João Rodrigues, founder Projecto Matéria
"The greatest wealth of any people or culture is people
The Suffolk breed, from the homonymous county in England, "appeared, more intensively, about 30 years ago in Portugal," says Francisco Cortês.
The desire to create an autonomous agricultural project”, led Pedro Martins da Costa to grow green asparagus in 2018, together with his wife Sara Taveira, on a property located in São Torcato, Guimarães. In 2022 it will be the fourth harvest.
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.
“The production of cheese also serves to create work for society, especially for the young people who, today, only know how to do this," says Jan Anema, exemplifying, with his thumbs, the movements made in the mobile phone. "They do not have calluses on their hands. Only at the tips of the fingers."
The pleasure in working with aromatic herbs was brought to Grândola from Hanover (Germany), in 2015. A year later, Rita Pacheco opened the company A Cerquinha, to continue this production, in addition to organic vegetables, to add colour to the baskets sold in the municipality and surroundings.