Monte Silveira Bio

Monte Silveira Bio O Monte Silveira é uma exploração agrícola com 680ha em regime biológico desde 1999 que, entre

🌱🐐 🐔 New Project, New Research, New Opportunities! 🔬🎓🚀 On 17 October 2026, we officially launched PROT4REGEN – Protein ...
05/11/2026

🌱🐐 🐔 New Project, New Research, New Opportunities! 🔬🎓

🚀 On 17 October 2026, we officially launched PROT4REGEN – Protein Sources for Regenerative Livestock Farming!

Led by Monte Silveira Farm, together with Instituto Superior de Agronomia 🇵🇹 and SanaTerra 🇪🇸, this three-year project aims to develop sustainable alternatives to imported animal feed.

🌿 Our focus?
✅ Exploring local protein sources, including legumes and microalgae.
✅ Developing sustainable feeding strategies for poultry and native goat breeds.
✅ Connecting soil health, regenerative agriculture, and animal nutrition.
✅ Supporting more resilient and economically viable farming systems.

🎓 And there’s more exciting news!
We are delighted to welcome Shahzaman , who has been awarded a PhD grant from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) to develop his doctoral research at Monte Silveira and ISA, focusing on alternative protein sources and innovative feeding strategies for regenerative livestock production!

💚 This is another important milestone in our commitment to connecting research, education, and regenerative agriculture, where science meets real farming challenges, while creating opportunities for young scientists to develop applied research in real farming environments.

🌱 From research to real farms. From local resources to resilient food systems.

🤝 PROT4REGEN (PL26-00048) is supported by the Promove Programme of the Fundación “la Caixa” Foundation, in collaboration with BPI and the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

🇸🇪 GroundWork General Assembly | Sweden, 21–23 October 2026 🌱🐄Three inspiring days of collaboration, knowledge exchange,...
28/10/2026

🇸🇪 GroundWork General Assembly | Sweden, 21–23 October 2026 🌱🐄

Three inspiring days of collaboration, knowledge exchange, and hands-on learning at the GroundWork General Assembly, hosted by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Alnarp, Sweden!

🌍 Partners from across Europe came together to share progress from the GroundWork Living Labs, discuss fieldwork methodologies, animal welfare assessments, and the next steps towards more sustainable and regenerative livestock farming systems.

🚜 A major highlight was the opportunity to visit three Swedish farms: Nyhovs Gård, Forsby ängar, and Sjövången Angus!

These field visits provided valuable opportunities to connect with local farmers, explore Swedish agricultural systems, exchange practical experiences, and reflect on the opportunities and challenges of integrating soil health, biodiversity, and livestock production.

🌱 From research to real farms! These exchanges are at the heart of GroundWork, connecting scientists, farmers, and stakeholders to co-create practical solutions for healthier soils, more resilient pastures, and sustainable livestock farming.

🤝 A big thank you to SLU, Svensk Kolinlagring, the participating farmers, and all GroundWork partners for the warm welcome, insightful discussions, and inspiring farm visits! All About Soil

🇵🇹 We return to our Beira Interior Living Lab in Portugal with fresh perspectives, new ideas, and renewed motivation to advance regenerative grazing practices!

🌱🔬 From the field to science: Monitoring soil and pasture health in the Beira Interior Living Lab!Over the past few week...
24/10/2026

🌱🔬 From the field to science: Monitoring soil and pasture health in the Beira Interior Living Lab!

Over the past few weeks, the Monte Silveira Farm team, together with researchers from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and the FAST research group from the University of Coimbra, has been conducting an extensive soil and pasture sampling campaign across the GroundWork Beira Interior Living Lab, in Portugal. 🇵🇹

🌾 From soil sampling and compaction assessments to pasture biomass measurements and vegetation surveys, this collaborative fieldwork is helping us establish a scientific baseline to better understand soil health, pasture dynamics and the interactions between livestock and Mediterranean ecosystems.

🔬 These measurements are a crucial first step towards evaluating the impacts of regenerative grazing practices on soil health, biodiversity, pasture productivity and ecosystem resilience.

🤝 GroundWork is all about bringing farmers, researchers and local communities together, combining scientific knowledge with practical farming experience to co-create solutions for healthier soils and more resilient agricultural landscapes.

💚 A big thank you to all the researchers, farmers and team members involved in this campaign. Great science starts in the field, and collaboration is key to turning knowledge into meaningful change!

