Community Syntropic Food Forest - An evolution of its growth.

Sometimes its hard to visualise just how a Syntropic Food Forest evolves over time, so heres a compilation of photos and footage of the installation, planting and growth over two years, in appreciation of the power of nature's drive for regeneration when we work alongside her!
On the 26th 2020 of October we planted this Syntropic Food Forest with community and family eager to learn and part take in transforming a piece of land over grown with kikuyu into an oasis of forest and food.
Ngā mihi nui, a big thanks to the whānau at Ngāratunua for being so open to this concept and for aiding this food forest to thrive with the many hands that came to help plant it. And also thank you to the beautiful voices of the kapa haka crew practicing across the road at Te Paea Marae on the morning of filming some of this footage.
Super excited to share this video with you all (video only recently released to public - previously only available on our membership platform) may it hopefully be an inspiration to you.
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Early drone footage shots by Byron Briss, mature drone shots by Dane Scott Creative.

[@carinaterra7924]

Thank you for inspiring me. I moved to Brazil from the US 4 months ago to plant a food forest 🌳 ❤

[@veni_vidi_vici.]

Você é brasileira?

[@Dono-da-Blaze]

Onde você vai plantar? Já começou? Abraços

[@gabibibenjamin2769]

Respect my brother here from South Africa western cape knysna 😊

[@dank9769]

Ka rawe, so awesome to see this over time! Density done like no other x

[@wizdigfiz]

Could watch this all day, ka mau te wehi!

[@SerRegenera]

beautiful video and beautiful work, thanks for sharing and thanks for all the inspiration you grow on the world besides the beautiful forest and wisdom , Love from Uruguay Inti

[@allanheartwood8700]

So inspiring

[@Kevin-Cruz]

Beautiful job!

[@Drag0nFlea]

You guys are absolutely amazing and i wish that you will be able to upload more content more often, it's a pleasure to learn from you! ❤

[@permadynamicsnewzealand2698]

Thanks, we do have heaps of weekly educational videos on our website platform with more in depth stuff too.

[@permadynamicsnewzealand2698]

This is the link to our online memebership platform where these kinds of videos we post every week :) www.permadynamics.co.nz/embership

[@summerjetset]

Brush wattles coming through strong

[@permadynamicsnewzealand2698]

Yep they sure did. Now 6 months on, we have pruned them all back and phased them out to allow for the next stage in succession. They did their job perfectly! but as mentioned in reply to an above comment: - Often seen as a pest, and can certainly be a pest. But if managed right (with the careful application of Syntropic Agroforestry techniques) they can drastically increase soil fertility like few other plants. We do not recommend planting them if you are unable to manage appropriately, but if you can, then my goodness how we could really start transforming the poorest soils into food production or back into native forests with Syntropic Agroforestry when done right!-

[@raysouth1952]

Such growth! Life begets life. Just curious. The only community members in the video appeared on planting day. The rest of the time it was just you two doing the hard yakka. Has the community lost interest? Happens a lot with community projects. I’ve seen several initiatives that started with a bang but eventually folded as one by one the initial team lost interest.

[@syntropicfarms]

Been waiting for this vid foreverrr lol

[@cedriccbass-jp8ky]

the moles always dig around and kill my little plants. any tips?

[@ruthcleopatra]

Interesting,in the beginning of the video, you indicated the removal of "kikuyu grass" for a moment i thought this was Kenya, in some remote kikuyu village

[@sharonhoffer3599]

So beautiful. What an amazing effort by all involved, and the love put into it is incredible ❤ One question. How do you manage to cut the eucalyptus when they have grown so tall? 😊

[@permadynamicsnewzealand2698]

Thank you for that feedback! Once they get to a wine bottle size in diameter trunk we go up with a 3-6meter ladder (depending on how high we need the canopy to be) and pollard them. then keep pollarding them every year retuning that biomass back to the soil as so they act as nutrient and water pumps for us. As well as opening up the soil with their strong root system. Eventually once our other climax trees are mature and the j.raisin trees are ready to succeed the eucalyptus we will fell them and with the shade of the food forest they will quickly die out. For more on this I highly recommend joining our platform where we have hundreds of videos explaining and showing these kinds of concepts. Thanks for watching!

[@sharonhoffer3599]

@@permadynamicsnewzealand2698 thank you so much 🙏🏽 Up a 3-6 metre sounds doable. And thanks for the tip, I will look into your platform as I’d love more information. I’m 59 and my partner is 66, so I’ve got to ensure what I start is manageable 😊

[@craigtimms6814]

Looks great but where is all the food?

[@permadynamicsnewzealand2698]

Its two years old, going on three now. First year we had cabages, corn, potatoes, pumpkins, tomatoes, lettuce, beetroot and beans. Second year we had a big crop of mulberries and tamarillos, now coming into fruit will be blue berries, peaches, bananas and citrus. Then 5-10 years will have cherimoya, nuts, avocado, sapote, stone fruit, inga bean, figs and more that I have missed out off the top of my head but is listed at the beginning of the video. All in an area that previously was just considered kikuyu grass 'wasteland'.

[@oliverjones2687]

Why do you have so many brush wattles? aren't they a pest? or am I just confused?

[@permadynamicsnewzealand2698]

Often seen as a pest, and can certainly be a pest. But if managed right (with the careful application of Syntropic Agroforestry techniques) they can drastically increase soil fertility like few other plants. We do not recommend planting them if you are unable to manage appropriately, but if you can, then my goodness how we could really start transforming the poorest soils into food production or back into native forests with Syntropic Agroforestry when done right!

[@annfreewil9756]

The music is bad. The garden look fantastic

[@permadynamicsnewzealand2698]

better than the other way around!

[@ilakaizen4926]

Is this in new zealand?

[@permadynamicsnewzealand2698]

In the north of it