Byron my brother... i am from South Africa. Watching your video has made my day.. another viewer is quite right. Grade school children should be taughr what you teach. I am 65 years young and i will ensure my children and grandson come to know what you teach and as such create a multi generational legacy that we can observe one day when we are back in Spirit. You may never read my comment but nevertheless I bless you brother... may you be super abundantly successful and prosperous in all you do
Glad you're enjoying it! If you're wanting even more deep-dives, we've got an online community where we explore this in-detail on live calls & courses every week with other professional designers- Just check the description.
Will certainly do. After a massive unbearable heatwave in my city Mysuru, panning to kickstart a urban food forest movement locally. I can use deep dives for sure.
Best 31.5 minutes I've spent today. Incredibly informative and practical to boot. Thanks for sharing freely what most design experts charge a small farm for.
Thanks a lot for this video and making this knowledge free for everyone! I see so much potential and hope in planting food forests worldwide. Greetings from Germany
Hi from Czech Republic (Europe)! This is a great video for me. I like your notes about how to think about agroforestry. We have a very different climate to Brazil, but these principles should work in all possible climates, I think. Thank You.
.... Another, South African here xD lol ... Reading through the comments it's pretty interesting how many of us are attracted to your content... Anyways, super informative video, started my food forest about 6 months back and I'm loving it, it's all I talk about these days, bless my amazing wife for pretending to be as interested (In yet, another hobby of mine) Haha. Much love and success for your future - Guardian Prepping.
Thank you for this great informative video. I am part of a community garden near Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We are trying to incorporate permaculture and agroforestry principles in our garden. This was very helpful.
Thank you. I'm glad you spoke towards the end about "nests", which I think are like fruit tree guilds. I am planting--have planted one and hope to plant others if my health permits-- little fruit tree nests in poor neighborhoods where people don't have access to much fresh produce. I found your presentation clear and thoughtful. I especially liked learning about the time and space considerations. Keep up the good work!
Greetings from Costa Rica! I just discovered your channel today. Loved the video. I moved to Costa Rica late last summer and hopefully by the end of this year we'll be well on our way to finding a nice piece of property to homestead. I am voraciously consuming all types of info on permaculture and food forests and this is one video is one of the best I have seen. Keep up the good work!
Wow!! An amazing distillation of the principles and ideas....and with the added benefit that because you explained the 'whys' as well as the 'hows' I am way more likely to remember it and use it! Thank goodness we are finally moving away from the ideas from earlier gardening books that have been 'copy and pasted' ad infinitum even though they were not working well in many cases. Thankyou so much for sharing Byron! You are an amazing soul!
I love the idea of using this on some old pastures/farmland, and then just hunting the wildlife that eventually returns, supplementing with edible flora. That's the goal, an eventual return to Hunter-Gatherer, but actually incorporating myself into the ecology as more than just a consumer. Maybe a bit of a pipe-dream atm, but it's something to work towards I think.
Thank you so much for the info! We have a food forest started in the community garden and teaching is so important to get everyone on the same page. We are in West Palm Beach if your ever in the area please stop by!
Thank you so much Byron, love the tree as your underlying structure. And so far a really fresh and simple guide. Thank you for digging deep and at the same time making all this information accessable and applicable!❤ Greetings from the Kalahari
You are an absolute legend mate Thanks so much for this information. Hoping to implement a food forest here in perth WA. Starting with a small patch on my block, moving into larger scale once I have some confidence as I’m starting from absolute Zero :)
Wow! This is so so cool. Thank you for sharing this in such a simple way. I am new to permaculture and food forests so I was a bit overwhelmed with how to even start.
Maybe i live on a different planet. This is rarely what i see in permaculture locally. I tend to see people repeating things they see that I don't like. Everyone seems to think if it works for them and they like it that everyone else should do the same. In this presentation he really seemed to focus on the fact that each individual has a different vision. This was a true demonstration of permaculture.
So not 2 weeks ago, I started my forest in my forest with some trees and a couple bushes. Literally no idea. I'm now get to watch this and see how bad I messed it up
This is such a necessary tool for growing food now. It’s too bad it takes so much money and time to grow. We started ours, mostly from seed (most of which did not germinate) 3 years ago but we have native species of elderberry, willow, birch, high bush cranberry, and some cheap big box fruit trees (I know, I know). We’ve also propagated some local grape vine, black currant and raspberry. It’s coming along slowly but we hope to see some fruit this year.