Healthy soils. Resilient pastures. Regenerative futures. 🌍

🌱 Connecting farms, people and communities through regeneration! 🇵🇹-🇪🇸On 10 October, the Monte Silveira Farm team visite...
17/10/2026

🌱 Connecting farms, people and communities through regeneration! 🇵🇹-🇪🇸

On 10 October, the Monte Silveira Farm team visited La Junquera Farm in Spain, and joined the Festival Raíces del Quípar, organised by the Regeneration Academy

🌾 A wonderful day celebrating regenerative agriculture, rural traditions, biodiversity, local food and, above all, the people working to bring life back to our landscapes.

From exchanging experiences on regenerative grazing and soil health to discovering local products, participating in workshops and connecting with farmers and local communities, the festival showed us that regeneration goes far beyond farming: its also about restoring connections between people, nature and territories. 🌍

🤝 A big thank you to the La Junquera Farm and Regeneration Academy teams for the warm welcome and for creating such an inspiring space for knowledge exchange, collaboration and community engagement.

💚 Different farms, different landscapes, one shared mission: regenerating our soils, ecosystems and rural communities!

The Monte Regen Hub project (Project PL25-00042) is supported by the Promove Programme of the “la Caixa” Foundation, in collaboration with BPI and the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

🌱 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗮𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗮çõ𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘂á𝗿𝗶𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗮 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗮 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿!O projeto europeu GroundWork (All Abo...
13/10/2026

🌱 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗮𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗮çõ𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘂á𝗿𝗶𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗮 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗮 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿!

O projeto europeu GroundWork (All About Soil) lançou uma 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 (link bio) para apoiar agricultores interessados em implementar e testar práticas de pastoreio regenerativo, promovendo a saúde do solo, a biodiversidade e a resiliência das explorações agrícolas.

🇵🇹 Em Portugal, serão selecionadas até 7 explorações agrícolas, que poderão beneficiar de:
💰 Até 27.000 € de apoio financeiro por exploração
📅 36 meses de implementação e acompanhamento
🔬 Apoio técnico e científico, formação e mentoria
🤝 Integração no Beira Interior Living Lab, coordenado pela Herdade Monte Silveira

🐄 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗺 𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗿?
Agricultores e entidades do setor agrícola com explorações pecuárias na Beira Interior (ou até 200 km da Herdade Monte Silveira, Castelo Branco), com animais em pastagem e interesse em testar práticas como pastoreio rotativo e adaptativo, bale grazing, melhoria de pastagens e sistemas silvopastoris.

As explorações selecionadas terão a oportunidade de desenvolver e testar soluções adaptadas às suas condições, com acompanhamento técnico e monitorização dos resultados ao nível do solo, dos animais e do ambiente.

📌 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘇𝗼 𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮: 19 de novembro de 2026, às 14h00 (Portugal)As candidaturas devem ser submetidas em inglês através da plataforma oficial GroundWork.

📢 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗱𝗲 𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼 | 𝟮𝟴 𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗯𝗿𝗼, à𝘀 𝟭𝟲𝗵𝟬𝟬 (𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗹)
Uma sessão para apresentar a Open Call e esclarecer dúvidas sobre os critérios de elegibilidade e o processo de candidatura.

🔗 𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞çõ𝙚𝙨: link bio

📩 Esclarecimentos: [email protected]

🌍 Financiado pelo programa Horizonte Europa (Grant Agreement n.º 101218207), o GroundWork reúne cinco Living Labs europeus para acelerar a transição para sistemas pecuários mais regenerativos e resilientes.

🌱Monte Silveira Farm meets EARA | European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture in Brussels🌱On 29 September, João Valen...
07/10/2026

🌱Monte Silveira Farm meets EARA | European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture in Brussels🌱

On 29 September, João Valente represented Monte Silveira Farm at “Financing the Farm Transition: From Pilots to Practice”, organised by the EARA | European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture in Brussels.

The event brought together farmers, financial institutions, insurers, policymakers and organisations working across Europe to address one of the major challenges facing regenerative agriculture today:

How do we move from successful pilots to financing regenerative farming at scale?

João joined the panel “Insurance Products for Farm Transition”, bringing the farmer perspective into the discussion alongside representatives from Crédit Agricole and CrowdFarming.

For Monte Silveira Farm, participating in these discussions is particularly important. Farmers are already delivering benefits that extend far beyond food production - healthier soils, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, water resilience and more resilient landscapes.

