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 …
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
Projecto Matéria
Projecto Matéria is a Portuguese non-profit platform, founded in 2016 by chef João Rodrigues and Vânia Rodrigues, that celebrates and connec…
Unidos Contra o Desperdício
Unidos Contra o Desperdício is a national movement, under the High Patronage of the President of Portugal, that brings together companies, i…
Quinta dos Medronheiros
Quinta dos Medronheiros is a certified organic farm in Lazarim, Almada, offering fresh biological produce through weekly organic boxes. It p…
Graneleiro de Janas
Graneleiro de Janas is a community storage and distribution space for local agroecological produce, located within the Janas Ecovillage in S…
CATCH Permaculture
CATCH (Centro de Arte, Tecnologia e Criatividade Humana) is a family-run initiative based in Porto Brandão, Portugal, combining permaculture…
Salina Greens
Salina Greens produces certified organic halophyte plants and derivatives — such as salicornia, sea salt substitutes and infusions — using a…
Quinta Maravilha
Quinta Maravilha is an agroecological farm near Palmela, Portugal, that grows organic produce and distributes it through a community-support…
Sintropia Temperada
Sintropia Temperada is a regenerative agriculture farm in Palmela that produces food through syntropic agroforestry consortia while restorin…
Quinta da Abelheira
Quinta da Abelheira is an organic farm in Sobral da Abelheira, Portugal, selling fresh produce, honey, eggs and artisanal bread through an o…
Quinta do Arneiro
Quinta do Arneiro is a certified organic farm in Azueira, Mafra, producing a wide variety of vegetables, fruit, and bread, delivered weekly …
Fruta Feia CRL
Fruta Feia CRL is a Portuguese cooperative founded in November 2013 that rescues 'ugly' fruits and vegetables from going to waste, distribut…
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.