The green agriculture tour is considered to be an example of farming in Madeira showing in detail the daily life of our farmers from planting to cultivating, our guests can interact and ask all their curious questions directly to the farmers on the land.

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Free cancellation: Cancel up to 24 hours in advance to receive a full refund
Mobile ticketing: Use your phone or print your voucher
Duration 8 hours: Check availability to see starting times.
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Live tour guide: Spanish, Dutch, English, French, German
Pickup included: Pickup from Machico, Santa Cruz, Caniço, or Funchal.
Small group: Limited to 8 participants

Highlights

Visit a banana field in Funchal where one can walk right through the banana fields and watch and learn how things are done
See a family vegetable and fruit farm, one of the biggest in the island, they explain everything from the seeding right to cultivation
Discover a milk cattle farm that provides milk for ones of Madeiras famous cheese
Eat lunch in Porto da Cruz where swimming is possible when weather permits
Explore the famous cheese requeijão factory

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During this excursion, you will be visiting a banana farm in Funchal and seeing how the farmers look after their land by interacting, learning more about the trade. Take the old road to another interesting local family vegetable and fruit farm, that supplies most of the supermarkets in Madeira with their fresh herbs, vegetables and fruits. The unknown cattle farm to many has been in this family for over a hundred years, they provide most of its milk for the making of our famous “requeijão” cheese, and see the old milking techniques. Stop for lunch in Porto da Cruz, sugarcane region, lunch, short walk after lunch and visit the only rum factory in Europe that operates with steam. According to the weather one can swim (bring swimming suites along). After lunch a drive through countryside and a last stop at the cheese “requeijão” factory.

Includes

Hotel pickup and drop-off
Entrances to the farms mentioned

Snacks and coffee

Not suitable for

Wheelchair users

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What to bring

Warm clothing
Comfortable shoes

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4.9 /5

based on 7 reviews

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Lucy is a passionate and talkative guide. She showed and explained everything to us with great energy. You can notice the care and effort that she has put into the creation of this program and the passion she has for showing others the agricultural side of Madeira. We greatly enjoyed seeing this side of Madeira and learned a lot about life on the island - especially that which is not attached to the tourism industry. How bananas and other tropical fruits and vegetables are grown was super interesting for us. We had never seen a banana field nor how fruits are sorted and packed in real life before and now know what it takes for a banana to end up in our supermarket (: The tour is not the cheapest but it's well worth its price: you will see places that you could not see otherwise - and the lunch is also great ;-) We recommend it to anyone who's interested in how food is grown.

October 18, 2021

To do to understand life in Madeira, thank you very much to Lucie

A wonderful day with an extraordinary guide, a visit that met all of our expectations. Excursion for three in one language in excellent French, visiting sites off the beaten track. To do absolutely to understand the economy of Madeira. Many thanks to Lucie

April 18, 2017

March 9, 2019

Funchal Agriculture Green Tour

Funchal Agriculture Green Tour

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To do to understand life in Madeira, thank you very much to Lucie

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