The challenge now is to build financial systems capable of recognising, rewarding and accelerating those outcomes.

A great opportunity to exchange perspectives, build new connections and ensure that farmers remain at the centre of the conversation on how Europe finances its agricultural transition. 🌍🌾

🌱 Connecting people, projects and ideas to boost soil health across Europe 🌱Last week, David Miguel Ribeiro and Diogo Pi...
17/09/2026

🌱 Connecting people, projects and ideas to boost soil health across Europe 🌱

Last week, David Miguel Ribeiro and Diogo Pinho represented Monte Silveira Farm at the Soils for Europe Conference, held at the Universidade de Coimbra from 7–11 September.

🎤 David presented the GroundWork Project (All About Soil ) through the talk “GroundWork – Living Labs to bridge the gap between soil health and livestock integration in grazing systems: the case of Portugal”, sharing how Living Labs can connect research, farmers and practical solutions for healthier soils and more resilient grazing systems.

📊 Diogo presented “Monte Silveira as a lighthouse farm: Co-creating Scalable Soil Health Solutions through Multi-actor Engagement and European Research Networks”, highlighting the work developed through GroundWork and the Monte Regen Hub projects to turn the farm into a space for experimentation, demonstration, knowledge exchange and collaboration.

But conferences are much more than presentations.

They are also about meeting friends and colleagues, creating new connections, exchanging experiences and learning from people working on soil health across Europe.

These moments of networking and knowledge sharing are essential to bridge science and practice, strengthen European collaboration and accelerate the transition towards healthier soils and more resilient farming systems.

🌍🌱Great to be part of this growing European soil community.

🌱 Great to host a group of European farmers at Monte Silveira through the Organic Advice Network, in a visit organised b...
13/09/2026

🌱 Great to host a group of European farmers at Monte Silveira through the Organic Advice Network, in a visit organised by CONSULAI

A great opportunity to exchange experiences on organic and regenerative farming, soil health and biodiversity.

We were also featured in Luomulehti , the magazine of the Finnish Organic Farming Association.

🙌 Thanks for your visit!

🌿 O Monte Silveira no Salva a Terra EcoFestival 2026 🌿Entre conversas, partilhas e encontros inspiradores, a equipa do M...
29/06/2026

🌿 O Monte Silveira no Salva a Terra EcoFestival 2026 🌿
Entre conversas, partilhas e encontros inspiradores, a equipa do Monte Silveira esteve presente no Salva a Terra EcoFestival, em Salvaterra do Extremo, para refletir sobre o território, a paisagem e os caminhos possíveis para uma Beira Baixa mais viva, natural e resiliente.

Participámos em dois momentos muito especiais:
🌾 “Ecos da Paisagem: relações entre a natureza e o homem”
Uma conversa interdisciplinar sobre a paisagem da Beira Baixa, os seus desafios ambientais e sociodemográficos, as transformações dos últimos anos e as oportunidades para regenerar a relação entre as comunidades e a natureza.

🌱 “Quem está a salvar a terra do extremo?”
Um espaço de partilha entre projetos locais com impacto ambiental e educativo, onde tivemos oportunidade de apresentar o nosso trabalho, trocar experiências e reconhecer pontos de encontro com outras iniciativas do território.

Saímos deste festival com novas perguntas, novas ligações e uma certeza reforçada: cuidar da terra faz-se em rede, com escuta, presença e colaboração.

Obrigado à organização, à Quercus, aos projetos participantes e a todas as pessoas que se juntaram a esta conversa sobre o futuro do nosso território. 🤎

🌳 No âmbito do Dia Internacional da Biodiversidade, preparamos um encontro especial dedicado à regeneração, começando po...
14/05/2026

🌳 No âmbito do Dia Internacional da Biodiversidade, preparamos um encontro especial dedicado à regeneração, começando por onde tudo nasce: o solo.
“Regenerar a Biodiversidade desde o Solo” convida à descoberta do papel essencial da vida visível e invisível na construção de ecossistemas mais resilientes.

📍 Herdade Monte Silveira (Castelo Branco)
📅 23 de maio | 09h00
🔗 Link de inscrição na bio

🌿Um momento para inspirar, conectar e refletir sobre como podemos regenerar o território, fortalecendo a relação entre a natureza, a comunidade e o futuro.

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