Syntropic Farming
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ysabetwordsmithWhat is Syntropic Farming?: A Permaculture Perspective
The word syntropy, as contrasted to entropy, paints a powerful picture of a system that accumulates matter and energy, become more complex over time, all in order to create abundance. It is a form of process based agriculture, as opposed to input based agriculture, typical to industrial systems.
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Syntropic Farming is an innovative approach to regenerative agriculture which allows us to create dynamic, successional, and economically viable ecosystems that restore degraded soil biodiversity. By understanding and respecting nature's complex system, Syntropic Farming imitates the natural regeneration of forests and provides a harmonious integration of our food production systems.
I am so excited to see someone else talking about syntropy as the opposite of entropy! :D 3q3q3q!!! I've been using this term for years to describe how some processes, especially life, work in the opposite direction of entropy to create order and increase complexity. You need both for a healthy, balanced universe that keeps running over the long term because that's what allows things to cycle. I wonder if the term is polygenetic or if this is a far-flung sprout of what I've been flinging out all this time.
Anyhow, within the context of agriculture, it refers to a style of food forest development where you push the local ecosystem toward greater density and complexity by assisting the succession process. You can start with bare ground and work up to a functional forest a lot faster than nature alone, by capitalizing on human knowledge to boost natural processes. \o/
The word syntropy, as contrasted to entropy, paints a powerful picture of a system that accumulates matter and energy, become more complex over time, all in order to create abundance. It is a form of process based agriculture, as opposed to input based agriculture, typical to industrial systems.
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Syntropic Farming is an innovative approach to regenerative agriculture which allows us to create dynamic, successional, and economically viable ecosystems that restore degraded soil biodiversity. By understanding and respecting nature's complex system, Syntropic Farming imitates the natural regeneration of forests and provides a harmonious integration of our food production systems.
I am so excited to see someone else talking about syntropy as the opposite of entropy! :D 3q3q3q!!! I've been using this term for years to describe how some processes, especially life, work in the opposite direction of entropy to create order and increase complexity. You need both for a healthy, balanced universe that keeps running over the long term because that's what allows things to cycle. I wonder if the term is polygenetic or if this is a far-flung sprout of what I've been flinging out all this time.
Anyhow, within the context of agriculture, it refers to a style of food forest development where you push the local ecosystem toward greater density and complexity by assisting the succession process. You can start with bare ground and work up to a functional forest a lot faster than nature alone, by capitalizing on human knowledge to boost natural processes. \o/
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Date: 2024-12-11 07:57 pm (UTC);)
Hmm ...
Date: 2024-12-11 08:41 pm (UTC)Cultural synergy is more like ... heterodyning I think.
Re: Hmm ...
Date: 2024-12-12 12:57 am (UTC)Cultural synergy would be when behavior or expectations mismatch in a positive way (which might still be a miscommunication, but the overall result will be good.) My go-to example would be when I am interacting with a man from a conservatively religious culture and he arranges to bring have female relative to chaperone - which saves me the [exhausting!] American social dance of be-nice-stay-safe-don't-offend-anyone.
Maybe cultural synergy is combining two cultures in a positive way? So in Peculiar Observations "...the cultural synergy of gangsters and pacifists led to many fascinating sociological developments..."
Then again, cultural symbiosis might be a better term for that.
Or alternately a culture kind of...blossoming, for want of a better term? "Neanderthals experienced a brief period of cultural syntropy before their disappearance from the fossil record..."
If cultural entropy is simplification/degradation of a culture, then cultural syntropy would seem to be increasing complexity/showiness.