Quinta da Cotovia
Quinta da Cotovia is an organic farm in Sonega, Cercal do Alentejo, producing fruit, vegetables, bread and olive oil sold through baskets an…
Local & Seasonal Produce
Eating with the calendar and the map: the food co-op Colmeia in the Alentejo, family farms like Quinta do Arneiro, and the veg-basket schemes rescuing produce from Fruta Feia. Fresh, nearby and in season.
Projects in this focus
Herdade Aldeia de Cima
Herdade Aldeia de Cima is a 3,500-hectare montado estate in the Serra do Mendro, Alentejo, producing organic wine, medronho spirit, olive oi…
Paisagindo Bio
Paisagindo Bio is an organic tea and spice producer based on a farm in Alandroal, Alentejo, making infusions, tisanas and condiments by hand…
Tapada de Coelheiros
Tapada de Coelheiros is a family-owned wine estate in Arraiolos, Alentejo, spanning nearly 800 hectares where regenerative and organic farmi…
PREC - Processo Regenerativo em Curso
PREC is a food hub, canteen, café and grocery store in Mértola run by the Terra Sintrópica Association, offering vegetarian, plant-based mea…
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…
Colmeia
Colmeia is a non-profit local food distribution network operating across the Algarve and South Alentejo, distributing organic and local prod…
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 …
Vivid Farms
Vivid Farms grows seasonal, certified organic vegetables and raises animals in living, nutrient-rich soil near Golegã and Santarém, using re…
Terramay
Terramay is a 560-hectare regenerative farm on the banks of the Alqueva reservoir in Alentejo. It produces nutrient-dense food without GMOs …
Local and seasonal produce in Portugal
Portugal exports a great deal of what it grows and imports a great deal of what it eats, often the same vegetable in the same week. The projects here shorten that loop: a farm, a box, a pick-up point, a neighbourhood.
Quinta do Arneiro packs weekly boxes out of Mafra. Atelier Terra Viva grows certified organic vegetables in Baião. Colmeia Cooperativa da Terra buys collectively for the Alentejo and Rizoma runs the same logic from a Lisbon storefront. Fruta Feia sells the crooked produce the supermarkets refuse.
Seasonal here means five dry months and a winter that grows brassicas and citrus, so a box in February looks nothing like a box in July, that is the point. Related focuses: organic farming, CSA and food sovereignty. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.