Syntropic Agroforestry: 14 Months old Food Forest - temperate climate (Europe) - Management & Tour
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- Small Tour through my 1 Year 2 Months old Syntropic Agroforestry plot in south-Germany with a Management-Session.
Including: Quick go-through of 5 Principles of Syntropic Farming.
Syntropic agroforestry is a farming method that seeks to regenerate farmland, working with the dynamics of ecosystems.
This is an example of a syntropic system, designed in a garden context for central europe. The same principles can be applied large scale, mechanized, or any given scenario, in any climate. Appearance and species may vary, but the principles remain the same.
Agroforestry and especially Syntropic Ag are one of the most effective tools, to create climateresilient landscapes, regenerate watercycles and soils. It has the capacity to store ALL the excess Co2 from the atmosphere. lets get into action.
Contact me: friederkrug@posteo.de
0:00 Intro
1:03 Principles of syntropic farming
5:32 Tour
8:32 Management
13:31 Outro
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We desperately need more videos on temperate agroforestry. I'm in the UK and this is pretty much my only reference for learning.
yes Indeed. Im living and working in portugal now... in an amazing syntropic system , hoping to have some time soon to put out a video.
If I can help you anyhow more, please let me know I would love to help. This is just a tiny bit of the whole story.
I would plant much more Placenta 2 plants than I did in this case. After 6 Months when Placenta 1 is gone, ideally we should have more plants like the comfrey that are active and pumping and occupying the space. rasperries are good but somethings are just faster. Artichokes might be a great one,defenitely is here in portugal. Jerusalem artichoke will be a great one but attracts Mice.. If you have them around better not plant them next to your trees. inula Magnifica is an interesting one....
And of course the place could look very much different and still be syntropic.. If we really want to focus on trees, maybe we could have not continous lines but smaller islands of like 2m with a few service plants and the tree in the middle. Then we could have way more mulch for the trees and less space for weeding. So many possibilities. I definitely would recommend you to make a much wider spacing of treerows than I did, so that you have more Mulch. But maybe mulch also isnt everything and it could be some other way in the temperate. Its up to you to find out ;)
Im quiet okay with the mulch we get in the mediterranean here with 3,5m distance, but with 7 it would help more as a weed suppressant. so in the future systems i want to go on 7 or even more first, then when the trees are grown i cut them and shredd them and start lines in between. real accumulation. dont push the system further than it actually is.
Much enjoyment on this journey!! if you are on facebook there are great groups there, syntropic agriculture community and temperate syntropic community.
there is a big community of syntropic agriculture in france, but language barriers.. check out anabelle its very nice to see, she works more with living borders of comfrey and others but seems a very labour intensive system too
Me too. Discussed with the land owner for a small plot in somerset and good to go. I will cherry pick (pardon the pun) and experiment to find my own way, this is so young here so who knows best? Vegan too so I am going to go for maximum protein (Quinoa, Corn, Amarath, beans, nuts).
@@broomers3 Yeah man just try what works best for you. I did learn some of the best crops for our area in the UK hopefully this list helps you.
For biomass: Willow, elderberry, mulberry, artichoke/cardoon, daikon radish, pigeon peas, sorghum-sudangrass, mint, chard, redbud, honeylocust, fava, Mexican sunflower (annual & perennial varieties), giant miscanthus grass, kale, turkish rocket, valerian, castor bean, sunflower (annual & perennial varieties), sunn hemp, alder, alfalfa, phacelias, peashrub, sunchokes, matilija poppy, cold-hardy banana, albizia, spineless prickly pear
@@AIuminum that is incredible,thank you
Nice! Finally someone doing it in a temperate climate.
good job, very informative!
here is a couple of pointers for future content:
-Get a clip on mic, the audio is all over the place
-Use some close-ups of the plants and multiple camera angles
Gut zu wissen, dass es auch andere Menschen in Deutschland gibt, die sich für dieses Thema interessieren. Nachhaltigkeit ist heutzutage nur noch gegen etwas zu sein. Ich bevorzuge Konzepte wo man für etwas geht. Man hat eine Idee für eine Lösung statt zu meckern.
Bewegung- Begegnung- Verbindung. The thing is bigger the the thing.
Danke für das Video
Hi Frieder! Thank you for this great video! We planted our first system 9 months ago, we haven't found many people experimenting with syntropy yet so seeing your video is very motivating! We also made a video recently to spread the word and motivate more people to start experimenting, as regenerating soil is probably one of the most fulfilling/rewarding activities to man 🥰
Excited to see your and our videos get even better and inspire many others, love from Romania
Your are awesome guys!! Love your experiments and your spirit. Keep us updated! Im enjoying the discussions on fb too!!
I feel like we will hear from each other a lot in the future.
I'm on my way to ghana now..! And hopefully there will be some tropical content coming soon!!
Much love!!
