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Managing Our Syntropic System in Mid-Winter...Removing senescence and start growing early!!
Management of our syntropic agroforestry systems is all about timing an volume.
That is, we need to intervene when there will be a response from the system, there is no point in managing when things are not growing.
At the same time, we need to understand how much volume can we reduce when we intervene, if too little, we will need to get back too soon, if too much, the system may stagnate and take a while to fill up - it can actually go backwards!
Management is an art that requires observation, participation and good decision making process that is rooted in sound theory and based in reality.
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How to Manage a Syntropic Organism based on Reality: not guruship, textbooks or calendars!!
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Syntropic Agroforestry systems are, in my understanding, extremely individualised, not only the design and management must suit the human being behind the forest, but its management must be based on its reality and not on textbooks, guruships or calendar. If we learn to observe, listen and trust our agroforests, then we are in good hands to make appropriately timed management decisions. We, as ...
4.5 Months Old Syntropic System - keeping it moving through winter!
zhlédnutí 560Před měsícem
While it seems that the weather is playing tricks with us, we need to keep our syntropic system in growth mode. Although it is not time to open up and excite things, we also cannot let it go flat and stagnant, therefore it was time to prune the tithonia, crotalaria, jack and castor beans. We also cut the hair of the grass, just to stop its seeding process and hopefully encourage it to put on so...
Managing Placenta 1 in our Syntropic System - Keeping things moving!
zhlédnutí 741Před měsícem
Placenta 1 plants play a vital role in the establishment of our Syntropic systems. They play the pivotal function of rushing off the ground and establishing living conditions after our significant disturbances when preparing the soil and adding amendments. These plants start the metabolisation process of the nutrients we've added, but more importantly, they feed the microbiology that got excite...
3 Months Old Syntropic System - Blooming and Producing!!!
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Our Syntropic system has turn 3 months old... Its looking healthy and resilient, all beds are stable and full of life, so much so that we are now moving into a full bloom!! Unfortunately, in Syntropic Agroforestry, not sure if intentionally or not, there is a war on flowers. The reason for that is when plants start their flowering process, their photosynthetic capacity gets reduced significantl...
Managing Corn in the System - Regeneration over Production...
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It is great to bring short life cycle crops into our systems, as they play a vital role not only in nursing future trees, but more importantly, to bring the human element into the system. However, at times they challenge us in making good decision... and we must be able to make the hard decision of removing it from the system, if they are no longer supporting and in sync with the bigger organis...
10 Weeks Old Syntropic System - Breathing Life...
zhlédnutí 313Před 3 měsíci
There are signs that the season is turning. The rains are not so frequent, the wind is becoming crispier and the days are just gorgeous. While there is still plenty of warmth in the air, soon there will not be much, so whatever gets done now, could have consequences. When we don't know what to do, we go gentle and show up often, the next month will be critic al to keep the system moving, but pr...
Living in Syntropy - a new project showing the realities of a syntropic life
zhlédnutí 319Před 3 měsíci
We are delighted to embark in this new project, where we share our trials and tribulations as we aspire to live a syntropic life. A life that continuously pursue the harmonious evolution of all beings! We hope this will be inspiring to other humans, or simply a place to keep our memories as our syntropic systems and lives evolve. Much love to all www.youtube.com/@LivinginSyntropy-Harmony
Turning a carpark into a productive syntropic veggie bed
zhlédnutí 296Před 4 měsíci
Sometimes all we have to work with is very compacted and rocky soil - like a carpark!! Here I show you how we can work with such scenario to create an abundant syntropic bed, bringing oxygen, nutrients and most importantly life into the ground. www.syntropicgardener.com
The Syntropic Agroforestry Masterclass EXPLAINED
zhlédnutí 3,8KPřed 4 měsíci
The Syntropic Agroforestry Masterclass is the most comprehensive and individually supported online course in the world, and here I explain all about it. If you want to take your life to the next level, then this is it!! Fully supported, so you can do it!! More info: www.syntropicgardener.com/foundation
How to Double Dig a Bed
zhlédnutí 461Před 5 měsíci
How to double dig a bed.... DO IT WELL, DO IT ONCE!! That's my moto in everything I do!! When it comes to making a bed for the creation and evolution of a new living (Syntropic) organism (i.e. Agroforestry System), this becomes even more important, as it will dictate the speed of growth and establishment as well as its resilience. As usual, quality is more important than quantity... and look af...
7/7 Syntropic Principles - Elemental Decision-making
zhlédnutí 600Před rokem
In this final video of the series, I present the Elemental Mandala as a potential tool to help us manage our systems while also allowing us to understand our cognitive process, which just like in Nature, keeps moving from Earth, to Water, to Air, to Fire and to a New Earth. Hope you enjoy, Much love, Victor
Syntropic Challenges and Opportunities
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Its always difficult for me to express what I feel about Syntropic Agroforestry, as it is the most wonderful thing I've ever done, but also the most challenging... So, I've decided to make this video which presents not only on the challenges and opportunities of Syntropics, but also on its strengths and weakenesses. I hope this helps you to understand if Syntropic Ag. is something you would lik...
6/7 Syntropic Principles - Polarities
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By understanding the dynamic forces behind polarities, it is possible to discover the hidden forces in the natural world and how they are moving, which can help us enormously when choosing the best time to manage our syntropic systems. As Steiner have said "We cannot get by without polarities when attempting to imagine the world in terms of dynamic forces...only polarities gives us access to th...
5/7 Syntropic Principles - Decision-Making
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In this 5th video of the Fundamental Principles of Syntropic Agroforestry series I present ideas on how we could make decisions in a more living way, (not so conceptually, or scientifically). By utilising our sensorial, cognitive and imaginative capacities together, we are able to perceive how life is moving through time, and hence determine when and how to intervene (manage). In other words, w...
4/7 Syntropic Principles - Human Participation
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4/7 Syntropic Principles - Human Participation
3/7 Syntropic Principles - Production Principles (Biodiversity, dynamism, process-based)
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3/7 Syntropic Principles - Production Principles (Biodiversity, dynamism, process-based)
2/7 Syntropic Principles - Regeneration Principles (Succession, Stratification and Analogy)
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2/7 Syntropic Principles - Regeneration Principles (Succession, Stratification and Analogy)
1/7 Syntropic Principles - Overview
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1/7 Syntropic Principles - Overview
Syntropic Online Course - Agroforestry Foundations
zhlédnutí 9KPřed rokem
Syntropic Online Course - Agroforestry Foundations
My systems - Matata Hill
zhlédnutí 2,3KPřed 3 lety
My systems - Matata Hill
My Systems - The Root Beds
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My Systems - The Root Beds
My home - overview
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My home - overview
Syntropic Agroforestry Worldview Conceptual Framework
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Syntropic Agroforestry Worldview Conceptual Framework

