João Rodrigues, founder Projecto Matéria
"The greatest wealth of any people or culture is people
At Quinta do Fojo, in Marco de Canaveses, vegetables are not measured by the palms.
Bio Kairós started in 2017, with 1.2 hectares, at Quinta de São Gonçalo, in Ponta Delgada. Today, it has over 7.8 hectares of land in the municipality of Lagoa. The objective? Foster social inclusion and give the inhabitants of the São Miguel Island what the land can biologically give.
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.
Joaquim Arnaud's story could give a full book, but we are still halfway there. From vineyards and wine to ham and pork from Alentejo, passing through the said pork sausages much remains to be said about this man who, at the age of 18, decided - as they used to say - to drop out of school and dedicate to farming in one of the family properties.
The Barrosã Meat is a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) product, that is “unique and distinguished from all the others, the result of the combination of several specific factors, namely the pure breed of animals - Barrosã breed -, as well as the environmental and human factors associated with the production of this meat”, explains Albano Álvares, president of CAPOLIB - Cooperativa Agro Rural de Boticas.