MiniCasas Portugal
MiniCasas Portugal is a Caldas da Rainha-based company that hand-crafts tiny houses, gypsy caravans, hobbit houses, yurts and camper van con…
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Schist villages, serra forests and some of the country's most hands-on regeneration work: MONTIS restoring native woodland, ecovillages like Quinta do Vale da Páscoa and Loura, carbon-negative building at Cânhamor, and revived places like Cerdeira in the Serra da Lousã. Central Portugal is where land is affordable and the work is visible.
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Associação Passivhaus Portugal
Associação Passivhaus Portugal (PHPT) is a non-profit association based in Ílhavo that promotes the Passive House building standard in Portu…
ALGAplus
ALGAplus is a Portuguese company in Ílhavo that has farmed organic seaweed on land since 2012, using an Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture…
Casa de Mouraz
Casa de Mouraz is a family wine estate in Mouraz, Tondela, growing organic and biodynamic vines across 25 hectares in the Dão region. Certif…
AREAC – Agência Regional de Energia e Ambiente do Centro
AREAC is a non-profit regional energy and environment agency based in Miranda do Corvo, founded in 2003 by municipalities in Portugal's Cent…
Awakened Forest Project
Awakened Forest Project is a reforestation and landscape restoration initiative in the Serra do Açor, working to transform former pine monoc…
Guarda Rios Ecovillage
Guarda Rios Ecovillage is a young ecovillage on 24 hectares beside the River Mondego, near Nelas, Viseu, started in 2022. Four resident memb…
BLC3 – Campus de Tecnologia e Inovação
BLC3 is a non-profit research and innovation association based in Oliveira do Hospital, with hubs in Alfândega da Fé and Ourique, focused on…
Tiny Living Club
Tiny Living Club offers tiny houses, container homes and land plots for sale or rent near a lake in Tábua, Portugal, alongside a community p…
Mata Nacional do Bussaco
Mata Nacional do Bussaco stewards the Buçaco National Forest, a centuries-old woodland in Luso, Portugal, offering guided tours and artisana…
Faixas Vivas
Faixas Vivas is a Portuguese movement of NGOs, companies and citizens pushing to reform fire-prevention rules so they preserve native vegeta…
Milvoz – Associação de Proteção e Conservação da Natureza
Milvoz is a nature conservation association based in Coimbra that manages a network of Bio-Reservas protecting native forest and biodiversit…
Associação NATIVA – Natureza, Invasoras e Valorização Ambiental
NATIVA is a Portuguese association based in Coimbra dedicated to fighting invasive species, especially the Asian hornet, through information…
Lógica Bio Coop
Lógica Bio Coop is a cooperative based near Fundão and Idanha-a-Nova, Castelo Branco district, connecting people, farms and territories arou…
Converge Cooperativa da Cova da Beira
Converge Cooperativa da Cova da Beira is a citizen-led integral cooperative in central Portugal working on regenerative economy, participato…
Farol do Colibri
Farol do Colibri is a cooperative farm (CRL) near Viseu, in conversion to organic farming and run along permaculture lines. It also hosts oc…
Humus Wines
Humus Wines is an organic wine producer based at Quinta do Paço, near Caldas da Rainha, known for its sulphite-free Humus Tinto. The project…
SerQ – Centro de Inovação e Competências da Floresta
SerQ is a scientific and technological association based in Sertã that drives research, development and innovation for the forestry and wood…
T'Inspirar Cooperativa Integral
T'Inspirar is a multisectorial cooperative based in Tomar that brings together producers and consumers around sustainable living, education,…
Mesa Silvestre
Mesa Silvestre is a cultural association and a laboratory for local experimentation in Monsanto, Idanha-a-Nova. Through cultural and communi…
Project Kamp
Project Kamp is a research community near Santa Comba Dão, Portugal, prototyping sustainable building, energy and food systems and sharing e…
Quinta Travancinha
Quinta Travancinha is an intentional community on an 11-hectare property near Travancinha, Guarda, built up since 2015 around shared living,…
SunEnergy
SunEnergy is a Portuguese company with over 15 years of experience providing solar panel installation, battery storage, energy efficiency an…
BioLiving – Associação para a Conservação da Natureza
BioLiving is a Portuguese environmental NGO based in Albergaria-a-Velha, founded in 2016, working on ecological restoration, environmental e…
iNature – Turismo de Natureza
iNature is a nature tourism network covering 12 classified natural areas in Central Portugal, with trails, accommodation and outdoor experie…
