• Build a food chain that benefits consumers, farmers and the environment, using social innovation tools that help revitalize the family garden.
• Promote the consumption of less caloric foods, as an integral part of the food pyramid of the Mediterranean Diet, in order to reverse the consequences of rural exodus on the eating habits of the Portuguese and their integration into rural development models.
• Consolidate and deepen Innovative Agro-ecological methods and practices, in order to ensure a diet in organic production mode, so that consumers can make healthier and more sustainable food choices.

• Mediterranean diet: vegetable garden species and nutritional value.
• Soil management practices to favor water saving systems in family gardens.
• Awareness raising for an efficient management of organic garden and household waste. Streamline and optimize the composting process in family gardens.
• Agroecological practices for greater plant health in the family garden.
• Family garden: employment in an inclusive society.
• Promote the consumption of products from family gardens through the implementation of short marketing chains with guarantee of origin and authenticity.
• The products of the family garden. What differentiates them for better?
• Project management, coordination and project monitoring.
• Training, dissemination and demonstration activities.

Agenda “Future Earth”:
BIOLOGICAL GARDEN: More than 50% of the agricultural area in sustainable production:

• 25% of agricultural production in organic mode, using more effective and efficient soil resources, water, nutrients and biodiversity;
• 500 organic farmers;
• 15 vegetable varieties to be recovered and preserved outside the country;
• Zero use of pesticides in the family garden;
• Reduce water consumption in vegetable gardens by 40%;
• Increase community composting by 20%.

INCLUSIVE GARDEN: Install 80% of new young farmers in low-density territories:

• 400 farmers in project actions;
• 12 citizen awareness actions;
• Valuing the role of rural women.

HORTA SOCIAL: Increase by 20% the level of adherence to DM.

• 15 garden products tested in post-harvest conditions;
• 100% garden products with QR code to encourage the creation of short marketing chains;
• Train horticulturists using new technologies, including the digital Field Notebook;
• 10 Demonstration activities in high school and university canteens (target to be reached > 100 schools in the country).