Pela Terra
Pela Terra is a regenerative agriculture investment fund in the Alentejo that restores farmland such as olive groves and almond orchards, an…
Regenerative Agriculture
Quinta Vale da Lama near Lagos and Monte da Vida's forest farm use farming to rebuild soil. Their work links productive land with ecological recovery.
Projects in this focus
Quinta Maravilha
Quinta Maravilha is an agroecological farm near Palmela, founded in 2017, that grows organic vegetables and distributes them through a CSA/A…
Sintropia Temperada
Sintropia Temperada is a regenerative farm in Palmela that grows food in syntropic agroforestry consortia while restoring soil and water cyc…
Regenerative agriculture in Portugal
Regenerative agriculture measures itself by what happens to the soil rather than by what stays off it. In Portugal that means organic matter, water infiltration and ground cover through the dry months, on land that in much of the country has been losing all three for a century.
Quinta Vale da Lama near Lagos combines regeneration with training. Monte da Vida runs a forest farm. Both are among the projects making the case that the approach pays economically as well as ecologically, which is the argument that decides whether neighbours copy it.
Several run courses and take volunteers. The syntropic farming, agroforestry and holistic grazing focuses cover the specific methods most often used here. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.