I was waiting for a video like this! Am hoping to install a Syntropic system in india this wet season, but all the Syntropic videos online, while hugely informative, just overwhelmed and confused me in my own design process. Was hopeful we’d get a video like this, and was over the moon when I saw you’d released this. This will really help me get a solid foundation for my system design!
I can't help commenting! This is just a class man! Like I am in a course! The fantastic skill of teaching! Didn't expect this! Keep going buddy! I am going to make it a text and USE this as a CHECK LIST when doing my garden, En Shaa Allah! My humble advice: The next thing you can do is, take a 1 Acre of land and do these steps practically yourself and of course, make time-lapse videos, at the end of 3 months, you should have a full workout of your theory in field and that will make you the OWNER of a 'Gardening Course/ 'Food Forest', whatever you call it. And people will have no choice to come and learn from you.
Thanks Byron. Great content. I'm starting another food forest from scratch for a client, and going to incorporate syntropic design in this one. Thanks for getting this out there in English!
Thank you so much for taking the time to put this video together. This is information is very valuable and we greatly appreciate you for sharing all you have learned. I am buying land for soon and this is definitely going in my resources for planning when I turn the land into a beautiful homestead. Bless you kind sir 👽
Your videos never disappoint but this one so informative. Your page is the only one on TH-cam I have the notifications set on for so I never miss a video. Thanks for including some thoughts on planning temperate systems as well!
Byron thank you you just took the pen and connected all the dots 😊 the fog in my mind became clear I understand know thank U. thanks for the compacted comprehensive Sintropic book
This was immensely helpful. It was full of much of the information I have already learned but it also had even more info as well as laying it out in a very digestible way. I live in the low desert of Arizona and it's hard to find information for that type of area but this showed the fundamentals in a way that I could apply them in my area. Thank you so much for the video!
I've had my area prepared for a few weeks and I've been delaying putting the yes into the ground as I'm not 100% certain how it where to put them. This video has given me all the info i need to make those decisions with confidence. Thank you! Is love to know where you find out about the _real_ best growing conditions for trees... So many say that they need full sun, but it's clearly not true.
Thank you for sharing this! ❤ Such great info and great delivery. I’m at the early stages of a project in Costa Rica and this was so helpful in planning.
Great news to find that update! Thanks a lot! I was looking in your content for the answer of a question because I remember that you started with an existing orchard: How do you buid up organic matter around your existing tree lines. Mine are on flat land and I am afraid of burrying their feet and trunks to much, so how do you improve your existing tree lines? Thanks
This is great. I'm going to very much enjoy ingesting all of this quality information. I noticed you mentioned that you're having good results with fungus inoculation in the syntropic methods. Do you feel that the typical benefits we see in the plants from syntropic farm is similar in the fungus lifecycle and potentially accelerated growth? Just some feedback, you move a lot and have good engaging body language. I would probably not change the recording angles so much in the videos as it becomes a little too often, in my opinion.
hi Byron, do you have a workshop coming ? I learned permaculture in Australia and inspired from your design, would like to come for a workshop to visit and understand more of your system and wonderful design.
Wonderful video Byron, thanks for sharing! I know this was just a small part of the video, but it was a very important detail. Could you make more videos/content whatever to share your experience with plants that don't actually want full sun? If the information from nurseries or on sites like PFAF (i really love this one for getting details about plants) isn't accurate, it would be great to get some of your experience about what these plants actually do like, thank you!
Great information! Thanks for sharing this. Is there any database of trees that indicate their preferred strata? I was surprised to hear about citrus and full sun exposure.
Very well explain. Tanks. This obviously dosent work for comercial prodution. Can work for homestead selfsuficient kind of thing, but the amount of work is imense. If you want to go for more then half an acre better be VERY ENERGETIC or have acess to cheap/free labour...and money. But, if its done right becomes a fast dense prodution forest.
Very thorough, valuable information. I designed and planted my first food forest I’m southern Shikoku Japan starting in 2016. I’m Canadian living in the Japan countryside for going on @4 years now. Which country are you in?
My tree line is a citrus hedge row at 1m centers. All I have to support it is a bunch of comfrey and the leaves I can scavenge from an old oak tree. I'll probably add something like bana grass and Mexican sunflowers to add biomass but not really sure what else would help at this point.
