CCBio – Centro de Competências da Agricultura Biológica
CCBio is a national competence centre based in Serpa that supports organic farming through research, technical guidance and partnerships acr…
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
Quinta do Mitra
Quinta do Mitra is a certified organic farm in Arco de São Jorge, Madeira, growing vegetables, aromatic and medicinal plants, and subtropica…
O Rapaz da Quinta
O Rapaz da Quinta is a certified organic farm in Leça do Balio run by Tiago Ferreira, delivering fresh fruit and vegetable baskets to homes …
Vilar da Monteirinha
A family-led project in the village of Sonim, Trás-os-Montes, growing certified organic blueberries, strawberries and currants while regener…
Peneda Eco Farm
A certified organic family farm and ecotourism project near the Peneda-Gerês National Park in northern Portugal, offering B&B accommodation,…
Atelier Terra Viva
Quinta Terra Viva is an agroecological farm in Baião growing a wide variety of certified organic seasonal vegetables, using soil regeneratio…
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.