Byron -- I love watching all your stuff, but to me, this one's special. Since I learned about Syntropic Agroforestry, I've dreamed about one day traveling to Brazil to meet master practitioners, see older systems, and FEEL what it's like to be there. Your capturing and sharing of your journey feels like the next best thing, and I'm soaking in so much that I never would have expected to be able to do from far. It's a surreal privilege to watch this. Very grateful to you for following your heart and bringing us along!
I have yet to experience what a blessing it would be to be around those who are as excited about agroforestry and just growing food as I am in person. Looking forward to making real connections with people this year in my area! Great video my man.
Hey Byron, very cool video and thanks for including me in it :) let me know if you are ever back in Bahia i'd love to show you our project. Cheers amigo
amazing video ! i think you could do longer video focusing on each spot with more footage of the site and the methodology they use. thank you for your work and sharing !
@@byron.in.new.zealand Come to Bolivia also -- visit indigenous communities across ecosystems from deep jungle, cloud forest, to high mountain ...! Awesome video, lifestyle & work -- thank you!
Loving these voices, the cross pollinating you have accomplished here! I can only imagine how hard it was to leave. And what diversity of new plants 🔥 May your heart be full of honey, after a long journey
Just recently discovering this subject. Really enjoying the concepts but as a working professional Arborist am feeling the need to comment on the pruning cuts that have been displayed. My training tells me that these are examples of topping cuts (height reduction of dominant trees) and are very detrimental to the tree. Much better for the tree would be a re-leadering cut which entails cutting the stem/trunk off at a lateral branch (ideally the branch that remains should be at least 1/3 the thickness of the trunk/stem that has been cut off). Also the cuts should not be made at a random location on the stem, but should always be at a node. Maybe my experience is biased, and maybe the tropical trees shown in the video react differently to the cuts being made on them, but just wanted to contribute my 15 years of tree pruning experience. Keep the videos coming, I really am inspired by what you are creating and putting out there from a systems perspective.
Bro, let's go!!!!! I am in Laurel Mt. Someday, Lord willing, there will be many amazing agreforestry farms here. I love your passion. You are a beautiful part of the body. You are welcome to visit whenever!
You guys are doing a great job for the planet and humanity. Your impact creates a huge change for the planet Earth biodiversity. Keep on going until the whole world, and the government will push this kind of endeavors. You are all even doing great than some Billionaires on Earth who are just after the paper money. 😂Your efforts are greatly appreciated. May your tribe will multiply for the next generation.Thank you and God bless you all.
I love so much Syntropic Agroforestry I think it's a revolutionary approach, I think it could be combined with many other approach to produce amazing results.
Worth the wait! Wow - such incredible forests and what a beautifully diverse country. We can't wait to learn more from you and apply this to our own food forest. Exciting times! Cat & Tom
Hey Byron love the work youve done here. I have been gobbling up your content and other syntropic content. I am starting my own syntropic system in central QLD AU and you have been an inspiration. Keep up the good work mate
Awesome adventure, thanks for sharing! i moved to Brazil almost a year ago and just discovered agroforestry excited to learn for so many talented people like yourself.
thank you for sharing. i practice syntropic farming in the Philippines and my heart beats louder when I see where syntropic farming came from. such beautiful farms.
As always, beautiful content and video bro, thanks for sharing your journey and your adventure!! your content lights other people's fire and passion all around the world, love and pura vida from Uruguay Inti
This is without a doubt one of the best videos I’ve seen on Syntropic Agroforestry. Thank you so so much for making this accessible for us English speakers.
yo ma man! this is amazing! I got so much insights from your experiences! thank you very much for taking the time to tape, edit and show this to others. Best energy from Colombia!
Wow Byron you just completed my dream to visit Brazil and study Syntropics. Hugh quality vid man excellent work. I’m at Syntropic Agroforestry in Australia: Farmer Jones
Thanks for watching (from Turkey!) Glad you're enjoying it - I love sharing the journey. There's a lot more in-depth content from each place I went during this trip to share as time goes on too
Incredible to witness, intriguing to learn! Thank you for your efforts in education and for sharing. Very much interested in trying a system in a temperate climate. With love from us to you all, keep up the good work.
