TEMPERATE Syntropic Agroforestry + Pine Monoculture to Food Forest

[@StefanSobkowiak]

FANTASTIC, glad to hear of systems in colder temperate climates. Sounds like a great project to visit. Keep it up Byron, you are a national treasure for NZ. I got a message from James about the course in NZ, you’re perfect for it. Keep on visiting, innovating, experimenting and being crazy to others. Keep exuding your passion.

[@brajboro]

One of the best convos I've heard period. Let's grow.

[@byrongrows]

Legend 🤝

[@blanearnold8699]

Yeah Byron! Grateful for this temperate specific info. I'm planning out my temperate syntropic design and it has been so difficult to find anything that's in English so thank you for doing this interview! Getting stoked for the growing season!

[@byrongrows]

Glad it was helpful! Figured there’d be someone who could get value from it. Good luck with the upcoming growing season!

[@WoutG]

Thank you for speaking my language (read: nerd talks about soil, diversity, agroforestry, ..) and giving new stuff to think about ! Big scale syntropic farms in our region, nice :)

[@pietsnot7002]

Nate from Garden like a viking says that pine needles don’t change the ph of the soil, it’s plants themselves who change the ph around their roots to their prefered level. That does tie in with what Paul Gauchi said about different types of plants and trees being planted next to each other in his garden and all doing great, just add organic matter to feed the soil.. Great talk 🙏

[@misssummer6387]

Great video with a very interesting guest! This was so insightful and fascinating.

[@LucasAdorn]

Very nice Laurenz! Talking about rhizophagy and the soil food web, mentioning the very important concept that plants are very much able to change pH adn in fact pH can vary along the root systems from µm to µm. Well done. I hope I can go and visit your project in Brandenburg some day. Byron: If you're coming to europe, there is also a small 3-4 year old system outside Copenhagen and I will be starting a couple of experimental plots as well this year.

[@keatonjohnson7822]

So grateful to you my man, I am watching so much of your content. I am so grateful 🙏🏼. Relate my own experiences with your own. Your talent of sharing is multiplying more than you can imagine.

[@eckvolkmann]

Thx for the inspiration guys!! I’ve been sent this link by a colleague indicating to me, how many parallels we can draw from temperate, arid Brandenburg to arid, subtropical Namibia. We‘re certainly empowered by you guyzes conversation to think bigger and go faster, including with a grazing system, incorporated to our veg-production and aspirational dry-land cropping.

[@NikClinton]

woohoo! so thankful for this episode!

[@byrongrows]

Happy to finally deliver some temperate info!!

[@Deacon198310]

Thanks a lot for this video. Syntropic Agroforestry in temperate climate still needs to prove itself, especially in cooler climates. Here, in the south of France (zone 8b), the big problem is the lack of water during the growing season and the lack of biomass plants. Poplar does not replace eucalyptus in terms of growth in my opinion. We cannot have the same density either, due to the lack of light. Except that less dense = more grass problem for example. A lot of testing is still needed and the videos in New Zealand of temperate syntropy are very interesting, as well as the experience of this one in Germany. Thanks again.

[@pietsnot7002]

This is in france, l don’t understand all of it but it looks nice. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2nLkKpvqKufadEsi=iaMUNz6nF_LqE4Ve

[@j97drews]

Thanks a lot for this talk. A regenerar!

[@charlotteking8123]

There's nothing wrong with "hippie" and the interconnectedness is exactly the core of the original philosophy. It's a great gift to manifest this in the environment and with social groups.

[@byrongrows]

Just stereotypes and associations lol. Its an incredible practice for connecting with the rest of the world

[@rowanwhite3520]

I also have only a four month growing season and grow lots of food. Great video!

[@danieldanfoxworth9528]

It is so refreshing to listen to people who have a deeper understanding of farming the microbes in the soil. This is what is essential to improving nutrients in our food and livestock. Better for soil better for life.

[@Dust2LivingSoil]

10:50 it’s pretty amazing to learn that organics and returning back to the soil is definitely the way to go adding 1% additional organic matter to an acre is equivalent to 20,000 extra gallons of water holding capacity therefore you don’t need your automate these systems it’s pretty amazing to realize the resilience and partnerships we could make with nature

[@Ben.McNeilly]

Still rewatching this video over and over, and still learning. Most informative video on this subject, period! Thannk you byron from your cold climate followers!

[@byrongrows]

Glad it was helpful!

[@outsiderartpodcast1081]

Such an insightful conversation. Loving the passion from both of you. I've just started incorporating syntropic food forest lines into my home orchard and am really enjoying spending time observing the system even after just a couple of months.

