Living Seeds Sementes Vivas
Living Seeds Sementes Vivas is a Portuguese company based in Idanha-a-Nova that produces and sells certified organic and biodynamic, open-po…
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
Cabaz da Grela
Cabaz da Grela is an agroecology project based at Quinta da Grela, in Pessegueiro do Vouga, offering certified organic seasonal produce boxe…
Biofrade
Biofrade is a family-run Portuguese company producing and selling organic food, with shops and a vegetarian grocery-café across the Lourinhã…
Bruga
Bruga is a Portuguese urban planting brand dedicated to helping people grow their own food at home, turning ordinary gardens into edible, pr…
Horta do Pé Descalço
Horta do Pé Descalço is a small-scale organic market garden in Caldas da Rainha producing thousands of kilos of diverse vegetables per year …
Quinta Regadinha
Quinta Regadinha is a natural, family-run farm reviving a hidden valley in the Serra da Estrela mountains near Gouveia, Portugal, producing …
Vale do Rodrigo
Vale do Rodrigo is a small-scale permaculture farm in Ferreira do Zêzere producing weekly vegetable boxes, potted medicinal plants, and herb…
Quinta da Caria
Quinta da Caria is a pedagogical organic farm in Torres Vedras producing biological aromatic herbs, fruits and vegetables through agroforest…
Projeto A Nossa Terra
Projeto A Nossa Terra is a multi-generational family project in the Leiria/Pombal/Figueira da Foz region of Portugal, practicing regenerativ…
Quinta Vale Do Tourão
Quinta Vale Do Tourão is a 38-hectare organic farm in Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, run by the Lourenço family since the 1960s, producing org…
NOMEDA
NOMEDA is a boutique winery in the Mêda highlands of Douro Superior producing minimal-intervention, monovarietal wines rooted in sustainabil…
Quinta da Comenda
Quinta da Comenda is a historic agro-wine farm in São Pedro do Sul, Portugal, pioneering organic agriculture since 1987 and offering rural t…
Vale da Sarvinda
Vale da Sarvinda is a holistic organic farm and sustainable business located in Vila Velha de Ródão, integrating biological production, rene…
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.