 by artist and poet Evgenia Emets, working towards a global network of …
Rewilding Portugal
Rewilding Portugal is a non-profit association working to make Portugal a wilder place by restoring ecosystems and wildlife corridors, with …
Agroforestry in Portugal
Portugal has practised agroforestry for centuries without calling it that. The montado (cork oaks and holm oaks over grazing and cereal) is one of the oldest agroforestry systems in Europe, and it is the reference point for most of the newer work here.
Herdade do Freixo do Meio farms the montado as an integrated system and is widely cited as a national example. Around it, projects are planting tree lines into arable fields, alley-cropping, and adding fruit and nut layers to grazing land.
The economics are slow (trees pay late), so projects often pair it with activities that pay sooner. See also the cork oak and montado, syntropic farming and holistic grazing focuses. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.