Aldeias do Xisto
Aldeias do Xisto is a territorial network of 28 schist villages in central Portugal, managed by ADXTUR, offering sustainable tourism, nature…
Casa dos Sonhos Yurts
Casa dos Sonhos Yurts is a family-run enterprise based in the Portalegre district of Portugal that handcrafts self-supporting yurts using lo…
Growers
Growers is a digital platform and app connecting people to regenerative hosts, communities and off-grid projects across Portugal for stays, …
Silveira Tech Re_generation Village
Silveira Tech is a regenerative village project reviving abandoned villages and 230 hectares of forest in Serra da Lousã, Portugal, combinin…
Green2You
Green2You is a bulk grocery store in Coimbra offering organic, ecological and zero-waste products, from food to eco-friendly detergents and …
Lousitânea – Liga de Amigos da Serra da Lousã
Lousitânea is a non-profit association based in the schist village of Aigra Nova, Góis, dedicated to conserving and promoting the natural an…
Solar Hands
Solar Hands is a Lisbon-based solar engineering company designing, installing and maintaining solar PV and battery storage systems for homes…
Living Seeds Sementes Vivas
Living Seeds Sementes Vivas is a Portuguese company based in Idanha-a-Nova that produces and sells certified organic and biodynamic, open-po…
Bee Serra da Estrela
Bee Serra da Estrela is a regenerative project in Manteigas that combines syntropic agriculture, forest restoration and nature-based tourism…
Eco Vale Feridouro
Eco Vale Feridouro is a collective living in Feridouro, Águeda, dedicated to holistic regeneration of land, people and ecosystems around the…
The Riverside Community
The Riverside Community is a grassroots family project in Central Portugal dedicated to land restoration, eco-building, and creating a self-…
CECOLAB - Collaborative Laboratory Towards Circular Economy
CECOLAB is a private non-profit collaborative laboratory based in Oliveira do Hospital, dedicated to research and innovation in the circular…
Cabaz da Grela
Cabaz da Grela is an agroecology project based at Quinta da Grela, in Pessegueiro do Vouga, offering certified organic seasonal produce boxe…
EcoXperience / EcoX
EcoXperience (EcoX) is a Coimbra-based company founded in 2016 that upcycles used cooking oil into biodegradable liquid detergents and soaps…
Hortas da Rainha
Hortas da Rainha is a regenerative and organic farm near Torres Novas, growing produce through agrosilvopastoral systems and supplying gastr…
Biofrade
Biofrade is a family-run Portuguese company producing and selling organic food, with shops and a vegetarian grocery-café across the Lourinhã…
Carvalhal (RH Florestal)
Carvalhal is a 220-hectare forest property near Penha Garcia, Idanha-a-Nova, managed by RH Florestal since 2019, combining cork oak, holm oa…
Aldeias de Pedra – Construções
Aldeias de Pedra – Construções is a natural construction company in Vila de Rei that restores traditional buildings and brings in modern com…
Food4Sustainability CoLAB
Food4Sustainability CoLAB is a Portuguese non-profit collaborative laboratory working on innovation in sustainable and regenerative food pro…
Bambual Portugal
Bambual Portugal is a publishing house in Arruda dos Vinhos that focuses on books about regeneration, sustainability, ancestral wisdom and a…
Bruga
Bruga is a Portuguese urban planting brand that helps people grow their own food at home and turn ordinary gardens into productive, edible s…
Horta do Pé Descalço
A small, family-run organic market garden in Caldas da Rainha that has grown over 6.5 tonnes of vegetables in a single year, across 65 varie…
Reserva do Vale Velho
On a 100-hectare former farm in the Serra da Estrela Natural Park, Reserva do Vale Velho combines organic farming, rewilding and archaeology…
Quinta Regadinha
A natural, family-run farm near Gouveia, in the Serra da Estrela, bringing life back to a hidden valley and producing organic products.
Vale do Rodrigo
A small permaculture farm in Ferreira do Zêzere. It uses no-dig, pesticide-free methods to produce weekly vegetable boxes, potted medicinal …
Ecocentro Raiz4
Ecocentro Raiz4 is a research centre in Castelo Branco, Portugal, working on permaculture, bioconstruction and sustainability. It combines t…
PRIO Biocombustíveis
PRIO Biocombustíveis produces biodiesel at the Port of Aveiro, with capacity for 113,880 tonnes a year, to a standard that exceeds European …
Quinta da Caria
Quinta da Caria is a pedagogical organic farm in Torres Vedras that grows biological aromatic herbs, fruit and vegetables using agroforestry…
The Loop Co.
