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

Описание: 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):    • Ernst Götsch's bluevision  
o Agenda Gotsch: https://agendagotsch.com/en/
o Annaëlle Théry from Pepinière Joala (French audio)    • Bienvenue en Syntropie ! Un jardin d'abond...  
o Marc Leiber, podcast (English audio): https://player.fm/series/the-regenera...
o Gennaro cardone:   / gennaro.cardone.35  
o Matteo Siroli, Terragenera (English audio):    • Syntropic Agroforestry in Temperate Climat...  


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