João Rodrigues, founder Projecto Matéria
"The greatest wealth of any people or culture is people
"Yacon production is available here in November and April.The work is all executed manually, from planting to harvesting. Only irrigation is automated,"
António Eduardo feels good with a cutlass in his hand to make steaks of a piece of aged calf beef or so traditional fighting bull of the region.
Our focus are the producers that are passionately committed with what they do. They are the keepers of the land, well fare and knowledge. They are the ones who will make all of this endure through time.
Apples are the girls to his eyes, who shine when you speak of them: "It is a unique apple, in taste and aroma: just put 5 or 6 apples into a basket that perfumes a whole house."
During her childhood, Joana Macedo felt that Quinta do Poial was a kind of "favorite brother" of her mother, Maria José Macedo. She had, therefore, "a somewhat conflicted relationship" with the farm. Maria José had left a business career in Paris in the 80's to become a farmer in Azeitão, at a time when biological was just an expression of Nature Science books.