@@friederkrug wow Ghana! That is amazing brother! Super curious about what you up too over there. Thanks for your support, and looking forward to keep supporting each other and share our discoveries along with the world! 😜
Inspiring! You nailed the reason why most reforestation projects fail: succession
In most extreme cases like in Spain they trying to kill " invasive" flowers and herbs that are the first succession able to settle down in a degraded and dry land. Than they plant climax forest trees that need the fertile conditions and community and wonder why they fail. They have not had enjoyed the shelter of early succession plants.
Thank you very much for your comment. Truth!!
This is how I imagine paradise too.😊
Hi ! Nice job ! It's cool to see an example of what can be done in a temperate climate, and particularly the evolution in time. I hope we will see this evolve in the years to come. Greetings from France. 😁
dis iz da vay💯🙌Salutes and much love
new subscriber, living in japan, got some land, will be implimenting this strategy 2024, will keep ya posted
Let it grow brother! If you have doubts, PLANT MORE!!
Wunderschöne line und spitzen Video, merci und Wallabock #WeLetItGrow
Great to see what you're doing in your garden
Grtz from Belgium!
Great work. Happy to see more temperate syntropic videos. :) I'm using elderberry and willow for biomass as well.
My best friend, Super! Looked, very interesting! I liked your work! I enjoyed watch your video. Thanks
So lovely to see a temperate system. Planning to start a syntropic system in the fall. Much love from your neighbor Denmark
Go for it! And plant more then you planned :D
@@friederkrug for sure. High diversity + high density + optimal stratification= maximized photosynthisis. Do you have any experience with jeruselem artichokes in a syntropic system?
@@jeppeleth3888 exactly! You know how it goes.
I was not brave enough to plant it by now... But I think it's a really good choice if you don't mind that it will stay for long time. My guess is, that it will be shaded out in the tree lines, but could be escaping to the interrows which would not be really a problem. I will plant some in a different system that I manage. Maybe next year I can tell you more.
You want to grow for roots or biomass?
@@friederkrug Nice. I'm not quite sure if it grows back vigorously enough to be useful for chopping and dropping. After digging up jeruselem articokes it always amazes me how many earthworms that are present around the root of the season's growth. I think that the habit of sprouting from a tuber, growing big and strong, then putting the energy into new tubers. The once big stalk and far-reaching root-system now decay feeding soil-life. Only experimentation will give a clear answer:) One thing is for sure i love eating the tubers:)
good stuff
Nice video, thank you for educating us on this nature's system.
nice work!
Would love to see more content from you! This video was really informative. Audio could've been better - would've made this video even more enjoyable. 😊
Thank you very much! Since the making of the video, I planted some great projects in Ghana and Spain, and I bought a microphone too :D But the work was focus. It's hard to document everything at the same time, but there will be more content soon! Leave a subscription! ;)
@@friederkrug Awesome - looking forward to those projects. 😊👌🏼
Unglaublich krasse facts!
Happy to see you are spreading this crucial information to people! Love what you are doing and I am on the same path.
very informative! 🌻🌱👍
Wow awesome stuff
well done buddy, nice work.
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Very cool, I'm in france and interested in syntopic agroforestry. So cool to see someone relatively close doing it! How does it go in winter? !
Hi Frieder,
Ich praktiziere Syntropie im schweizer Mittelland.
Ich habe meine erste Reihe auch vor 15 Monaten installiert.
Dieses Jahr meine erste Fläche. Alles scheint gut zu funktionieren.
Ich bin mir aber schon vieles am überlegen für weitere Pflanzungen, da ich finde, dass die Techniken, die primär aus den Tropen und Subtropen stammen, in gewissen Massen unzureichend sind für unseres Klima. Wir haben eine kühle Phase und eine warme Phase im Jahr, die Tropen haben dies nicht. Während der kühlen Phase wachsen aber einige Pflanzen auch, viele wachsen nur dann. Zum Beispiel der Gundermann (Glechoma hederacea), der Hühnerdarm (Stellaria media) oder die Purpurrote Taubnessel (Lamium purpureum) wachsen primär in den kalten Jahreszeiten.
Es folgt, dass wenn man solche "Winterpflanzen" nicht sukkzessionell einplant, werden sie Überhand nehmen. Auch viele Gräser haben nach einem Jahr im Frühling mein syntropisches Beet komplet eingenommen. Grundsätzlich habe ich nichts dagegen, aber wir wollen ja nicht Weidegräser kultivieren.
Ich wollte dich deswegen fragen, wie du mit der kühlen Jahreszeit umgegangen bist. Pappeln, Weiden (Salix sp.) treiben erst spät aus. Himbeeren und Rhabarber treiben recht früh wieder aus. Sicherlich haben "Unkräuter" die Fläche im Frühling recht stark eingenommen.
Liege ich da falsch? Wie bist du generell damit umgegangen?
Vielen Dank
Grüsse,
Dario V.
Hi Dario!
Hört sich sehr gut an dein Projekt! Wäre interessant ein paar Bilder etc. auszutauschen.
