Pioneer year — twelve weeks before you plant a tree
The pioneer year is the easiest year to skip and the costliest one to lose. The fruit-tree sapling you plant in year one is making promises…
Read the playbook, get the PDF →What we believe
The forest already knew how. We are learning to farm like it does.
Seven layers, one design. Syntropic agroforestry copies the forest's own succession schedule — pioneer species before fruit trees, ground cover before competing weeds, canopy before drought. Everything we publish is organized around that schedule.
The playbook
Four stages, one schedule.
Secondary years — pruning, chop-and-drop, the patient grove
Here is a concise, source‑based snapshot aligned to your four focus questions. Note that “syntropic agriculture” in the Götsch sense is sti…
Read the playbook, get the PDF →Climax years — the canopy, the harvest, the slowing down
1. **Götsch – managing the “climax” / late-secondary–climax phase (≈ years 5–15)** *Concepts are scattered; there is no single canonical pr…
Read the playbook, get the PDF →Abundance years — the economics of a mature Pakistani agroforest
1. Farm‑gate revenues for mature Pakistani multi‑strata agroforestry systems – PARC and PHDEC report commodity-wise farm returns, but…
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Three things this week.
Metal raised garden beds
Corrugated and galvanized metal raised beds — soil-heat and rust concerns, food-safety of coatings, lifespan vs wood, and how popular kits compare.
How to grow tomatoes: from seedling to harvest
A seed-to-harvest tomato guide: determinate vs. indeterminate varieties, spacing, watering, staking, container growing, and how to beat blight and hornworms.
Designing a drip irrigation system
Lay out a drip irrigation system that actually delivers even water — emitter spacing, pressure and zones, solar-powered options, and rainwater-tank feeds.
Plants index — sampler
Find what grows in your climate.
The shop — by stage
A tool for every stage.
A note from the field, weekly