Byron my brother... i am from South Africa. Watching your video has made my day.. another viewer is quite right. Grade school children should be taughr what you teach. I am 65 years young and i will ensure my children and grandson come to know what you teach and as such create a multi generational legacy that we can observe one day when we are back in Spirit. You may never read my comment but nevertheless I bless you brother... may you be super abundantly successful and prosperous in all you do
Can’t believe that this is available for free for everyone 🔥
Glad you're enjoying it! If you're wanting even more deep-dives, we've got an online community where we explore this in-detail on live calls & courses every week with other professional designers- Just check the description.
Will certainly do. After a massive unbearable heatwave in my city Mysuru, panning to kickstart a urban food forest movement locally. I can use deep dives for sure.
Best 31.5 minutes I've spent today. Incredibly informative and practical to boot. Thanks for sharing freely what most design experts charge a small farm for.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks a lot for this video and making this knowledge free for everyone! I see so much potential and hope in planting food forests worldwide. Greetings from Germany
This Should be taught in grade school and high school, very interesting and very informative 👍 ❤😊💫🌟✨️🙏 many thanks for sharing this 🙏 😀 ❤
Nice teaching mate! May you live long to benefit this planet earth!
Least I can do is to express gratitude for you Willingness to share what you Know.
Many thanks, amazing content.
The outfit and the in depth knowledge of your passion! You are like the bill gates of food forestry
Hi from Czech Republic (Europe)! This is a great video for me. I like your notes about how to think about agroforestry. We have a very different climate to Brazil, but these principles should work in all possible climates, I think. Thank You.
Some videos, and this is one of them; where you watch it, you can give it another thumbs up. Nice work Byron!
.... Another, South African here xD lol ... Reading through the comments it's pretty interesting how many of us are attracted to your content... Anyways, super informative video, started my food forest about 6 months back and I'm loving it, it's all I talk about these days, bless my amazing wife for pretending to be as interested (In yet, another hobby of mine) Haha. Much love and success for your future - Guardian Prepping.
Wow ...This is a brilliant summary on how to get going with agroforestry... Thank you very much for sharing
Thank you for this great informative video. I am part of a community garden near Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We are trying to incorporate permaculture and agroforestry principles in our garden. This was very helpful.
Thank you. I'm glad you spoke towards the end about "nests", which I think are like fruit tree guilds. I am planting--have planted one and hope to plant others if my health permits-- little fruit tree nests in poor neighborhoods where people don't have access to much fresh produce. I found your presentation clear and thoughtful. I especially liked learning about the time and space considerations. Keep up the good work!
Greetings from Costa Rica! I just discovered your channel today. Loved the video. I moved to Costa Rica late last summer and hopefully by the end of this year we'll be well on our way to finding a nice piece of property to homestead. I am voraciously consuming all types of info on permaculture and food forests and this is one video is one of the best I have seen. Keep up the good work!
Love from ghana! We're getting a small forest started this year on our homestead here and this comes at the right time!
Wow!! An amazing distillation of the principles and ideas....and with the added benefit that because you explained the 'whys' as well as the 'hows' I am way more likely to remember it and use it! Thank goodness we are finally moving away from the ideas from earlier gardening books that have been 'copy and pasted' ad infinitum even though they were not working well in many cases. Thankyou so much for sharing Byron! You are an amazing soul!
Extremely useful content, explaining everything from step 1 till the last step.!
I've been looking into syntropic ag for a while now. I think I'm really finally starting to get it thanks to this video. Thank you!
I love the idea of using this on some old pastures/farmland, and then just hunting the wildlife that eventually returns, supplementing with edible flora. That's the goal, an eventual return to Hunter-Gatherer, but actually incorporating myself into the ecology as more than just a consumer. Maybe a bit of a pipe-dream atm, but it's something to work towards I think.
Brilliant and right on time for the rain season here in Nicaragua!
Thank you so much for the info! We have a food forest started in the community garden and teaching is so important to get everyone on the same page. We are in West Palm Beach if your ever in the area please stop by!
Watching this being a brazilian is specially amusing for the amount of references to our experiences here. Thanks for the video, great explanation :)
Thank you so much Byron, love the tree as your underlying structure. And so far a really fresh and simple guide. Thank you for digging deep and at the same time making all this information accessable and applicable!❤
Greetings from the Kalahari
Glad it was helpful!
Brilliantly explained un an easy form...great work
Dude, this is pure quality. Thank you so much for your incredibly clear teaching.
You are an absolute legend mate
Thanks so much for this information.
Hoping to implement a food forest here in perth WA.
