Quinta do Vale

Quinta do Vale is a family-run permaculture smallholding of around 2 hectares in the mountains of Central Portugal. It's in the early stages of transformation from a somewhat neglected traditionally-cultivated farm to a permaculture demonstration and education site to include water-retention landscaping, forest gardens, no-till raised beds, medicinal gardens, off-grid renewable power generation, waste recycling, indigenous forest restoration, natural buildings, passive solar greenhouses and various land-based crafts. Our steeply-terraced mountainside landpresents some challenging constraints to permaculture landscaping and design so our particular emphasis is ondesigning to the existing microclimatic variationsacross the site.