The Loop Co. is a Portuguese group of companies that began as a University of Coimbra spin-off. It develops circular economy platforms such …
Projeto A Nossa Terra
A family project going back several generations near Leiria, Pombal and Figueira da Foz, growing food with regenerative, no-dig, chemical-fr…
Hoooked Portugal
Hoooked Portugal, based in Zibreira, Torres Novas, makes 100% recycled yarn from fashion industry waste. Its yarns are for crochet, knitting…
Mount of Oaks
Mount of Oaks (Monte dos Carvalhos) is a small, self-organising intentional community and permaculture farm on 5 hectares of terraced land n…
Eco Aldeia PERMALOGICA
Eco Aldeia PERMALOGICA is a family-led eco-project in Tábua, Portugal, working towards becoming a permaculture-based intentional community. …
Spirala Ecovillage
A regenerative camping site and eco-hub on 10.4 hectares in São Miguel de Acha, Castelo Branco District, offering community living, workshop…
Quinta Vale Do Tourão
A 38-hectare organic farm in Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, run by the Lourenço family since the 1960s, produces almonds and sheep's milk and …
Inland Portugal
A licensed travel agency running slow, small-group trips through Portugal's rural interior, where travellers meet artisans and farmers and v…
Casa das Palmeiras
Casa das Palmeiras is a sustainable rural tourism farmhouse in Gandufe, Mangualde, in the Serra da Estrela, with a pedagogical farm, animal-…
Terra Sã
Terra Sã is a Portuguese company in Covilhã specialising in organic, agro-ecological food products.
Slow Water Earth
Slow Water Earth helps landowners, farmers and restoration projects in Portugal and Southern Europe design and build water retention systems…
Sterna - Aveiro Ria Tours & Birdwatching
Sterna is a nature tourism company running silent, solar-powered boat tours and birdwatching trips across the Ria de Aveiro. Its trips pair …
Isatour Ecotourism
Isatour is a Biosphere-certified provider of rural accommodation and tourist activities in Adsamo, Vouzela, inside the Vouga-Caramulo Natura…
NOMEDA
A small wine producer in the Mêda highlands of the Douro Superior, making single-variety, minimal-intervention wines through regenerative vi…
Orgo | Regenerative Biology Management
Orgo is a regenerative agriculture advisory service in Castelo Branco, Portugal. It helps farmers move to regenerative practices through far…
O Fojo Permaculture | Integral Education Center
O Fojo, founded in 2009, is one of the first permaculture projects in central Portugal. It is now growing into an Integral Education Center …
Guardiãs da Natureza
Guardiãs da Natureza is a national network of women who act as local catalysts for ecosystem regeneration, biodiversity conservation and sus…
Sementes - Núcleo de Capacitação Pessoal e Comunitária
Sementes is a Centre for Support to Home Education (Centro de Apoio ao Ensino Doméstico) in Torres Novas. It offers children of mixed ages a…
ATO — Associação Terras de Ourondo (Terra Divina)
ATO (Associação Terras de Ourondo) runs retreats, artistic performances, workshops and an itinerant clown school at Terra Divina, in Ourondo…
Debarro Arquitectura
Debarro Arquitectura is an interdisciplinary bio-architecture studio working in Portugal and Argentina. It offers architectural design, natu…
Veredas da Estrela
Veredas da Estrela is a community association founded after the 2022 wildfires destroyed 25% of the Serra da Estrela Natural Park. It works …
100 Aldeias
100 Aldeias is Cleanwatts' programme for bringing renewable energy communities to villages across Portugal. It started in Miranda do Douro i…
CooLabora
A social intervention cooperative based in Covilhã. For 18 years it has worked in Cova da Beira on gender equality and against domestic viol…
Ericas
Ericas is a Portuguese company that handcrafts pet toys from 100% natural heather roots using traditional artisan methods. The toys are dura…
Idanha-à-Vida
Idanha-à-Vida is a large-scale ecological, social and cultural regeneration project covering 1,600 hectares around the historic village of I…
Universo Refazenda
A rural creation and cultural mediation project in Alquerubim, Portugal, that brings together art, memory, agriculture and community to buil…
Pé Descalço
Pé Descalço is a nature-based learning centre in Porto de Mós, Portugal, offering school visits, traditional workshops, weekly community gat…
Rewild the Future
An off-grid community and education hub in a forest valley in central Portugal, working on ecological restoration, Montessori-inspired learn…
Associação Nascentes de Luz
A non-profit family support association in Maceira, Leiria, that combines social care with a large-scale permaculture and regenerative agric…
Folha Verde / Benfeita Ecozone
