The Jelen z Misek family farm in collaboration with Terra Network and Syntropy are pleased and excited to invite you to a:
Photo: Syntropic system at Hof vErde, Germany
For everybody who wants to explore nature laws in depth and understand how can we interact with them, not against.
You don´t need to be a scientist, farmer, gardener, ecologist, philosopher, environmentalist, activist, but you can!
This course is for everybody who wants to open eyes and observe how everything in nature cooperates towards a better, more fertile, diverse, abundant and harmonious place.
And you will learn how we can be part of this process too.
You will experience all that in a very exciting, entertaining and friendly environment by a charismatic teacher and practicioner Felipe Amato from Terra Network.
Don´t be afraid that you wouldn´t understand something. This course is very inclusive and Felipe will be there to explain the topic in a very comprehensive way using many funny metaphores, photos and short videos so that everybody can understand, feel comfortable and have fun 😉
This event is for everybody who resonates in some ways with the ideas above. It aims for creating a bridge between people from diverse interest groups – for mutual enrichment and new friendships.
Led by Felipe Amato this course includes 5 full days of theory in the morning and practice in the afternoon at the Jelen z Misek farm in Miskovice, Czech republic.
Price includes tea, coffee and little snack during the morning part, daily lunch and later on tea, coffee and cake break in the afternoon.
(If you find the price too high, please take in count that this is a 5-day intense learning process where Felipe is openly sharing his more than 10 years experience with syntropic agriculture in Europe. There are not so many people who could do that.
Many participants described this course as „life-changing“ (see one of the feedbacks below). You will learn to see Nature and it´s laws with a different paradigm. The course will also give you a very deep and detailed understanding on how to use these principles in practice. You will be part of the installation process and will see and experience it step-by-step. You will have space to ask your questions. You will also experience the design process.
This price also partially includes food and planting material and the organization around, so by investing in your personal growth you can also support the possibility for this unique demonstration plot to be born and to inspire many other people.)
The course is divided into theoretical lessons in the morning and a practical implementation in the afternoon.
5 days to cover the basics of syntropic agroforestry and plant the beginning of a highly diverse fruit, berry, nut, spices and herb system.
Felipe will hold the course in English, whereby individual plant names or technical terms can be translated.
Agricultural systems inspired by the local and native ecosystems of a given place, enabling the production of food, timber, fiber and other agricultural activities.
Highly diverse and dense forest systems that allow continuous harvesting of crops while maintaining healthy soil that is very little to not dependent on external inputs.
* History and principles of syntropic agroforestry
* How to establish and manage syntropic agroforestry systems
* How to reconcile these systems with nature’s patterns (sun, wind, topography, local flora, etc.)
* Selection of an appropriate plant consortium for each stage and soil type of the system
* Selecting and planning the production of products with added value
* Strata: How plants behave in their environment
* Natural Succession: How the system evolves through subsequent plants
* Mulching: On the importance of keeping the soil covered with organic matter and how mulch production is integrated into the system
* Planting: Practical implementation of planting planning in the field
Introduction to syntropic agroforestry
Soil production processes in nature – agriculture practiced in Brazil by indigenous peoples before colonization, contact with Europeans and transformation of agricultural practices and much more
Natural Succession & Stratification
Systems of Colonization, Accumulation and Abundance
vector quality and quantity of consolidated life
Stratification: set formed of position in sequence + stratum (need for light) + size (height)
Application of succession & stratification in agriculture, from placenta to climax
Ecological Interactions & Ecophysiological Functions
Pollination and seed dispersal
Co-evolution of species and ecosystems
Stimulating factors (“disturbance”)
Life cycle optimization department (“pests and diseases“)
Design Elements
Practical design exercise
For public transport search here.
Arrival by car: we will send you an exact pin for parking at the farm few days before the workshop and will try to organize a chart where people can offer carpooling for other participants.
Right at the farm
(Cheapest option, special cozy dry toilet, solar shower available for free, kitchen available, charging phones, chillout zone included)
In Miskovice
Cozy Apartments „Na Statku“ 500 CZK (20€) / person/night
(Only 10 spots available, this price is negotiated only for this occasion. When making reservation, please mention that you are going to attend a workshop at Kotrba´s farm.)
For reservation please contact Jana +420 721 140 069
Check the rooms here. View the place on the map.