Starting with a small patch on my block, moving into larger scale once I have some confidence as I’m starting from absolute Zero :)
This was perfect timing and answered many of my questions to go to level two of my food forest. Thank you..❤
Wow! This is so so cool. Thank you for sharing this in such a simple way. I am new to permaculture and food forests so I was a bit overwhelmed with how to even start.
great framework and visuals. This is the 'doing' of food forest design.
Maybe i live on a different planet. This is rarely what i see in permaculture locally. I tend to see people repeating things they see that I don't like. Everyone seems to think if it works for them and they like it that everyone else should do the same. In this presentation he really seemed to focus on the fact that each individual has a different vision. This was a true demonstration of permaculture.
Solid video Byron. Easy to understand and digest. Will be using these concepts to upgrade my system in the coming season. Thanks for sharing this.
So not 2 weeks ago, I started my forest in my forest with some trees and a couple bushes.
Literally no idea.
I'm now get to watch this and see how bad I messed it up
This is such a necessary tool for growing food now. It’s too bad it takes so much money and time to grow. We started ours, mostly from seed (most of which did not germinate) 3 years ago but we have native species of elderberry, willow, birch, high bush cranberry, and some cheap big box fruit trees (I know, I know). We’ve also propagated some local grape vine, black currant and raspberry. It’s coming along slowly but we hope to see some fruit this year.
Briliant compact yet complete presentation 👌 thanks for sharing!
What an absolute masterclass, thank you so much! 😁
Thank you so much for this summary. It helps me before planting my second forest
Stoked you found it helpful
Thank you for sharing! Looking at getting some land soon, God willing, and building a food forest! I appreciate your wisdom and insight.
An excellent presentation on designing a food forest 🇵🇰❤️🇵🇰
I was waiting for a video like this! Am hoping to install a Syntropic system in india this wet season, but all the Syntropic videos online, while hugely informative, just overwhelmed and confused me in my own design process. Was hopeful we’d get a video like this, and was over the moon when I saw you’d released this. This will really help me get a solid foundation for my system design!
Stoked to hear this - Glad it came at the right time for you !
Just what I needed, sometimes I have information overload and this just helped me sort out my thoughts, thanks so much
I can't help commenting!
This is just a class man!
Like I am in a course!
The fantastic skill of teaching!
Didn't expect this!
Keep going buddy!
I am going to make it a text and USE this as a CHECK LIST when doing my garden, En Shaa Allah!
My humble advice:
The next thing you can do is,
take a 1 Acre of land
and do these steps practically yourself
and of course, make time-lapse videos,
at the end of 3 months, you should have a full workout of your theory in field
and that will make you the OWNER of a 'Gardening Course/ 'Food Forest', whatever you call it.
And people will have no choice to come and learn from you.
Thank you - I’ve got an online learning platform set up that we’re already on; check the link in the description 🤝
What an awesome video! This deserves over a million views!
Amazing brother, see you in Portugal! 😁
Tactical Permaculture Trainer! Outstanding knife hand sir! Briefing appreciated.
Thanks Byron. Great content. I'm starting another food forest from scratch for a client, and going to incorporate syntropic design in this one. Thanks for getting this out there in English!
Thank you so much for taking the time to put this video together. This is information is very valuable and we greatly appreciate you for sharing all you have learned. I am buying land for soon and this is definitely going in my resources for planning when I turn the land into a beautiful homestead. Bless you kind sir 👽
Thank you for your time, knowledge and generosity. Good health, blessings and abundant harvests to you and yours.
Your knowlage is superb. Love your work. Thanks
i needed a checklist as a guideline to riff with for my environment =)
Your videos never disappoint but this one so informative. Your page is the only one on TH-cam I have the notifications set on for so I never miss a video. Thanks for including some thoughts on planning temperate systems as well!
Wow, thank you! Stoked to hear that, and that you got lots of value from this one
Byron thank you you just took the pen and connected all the dots 😊 the fog in my mind became clear I understand know thank U. thanks for the compacted comprehensive Sintropic book
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you very much for these lessons. Watching from Timor-Leste.
Glad it's reaching across the globe! 🌎
Byron - the man the myth the legend. 🙌🌴
Mind = blown!!! Thank you so much for sharing this information 🤩🤩🤩
Stoked to be able to share it with you!
