Fantastic video. Just starting the series, can't wait to watch the next one. Can't believe there are so few comments on this. Thanks so much for sharing this information with us.
Well done. I appreciate your focus on the human involvement. After all, we are building these things to our advantage and as such we become stewards if we act responsibly. I like to say " we are guests in our gardens and we should act appropriately "
Much Blessings brother, it's a pleasure to connect through this very well explained video. Thank you for sharing, it's a big oppurtunity for the people to actually feel syntropic!
Gracias Victor, I'm Permaculture practicioneer. Im now taking very closed with syntropic systems. Very profound topics on what you are doing. Good job my friend. Next course is with you.
I can see you put a lot of work into your framing of syntropic agriculture, it must have taken a lot of time, practice and experience to come up with such a synthetic model. Thank you so much for sharing it with the wider public, I really hope your videos get more views.
Very good, very good. Just from a conceptual elemental / alchemical perspective, on the left board I'd put Soil where you put the Plant and then the plant becomes the fifth transcendent element. That connects more with the tree as being the vertical, layered higher dimensional element that you speak of. Then on the right I'd switch over Earth and Water to make the elemental Mandala 'correct' and I wouldn't put the Human in the centre but the Plant. We benefit from the plant but we are its guardian, as one of your commenters says: we are a guest in the garden. Anyway, it is hard enough to make people consider Syntropic farming so to then also not see ourselves as the centre of the system is perhaps a step too far - but it is ultimately what we are saying here. It is a Synergy, hence Syntropic. A correlative system, not a causative system, that we shape and benefit from but that doesn't revolve around us - we just happen to shape it to optimise it for consumption and management.
Since entropy is the tendency towards death, whereas syntropy is the tendency towards life, living systems in order to sustain themselves need to minimize entropy and to maximize syntropy. When entropy is high crises are experienced. When entropy is low crises diminish and wellbeing is experienced. I would argue both are equally relevant and part of our living systems. Death and life are essential for both. I guess it is about balance and everything has to go out of balance to go into balance. Putting value on it might cause some problem as it becomes a human preference.
I really enjoyed your talk. I have been using the Syntropic approach on my 1/4 acre of deep sand in Western Australia for the last twenty years. One of my sons has just bought 40 acres and I see the biggest problems of scaling up are the enormous debt that is often required to be a land owner and the problem of managing a large area with regard to fire whilst establishing the beginnings of the system. The debt takes the human out of the system and the laws prevent more humans coming into the system. With regard to commercial viability at the twenty year mark I would say I’m only just achieving abundance. It’s a glorious thing to behold but how does one survive in the lag phase?
In regards to the tree analogy, when it is vertical, it contributes primarily to the hydrological cycle, when it goes horizontal, it contributes primarily to the biological cycle by way of decomposition. It doesn't necessarily stop one cycle for another but rather shifts gears...???
Congratulaciones Victor, you have an amazing capacity to break-down, synthesize and explain complex information and processes in very understandable terms! I’ve lived in a brittle environment in Oaxaca, Mexico for 20 years, and I completely agree with the importance of understanding the dynamic of the farm organism and it’s context. By “dinamics” I understand the different rhythms of contraction and expansion that are manifested both in the short term (moment to moment) and long term (years, decades, even centuries) in the system and that can be extremely complex…the cyclical variations of temperature, light, humidity etc In this regard, do you take into account the cycles of the moon and their influence in living systems when planing your work in the garden? Have you identified other not so obvious influences in the course of your work?
Hello Pablo. I'm just getting into syntropic farming and am checking out different videos on the topic. I noticed your comment and just wanted to say that we lived in Oaxaca city then Huatulco for a year recently. I miss it over there. Wonderful place and people. We have many of the same plants and trees growing in northern Thailand as you do there. We plan to be back, but at the moment the plan is to grow food for our chickens here using syntropic methods. Buen dia!!
I have a suggestion. Observe which weeds come up in your raised garden bed, identify the plant family that it comes from and find something else from that family that grows well in your area and that you would prefer. Over time you will achieve an assemblage of plants that support each other and that can be replicated.
Fantastic video. Just starting the series, can't wait to watch the next one. Can't believe there are so few comments on this. Thanks so much for sharing this information with us.
You've just explained it so clearly. All of those hours watching reading and speculating, have just been simplified
Well done. I appreciate your focus on the human involvement.
After all, we are building these things to our advantage and as such we become stewards if we act responsibly.
I like to say " we are guests in our gardens and we should act appropriately "
Very clear! Thank you for the magnets.
Much Blessings brother,
it's a pleasure to connect through this very well explained video.