Other economic options nearby
(Please note that the prices below may be changing and we recommend you to check availability for the whole stay in advance.)
| Accommodation Name | Price per 1 person / night | Distance from Miskovice | Bathroom Facilities | Parking at the Property | Main Specifications & Vibe | Website Link / Contact |
| Apartmánek na Kaňku | 500 CZK | approx. 7.5 km | Private (en suite) | Free on private property | Quiet family environment, tourists only, 100% privacy. | Booking & Web |
| Ubytovna Nové Dvory | 300 CZK | approx. 9 km | Shared (in the hallway) | Free directly in front | Clean worker hostel, quiet tradesmen, strict house manager. | Official Web |
| Ubytovna Fores – KH | 390 CZK | approx. 4.5 km | Shared (on the floor) | Free public parking nearby | Kutná Hora outskirts, standard corporate & tourist hostel. | Contact & Info |
| Ubytovna Avia Kutná Hora | 380 CZK | approx. 5.5 km | Shared (in the hallway) | Free directly at the hostel | Classic commercial hostel for assembly companies, TV & Wi-Fi. | Profile & Map |
Do you need more comfort? Please research many cozy apartments on Booking.com etc.
Most probably our classes will be held in a nice old barn with gas heaters. We will try to do out best for your comfort, however please better equip yourself well with warmer clothes.
We will prepare lunch for you every day. There will also be a coffee/tea/cake time in the afternoons. This is all included in the course price. If you have any dietary restrictions please let us know ahead of time in the registration form below.
Breakfast and dinner are not included in the course price, however:
If you will be accomodated at the farm, you will have a possibility to heat up some water or use a simple electric cooker to prepare your tea/coffee or breakfast. There is a small market in the village.
For the dinner we invite you to bring your own ingredients for collective self-organized cooking on fire or you can find many nice restaurants about 5min from the farm, mainly in Kutná Hora.
For overnight stayers: tent and sleeping equipment
Everybody:
On the farm there are 2 dogs, so please better coordinate some dog-sitting for your pet.
1. Fill in the short, pre-registration form below (this will help us in our communication, food and language requirements and for the participants self-coordination of travel and accomodation sharing)
2. Send your registration fee
Please be aware that your spot on the course is only secure if we have received the course fee from you. There will be most probably maximum 20 spots available.
You are welcome to transfer the fee to the account:
Name: Jelen z Misek z.s.
Account number: 6296443309/0800
IBAN: CZ95 0800 0000 0062 9644 3309
Subject: Syntropy course fee (+ name of participant)
In case of cancellation, we are trying to fill your space with another possible participant.
However, in case we cannot find a replacement, we reserve the right to refund only part of the workshop fee according to the table below.
Cancellation up until 4 weeks before start of workshop 100 % money back
Cancellation up until 10 days before start of workshop: 50 % money back
Cancellation up until 3 days before start of workshop: 33 % money back.
This table is in reference to the first day of the workshop.
Learn more about syntropic agriculture at https://www.terra-network.org/ www.syntropy.cz
or send us your questions at: syntropy@asociaceampi.cz
Thank you for sharing of this event and we are very much looking forward to meeting you on this common adventure!
„For me, the Introduction to Syntropic Agroforesty course at Hof vErde with Filipe was both a life changing agroforestry course and a life-changing philosophy course.
The impact of my learnings not only included a delightfully mind-blowing expansion on agroforestry techniques, but also went beyond these techniques & principles to impact my understanding of the flow of life, my function on this planet, and my species’ function on this planet.
The philosophy of syntropy offers instructions on how to cohesively mimic forest systems to rapidly regenerate top soil, produce rain, manage optimizers (pests), suppress unwanted plants, and continuously produce food and market crops.
AND ALSO it offers a philosophy of how to be a version of human that chooses to take its place as a small, integral piece of a larger intelligent system based on principles of cooperation and unconditional love. This is a beautiful antidote to our culture’s obsession with Darwinian competition, individualism, and resource hoarding.
This course gives instructions on how to be a species that works to fulfill our function of building and maintaining abundance in our greater ecosystem while including human and non-human species in a philosophy of sharing and cooperation.
Even with permaculture courses and other regenerative farming techniques I learned about before this, there was always a puzzle piece missing. The sheer amount of inputs needed, the pests we succumbed to or sprayed with organic pesticides, the endless weeding, the susceptibility to weather & climate change… all felt like we were still fighting against nature instead of working with it.
Syntropic agroforestry was the puzzle piece I was missing.
Maris Harmon, participant of the course in October 2022
To find out more, I encourage you to take the course as well. I think everyone in the world should take this course.“