This was immensely helpful. It was full of much of the information I have already learned but it also had even more info as well as laying it out in a very digestible way. I live in the low desert of Arizona and it's hard to find information for that type of area but this showed the fundamentals in a way that I could apply them in my area. Thank you so much for the video!
this is Awesome! Cheers from Sri lanka 🇱🇰
Super valuable. I'm sure I will come back to this video many times in the future.
Thank you for this!! Yah blessings fam🙏🌴
top masterclass! greetings from Belgium
just awesome. Very grateful for the explanation on the strata coverage percentage.
Amazing video Byron, thanks for share, greetings from Argentina 🧉🌿
What an unbelievable resource 👏
All my gratitude. Very detailed video
I've had my area prepared for a few weeks and I've been delaying putting the yes into the ground as I'm not 100% certain how it where to put them. This video has given me all the info i need to make those decisions with confidence. Thank you!
Is love to know where you find out about the _real_ best growing conditions for trees... So many say that they need full sun, but it's clearly not true.
Byron, this is really awesome, so many valuable informations. Thx Mr.
That was absolutely amazing! So much info right there! This will be so helpful for my upcoming food forest! Thank you so much 🌱🌿
Yes sir, thanks, now l fully understand the strata part 🙏
Absolutely incredible video, thank you. 👌🏼
Glad the algo recommended this channel. 🤓
Thankyou for sharing. Absolutely this is valuable knowledge
This is fantastic, very helpful, THANK YOU 🙏
Awesome content I appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
Thank you for sharing this! ❤ Such great info and great delivery. I’m at the early stages of a project in Costa Rica and this was so helpful in planning.
Great news to find that update! Thanks a lot! I was looking in your content for the answer of a question because I remember that you started with an existing orchard: How do you buid up organic matter around your existing tree lines. Mine are on flat land and I am afraid of burrying their feet and trunks to much, so how do you improve your existing tree lines? Thanks
This is great. I'm going to very much enjoy ingesting all of this quality information. I noticed you mentioned that you're having good results with fungus inoculation in the syntropic methods. Do you feel that the typical benefits we see in the plants from syntropic farm is similar in the fungus lifecycle and potentially accelerated growth?
Just some feedback, you move a lot and have good engaging body language. I would probably not change the recording angles so much in the videos as it becomes a little too often, in my opinion.
great explanation of a complex situation in an easy to understand way, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great Video! I like the design process. Different and more practical than the other Permaculture processes.
Thank you!
That´s a really great video. Thanks a lot, @Byron !
hi Byron, do you have a workshop coming ? I learned permaculture in Australia and inspired from your design, would like to come for a workshop to visit and understand more of your system and wonderful design.
Great video. Thank you
Wonderful video Byron, thanks for sharing!
I know this was just a small part of the video, but it was a very important detail. Could you make more videos/content whatever to share your experience with plants that don't actually want full sun? If the information from nurseries or on sites like PFAF (i really love this one for getting details about plants) isn't accurate, it would be great to get some of your experience about what these plants actually do like, thank you!
Amazing info thanks for sharing your knowledge with us 👌👍🇮🇳
Awesome video. The content is very useful and easy to follow along. Awesome awesome work.
Glad you think so!
Great information! Thanks for sharing this. Is there any database of trees that indicate their preferred strata? I was surprised to hear about citrus and full sun exposure.
Very well explain. Tanks.
This obviously dosent work for comercial prodution. Can work for homestead selfsuficient kind of thing, but the amount of work is imense. If you want to go for more then half an acre better be VERY ENERGETIC or have acess to cheap/free labour...and money.
But, if its done right becomes a fast dense prodution forest.
Very thorough, valuable information. I designed and planted my first food forest I’m southern Shikoku Japan starting in 2016. I’m Canadian living in the Japan countryside for going on @4 years now. Which country are you in?
Great video Byron! Thanks man ❤
Wow, so much information!
This is a great video. Thank you very much 🙏🙏
Thumbs up for the editor. Made me laugh.
Excellent video Byron! Do you use swales on contour in your syntropic agroforestry designs?
SUPER USEFUL!!! Many thanks.
Very orienting! Thank you!
My tree line is a citrus hedge row at 1m centers.
All I have to support it is a bunch of comfrey and the leaves I can scavenge from an old oak tree.
I'll probably add something like bana grass and Mexican sunflowers to add biomass but not really sure what else would help at this point.
editor has power really cracked me up :'DDDD
Another great to the point info dump!
Glad you think so!
Valuable analysis here ✅
Pure gold bro!
Awesome Video. Thank you!