Thank you for helping spread syntropic agroforestry to the English speaking world. now if only you were based in North America so I could more easily translate the knowledge my my climate and flora! It's me and my partners dream to start a prolific system here and the work on paper has already begun!
Thank you so much, Byron! And congrats at the same time! Amazing stuff that you are putting out here... Watching your video, I had so many moments with just pure joy and a big smile in my face! 48 minutes went by in a blink of an eye.... If you put out any additional footage I would of course watch it and after that also share it with all my friends passionate about this kind of entertainment.. I would be interested how long you've been to Brazil for and how you organized everything? Did you make reservations for some of the events, some looked kinda spontaneous. Do you have recommendations for anyone interested in living this experience? Any numbers regarding costs would also be appreciated... Thanks again and much love to you and all the Brazilian friends who made this video possible!
Byron, é possível você trazer sementes de espécies frutíferas não invasivas ,de seu país, ao Brasil ? Eu realmente não sei como isso funciona mas acho que os povos deveriam trocar sementes de plantas benéficas. ❤❤❤ * Amei seu vídeo de sua jornada pelo Brasil. Conheço virtualmente alguns dos agroflorestores que encontrou. Volte mais vezes, será sempre bem vindo.❤❤❤
Interconnectedness of humans with the entire life-web of the planet has been rediscovered with empathy and connection to non-human life … That philosophical shift is the only life boat we have as the titanic of industrial culture is about to hit the icebergs of limits … Lead the way man (at least for the English comprehending audience)
Wow what an amazing adventure. Do you offer work trades/internships/courses etc on your farm? I’m looking for hands on opportunities to learn before I start my raw land in Hawai’i.
How do you find all of these people, I have so many questions of each of them and you, and maybe it’s a dream but one day maybe we can all link up and have a world wide network of food forest people and something else I’m interested in - greening of the deserts. These things are not DIRECTLY my purpose but I imagine it as an important side chain of it
Plants do like being visisted. A plant fruits more when people are walking by it because it knows there are creatures around to spread its seeds. Thats the whole reason fruit exists, to entice animals like us.
And there weren’t lots of examples of active cultivation, but they certainly were popping up occasionally. Good use of the understory and humidity like you’re saying though
@@byron.in.new.zealand there's a few people growing mushrooms here in Hawaii. Another species of chicken of the woods grows on Koa which doubles as extremely valuable timber, not sure if you can grow that in NZ. One farmer experimented and managed to grow shitake on ice cream bean. Another guy used lime to sterilize wood chips and grew blue oysters. So much potential to maximize the lowest strata.
There is an agroforestry site near my house that grows mushrooms (shiitake). It's right here in Brazil, in the State of Paraná, and it's called Pronobis Agroflorestal.
One thing that strikes me most about all these food forests is the lack of grass between the rows. I can’t stop the couch, kikua, and nut sedge invading my entire 6 month old system. It’s in the swales, the beds, the footpath that was layered with cardboard, hay and then hardwood chip. I spent hours and hours pulling it by hand before my first chop and drop 3 weeks ago. And it’s coming back again through the organic matter. 🤦♂️ I can’t wait until the system pushes it out one day.
Happens quicker than you can imagine with the right management / planting. It’s almost entirely gone out of my systems, even the 1 year old systems are already starting to push it out
Byron, Thank you for your content , I do have a question for you though, why does everyone grow eucalyptus in the Rows ? Just curious, is it because it keeps pests away? Thank you
Great video, I love it! By the way, did all those seeds arrive to New Zealand? No problems in the airport? I am from Spain and a friend tried to bring me some seeds from Honduras but she wasn't allowed to.
I love your content. Great stuffs!. One thing though. How did you get all these seeds from one country to another. Is it legal to take them in a plane?
You talk about taking all you can in seeds and other to New Zeland, I know Australia has strict rules about that, doesn’t New Zeland have rules about bringing them in? I live on the Canary Islands and the are really strict about it as well.
