What is
Syntropic Agroforestry?
Syntropic Agroforestry is a framework of principles and techniques that aim to accelerate the regeneration of ecosystems and increase their productivity, while embedding humans as an agent for the optimization of life processes into the natural world.
It is one of the most effective and holistic methods for farming and living in Harmony with Nature.
Syntropy
was the word used in Ancient Greece to describe any system that is portraying the tendency of self organization. These systems are able to consolidate dispersed energy and structure it into a functional and organized system, moving from the simple to the complex. It is the opposing variable to Entropy. Syntropic systems are usually working in patterns of centripetal vortexes and cool down their environment. Entropic systems are moving in centrifugal vortexes and release heat.
The phrase in modern physics that is equivalent to Syntropy is Negative-Entropy.
Syntropy
Congregating
Simple to complex
Dispersed to organized
Centripetal vortex
Entropy
Diverging
Complex to simple
Organized to Dispersed
Centrifugal vortex
Goals of Syntropic Agroforestry
One of the key goals of Syntropic Agroforestry is to restore and enhance the metabolic functioning of eco-systems. It has the aim to create agricultural plantations which mimic the original eco-system of the site in its structure, function and dynamic. Thereby we aim to produce high quantities of high quality food while enhancing the functioning of the ecosystem.
Simultaneously we also aim to re-embed humans into the eco-system as an agent for the optimization of life processes. We seek to act in a way so that our interventions always have a positive net energetic balance on the site of our intervention as well as the Macro-organism planet earth as a whole.
How?
The main techniques that we use to increase the health and productivity of ecosystems are the following:
Site adapted plant consortiums
Natural succesion of Species
Targeted site management
We work to favor natural processes, which are the pulse beat of the planet's ecosystems. By engaging this great force we achieve faster results in the functional restoration of eco-systems and are able to increase their productivity.
Origins of Syntropic Agroforestry
The concept of Sytnropic Agroforestry has been developed by the Swiss farmer and researcher Ernst Götsch.
The interpretation of life, and its interaction with the planet, which he posed is a direct result of his decade long work with plants and eco-systems around the globe. He has always been driven by his extreme passion of working with plants and his commitment to finding the most harmonious way of cultivating his plants within any eco-system where he was working.
As a result of his decade long efforts he has left us with a rich legacy of intelectual treasures, but has also been responsible for planting the forests which are nowadays considered some of the healthiest forests in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest.
Philosophy
Within the Syntropic agroforestry framework, the philosophical viewpoint we take is key driver behind many of our decision making processes.
Together groups of plants, consortiums, form highly complex macro-organism. These organisms form the cells of the organs which, as a whole, form the macro-organism planet earth. This, syntropic, macro organism has the function of potentiating and complexifying energy and its physical manifestation (life). All of life was created by the planet earth to serve as tools/organs in order to aid it in the organization and accumulation of this energy. Each species comes equipped to perform its preordained task(s), based on the principles of unconditional love and cooperation, the result of which will be a profitable contribution towards the whole/macro-organism. Within this constellation each individual organism forms an órganon (translation from ancient greek: ‘an instrument, tool, implement’) and the performance of his/her task is motivated by the fulfillment of inner pleasure. These órganons are the cells that make up the macro-organism.
By following the link below you can read the framework, called 'TAO: for our comprehension of life' that Ernst Götsch wrote.
