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…
CSA / Community Supported Agriculture
Sharing the harvest and the risk: subscription farms like Quinta do Arneiro near Mafra, the Colmeia co-op in the Alentejo, and Fruta Feia's baskets. A direct pact between grower and eater.
Projects in this focus
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 …
Graneleiro de Janas
Graneleiro de Janas is a community storage and distribution space for local agroecological produce, located within the Janas Ecovillage in S…
Quinta Maravilha
Quinta Maravilha is an agroecological farm near Palmela, founded in 2017, that grows organic vegetables and distributes them through a CSA/A…
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…
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…
Community supported agriculture in Portugal
A CSA moves the risk. You pay ahead, the farm plants against a known number of households, and a bad year is shared rather than absorbed alone by the grower. It suits a climate where the difference between a wet spring and a dry one is the whole harvest.
Quinta do Arneiro and Quinta da Caria run subscription boxes out of the Lisbon and Torres Vedras area. Herdade do Freixo do Meio delivers from its Alentejo montado. Cabaz da Grela does it near Sever do Vouga, and Graneleiro de Janas is the shared storage and pick-up version near Sintra.
Check the collection point before subscribing; that, more than the produce, decides whether it fits your week. See also local and seasonal produce and organic farming. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.