Thank you for sharing,
it's a big oppurtunity for the people to actually feel syntropic!
Gracias Victor, I'm Permaculture practicioneer. Im now taking very closed with syntropic systems. Very profound topics on what you are doing. Good job my friend. Next course is with you.
A database of emergent trees and bushes for different climate regions would be a good long-term goal I reckon.
I can see you put a lot of work into your framing of syntropic agriculture, it must have taken a lot of time, practice and experience to come up with such a synthetic model. Thank you so much for sharing it with the wider public, I really hope your videos get more views.
Gratidão a Ernest Gotsch, quem sistematizou a Sintropia. ❤❤❤
Thank you for this explainative video.
This really help me to form some idea for my land restoration.
Thank you for such great education! Super grateful for you
Very good, very good. Just from a conceptual elemental / alchemical perspective, on the left board I'd put Soil where you put the Plant and then the plant becomes the fifth transcendent element. That connects more with the tree as being the vertical, layered higher dimensional element that you speak of. Then on the right I'd switch over Earth and Water to make the elemental Mandala 'correct' and I wouldn't put the Human in the centre but the Plant. We benefit from the plant but we are its guardian, as one of your commenters says: we are a guest in the garden. Anyway, it is hard enough to make people consider Syntropic farming so to then also not see ourselves as the centre of the system is perhaps a step too far - but it is ultimately what we are saying here. It is a Synergy, hence Syntropic. A correlative system, not a causative system, that we shape and benefit from but that doesn't revolve around us - we just happen to shape it to optimise it for consumption and management.
Amazing video thank you! U have a incredible way of teaching! I look forward to learning more from u
Gold nuggets thanks
Since entropy is the tendency towards death, whereas syntropy is the tendency towards life, living systems in order to sustain themselves need to minimize entropy and to maximize syntropy. When entropy is high crises are experienced. When entropy is low crises diminish and wellbeing is experienced. I would argue both are equally relevant and part of our living systems. Death and life are essential for both. I guess it is about balance and everything has to go out of balance to go into balance. Putting value on it might cause some problem as it becomes a human preference.
Wonderful insights 👏
Thanks Jaz!!!
Thanks for your video. Very interesting and will look at your other video too. Do you ever go to Thailand?
I really enjoyed your talk. I have been using the Syntropic approach on my 1/4 acre of deep sand in Western Australia for the last twenty years. One of my sons has just bought 40 acres and I see the biggest problems of scaling up are the enormous debt that is often required to be a land owner and the problem of managing a large area with regard to fire whilst establishing the beginnings of the system. The debt takes the human out of the system and the laws prevent more humans coming into the system.
With regard to commercial viability at the twenty year mark I would say I’m only just achieving abundance. It’s a glorious thing to behold but how does one survive in the lag phase?
In regards to the tree analogy, when it is vertical, it contributes primarily to the hydrological cycle, when it goes horizontal, it contributes primarily to the biological cycle by way of decomposition. It doesn't necessarily stop one cycle for another but rather shifts gears...???
Thank u for describing challenges so i can llan a deisgn around that. I dont have expereicne but want some and prefer to no what i cud expect
Congratulaciones Victor, you have an amazing capacity to break-down, synthesize and explain complex information and processes in very understandable terms!
I’ve lived in a brittle environment in Oaxaca, Mexico for 20 years, and I completely agree with the importance of understanding the dynamic of the farm organism and it’s context.
By “dinamics” I understand the different rhythms of contraction and expansion that are manifested both in the short term (moment to moment) and long term (years, decades, even centuries) in the system and that can be extremely complex…the cyclical variations of temperature, light, humidity etc
In this regard, do you take into account the cycles of the moon and their influence in living systems when planing your work in the garden?
Have you identified other not so obvious influences in the course of your work?
Thank you Pablo!!!
Hello Pablo. I'm just getting into syntropic farming and am checking out different videos on the topic. I noticed your comment and just wanted to say that we lived in Oaxaca city then Huatulco for a year recently. I miss it over there. Wonderful place and people. We have many of the same plants and trees growing in northern Thailand as you do there. We plan to be back, but at the moment the plan is to grow food for our chickens here using syntropic methods. Buen dia!!
thank you
My pleasure Marie!!
Q: how can i practice these principles in a raised garden bed?
I have a suggestion. Observe which weeds come up in your raised garden bed, identify the plant family that it comes from and find something else from that family that grows well in your area and that you would prefer. Over time you will achieve an assemblage of plants that support each other and that can be replicated.
Everything still breaking down, Bro.
Is there magic or no?
You've just explained it so clearly. All of those hours watching reading and speculating, have just been simplified