Komentáře

  • @user-xx2yc2pf3l
    @user-xx2yc2pf3l Před dnem

    Great work! Have the eucalyptus grown 8m in 2 years? Why do they need to be chopped?

  • @helenap8
    @helenap8 Před 8 dny

    It’s looking great! Very good to follow these video updates with all of the details and your thoughts!

  • @gtmunch
    @gtmunch Před 16 dny

    What support role does the casuarina play? Here in Florida they are highly allelopathic.

    • @ainabearfarm8075
      @ainabearfarm8075 Před 16 dny

      Same here in Hawaii. We use them as windbreak but literally nothing grows within their vicinity.

  • @JahJahJahJAHANAM
    @JahJahJahJAHANAM Před 19 dny

    Much Blessings brother, it's a pleasure to connect through this very well explained video. Thank you for sharing, it's a big oppurtunity for the people to actually feel syntropic!

  • @jkochosc
    @jkochosc Před 20 dny

    Who are these lazy gurus who say you can have success without working all the time??

  • @D.I.Y.G
    @D.I.Y.G Před 21 dnem

    Watching with joy! Thank you sir!🤙

  • @growback7980
    @growback7980 Před 22 dny

    Great to see your system and how you are interacting with it! It's an absolutely beautiful place where you ended up !! Keep up the good work. Greetings from Portugal

  • @tomatito3824
    @tomatito3824 Před 22 dny

    "Create chaos, then organize" That's very wise, thank you! 😁

  • @OffGridHawaii
    @OffGridHawaii Před 23 dny

    Great info, mahalo for sharing

  • @Floridamanfoodforest
    @Floridamanfoodforest Před 23 dny

    my small back yard has been my training grounds and its amazing how productive a small space can be

  • @mena2138
    @mena2138 Před 23 dny

    Managing every month its best, not in everyone posibbilities, pruning the system every 3 months its the very minimum if you take this serious. I would have left the crotalaria keep pushing seeds if I needed them, not a big difference in the whole system IMO. I would have planted as you said it could have been, every species in his straight line, putting 2 species max in the same line, so the speed of management its superior, you could have different lines In the same tree line. Have you thought of using canabbis ? Whats your opinion of physalis as your main product under papayas and leucaennas?

    • @Artur-d8u
      @Artur-d8u Před 23 dny

      What do you mean by different lines in the same tree line?

    • @mena2138
      @mena2138 Před 22 dny

      @@Artur-d8u lets say tree line its 80cm wide, inside that treeline every 20cm 1 line, so 5 lines with for example 2 species per line every 30-40cm one being light lover (corn, turnips, radishes, lettuce, broadbeans...) and the other shade lover (spanich, chard, cucumber, pepper, pumpkin, betroot...) you have nice to sell and eat and some biomass, if you need to focus on early biomass you need to change the species or just use this species for mainly biomass instead of selling.

