Living Soil Gardening
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Tips, ideas and more about regenerative vegetable growing. Companion group for Q&A: t.me/LivingSoilChat
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Dear friends, I don’t know about you, but I turned around for a moment and it was already November. I walk among the trees of our agroforestry rows and enjoy this warm, melancholic light. For those of us who do this work, or who work outdoors in general, the shortening days bring a kind of relief, the feeling of a crossing completed. After pruning the support plants in the past months, and sowing the cover crops and the last quick crops, all that is left in the market garden is to harvest the vegetables planted in summer and to organise the biomass they leave behind. It is the perfect time to spread compost on the beds as they empty, and perhaps to sow broad beans and garlic in them, mar...
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In the way I see this work, selling occupies a secondary place. Our job is to work with the ecosystem to produce food, and that food naturally has to reach someone who will eat it; but whether it gets there through an exchange of money is only one of the possible forms. In the past I have been lucky enough to work in settings where food was grown and shared with no money changing hands at all, and since then I have seen both my work as a grower and my work as an educator as an opportunity to blur the line between customer and producer. I discuss it in the article below. https://en.cortesedario.com/post/the-customer-does-not-exist
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There has been lots of talk, in regenerative agriculture, about syntropic agroforestry. When I first wrote this post, there was very little written or video material in English for those who wanted a systematic description of the basic concepts and underlying principles of this method. I had spent a year researching syntropic agriculture as an external observer, in order to understand this method — inspired in part by the agroforestry of indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and formalised over several decades by Ernst Götsch in Brazil, and later brought to Europe through his work in Portugal. The syntropic or successional approach to agroforestry outlines a way of interacting with ecosystems w...
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Friends, Here we are again, a few days late. September went by with a few downpours followed by a long dry spell. The high daytime temperatures are giving way to a pleasant autumn warmth, with nights here dropping to 8°C. After weeks of constant, aggressive attacks from the wood pigeons, the cooler weather has finally brought some long-awaited peace, and we have taken most of the netting off the vegetable beds. The pruning of the agroforestry rows is finished, with hundreds of kilos of biomass returned to our system and, below ground, the pulse of root exudates that follows. Autumn is a magical season, and not only for us, walking through the falling leaves in that warm, nostalgic light...
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Friends, We meet again on the far side of August, when in theory the air should be cooler and the soil damper. I hope that’s how it is where you are. Here in Florence the rain finally gave us the relief we had been waiting for after a scorching, drought-ridden summer that somehow still managed to feel more humid than ever. Then the heat came straight back. This, which seems to be the new normal, puts real pressure on the traditional timings for summer transplanting. So here below, as usual, a series of things I hope will give you something to think about and to take away. https://en.cortesedario.com/post/september-newsletter
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This video was shot in the early hours of the morning, a few days ago. This is OrtoForesta, an agroforestry market garden in Florence, Italy. Our journey here started 3 and a half years ago, in February 2023. This was little more than a parking lot full of rubble, derelict polytunnel frames and brambles. That a place as difficult as this can become a productive ecosystem is a testament to the importance of working with natural processes. OrtoForesta feeds 40 to 50 families from May until Christmas, hosts 6 regenerative agriculture courses a year. However, it is, first and foremost, an open-air experiment of connection with our deepest nature. Can we produce food without overstepping our...
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On 17 June 2026 the European Parliament gave final approval, at second reading (431 to 201, with 29 abstentions), to the regulation on New Genomic Techniques — NGTs, or in Italy TEA, tecniche di evoluzione assistita, “assisted evolution”. Whenever something like this comes up, I hear people take very strong positions — often understandable ones, but emotional, and almost always cast the same way: what I think is sensible and good, and the opposite is reckless, dangerous, a disaster. On a question this tangled, ethically and biologically, that isn’t a frame I trust. So I’ll try the duller route instead: set out what happened, then the case for and the case against as fairly as I can, and onl...
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When syntropic agriculture arrived in Europe, it took on a very specific form, codified around a course that Ernst Götsch taught in São Paulo, Brazil, about a decade ago. Speaking to an audience of non-specialists, Ernst showed how one could plant all the stages of ecological succession from the very start, in a single row holding plants meant to populate the system's various layers (emergent, high, medium, and so on) over the short, medium and long term. Lately I've been paying close attention to the excellent work of Scott Hall — mostly on his paid platform, Syntropia, but also in what he shares on YouTube and social media. Scott has developed a syntropic approach that mimics natural proc...
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It's mid-May, at last the night temperatures stop dropping below ten degrees and the garden lets out a long sigh of relief. Spring, around here, always arrives late and a little reluctantly, and by the time it does it already has one foot in summer. It feels like the right moment to take stock, to set down what the field has taught me — and today I'd like to do that on a subject that has been with me since my very first day here: support plants. Support plants are the species we include in an agroforestry system not for what we harvest from them, but for what they do for the system itself — producing biomass, shading the soil, suppressing weeds, hosting pollinators and predators, cycling nu...
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Four landscapes. Four continents. Tell me that you got everything you want. There is a huge chunk of poetry that is only accessible on a grey morning, on a diet of Youtube videos and almond butter. Tell me that you’ve heard every sound there is. I look around myself and I see decay - powerful, dramatic, soul-crushing. A green light flashes. An answer is in the making, for the question I thought of and couldn’t hold on to. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. Thinking of a friend, of harmonies come and gone - of threads, voices, crippled arpeggios and wonky chords. And nothing to get hung about. The dishwasher in the corner, the sun shouting in the background. At the...
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In the way I see this work, selling occupies a secondary place. Our job is to work with the ecosystem to produce food, and that food naturally has to reach someone who will eat it; but whether it gets there through an exchange of money is only one of the possible forms. In the past I have been lucky enough to work in settings where food was grown and shared with no money changing hands at all, and since then I have seen both my work as a grower and my work as an educator as an opportunity to blur the line between customer and producer. I discuss it in the article below. https://en.cortesedario.com/post/the-customer-does-not-exist
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Dear friends, I don’t know about you, but I turned around for a moment and it was already November. I walk among the trees of our agroforestry rows and enjoy this warm, melancholic light. For those of us who do this work, or who work outdoors in general, the shortening days bring a kind of relief, the feeling of a crossing completed. After pruning the support plants in the past months, and sowing the cover crops and the last quick crops, all that is left in the market garden is to harvest the vegetables planted in summer and to organise the biomass they leave behind. It is the perfect time to spread compost on the beds as they empty, and perhaps to sow broad beans and garlic in them, mar...
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Questions about Living Soil Gardening
How many subscribers does Living Soil Gardening have?
Living Soil Gardening (@livingsoilgardening) has 1,450 subscribers as of November 12, 2026.
What is Living Soil Gardening about?
It is listed in Home & Architecture, and posts mostly in English. The channel describes itself as: “Tips, ideas and more about regenerative vegetable growing. Companion group for Q&A: t.me/LivingSoilChat”
Where does Living Soil Gardening rank?
By subscribers it is #9 in Home & Architecture, #4,865 among international channels, #6,699 among English channels, #7,582 worldwide.
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