Elsa Sebkova

• Designer of edible forest gardens (www.jedlyprales.cz )
• Student at the Farm School (www.farmarskaskola.cz), specializing in organic vegetable growing (one year internship at: www.kralickovabiozelenina.cz )
• Since January 2023 student of syntropic agriculture (Ernst Gotsch, Brazil – agendagotsch.com, Ecotop Foundation, Bolivia – www.ecotop-consult.de/ecotop-foundation; Juan León, Colombia)

“I am an enthusiast driven by a love of life in all its variety, magic and beauty and a passion for good, quality food. I am convinced that man can truly live in harmony with nature, getting from it everything he needs to live a fulfilling life, while being a co-creator of diverse and harmonious ecosystems where there is room for all other creatures.

The encounter with syntropic farming was completely unexpected and shook my life to the core. After so many years of searching, I have finally found a model of agriculture that combines deeply thought-out cultivation techniques based on scientific knowledge and at the same time a vision of planet Earth as a living macro-organism with its own intelligence and fascinating autoregenerative mechanisms.

And by studying these processes in detail, and through the teachings of Ernst Gӧtsch and my other teachers, I realized that the current way of seeing the world, built on separateness, competition, rivalry and fear, is the wrong way. Nature teaches us the opposite – that only when we care for the well-being of all will we find our own well-being. And that the essence of all life is to care together for the flourishing of other life.

My dream is to bring the revolutionary and yet so natural knowledge summarized in the so-called syntropic agriculture to the people of my country, so that together we can find ways to obtain quality food without chemical warfare, artificial fertilizers, soil devastation, threatening water resources and climate, destroying ecosystems and endangering the lives of future generations.

If we can connect with the intelligence within which we find ourselves, we can re-green even the deserts. For now, I would settle for greening the Czech agrarian desert. I will be extremely grateful for every helping hand.”