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Quinta das AbelhasMountain restoration smallholding · 8 ha

Quinta das Abelhas

Cortiço, Serra da Estrela, Portugal

Set against Portugal's highest mountains, this rustic quinta is reviving terraced land and tending a growing apiary. Its name means 'farm of the bees', and pollinators are at the centre of everything happening here.

Projects this land needs

Open opportunities for a teacher residency to take on.

  • Expand the apiary and build new top-bar hives
  • Replant pollinator forage along the stone terraces
  • Rebuild a collapsed dry-stone terrace wall

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