Syntropic Agriculture: Putting It All Together a.k.a. A Planting Guide

Stratification: Oh God, What IS This?

Stratification I find to be the most confusing tenet of syntropic agriculture. For one thing, it’s still being fine-tuned by the creator of syntropic agriculture, Ernest Gosh. The actual inventor of the agricultural system that we are talking about isn’t…

Active Management: How Does This Make Money?

Active management

Here we are. The last tenet of syntropy. Active Management is, in a way, the most intuitive tenet of syntropy. It is also one of the hardest. After all, wanting to make a profit in a business is a very…

Cage Match: Syntropic VS…

Hello, all, it has been a minute since I have had the opportunity to regale you with thoughts and facts about…

Natural Succession: The First Day of Your New Favorite Class, Forest 101

Big Agriculture Problems #2: The Plow and the Patent

Big Agricultural Problems #2: The Plow and the Patent

The Plow:

Ahh, the plow. The mere act of uttering this simple word creates a world of sleek wooden lines, roughened from labor. It is…

I Failed. AKA: Why This Blog Exists

Over the summer, I failed. Now, in general, I fail a lot. I fail at art, and school, and personal goals. I find it a point of pride to fail often and regularly. It means I can learn something. It means I was pushing myself. It means that I have something to do next…

The Final Stop on the Syntropic Journey…

…And we have arrived at our destination: the economic side of agriculture. I am going to go through the confusing town of agricultural economics street by street, starting with the main roads of the agriculture economy, then moving onto the “under…

Cover Crops: The Most Complicated Blanket in the World

I love plants. Anybody who has read this blog should suspect that by now, but I thought I would clarify for the uninitiated so I don’t scare them off with my unbridled enthusiasm for the wonderful practice that is using a cover crop…

Big Agriculture Problems #1: Not to be dramatic, but we’re all gonna die.

When people talk about global warming, the phrase “we are killing the earth” comes up quite a bit. It is, of course, patently untrue: we are not killing the earth. The earth has an astounding ability to…