Ernst Götsch's Syntropic Farming
At the beginning of February, Ernst Götsch was in Portugal to implement the lines of trees in a complex system that includes apple trees, plums, blueberries, grapes, lemon, blackberry, ash, poplar, strawberries, and short-cycle vegetables. When it gets a little…
If you have been to one of Ernst Götsch’s workshops or presentations for the past years, you’ve probably heard him talking about his ideas for new machines – an essential step to up-scale the implementation and management of complex agroecosystems.…
Ernst Götsch presented his ideas in a conference dedicated to Syntropic Farming in Mértola, Portugal, in November 2018. As we promised, after one year we would make it available to all. Here they are, the full videos of the 2-day…
* In Portuguese only. If you want to see the video below subtitled and have some time to help us out, we would appreciate it 🙂 Em setembro de 2019 estive em Goiás/Brasil e aproveitei a oportunidade para conversar com…
The renowned scientist Antonio Nobre and the farmer and researcher Ernst Götsch met for many enriching conversations about climate change and agricultural models for the Amazon. One of these meetings took place at the Federal University of Western Pará’s experimental…
In this week’s video, we go deeper into a recurring subject: eucalyptus. This time, we talk about the dynamics of natural forest clearings, thermodynamics and a little of Viktor Schauberger’s work. The combination of all that assists us to understand…
Collaboration: Dayana Andrade In this week’s article, we will answer one of the most recurring questions we get: “why do you like eucalyptus so much?”. To begin with, it’s important to say upfront that we don’t prefer eucalyptus more than…
Hedgerows were a common element of any rural area before world war II and the popularity of barbed wire. An ancient practice lost with modern times at a high cost. We not only lose knowledge of hedgerow laying and management…
Hi everyone. This March 2019 we did a workshop with Ryan Botha and Karen De Vries in the south of Spain. They run a small farm called La Loma Viva. Thanks to their persistence and competence, they’ve been helping to…
EXPERIMENT OF CATTLE INTEGRATION IN A SYNTROPIC AGRICULTURE SYSTEM ON THE FARM “ESTRELA DALVA LAMARÃO” Authors: Luisa Nogueira Queiroz & Luciano Queiroz Neto Our experience with Syntropic Farming began in 2017, when we implemented the first module on the farm,…