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I heard watering the leaves is a technique to avoid frost damage in some regions

I've been doing syntropic agriculture for over 7 years now. Ernst is no doubt a great teacher! But I would be careful with claiming it has better yields, it really depends on how y…

I know a few people that make very good money applying permaculture principles. Not because they are applying the principles, but because they are very good at selling their produc…

- The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least. - When you try to replicate someone's life, you don't live yours.

They are very similar actually, but permaculture is about more than just agriculture, agriculture is one of the sides of permaculture. For me syntropic agriculture is that side, so…

For sure, will be a pleasure, you can find me at alissonpatricio at gmail

I don't know what to recommend you. I know a few people doing syntropic agriculture in Portugal which is as close as a close climate that I know. There is a guy in Florida, he have…

Just do it, start getting your hands dirty as other said. I personally started with composting and now I have a system where my food waste becomes forests, I eat lots of vegetable/…

I had a small reserve, and I cut my living costs a lot. I wasn't trying to make money from agriculture in the beginning, was all about learning, I volunteered a lot and did a few c…

Yes exactly! Its what happens naturally, trees dies, falls, takes others with them with the fall, make space for newer trees and wood decompose... Natural succession. If you don't …

Yes, the method applies anywhere in the planet. But for that you need to deeply understand the plants available for you, I mean those that are able to grow there in the beginning, …

Around 6 years ago I quit my job as a developer to dive into agriculture. I learned about syntropic agriculture systems and felt in love with it because: - You are able to work wit…

I think for agriculture the way to go is syntropic agriculture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSPNRu4ZPvE I've seen people implementing this very successfully, I've been doing it…

syntropic agriculture, that's what I'm involved right now and that's where I found this balance

Some trees takes years to fully decompose, even in contact with the soy, even on tropical climate. I say because I practice a kind of agriculture where we plant trees to feed to so…

If I walk on snow, do I experience walking, or do I just walk? What is experience? If we explain experience in a way that its reactions happening in my body, maybe biochemical reac…

Why forest can't be farms? They should not be opposite but complement each other.

Sometimes I say as joke that in reality the universe are not expanding but the things inside that are shrinking.

For industrialized I mean canned, over packaged, processed and refined stuff, also produces from vary far away on our daily diet, not against it but we do over consume this stuff. …

I think the biggest villain to healthy and environment is not animal products, but the industrialization of food.

The natural habitat of Cocoa tree as usually bellow other trees, like many other species, Coffee too, it likes to be a little shaded by others, and the main thing about this method…