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 that helps people grow their own food at home and turn ordinary gardens into productive, edible s…
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…
Quinta Regadinha
A natural, family-run farm near Gouveia, in the Serra da Estrela, bringing life back to a hidden valley and producing organic products.
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 …
Quinta da Caria
Quinta da Caria is a pedagogical organic farm in Torres Vedras that grows biological aromatic herbs, fruit and vegetables using agroforestry…
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…
Quinta Vale Do Tourão
A 38-hectare organic farm in Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, run by the Lourenço family since the 1960s, produces almonds and sheep's milk and …
NOMEDA
A small wine producer in the Mêda highlands of the Douro Superior, making single-variety, minimal-intervention wines through regenerative vi…
Quinta da Comenda
A historic agro-wine farm in São Pedro do Sul, certified organic since 1987, offering rural tourism accommodation, nature activities and a S…
Vale da Sarvinda
Vale da Sarvinda is an organic farm and sustainable business in Vila Velha de Ródão, combining biological production, renewable energy and w…
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.