Why do we need to plant water?
We all intend to live better
Human beings have been living on a path far from their function and natural habitat for a long time… And for this reason it has become difficult to understand what is truly sustainable and healthy as part of an intelligent macro-system.
To be sustainable, we need to evaluate the energy balance of our actions. Each action should generate more energy than we expend. Produce abundance instead of scarcity. Ernst Gotsh says: “To produce a simple loaf of bread, we use around 800 times more energy than the energy that bread brings us as food”. To be healthy, we depend on a good environment and good food. Healthy food depends on a healthy plant, which in turn depends on the habitat where it lives (environment) and the soil (food) that supports it. Ana Primavesi said: “The secret of life is the soil, because plants depend on the soil, water depends on the soil, the climate depends on the soil and so our life depends on the soil. There is no healthy human being if the soil is not healthy.”
Through the principles of Syntropic Agriculture, we can plant using processes that have always existed in nature to create healthy and sustainable ecosystems, adapted to the intervention location. This type of agriculture uses more knowledge and fewer inputs.
"WATER CAN BE PLANTED!"
Without regenerating our soils in a resilient way, we will not have healthy and sustainable environments to grow the food we need. Both in conventional agriculture with chemicals and organically, we will continue to plant systems with techniques that each year are more dependent on fertilizers, compost (which uses up other places), water (which is not reserved due to not having adequate soil), etc., creating a negative energy balance.
Through the principles of Syntropic Agriculture, we can plant using processes that have always existed in nature to create healthy and sustainable ecosystems, adapted to the intervention location. This type of agriculture uses more knowledge and fewer inputs. We need to know the ideal habitat of each plant (soil, climate, surroundings, need for light...) so that it is happy, we need to feed the soil so that there is more micro life making nutrients available to each plant, we need to have the soil covered with live plants (inside and outside)... When we have plants in density and biodiversity, we are able to create a stratified environment that allows greater water retention and at the same time we improve the soil in order to retain more humidity.