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TAO and the Understanding of Life

Learn how to apply Ernst Götsch's 15 principles to produce abundant, high-quality food efficiently and in harmony with nature, creating benefits for farmers, ecosystems, and communities.

What you will learn

  • Understand how life works
  • Understand why we experience outbreaks of bacteria, fungi, and insects in our monocultures
  • Building a solid philosophical foundation for our agroforestry practice gives us the ability to progress more quickly toward systems of abundance, without being dependent on trends, input vendors, social media, or dominant culture.
  • Learn to shift paradigms: learn to observe, interpret, and cooperate with life
  • Understand that biodiversity functions as the engine of life
  • Learn the energy flows and synergies among plants, trees, soil, and living organisms