Syntropic farming (also called syntropic agroforestry) is a regenerative farming method created by Swiss geneticist and farmer Ernst Götsch that helps farmers learn to read the natural strategies of regeneration of a given place and translate them into farming interventions. Instead of planting single crops in isolation, it organizes diverse species together in space, both horizontally and vertically, and in time, according to each plant’s life cycle, mimicking how a natural forest grows and regenerates. Unlike many agroforestry systems that take years to become productive, syntropic agriculture allows for harvests in as little as three months while still building soil fertility and biodiversity over the longer term. Rather than relying on outside inputs, it aims to produce a natural abundance that goes beyond what conventional or even organic farming achieves.
