Hey everyone, I wanted to be transparent with you about something I’ve been thinking about. I’m realizing more and more how much work goes into running this platform - filming, editing videos, organizing interviews, managing content, bringing people in through Instagram, answering questions, and keeping everything moving forward. I genuinely love doing it, but it takes a significant amount of time alongside my other projects, farm work, and consultancy opportunities that are starting to come in. Right now, I’m putting around 3 extra hours into this every single day on top of my job - sometimes more (when filming). Because of that, I’m considering introducing a small monthly contribution for access to the platform - something in the range of 5€-10€ per month. My thinking is that this could help in a many ways that would benefit us all: - Make the platform more sustainable long-term - Allow me to keep producing quality content without burning out - Build a more committed and engaged community, rather than having lots of people join, take one look, and never come back. - I also want to take the quality of this platform to the next level. I don’t just want to keep making videos from home - I want to travel more, visit farms and projects in person, sit down face-to-face with growers and practitioners, and bring back real on-the-ground interviews and insights that we can all learn from. I also want to offer mini-courses, I’m working on a course on Stratification which will be quite detailed and want to do the same for important concepts such as Succession, the Macro-Organism and ect… All in all, that will take more of my time, planning, and travel costs, but I believe it could make this platform far more valuable and unique. Having some support from the community would give me more freedom to reinvest into this project and make it the best syntropic agroforestry learning platform possible. This isn’t decided yet - I genuinely want your honest feedback before making any changes.

My first syntropic rows were too wide and not enough space between the rows, it's much more adaptable to have 4m between the rows, and then if you choose it is still possible to alley crop, run animals or cut hay/bio mass . The width of the rows should be as narrow as it is practical to cultivate, I now choose 60cm width because my broad fork is 55cm wide . Narrow rows save time weeding and can always be widend after a few seasons of mulching. My planting density is about 40cm, which again saves on weeding, economising on planting density is tempting, but in the end slows the system and makes more work, if there's not enough to fill the row, push cuttings in the gaps after a bit of experience you get an idea of what roots easily. There's always comfrey or something similar to fill gaps where plants fail . Making a mother row of plants to propagate from is a good investment, when you become experienced in multipling these, the extra plants can be exchanged for new members of your mother plant community or sold to raise revenue. My first experiments in syntropic planting were more of a hybrid between traditional landscaping and forest gardening, both of which I know well, now I find it pays to be committed to getting the planting correct because the speed of establishment is considerably better/quicker when you get it right .

Hi you all, I have the pleasure today to release this amazing interview with Mike Garcia - syntropic practitioner and farmer in Florida ! This interview is really geared towards logistics of his operation and his diverse enterprises ! He does intensive market gardening on two acres, has a poultry operation (chicken tractor), produces fruit (bananas, papayas, ect) and has a nursery ! A really godo interview for those of you interested in the details of a syntropic operation !

Greek American starting to learn about agroforestry -> Syntropic agroforestry and thinking about the island of lesvos where I am from and potentially starting a project. Our island is kind of weird and has a lush eastern side and an arid (almost lunar) western side. I am not sure why this is but I have heard that the west side gets less rain and the soil is acidic and vulcanic and probably over grazed. I do remember however passing an olive grove in this wasteland and now wondering how this was achived in such harsh conditions. Did the farmer here just dig a well, irrigate like crazy and fertalize? The only thing that grows out here is this spiny bush locally called sea urchin's foot αχινοπόδι aka "Genista acanthoclada". Land out here is pretty cheap so was thinking about buying some and perhaps doing an infestation.

Hey guys wanted to share with you an update of the trial line planted a year and a half ago post pruning. After a month and a half, plants are regrowing very well and here's the mix of factors : -I irrigated 3 times that week (a couple times too pre-pruning) - there's plenty of water in wells so it's using unlimited water at that time. -The heat didn't come yet, the bar of 30 degrees wasn't reached yet, plants are still in a strong vegetative state. Hope you got something useful out of this video !