Ernst Götsch's Syntropic Farming
Here you will find a beautiful downloadable pdf highlighting some of the concepts related to natural succession, according to the interpretation of Ernst Götsch. We hope you enjoy it and again thanks for your support!
Check out how a cornfield looks like when planted in a clearing of an abundance system. Bahia, Olhos D’água, May 2018. Videos below in Portuguese and English versions. Being a syntropic system, a whole forest was also planted in the…
Walking in the middle of his cacao plantations in Bahia, Ernst gives us a practical lesson about natural succession and explains how we can “read” the indicators the ecosystem presents to us. The suitability of species at each successional step…
Ernst cacao is sold as a premium product. So far, nothing special about the statement. But if we learn a little bit more about the path he took to get to this point, we realise it’s actually a great and…
An ecological concept according to the interpretation of Ernst Götsch Natural succession is a concept generally associated with ecology and still receives little attention from agriculture. Although there is a consensus that agricultural practice is a form of applied ecology,…
If you have already attended a lecture, participated in a workshop, or if you had the opportunity to spend some time with the creator of Syntropic Farming, the chances that you’ve heard him saying these sentences are huge! We decided…
A degraded pastureland transformed into a productive forest. In November 2016, Ernst Götsch chose this area at Fazenda São Sebastião to start a plot with the initial focus on banana and cassava. This article describes each step of the implementation,…
One of the characteristics of Syntropic Farming is the use of consortia of plants in high diversity and density. From the initial moment of planting, the goal is to co-create agroecosystems similar to the original ecosystems of each place, both…
Imagine the outcomes of the dialogue between these contemporary thinkers/doers who, each in their area, propose and demonstrate that new perspectives are possible and capable of transforming our perception of the man-nature relationship. Humberto Maturana and Ximena Dávila were curious…
Work carried out in the workshop of Syntropic Farming at Herdade do Freixo do Meio, in the region of Alentejo, Portugal, in March Design model 1: Example to transform an approximately 50-year-old olive grove into a complex, multi-layered system that…