The mosaic of the Montado

Montado do Freixo do Meio offers organic and institutional particularities that make up its identity, assuming as a point of departure the need to go back to a pristine look over the importance of the land. ¹

Montado do Freixo do Meio has at its core a complex structure and this it allows a field of vision where multiple building block interact, unfolding into various vectors. From the land to the people, from agricultural to economic, from technological to scientific. ²

^{1 2} Janeira, Ana Luísa (2020). Semeio no Vento com o Montado do Freixo do Meio.

The Vectors of
Montado do Freixo do Meio

Montado do Freixo do Meio in numbers

The fundamental principles, which we daily aim to fulfil at Herdade do Freixo do Meio

584,67 hectares of total area
1780: The year Monte do Freixo was built
5000 A.C.: Age of menhir and Neolithical monuments
+ 1000 years: Time Olive Tree
1997: Year we began changing into organic mode
30 years without chemicals, pesticides, and herbicides
3 hectares of organic and biodynamic vineyards with 5 Portuguese varieties (Trincadeira, Aragonês, Tinta Caiada, Touriga Nacional e Touriga Franca)
40 mil bushes and trees planted between 2018 and 2020
13 hectares of new vineyard: Agroforest "Olive grove – fig grove – vineyard"
105,09 hectares of "New Montado" forested area
414,22 hectares in Natura 2000 network

51,75 tons of CO2 captured by hectare
100 ton of living soil per hectare. (Approximately 60 000 tons of living soil over around 600 hectares)
60-70% of energy autonomy through renewables, and 59 tons of CO2 avoided by the Solar Village
938 species on the catalog of Naturdata portal
12 microfactories for production on site of 370 food products, 12 of which acorn products
3 celebration feasts. Autumn Gathering, Spike Gathering and Acorn Gathering
8000 visitors yearly
168 coproducer families on the Crop Sharing CSA Program
30 workers from several nationalities
9 autochthonous domesticated species (egg producing hens, free range chicken, cows, horses, donkeys, pigs, sheep, goats and turkeys)

The mosaic of the Montado

The Vectors of Montado do Freixo do Meio

LANDSCAPE

NATURAL WEALTH

HUMAN FACTORS

BUILT ELEMENTS

PROJECTS

RESULTS

Montado do Freixo do Meio in numbers

The Vectors of
Montado do Freixo do Meio