✨ Welcome to the new moon cycle!

We are shifting into autumn: cooler days, warm sunshine, the smell of harvest in the air. A season of transition, reflection, and new beginnings.

One place left for Olive Harvest Week 2025
1–8 November 2025
Spend a week on the mountain borderlands, immersed in olive harvest rituals and queer community connection. A unique mix of work, learning, and celebration. Apply now before the last space is gone!

2026 Gatherings – save your dates:

• Spring Work Week
  6–11 April 2026
  Shake off winter and step into spring energy. We’ll reawaken the land together: sowing, planting, tending, and dreaming up the new season. A chance to connect deeply with the farm, with yourself, and with others.

• Ecoqueer Research Week
  29 June – 4 July 2026
  A laboratory of ideas, art, and activism. Explore ecoqueer practices through workshops, discussions, and embodied connection with the land. If you are curious about how queerness, ecology, and creativity intersect, this week is for you.

• Olive Harvest 2026
  1–8 November 2026
  The annual rhythm continues. A week of olive picking, shared meals, and celebration. Join us in shaping oil, stories, and memories in this wild borderland.

Volunteering at the Quinta

Winter is a magical time here: the land is alive with shifting light, evenings are cosy by the fire, and days bring both quiet work and shared creativity.

You’ll be part of:

Re-establishing the vegetable gardens for spring abundance

Developing the land design guided by permaculture principles

Planting a new, experimental vineyard with biodiversity at its heart, not monoculture

Shaping a social and welcoming space for visitors, gatherings, and fellow volunteers

It’s a chance to learn, contribute, and live ecoqueer spirit in practice.

More information is available here!

Ecoqueer Essentials

This season, we invite you to revisit one of the foundational texts of ecoqueer thought:
Tim Morton – Queer Ecology (2010)

A seminal essay exploring how queerness unsettles ecological thinking and opens new ways of imagining our place in the world. Essential reading for anyone drawn to the intersection of queer life and ecological practice.

That’s all for now. If any of this sparks your curiosity, or if you’d like to join us for a gathering, volunteer stay, or just a conversation, I’d love to hear from you.

Reach out with any questions or ideas - I’m always glad to connect.

Abraços,
Stephan