Transform the way you grow your food and multiply productivity in your backyard, market garden or large-scale farm in a semi-arid region.

More than just a gardening course

The word ‘Syntropy’ in an agroforestry concept which refers to “increasing complexity” or bio-diversity within the system.

As an innovative approach to regenerative agriculture, Syntropic Farming allows us to create dynamic, successional, and economically viable ecosystems that restore degraded soil biodiversity by mimicing what nature does, but in a system that can be easily managed AND uses less water than conventional methods.

What makes Syntropic farming unique is that it emulates the growth of the rainforest, one of the most bio-diverse systems of life on the planet.

By understanding and respecting nature’s complex system and copying how the rainforest functions, we can save massive amounts of water on our crops or orchards, eliminate the use of chemicals and considerably reduce financial and labour cost.

October Workshop

Saturday 8th October – Monday 10th October 2022

8:30am – 3:30pm

Morning & Afternoon tea and lunch provided

Early Bird price – $610 if booked and paid before 30th August 2022

Returning student special – $395 per person *

Full price – $765 per person

What's included

• 21hours Syntropic Farming instruction with Thiago Gimenez Barbosa from Syntropic Farms Co.
• Hands-on application of Syntroipc Principles in a live semi-arid system looking at the examples of home garden, market garden and large-scale farming
• Course manual
• Delicious (from the garden) Morning and afternoon tea

Topics covered

This course is an introduction and extensive 3 day intensive for people who would like to understand the methodology and philosophy of Syntropic Farming and apply it. It will be an intensive 3 days with a mixture of theory and application in a semi-arid environment, leaving you with an understanding of the core practices used in Syntropic Farming, along with a practical, hands-on experience of how the concepts are put into practice and how you can apply them at home immediately.

This course is for farmers, backyard growers, entrepreneurs, students, teachers and anyone who wants to be be involved with food production and environmental stewardship.

The main topics will be:

• Soil Evaluation and Landscape Reading
• Observation of climate and soil through all senses
• Bacteria and fungi (Mychorrhizae) + Quantity of life/ diversity
• Soil coverage
• Theory of Syntropy and Entropy
• Soil Preparation + different types of garden beds
• System design
• Planting demonstration
• and much much more...