[@byrongrows]

Wonderful! Glad you could feel the passion- No doubt you’ve already experienced your own as your system evolves

[@taniah6290]

I really enjoyed your conversation, thank you.

[@byrongrows]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching

[@ForagerLife]

Be fruitful and multiply.

[@randomthingT7]

And replenish the earth.

[@NooberTrOlL]

Beautiful talk

[@tcfarms7645]

Yeah! Good created man to manage the garden! It is our original purpose! To live well as caregiver and learn about God through his creation. Genesis 1 in the Bible! Thanks guys for your passion. I am excited to do agroforestry in Laurel Mt.

[@LKRaider]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@SerRegenera]

what a epic video charge with wisdom! with such a powerfull context such as cold climate, large scale and pine monoculture, thanks for sharing bro Love from Uruguay

[@byrongrows]

Thanks brother! Looking forward to getting more of this temperate info out there

[@Operation_Far_North]

My block is ex pine too, great stuff bro cheers.

[@byrongrows]

Nice! Lots of potential there for you

[@jabolbot9371]

Thank you!! Discovered a previous video and was impressed with the process and knowledge about it. Super excited to see the cold climate info. I have a small plot in the middle of the U.S. that I can start this on. Harvest will just be for my family, so this is perfect. Really appreciate the sharing of info and experience.

[@Dust2LivingSoil]

I’d love to see a tour of colder climates. I live in zone 6b and I’m getting into agroforestry in a colder climate. But working with 4 season gets tricky but not impossible. I’m working on our land then once it’s settled in we have all ready been asked to do another 20 acres of Church Land. I’m loving your videos and your perspective on how to teach people is helping me blossom and learn so quickly and rapidly to really take my environment in and learn how to utilize it for me on the farm.

[@chaunceymillard2963]

Thank you for creating these videos, they are a tremendous resource and a great boon for all of humanity. That might sound over the top but I 100% mean that, this information is needed more than ever. Good sh*t my bro, much love.

[@byrongrows]

much love for this comment my friend 🤝🤝

[@helenoneill1806]

A fascinating conversation that was incredibly informative whilst warming my heart, thank you, I'm even more inspired to start my own system - if that was even possible!!

[@byrongrows]

You can do it!

[@FM-qm5xs]

My sandy soil is so dry it is almost constantly hydrophobic no matter what I do to try and improve it. I think the biggest problem is that the big pine trees just suck every drop of moisture out of the soil. I'm not surprised to hear that clear cutting the trees helped.

[@John-hu9bo]

Nice. I was there 2019 with Ernst. Did you make a video of the progress of their system?

[@byrongrows]

Awesome that would’ve been great. I think the farm sometimes shares content in IG. It’s linked in the description. I’ll have to visit eventually and film

[@JanePickard1]

Great video, thanks. Is there any more information available on their system of trellising grapes on maple trees? Structure and height to prune maple trees to? Even a pic would be helpful. Many thanks.

[@seanrichardson881]

I love how he explains epigenetics by saying plants are always evolving. Correct. And the popular method of outsourcing for plants and seeds completely prevents the evolution of plants to adapt to the specific growing conditions you live in!

[@byrongrows]

Absolutely! Glad we went into the details there

[@tomostojanovic1172]

the biggest problem of our time is not carbon but having psychopaths in positions of power. A psychocracy

[@byrongrows]

Truth lol

[@TaxEvasion777]

Ordo Ab Chao

[@rensspanjaard]

beautiful ! curious what the winery is in switserland Laurenz is sharing about??

[@SolSolSolas]

I’m studying horticulture and thinking of doing a higher level when I finish in agroforestry. I live somewhere along the same longtitude/latitude. How do I find out more about this type of growing? Any help would be great! Love the video

[@TaxEvasion777]

Food forests

[@omgThink4uRself]

Great video! PS: I would use mics that can cancel out the wind/background noises, & also if y'all seat at the corner of the table, it will be more of a natural feeling for the video. Just my two cents.

[@virgilrask5104]

Inspirational!

[@sherinsavier5071]

Epic video. So good and helpful! I am actually from Germany and living in Australia now, and was wondering how i can help my brothers and friends when visiting! Thank you for that. Would you also be able to make a video about how you prepare your NZ Food forest for winter time? Everything is growing so plentiful at the moment, but I can feel the temperate slowly changing here on the east coast. Still enough time...and I watched your video how you kept everything so dense and the bananas protected. Love all youe videos. I also am thinking about and am physically managing the system any free minute I have...every plant comes alive and talks. And it is a constant learning and feels like a life worth living for, growing food and being barefoot on the ground, watching the soil getting healthier and happier.

