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…
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
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 …
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…
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.