What’s Happened
We met Ernst Götsch
Last weekend, we attended the workshop of regenerative farming pioneer Ernst Götsch who was visiting from Brazil. It was his students who planned our food forest in Spreewald. Now going on 4 years, our field is a living example of the transformative power of nature, if we do our part. When he speaks of farming, he manages to move from simple and practical to universal within a sentence; from the communication between roots and mushrooms to the building of life on other planets. He speaks of the purpose of species in the unfolding of life from the simple to the complex. Our western science follows a path of entropy, of reducing things to their parts, reduction of reality to the measurable vs. the observation of reality’s magic. He calls it Life in Syntropy where 1 plus 1 is always more than 2. He knows how to transform deserts into jungles within a few decades. And not because he knows how it works, he just knows that it works, that life creates more life. And the more complex it gets, the smarter and more resilient it becomes. To him there are no predators, be it an invasive insect or plant, but rather every challenge is an invitation to learn and improve the system, so it can do what it does best: create balance.