[@byrongrows]

Thanks for the awesome comment! Definitely will film something about prepping systems for winter

[@zanecrofts7085]

You can have best both worlds by planting seeds and grafting onto the trees you grew from seed in the field. Then your tree jas genetic diversity and good root system. And the graft gives you variety you like eat.

[@Slaxx89]

Thanks a lot for creating this video! Content about syntropic systems in a temperate climate is not that widely spread, so I'm very grateful for this. An interesting topic was about raising the cash crops (=fruit trees) directly from seed in the tree rows. Laurenz specified that they do actually graft (and don't use the actual fruit, as you assumed/suggested). As the conversation led to somewhere else, I was wondering if he told you more about it after the video? When do they graft those young seedlings/trees, at what height,...? And how do you look at this: does grafting have a negative impact on those trees? (maybe less resilience, no optimal use of the genes of the "original" tree,...) Would love to hear some more about that!

[@byrongrows]

Great observations! Glad you enjoyed. They didn’t specify at what age : height they’re grafting, I’d assume around year 2 maybe 3 … In-situ grafting sounds like the ideal solution honestly, aside from lower genetic diversity that you’d get growing straight from seed. But some species are way less reliable (apples, for example

[@philinit6476]

Great episode, how would you handle a white jasmine infestation. Are there plants that could act like tithonia but better within a temperte zone with the same vigor and shading qualities to manage nasty vine type weeds that are difficult to manage within a system?

[@gabibibenjamin2769]

Thanks bro would like to see the the sisteem😊

[@byrongrows]

Their instagram is linked in the description. Don’t think they share too much about it unfortunately. I’ll have to go there myself & film lol

[@gabibibenjamin2769]

Me and you are nabours lol the sea is our fence lol Im in a place called KNYSNA in South Africa western cape . I have to say thanks for all the Info that you are putting out I've learned alot not only from what u are teaching but allso from the tree sisteems in your backgrounds thanks. People say Im mad when I tell them about sintropic agroforestry and permaculture .They look at me funny some of them has become mad together with me lol I allso 100%agree in the video the gratification and sence of purpose you feel . It calls to your inner being .Thanks bro

[@zanecrofts7085]

Is there a video we can find ofbthe person groeing grapes on mapple trees. Im very interested in trying a row at the agroforestry patch we starting this autumn in Christchurch at the climate campus school by the redzone. We have mild enough frost being close to the shore in wainoni compated other side of city in hornby. We are going do a row of eucalyptus, bananas, avacodo and taro with some more support species.

[@rogueregenerativeagriculture]

Great convo thanks!

[@byrongrows]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@kirkbodendorfer5313]

What kind of poplar is being used for support species?

[@Robbo0090]

wanna see his operation!

[@GWRAM18]

10:54 its so dumb obvious but for some reason i never thought of it!!

[@byrongrows]

Seeds are the best way for resilient trees

[@АндрейЙердна-ч2и]

Может вы разговарили когда и как часто в умеренном климате они делают обрезку деревьев?

[@gaskofromEU]

Super interesting conversation! I have to be honest and say that I was also misled for some time by the cliché that "syntropic agroforestry works only in tropical or sub-tropical regions". Luckily, I learned otherwise and next year I'm going to start my (small) agroforestry system in Northern Italy, feel free to drop by btw :D

[@byrongrows]

Thanks for sharing! Good luck with your project

[@sirnakerb209]

I also have a syntropic agriculture systeem in northern Italy! What kind of pioneers are you using?

[@gaskofromEU]

@@sirnakerb209 I didn't start yet and I'm actually still in the process of searching for the land, but if you want we can keep in touch and share our progress 🙂

[@АндрейЙердна-ч2и]

Очень интересно, спасибо! А есть канал на Yuotube у этих ребят?

[@byrongrows]

Their instagram is linked in the description

[@7991noraA]

Findet man irgend wo Vodeos von dem Hof?

[@Pieter_Meert]

Great initiative!

[@diegoinostroza9012]

Do you have any experience of how syntropic forests work in Mediterranean climates?

[@growingwithfungi]

🔥

[@FloridamanForager]

Two ants talking ant talk. Love it

[@byrongrows]

Top tier comment

[@NamibianFoodForestHomesteading]

Hi man! Thank you for all you teach us! You've inspired us to document our syntropic food forest on YT, check it out!

[@NamibianFoodForestHomesteading]

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[@user-so2kz5hq5w]

Robinia pseudacasia

[@ilusiondelyo]

🌱💚🌱

[@preciouspets8m396]

Nice

[@thisearththeonlyheaven]

Let's grow

[@byrongrows]

😎🤝

[@marksmit8112]

Yeah yeah sounds all good but no numbers no care. Please show us practical application and economic benefits as well as environmental ones.