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…

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…

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…

Putting My Money Where My Mouth is: Introducing Syntropy

For the last two weeks, I have been working through some of the problems with conventional agriculture. Perhaps you have been thinking:

Maximizing Photosynthesis: Here Comes the Sun (with help from beetles, not the Beatles)

Leave no stone unturned! Or sun unused, as the case may be with syntropics. The second tenet, maximizing photosynthesis, is perhaps the simplest. Don’t make the mistake, however…