Syntropic Agriculture - A Temperate Climate Experiment (Europe, ROMANIA)

As we were very inspired by Syntropic Agroforestry, we followed its principles and started experimenting here, in central Romania (zone 7 - 600/700mm annual rainfall). We planted this system in Autumn 2022 and it was our very first experiment. Already now we got many lessons and new ideas to put into practice for our further experiments. In this video we present and describe Syntropic Agriculture: o Our first experiment and its results so far o The origin of the concept o The principles: Natural Succession, Density and diversity, Disturbance (chop and drop) o Examples of plants we’re using for the temperate climate To deepen yourselves into syntropic agriculture and its potential we recommend these links: o A presentation about Ernst Götsch (Portuguese Audio, English Subs): o Agenda Gotsch: o Annaëlle Théry from Pepinière Joala (French audio) o Marc Leiber, podcast (English audio): o Gennaro cardone: o Matteo Siroli, Terragenera (English audio): 00:00 - Land’s Previous usage & soil preparation 02:12 - Showing our plantation: Figs, Borage, willow 04:25 - Principle: Density & Diversity 06:54 - Why Disturb? Chop & Drop 09:41 - Origin of Syntropic Agriculture 13:50 - Abundance and the succession theory 16:30 - Inputs for starting the system 18:10 - How to adapt it to temperate climate 20:10 - An example setup for Kaki & Figs 23:05 - Various qualities of mulch 24:05 - An example setup part 2 25:40 - “Invasive“ weeds - Jerusalem Artichoke 26:54 - An example setup part 3 28:30 - A key element: “Senescence“ 30:10 - An example setup part 4 30:50 - Competition 32:27 - Final sharings