A bilingual natural education project and intentional eco-community of more than 270 people in the mountains of Benfeita, central Portugal. …
Quinta das Relvas
Quinta das Relvas is a non-profit NGO on a historic farm in Branca, Portugal, running non-formal education in the arts and sustainability th…
Atelier Janela Velha
An upcycling atelier in Torres Vedras, founded by Margarida Vieira, that makes handmade jewellery and slow fashion and restores furniture, a…
Terramadome
A 7-hectare organic, experimental farm near Penamacor, Beira Baixa, with self-built eco-friendly accommodation, workshops on natural constru…
Loural Ecovillage
Loural Ecovillage is a sustainable community and retreat centre in Colmeal, Góis, Portugal, working towards food and energy self-sufficiency…
Ananda Kalyani
Ananda Kalyani is a spiritual based project focused on rural development in Serra da Estrela region, central Portugal, founded more than 10 …
EcoAtivo
EcoAtivo is a nature protection and conservation association in Fundão that works to improve the relationship between people and the environ…
Associação Cabeço Santo
Associação Cabeço Santo is a Portuguese environmental NGO working to restore degraded landscapes on the western slopes of the Serra do Caram…
Quinta da Comenda
A historic agro-wine farm in São Pedro do Sul, certified organic since 1987, offering rural tourism accommodation, nature activities and a S…
Faia Brava – Associação de Conservação da Natureza
Faia Brava - Associação de Conservação da Natureza is a Portuguese environmental NGO with more than 25 years of history, and a pioneer in th…
Keela Permaculture Farm
Keela Permaculture Farm is an off-grid, certified organic homestead of 18 hectares in Fundão, central Portugal, offering hands-on courses in…
The Hide PT
The Hide PT is a co-living and retreat centre in a secluded valley near Oleiros, Central Portugal, with space for creatives, remote workers …
Quinta do Vale da Páscoa (Ecoaldeia do Vale)
Quinta do Vale da Páscoa is a sustainable luxury B&B and working farm in Póvoa de Midões, Tábua, in central Portugal. Eco-accommodation sits…
Vale da Sarvinda
Vale da Sarvinda is an organic farm and sustainable business in Vila Velha de Ródão, combining biological production, renewable energy and w…
Cleanwatts
Cleanwatts is a Portuguese climate technology company that develops, finances and operates solar-powered Energy Communities, so that clean e…
MONTIS – Associação de Conservação da Natureza
MONTIS is a Portuguese environmental NGO founded in 2014 and based in Vouzela, Viseu. It manages 313 hectares across 38 properties in centra…
Herdade Monte Silveira
Herdade Monte Silveira is a farm of more than 700 hectares in Beira Baixa, practising certified organic and regenerative agriculture since 1…
Quinta Kania
Quinta Kania is an ecological permaculture homestead in Tábua, central Portugal, with courses, workshops, farm tours and hands-on natural bu…
Reflorestar Portugal
A non-profit NGO working on ecological regeneration, biodiverse reforestation and agroforestry across Portugal, helping communities restore …
Cerdeira - Home for Creativity
Cerdeira - Home for Creativity is a revived historic schist village in the Serra da Lousã, with EU Eco-Label-certified accommodation, arts a…
Live With Earth
Live With Earth is a Portuguese non-profit association, active since 2012 and formally founded in 2017, working on sustainable development a…
Vida em Transição
Vida em Transição is a family-run eco-project in Esculca, a village in the Serra do Açor, central Portugal, built around conscious living, p…
Terra Agora
Fundação Terra Agora is a Portuguese public-interest foundation working on a land stewardship model in which donated land is permanently pro…
Green Heritage
Green Heritage is a bio-construction company in Portugal that designs and supplies modular eco-home kits made with natural materials such as…
Quinta Das Abelhas
Quinta Das Abelhas is a centre for systemic constellation work and a land regeneration project in Fornos de Algodres, Central Portugal, foun…
Eternal Forest
Eternal Forest is a long-term art and ecology project founded in 2018 by artist and poet Evgenia Emets, working towards a global network of …
Living the Life Portugal
Living the Life Portugal is a family-run quinta near Figueiró dos Vinhos, where Tom, Ros and their children share their home, skills and kno…
Ekogaio
Ekogaio is a Portuguese agro-regenerative collective based in Tomar that designs and implements permaculture, agroforestry, and regenerative…
Rewilding Portugal
Rewilding Portugal is a non-profit association working to make Portugal a wilder place by restoring ecosystems and wildlife corridors, with …
Burel Factory
Burel Factory is a Portuguese brand born in the Serra da Estrela, dedicated to preserving and innovating the traditional burel wool textile …