Algarve farm revives pressed fig bar and the pooled-export model behind it

Quinta da Fornalha, a family farm in the Algarve since 1770, has launched an organic pressed-fig bar with roasted almonds and lemon zest, no added sugar, echoing the compressed blocks once shipped to northern Europe. The farm also pools fresh organic figs from small growers for export, a practice it says it has run for over 13 years. Its next aim is doing the same with dried figs, since Portugal imported around 1,100 tonnes in 2018 and exported only 116. The product was presented at the Macau International Fair as part of a Portuguese young farmers' delegation.