Quinta da Meia Eira, with 6 ha of agricultural area, is an agrotourism lodging that grows organic farm products that our guests can taste.

When Quinta da Meia Eira started in 1997, all the farmland was used for cattle ranching under an intensive regime of maize production. This system led to a significant level of soil depletion and biodiversity reduction.

Over the past 20 years, we have been maintaining a farm and garden, as well as farm animals and beehives, combining the traditional varieties with many others that we have been experimenting and adapting.

This process of maintenance and innovation never ends! We have planted over 3000 trees and shrubs. Many of these are wind curtains and shelters as the wind can blow strong once in a while. At Quinta da Meia Eira we have nearly 1km of these structures, which also protects orchards and vegetable gardens.

These areas also have a huge importance in the lives of local birds and insects, who reciprocate by providing ecological balance and biodiversity.

The result is an agri-garden certified in organic production by EU standards, where we join agroforestry and permaculture concepts.

The grassland that remains is nowadays conducted under permanent pastureland with reduced livestock. Soil conservation is an important value for us. We have been planting trees across the pastureland in order to provide increased protection to our animals. This is how we feed our cows, without using industrial and outside products. They live on extensive free-herding 365 days a year.

Rainwater is stored and then used in agriculture and livestock, collected from the roofs of buildings and threshing floors, stored in our 3 traditional cisterns. This water is always available for our cows through a gravity-based system, based on the altitude level of the reservoirs.

Ethics in food production and the idea of food self-sufficiency are important values for us.

Essentially, we produce healthy food, in a healthy way! This is what we eat and share with those who visit us!

During the reconstruction of the houses, we only used wood coming from commercial forest plantations in the Azores and the Portuguese mainland.

For furniture and decoration, we restored antiques combined with woods that had been previously used, tributing our heritage and avoiding the new furniture manufacturing and its transportation, therefore creating a unique language of design and inner decoration.

Our outdoor furniture is also made of wood so that we can maintain it every year and avoid using plastic.

We prefer architectural solutions with natural lighting and common areas, as well as efficient aeration and heating systems.