Mellow Cogumelo
Mellow Cogumelo is an off-grid permaculture project in the Alentejo combining a gourmet mushroom farm with a mobile Neapolitan pizzeria, all…
Permaculture
Permaculture found fertile ground in Portugal, from Várzea da Gonçala's smallholding in the western Algarve to Terra Alta's courses near Sintra. Design with nature, learn by doing, and visit the places where it works.
Projects in this focus
Monte da Luz Dourada
Monte da Luz Dourada is a French-American family homestead and nature reserve in Alentejo, Portugal, combining permaculture, natural health …
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…
Quinta Ecosophia
Quinta Ecosophia is a permaculture farm in Colares, Portugal, hosting volunteers, concerts, talks and cultural gatherings centred on sustain…
Oasis dos 3 Sobreiros
Oasis dos 3 Sobreiros (also known as Oasis des 3 Chênes) is a permaculture garden and eco-living project in São Francisco da Serra, Portugal…
Florestas de Iroko
Florestas de Iroko is a regenerative polyculture company based in the Alentejo that designs, implements, and manages productive agroforestry…
Projecto Agroecológico do Soajo
Projecto Agroecológico do Soajo is a community initiative in the Peneda-Gerês National Park promoting agroecology, permaculture training and…
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…
Encosta do Paço
Encosta do Paço is a permaculture and environmental education project on a biodynamic wine estate near Arcos de Valdevez, in the Minho regio…
Monchique Homestead (Terra do Milho)
Monchique Homestead is a self-sufficient organic farm in the Serra de Monchique, Algarve, growing vegetables and raising chickens and goats …
Soil & Sea
Soil & Sea is a permaculture farm and retreat centre on the island of São Miguel, Azores, offering retreats, consultancy, education, and com…
CATCH Permaculture
CATCH (Centro de Arte, Tecnologia e Criatividade Humana) is a family-run initiative based in Porto Brandão, Portugal, combining permaculture…
Horta Cá de Casa
Horta Cá de Casa is a family-run ecological farming project in the Azores that teaches and practices permaculture, syntropic farming and agr…
Associação Nascentes de Luz
Associação Nascentes de Luz is a non-profit family support organisation in Maceira, Leiria, that combines social care with a large-scale per…
Peneda Eco Farm
Peneda Eco Farm is a certified organic family farm and ecotourism project located near Peneda-Gerês National Park, offering B&B accommodatio…
Lalaland Family Farm
Lalaland Family Farm is a family-oriented regenerative farm in Portugal built on permaculture principles, offering outdoor activities, works…
Keela Permaculture Farm
Keela Permaculture Farm is an off-grid, 18-hectare certified organic homestead in Fundão, central Portugal, offering hands-on courses in Per…
Atelier Terra Viva
Quinta Terra Viva is an agroecological farm in Baião that produces a wide variety of certified organic seasonal vegetables using soil regene…
Quinta Kania
Quinta Kania is an ecological permaculture homestead in Tábua, central Portugal, offering courses, workshops, farm tours, and hands-on natur…
Quinta Vale da Lama
Quinta Vale da Lama is a 43-hectare regenerative organic farm near Lagos, Portugal, producing certified organic fruits and vegetables while …
Herdade do Freixo do Meio
Herdade do Freixo do Meio is a protected agroecological estate in Montemor-o-Novo, Alentejo, combining organic food production, biodiversity…
Várzea da Gonçala
Várzea da Gonçala is a 7.5-hectare permaculture smallholding near Aljezur in the western Algarve, developed over 18 years into a thriving fo…
Ekogaio
Ekogaio is a Portuguese agro-regenerative collective based in Tomar that designs and implements permaculture, agroforestry, and regenerative…
Permaculture in Portugal
Permaculture arrived in Portugal with the people who came looking for cheap land and long growing seasons, and it stayed because the design problems here are real ones: thin soil, hard summer rain that runs off instead of soaking in, and five dry months to plan around. Swales, keyline design and water retention landscapes get used here because they have to be.
Várzea da Gonçala works a smallholding in the western Algarve. Terra Alta teaches courses near Sintra. Between them sit farms, land projects and design practices at every scale, several of which run the full Permaculture Design Certificate.
If you want to learn rather than read, the project pages list who teaches and who takes volunteers, and our events calendar carries the courses with dates attached. Related focuses: regenerative agriculture, syntropic farming and agroforestry.