Quinta da Caria
Quinta da Caria is a pedagogical organic farm in Torres Vedras producing biological aromatic herbs, fruits and vegetables through agroforest…
Syntropic Farming
Syntropic agriculture builds dense food forests in successive layers. Terra Sintrópica in Mértola uses it to turn dry Alentejo land into productive ecosystems.
Projects in this focus
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…
Quinta Kania
Quinta Kania is an ecological permaculture homestead in Tábua, central Portugal, offering courses, workshops, farm tours, and hands-on natur…
Ekogaio
Ekogaio is a Portuguese agro-regenerative collective based in Tomar that designs and implements permaculture, agroforestry, and regenerative…
Syntropic farming in Portugal
Syntropic agriculture plants dense, layered systems and manages them by pruning, the cuttings feed the soil, and the planting is designed to move through successive stages the way a forest does. It came from Brazil, via Ernst Götsch, and it is being adapted to a Mediterranean climate that is far drier than the one it was developed in.
Terra Sintrópica works in Mértola, on some of the driest land in the Alentejo, which makes it a useful test of whether the method travels.
Courses and demonstration plots are central to how the method is shared here. The agroforestry and regenerative agriculture focuses sit closest to it. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.