Über den winter hatte ich eine extrem dichte Ackerbohnen gründüngung, die wurde erst im Mai geschnitten und hat deshalb gut dicht gemacht im Frühjahr. Bei Gelegenheit stell ich mal ein Bild rein. Eine ordentliche Jätung im Frühjahr bleibt trotzdem nicht aus gerade wenn man mit kriechern wie fingerkraut oder gar quecke zu tun hat.
Generell ist es interessant eine immergrüne Low strata zu etablieren, die im Winter Photosynthese macht und das Licht auffängt und zurückgeschnitten wird nachdem die anderen Pflanzen ausgetrieben sind. Zum Beispiel prunus laurocerasus oder viburnum rhytidophyllum.
Bei mir ist dieses Jahr nochmal Knoblauch dran im oktober, mal schauen wie der wird.
Liebe Grüße!
Interesting demonstration!
It gave rise to many questions. How is the yield of food from a syntropic agroforestry system? Humans need _a_ _lot_ of nutrients to survive. Roughly how large of an area (and how much work) would be required to sustain one person with syntropic agroforestry?
Those questions aside, I believe in your principles and follow all of them myself :) While I'm not doing syntropic agroforestry, I combine fruit trees with an undergrowth of beneficial/edible perennials and annuals, trying to fit in as much diversity as I can. However, I do bring in a lot of nutrients from the outside in the form of wood chips from local arborists (free reuse of "waste") and quite a bit of municipal compost (also "waste") to feed the soil as a mulch in my intensive no-dig annual vegetable beds between the trees. I just can't produce enough compost myself, though I hope to one day, maybe combined with careful use of lant as fertilizer (another forgotten source of nutrients that we consider "waste").
While I try to follow the 5 principles you outlined within my approach, I don't see how I can go full syntropic agroforestry on the small piece of land that I own. I don't have enough land for grazing animals, and to have enough food to eat, I have to grow a lot of annual vegetables intensively. If I grew a lot of non-food trees to feed my compost heaps (or animals), I'm concerned it would outcompete my vegetables for water, sunlight and nutrients. My old and large fruit trees already do that, but at least they too give a lot of food. Willow doesn't, and it is _very_ thirsty (it does give us natural aspirin though!). But who knows, maybe I will eventually get closer and closer to the ideal of a syntropic agroforestry ecosystem.
My favorite plants are those that have many "gifts": food/medicine for humans, food/medicine for animals (wild or domestic), food/medicine for pollinators, food/medicine for soil life, food/medicine for the senses (beauty or smell), etc. Those plants tend to be perennial. Because pollinators are especially threatened now, I also try to convert any unused area of grass into a meadow of local wildflowers. I think dedicating some areas to wildflower meadows are an essential part of fostering a diverse, healthy ecosystem.
I also have to say it's _a_ _lot_ of work to manage such a rich ecosystem of abundant growth. So I'm not sure I'd call it a paradise :) But it does look like it, and it _is_ a paradise for other animals, insects, fungi and bacteria!
You could look into smaller plants and shrubs maybe for both diversification and bio mass producers, btw maybe check out David the Good his grocery row garden style for more ideas ✌
@@pietsnot7002 Thanks for the tips!
Give us updated xD
are there any updates that we could get on the progress of this project. thank you in advance.
I will give you an update in spring or early summer!!
I am confused by the 'back of the row'. I thought Syntropic was planted North to South?
North south has several great benefits and I would definitely choose it in a temperate climate for even light distribution. These rows are following the shade of the garden so they are more NW-SE so theres a more sunny sie where some crops beneficial from and a shadier side that comfrey fir example can benefit from. It's getting way more complicated here than in N-S... for example a high strata artemisia at the southside of a similar size than a comfrey of low strata at the north could work together... yeah to complicated but sometimes context makes thinking different necessary.
Here in Portugal where I live now, we have a lot EW rows, for vegetables here it seems very reasonable:
Treerows on EW, Interrows with vegetable (summer and winter). In autumn you prune back the treerow to let light in, then the winter veg is happy, in spring after the trees have regrown, you do only slight pruning and the vegetables in the interrows get shaded from hot afternoon sun in summer and are happy
Who is the reggae song? I love it
Midnite/Akae Beka!
Greetings
@@friederkrug Thank you! Great video!
It's not so hard to grow willows on the rich, fertile soil in the back of a german garden. Now try this on the fields whose soils have been destroyed by german farmers by using artificial fertilizer and pesticides for almost a century. It will be a lot harder, but also a lot more useful. Just saying.
I don't want to grow what is hard. I want to grow what works best, as it is the plant that supports the macroorganism best.
Choose what fits your location and condition. Willows even fix nitrogen themselves so can be grown in most places (same with poplar) . Try alder species, in more degraded and dry places acer negundo or robinia, possibilities are endless.
Perhaps ailanthus altissima if they don't imprison you as consequence.
I'm starting to work in a super degraded and dry place in Spain near Sevilla soon, and ailanthus will be one of my main tools