João Rodrigues, founder Projecto Matéria
"The greatest wealth of any people or culture is people
He started almost 20 years ago, before he was a farmer. Today he wants nothing else, he feels at home in that space. He doesn't plant wheat, he doesn't need to — farmers in the region bring theirs to grind and when there's more, it's already turned into flour.
Forty years ago, when he decided he was going to produce chèvre cheese in his home village of Maçussa, Ribatejo, there was no shortage of people who thought Adolfo Henriques was crazy.
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.
Before being a farmer, João Honório was a beekeeper. He had bees, made his honey, but that was all. The woman, Ruth, "had never planted lettuce".
The relationship of Tiago Fonseca with the sea is not new. For some time he was a surf clothing distributor, with his own shop in Peniche. But ten years ago he changed the boards for the fish.