    • @Artur-d8u
      @Artur-d8u Před 22 dny

      @@mena2138 sounds like interesting idea. You coul also plant different tree species in each of these lines. I had a dream once in which I had wide tree lines (about a meter) densely packed with young tall trees. Something like Miyawaki forests but denser and planted in rows. I think this way the trees could grow even faster.

    • @mena2138
      @mena2138 Před 22 dny

      @@Artur-d8u Yeah man, atleast one of those lines should have trees, mainly the center one and maybe in the outer some fast ones. Talking about Miyawaki I planted next to Projecto Caimito you can search him in youtube the biggest miyawaki forest of the mediterranean.

    • @Artur-d8u
      @Artur-d8u Před 22 dny

      @@mena2138 interesting. I'm also building a farm in andalusia, but on a much smaller scale

  • @SteveNoverini
    @SteveNoverini Před 23 dny

    Phenomenal

  • @SteveNoverini
    @SteveNoverini Před měsícem

    I love the species blend.

  • @SteveNoverini
    @SteveNoverini Před měsícem

    I love your unique support species.

  • @abeljones7900
    @abeljones7900 Před měsícem

    Just beautiful work. Thank you so so much for sharing your journey. These videos are priceless to me.

  • @milanliam9979
    @milanliam9979 Před měsícem

    What do you use to cut the grasses in the pathways, strimmer?

  • @patrickmcgillable
    @patrickmcgillable Před měsícem

    Beautiful! Which country?

  • @mischaksteincke6555
    @mischaksteincke6555 Před měsícem

    Beautifully Designed! Where is your site located and what aspect is the slope?

  • @hostalquitocultural8429
    @hostalquitocultural8429 Před měsícem

    Al volver mis ojos a la naturaleza, me doy cuenta, que con Ella soy abundancia¡¡¡ Gracias hermoso video e inspirador, si pudieran poner letras en español, gracias

  • @99sclark
    @99sclark Před měsícem

    This is amazing. Very helpful. Thank you

  • @jimmyaurora7
    @jimmyaurora7 Před měsícem

    Interesting comment in the description about the placenta 1 often being done with hungry food crops and leaving the soil bare. In our mediterranean climate we have Borago Officinalis as a placenta 1 that is not so demanding, I'm still looking for others as the current one we have (sunflowers, corn, fava/broad beans...) can struggle in the more challenging conditions.

  • @NathanielKenaston
    @NathanielKenaston Před měsícem

    Animals are always a difficulty! Here in Ghana we are having serious problems with the neighborhood goats and sheep which free range!

  • @gaiaashram6711
    @gaiaashram6711 Před měsícem

    Thanks for your video. Very interesting and will look at your other video too. Do you ever go to Thailand?

  • @gaiaashram6711
    @gaiaashram6711 Před měsícem

    Since entropy is the tendency towards death, whereas syntropy is the tendency towards life, living systems in order to sustain themselves need to minimize entropy and to maximize syntropy. When entropy is high crises are experienced. When entropy is low crises diminish and wellbeing is experienced. I would argue both are equally relevant and part of our living systems. Death and life are essential for both. I guess it is about balance and everything has to go out of balance to go into balance. Putting value on it might cause some problem as it becomes a human preference.

  • @SandwichKing-lj4ej
    @SandwichKing-lj4ej Před 2 měsíci

    Nice garden but in my area a large deer herd mows down everything not netted. I can’t eat the deer fast enough, they are like a horde.

  • @alentjes
    @alentjes Před 2 měsíci

    Very good, very good. Just from a conceptual elemental / alchemical perspective, on the left board I'd put Soil where you put the Plant and then the plant becomes the fifth transcendent element. That connects more with the tree as being the vertical, layered higher dimensional element that you speak of. Then on the right I'd switch over Earth and Water to make the elemental Mandala 'correct' and I wouldn't put the Human in the centre but the Plant. We benefit from the plant but we are its guardian, as one of your commenters says: we are a guest in the garden. Anyway, it is hard enough to make people consider Syntropic farming so to then also not see ourselves as the centre of the system is perhaps a step too far - but it is ultimately what we are saying here. It is a Synergy, hence Syntropic. A correlative system, not a causative system, that we shape and benefit from but that doesn't revolve around us - we just happen to shape it to optimise it for consumption and management.

  • @Inspiraoflove
    @Inspiraoflove Před 2 měsíci

    Greetings brother ! Im happy I found your creations... Me and my partner have a syntropic farm in south america. Lets change whatsapp number and we could "trade" experience with eachother. Blessings

    • @Inspiraoflove
      @Inspiraoflove Před 2 měsíci

      I would really love to know what the little yellow flower is called. I saw el ricino, Mexican sun flower. But the little one I'm not sure...

