Daniel Hrabina

dhrabina@email.cz
+420 776 036 802 (Telegram, Signal)

  • I did the PDC online with Geoff Lawton
  • I’m currently a student at the Farm School
  • Interpreter, translator and a bit of work of all kinds

Syntropic farming is a fascinating project for me, which is actually one of the last attempts of the unceasing human endeavour to develop a suitable agricultural model. It comes on the scene as the antithesis of conventional monoculture extractive agriculture, but also as a philosophy of cooperation and deep insights into natural relationships and processes. It is thus part of the search for new agricultural systems that are capable of regenerating the landscape and human society. I would therefore like to contribute my bit to the growth of the syntropic mycelium in the Czech landscape, whatever one may imagine it to mean.

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Renke consultation
Visit of Renke de Vries to the Czech Republic

Just before the Christmas holidays, Renke de Vries, a consultant and designer of temperate syntropic agriculture from northern Germany, accepted our invitation to visit the Czech Republic. Renke studied International Forest Ecosystem Management in Eberswalde, Germany, holds a permaculture design certificate and is also a graduate of arborist training. He currently works as a professional arborist and consultant for agroforestry systems throughout Europe. In 2018, he met the owner of Gut und Bösel Farm, Benedikt Bösel, at a conference in Berlin, on whose recommendation he went to Brazil for a three-month internship in early 2019 to meet the founder of syntropic agriculture, the Swiss Ernst Götsch. In the same year, he had already established the first 3 hectares of syntropic plantings on the Gut und Bösel farm, with the aim of applying the principles of syntropic farming, tested in the tropics, to the temperate climate of Brandenburg, near Berlin.

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