De Raíz: What is a syntropic garden and why more and more people are opting for this method

A few weeks ago, in the interview with Carlos from Huerta Orgánica, the topic of syntropic farming was discussed. It is interesting to delve deeper, as it is a concept that is trending in food cultivation. The idea of syntropy was not born overnight. The great promoter of this approach is Ernst Götsch, a Swiss farmer and researcher who has been working in Brazil for decades. Götsch observed the native forests and understood something simple but key: nature never leaves bare soil, it always mixes species and everything that falls back to feed life. Based on this, he developed syntropic agriculture, a system that seeks to produce food following the same rules that the forest uses to regenerate itself. That is precisely what Carlos started to apply. Instead of neat rows and separate areas, the syntropic garden functions like a small forest in motion. Fruit trees, shrubs, vegetables, aromatics, and service plants coexist. Some grow quickly and provide shade, others fix nitrogen, ...