  • @jobleijh
    @jobleijh Před 2 měsíci

    ps completely agree on the let them flower until they start making seedpods policy...i think you can perfectly get away with having flowers and still have a vibrant fast growing system. balance yes! but why not leave one plant every so many meters fully go to seeds so you can harvest and plant more systems. This spring we had broadbeans (one meter thick row) against one of our treelines...with the idea to chop it all done...but than we needed the beans...so we left them all the way....but the trees are fine and super happy...yes perhaps they could have been growing even faster but than i would not have had broadbeans Lol.

  • @jobleijh
    @jobleijh Před 2 měsíci

    Yes! surely amazing! a beautifull reward for really hard work i presume :)! super exciting to see how this all moves forward! ...i can imagine that its a big step to start the first official pruning of plants going to seed in this new system. Overhere things are also coming along beautifully in abundance, we are now entering summer..anyway...love to see that mango tree and who knows what else is awakening there in the shade!...do you have a target crop? cash crop in mind or is it gonna be one big eclectic party ?:) wish you all the best and looking forward to see more!

  • @patrickmcgillable
    @patrickmcgillable Před 2 měsíci

    Where is this garden located?

  • @MarviRafaelMontecillo
    @MarviRafaelMontecillo Před 2 měsíci

    such a beautiful project

  • @samtouray9873
    @samtouray9873 Před 3 měsíci

    Beautiful

  • @leo_crudo
    @leo_crudo Před 3 měsíci

    Amazing Man!! You are the Byung-Chul Han of the Syntropic Forest. Thank you a lot!

  • @allanparker20
    @allanparker20 Před 3 měsíci

    Well done

  • @allanparker20
    @allanparker20 Před 3 měsíci

    Dude , you need to introduce yourself!

  • @allanparker20
    @allanparker20 Před 3 měsíci

    Well done. I appreciate your focus on the human involvement. After all, we are building these things to our advantage and as such we become stewards if we act responsibly. I like to say " we are guests in our gardens and we should act appropriately "

  • @diego6840
    @diego6840 Před 3 měsíci

    Thank you for sharing! I'm excited to learn about your journey and very glad that you keep putting out great content. Hugs from Mexico!

  • @backtonature433
    @backtonature433 Před 3 měsíci

    awesome 💚💚💚

  • @Nidflex
    @Nidflex Před 3 měsíci

    Great ! I wish you good luck...🎉

  • @Soilfoodwebwarrior
    @Soilfoodwebwarrior Před 3 měsíci

    This concept of maximizing photothensis is a fascinating topic. Before i began thinking about in terms of multiple plant relationships as in a forest i only thought about in terms of plant nutrition. Maximizing magnesium in a sap test or soil test to ensure the plant is photothensizing for example. This a permaculture food forest system elevated to a new level. Impressive most impressive

  • @s.c.9107
    @s.c.9107 Před 3 měsíci

    Amazing explanation to make it easier. Thank you.

  • @Soilfoodwebwarrior
    @Soilfoodwebwarrior Před 3 měsíci

    A database of emergent trees and bushes for different climate regions would be a good long-term goal I reckon.

  • @thedomestead3546
    @thedomestead3546 Před 4 měsíci

    Everything still breaking down, Bro. Is there magic or no?

  • @homesteadzambia
    @homesteadzambia Před 4 měsíci

    Wow. Look at that forest!

  • @swiss_arborist_barmetbaump3817

    Do you have experience wit establish forestgarden in the forest. I try now to do on the forest adge. I toped some fagus and fraxinus about 10m high. The trees are about 30cm in diameter. But on the forest adge a have also large fraxinus and quercus first bruntches at 15m. I will live tham alone. But if you leve mature trees in the system do they supress grow ore how to deel with it. If i syncronize all other plants around them can i ignore tham?

  • @mirleydamazio628
    @mirleydamazio628 Před 7 měsíci

    Gratidão a Ernest Gotsch, quem sistematizou a Sintropia. ❤❤❤

  • @SpibsTV
    @SpibsTV Před 7 měsíci

    Love the tree lines 2.5m apart to produce more biomass

  • @aidenarmony1089
    @aidenarmony1089 Před 8 měsíci

    Great work!

  • @hollypauro8831
    @hollypauro8831 Před 9 měsíci

    Another great video thanks! What would u say is an “exotic” plant? Have u had any experience with Singapore Daisy?

    • @Soilfoodwebwarrior
      @Soilfoodwebwarrior Před 3 měsíci

      A plant not native to your area was what I thought he meant. So if signapore daisy is non native to your region it is exotic

  • @hollypauro8831
    @hollypauro8831 Před 9 měsíci

    Amazing video thank you! U have a incredible way of teaching! I look forward to learning more from u