When Nature Speaks - We Listen
About The Film
A Story of Syntropy
What if there was a way for humanity and Nature to not only survive, but thrive together? Filmed across the planet, The Forest Explains is a perspective-shifting and redemptive documentary about creating paradise on Earth through Syntropic Farming.
Through Syntropic Farming We Can
Become an agent of abundance
Co-Create with Life
Rather than domination, we step into collaboration. Every decision is made with awareness of Nature’s intelligence, enabling us to work with Life instead of against it.
Abundance Without Extraction
True abundance doesn’t come from taking more, but from supporting Life to thrive. Through syntropy we increase diversity alongside more nutrient-dense yields, creating healthier eco-systems.
Belong to the Living World
Reconnect with Reciprocity. The land is not something to use, but something to communicate with. Through planting, pruning, and observing, we remember we are not separate — we are Nature.
Create A New Legacy
We can stabilise local and global climates, water cycles and carbon cycles through agroecology. This means our recent history of degradation can become a legacy of regeneration.
"You don't need fertiliser or chemicals. The biggest external input we use in this activity to have a high yield is wisdom."
Ernst Götsch
Founder of Syntropic Farming
Founder of Syntropic Farming
Meet The Community
Patricia Vaz
Agroforester - Brazilia
Charles Eisenstien
Author - Climate A New Story
Namaste Messerschmidt
Agroforester - Brazil
Misty Creek
Syntropic Farmers - Australia
Scott Hall
Syntropic Farmer - Australia
Moises
Indigenous Amozonian - Baniwa Tribe
Brenda Dunne
Princeton University PEAR LAB - USA
Geoff Cockfield
Professor for Sustainable Agricultural - Australia
Plus Many More!
Syntropic Farmers - Researchers - Scientists - From all over the world
Progress To Date
To date we are almost entirely self-funded. Now we are asking for support from the community to edit and distribute this powerful story. Every contribution counts.
Pre-Production
Funding & Progress Complete!
Production
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Post-Production & Distribution
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The Creators
Sebastian Kitchen
Executive Producer, Producer, Assistant Director, Co-Director, Writer, Interviewer
I was a part of the first course in Syntropic Farming in 2017, organised by Thiago Barbosa, Victor Pires, Scott Hall and others, and facilitated by Namaste Messerschmidt and Patricia Vàz. I walked away from that course a changed man, thinking, ‘Wow, the world really needs a film about Syntropy…’ As I read everything I could on Luigi Fantappié, Ulisse di Corpo, and of course Ernst Götsch, I realised that Syntropy is so much more than an Indigenous-inspired form of agroforestry.
As a under-appreciated fundamental law, it is a fecund response to the Big Questions, brimming over and joining the edges of mathematics, physics, philosophy, psychology, phenomenology, feelings. So, lit up by this aliveness of the Universe, I teamed up with budding filmmaker Tomas Busby and we set off to capture not just the global spread of Syntropic Farming, but the inner transformation known as ‘the syntropic bug’. It is a calling that grew me up through my twenties and to this day, almost a decade later, has not left me, and I don’t believe ever will.
TOMAS BUSBY
Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor
I grew up on a farm in rural NSW. When I was young, my father died by suicide, leaving my mother and us three children to run the farm. Years later, my uncle—also a farmer—took his own life. These losses showed me the hidden struggles farmers face beyond environmental and economic challenges.
Discovering Syntropic Farming changed everything. More than a methodology, it's a practice that reconnects people to land, community, and themselves—an antidote to the isolation and distress that claims too many rural lives. Through Syntropy, I found belonging in something greater than myself.
For eight years, I've documented Syntropic Farming projects worldwide, following innovators who aren't just changing how we farm, but how we live. This principle has transformed every aspect of my life, inspiring me to establish a men's cooperative and join organisations embracing Syntropy's broader principles.
This film is my tribute to a movement that saves both land and lives.
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What Is Syntropic Farming?
What Is Syntropy?
Why Are We Making this Film?
When Will The Documentary Be Released?
What is Syntropic Farming?
Syntropic Farming is a method of growing food that mimics how a natural forest works—diverse, abundant, and self-sustaining.
It was developed in Brazil by Ernst Götsch and is rooted in both science and Indigenous wisdom.
At its core, it’s about high yield food production and regenerating the land at the same time. Instead of clearing land and decresing life, Syntropic Farming adds life—lots of it—by planting many different species together in layers, just like a forest.
Farmers work with natural patterns of light, time, and growth known as succession and stratification. As well as harnessing the ecological function of various plants and insects to improve soil health, increase ecosystem resilience and increase yield.
Over time, this approach can turn degraded land into a vibrant, food-producing forest—meeting both human and ecological needs in the same space. This not only produces organic nutrient rich food, it simultaniously restores carbon cycles and water cycles contributing to greater ecological concerns.
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'Syntropy is the energy of Life, it converges and leads towards cooperation and love.'
- Ulisse Di Corpo
Syntropy is a principle from physics that describes how life naturally moves toward growth, order, and connection. Think of a seed becoming a tree, or the way gravity pulls things together—this is Syntropy in action.
It’s often described as the compliment of Entropy, which is the tendency for things to break down, scatter, and move toward disorder. These two forces—Syntropy and Entropy—are like the universe’s push and pull, working together in a dynamic balance. You could think of them like a Western version of Yin and Yang.
While science has long focused on Entropy to explain how the world works, Syntropy gives us a language to understand how life grows, evolves, and becomes more complex over time.
Syntropy helps explain why we feel called to certain paths or pulled toward aliveness. It invites us to live in tune with life’s natural movement—toward connection, regeneration, and meaning.
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👉 Want to dive deeper into this fascinating concept? [Read the full article here.]
Let’s talk practically for a moment. From ecological collapse to individual isolation, Syntropic Farming is a panacea. It simultaneously addresses food sovereignty, top-soil loss, climate change, biodiverse reforestation, community cohesion, environmental toxification, the meaning crisis, nutritional deficiencies - the list goes on.
But as you might be starting to gather already, this is more than just a simple farming method. It's a way of being, of opening up to have faith in Life and the Universe - inside ourselves, others and Nature.
It’s a scientific call for reconnection with Life.
We all have a natural ability, desire, and role to play on Earth: to cooperate, converge, collaborate, grow, thrive, fruit, nourish, and feed the greater experience that is all of Life.
Syntropy is nothing short of an opening into a world of abundance for self, others and the greater home that we call Earth.
In the spirit of syntropy, we need to work together to make this happen. Please help us make this film a reality by making a contribution, joining our community subscription and spreading the good syntropic word! And all going well, we will have the documentary feature length film finished by the end of 2025.
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