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“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.”
About three hours from Prague, near the German village of Kleinsendelbach, lies the unique syntropic farm Hof vErde. The idea of creating a self-sufficient, community-based organic farm originated about seven years ago, but it faced challenges such as dependence on external inputs, infertile sandy soil, and drought.
Read more: Podcast: Syntropic Agriculture in Germany Read moreIn mid-April, we once again had the honour of welcoming Philip Barton, a soil specialist and syntropic and permaculture designer from England, to the Czech Republic.
Philip visits us regularly to share his expertise and help create the ideal conditions for syntropic planting. He also helps growers of all sizes to improve the health of their soil and crops.
Read more: Ready to work with nature? Philip Barton returns to the Czech Republic Read moreFrom 11 to 16 December, we had the honour of hosting Philip Barton, a soil specialist who combines the theory and practice of Soil Food Web (SFW), syntropic agriculture, landscape and permaculture design. He has literally inoculated us with a love of soil, which is a key prerequisite for soil conservation and also for climate protection.
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