The land
Trīsuļi, Kurzeme — a northern European landscape where the experiment has a physical home.
The living laboratory
The farm is not a finished model. It is a living laboratory where we experiment, observe, learn and share what we discover. Latvia is where the experiment begins.
Our work begins in Latvia, where we are exploring how syntropic principles can be adapted to northern European conditions. Follow the land as the record grows.
Climate
Short seasons, frost, different light. The North asks questions that warmer syntropic models were not built to answer alone.
Current stage
Early, honest, in motion. We are building a living laboratory — not presenting a finished system.
Experiments
Rows, species combinations, biomass and management tested in real northern conditions.
Plants
Fruit, nuts, support species and understory — chosen and revised as the seasons answer back.
Seasonal observations
Winter, spring, summer, autumn. The journal is the place those observations accumulate.
Progress
Documented as it happens. Follow the farm rather than waiting for a polished after-story.
Challenges
Cold, time, economics, and ideas that do not transfer. Challenges are part of the public record.
Lessons learned
What practice is beginning to show — including what did not work — so others can begin with more confidence.
The years
An unfolding record. Expand a year to follow the transformation over time.
Year 0Beginning
Observing the land. Asking the question. The living laboratory starts as attention, not as a finished design.
Year 1First experiments
First syntropic rows and public practice — including trial work such as the Zadiņi demonstration — so learning can be walked, not only described.
Year 2Unfolding
Seasons continue to answer. What works, what fails and what must be adapted is documented as it happens.
Year 3Seasons ahead
The next years will deepen the experiment. This timeline will grow as the living laboratory does.
Zadiņi syntropic rows in spring
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Trīsuļi bed layout
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Planting syntropic rows
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Trīsuļi farm
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Volunteer day at Zadiņi
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Syntropic rows in Australia
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Home garden beds in Australia
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Larger farm with tree rows
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Latvian Forest
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Latvian Forest
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Growing Veges in the North
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Seedlings in morning light
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Skrunda scenery
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Star gazing summer night Latvia
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Abundant garden harvest
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Fresh leafy greens
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Autumn Forest Latvia
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Garden path between plantings
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Hands working with soil
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Small Syntropic System
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