TEMPERATE Syntropic Agroforestry + Pine Monoculture to Food Forest

FANTASTIC, glad to hear of systems in colder temperate climates. Sounds like a great project to visit. Keep it up Byron, you are a national treasure for NZ. I got a message from James about the course in NZ, you’re perfect for it. Keep on visiting, innovating, experimenting and being crazy to others. Keep exuding your passion.

One of the best convos I've heard period. Let's grow.

Yeah Byron! Grateful for this temperate specific info. I'm planning out my temperate syntropic design and it has been so difficult to find anything that's in English so thank you for doing this interview! Getting stoked for the growing season!

So grateful to you my man, I am watching so much of your content. I am so grateful 🙏🏼. Relate my own experiences with your own. Your talent of sharing is multiplying more than you can imagine.

It is so refreshing to listen to people who have a deeper understanding of farming the microbes in the soil. This is what is essential to improving nutrients in our food and livestock. Better for soil better for life.

Nate from Garden like a viking says that pine needles don’t change the ph of the soil, it’s plants themselves who change the ph around their roots to their prefered level. That does tie in with what Paul Gauchi said about different types of plants and trees being planted next to each other in his garden and all doing great, just add organic matter to feed the soil.. Great talk 🙏

Thx for the inspiration guys!! I’ve been sent this link by a colleague indicating to me, how many parallels we can draw from temperate, arid Brandenburg to arid, subtropical Namibia. We‘re certainly empowered by you guyzes conversation to think bigger and go faster, including with a grazing system, incorporated to our veg-production and aspirational dry-land cropping.

Very nice Laurenz! Talking about rhizophagy and the soil food web, mentioning the very important concept that plants are very much able to change pH adn in fact pH can vary along the root systems from µm to µm. Well done. I hope I can go and visit your project in Brandenburg some day. Byron: If you're coming to europe, there is also a small 3-4 year old system outside Copenhagen and I will be starting a couple of experimental plots as well this year.

There's nothing wrong with "hippie" and the interconnectedness is exactly the core of the original philosophy. It's a great gift to manifest this in the environment and with social groups.

Thanks a lot for this talk. A regenerar!

Thanks a lot for this video. Syntropic Agroforestry in temperate climate still needs to prove itself, especially in cooler climates. Here, in the south of France (zone 8b), the big problem is the lack of water during the growing season and the lack of biomass plants. Poplar does not replace eucalyptus in terms of growth in my opinion. We cannot have the same density either, due to the lack of light. Except that less dense = more grass problem for example. A lot of testing is still needed and the videos in New Zealand of temperate syntropy are very interesting, as well as the experience of this one in Germany. Thanks again.

I also have only a four month growing season and grow lots of food. Great video!

Be fruitful and multiply.

woohoo! so thankful for this episode!

Thank you!! Discovered a previous video and was impressed with the process and knowledge about it. Super excited to see the cold climate info. I have a small plot in the middle of the U.S. that I can start this on. Harvest will just be for my family, so this is perfect. Really appreciate the sharing of info and experience.

I’d love to see a tour of colder climates. I live in zone 6b and I’m getting into agroforestry in a colder climate. But working with 4 season gets tricky but not impossible. I’m working on our land then once it’s settled in we have all ready been asked to do another 20 acres of Church Land. I’m loving your videos and your perspective on how to teach people is helping me blossom and learn so quickly and rapidly to really take my environment in and learn how to utilize it for me on the farm.

10:50 it’s pretty amazing to learn that organics and returning back to the soil is definitely the way to go adding 1% additional organic matter to an acre is equivalent to 20,000 extra gallons of water holding capacity therefore you don’t need your automate these systems it’s pretty amazing to realize the resilience and partnerships we could make with nature

Such an insightful conversation. Loving the passion from both of you. I've just started incorporating syntropic food forest lines into my home orchard and am really enjoying spending time observing the system even after just a couple of months.

what a epic video charge with wisdom! with such a powerfull context such as cold climate, large scale and pine monoculture, thanks for sharing bro Love from Uruguay

Thank you for creating these videos, they are a tremendous resource and a great boon for all of humanity. That might sound over the top but I 100% mean that, this information is needed more than ever. Good sh*t my bro, much love.