Monte Mimo
Monte Mimo is a small family-run regenerative farming project in Alvalade do Sado, Alentejo, producing vegetables and other goods through an…
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
Húmus Vivo
Húmus Vivo is an educational, hands-on project spreading regenerative soil practices in Portugal, through olive pruning workshops, agrofores…
Terramada
Terramada is a permaculture ecovillage near Castro Marim, in the Algarve, with over 20 years of soil regeneration behind it. It combines nat…
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…
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
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…
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 …
Monte da Vaquinha
A family-run regenerative farm in Moura, Alentejo, that practises holistic cattle grazing and agroecology, and also runs a donation-based sh…
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…
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, …
Horta Cá de Casa
Horta Cá de Casa is a family-run ecological farm in the Azores that practises and teaches permaculture, syntropic farming and agroforestry o…
NÃM Mushroom Farm
NÃM Mushroom Farm is a certified B Corp urban farm in Lisbon that grows fresh gourmet mushrooms on coffee waste, using a circular approach. …
Carbon Conscious Creations
Carbon Conscious Creations, based in Algoz, Algarve, produces high-temperature biochar and wood vinegar and builds the equipment to make the…
Terramay
Terramay is a 560-hectare regenerative farm on the banks of the Alqueva reservoir in Alentejo. It produces nutrient-dense food without GMOs …
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 food forest…
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.