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# Growing Radicles

Next generation food and social systems

## Sitemaps

- [XML Sitemap](https://growingradicles.org/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website.

## Posts

- [Articles](https://growingradicles.org/articles/)
- [From Grass to Syntropic Food Forest: Lessons along the way](https://growingradicles.org/grass-to-syntropic-food-forest/) - Syntropic Agroforestry creates such abundance and diversity that every part, including you, thrives. Together, we planted the beginnings of a thriving mosaic.
- [Fast Track your Food Forest - in collaboration with nature](https://growingradicles.org/fast-track-your-food-forest-in-collaboration-with-nature/) - If you have access to land and feel the pull to grow real food, as a way of living more honestly with the land — this learning journey is for you.
- [Taking our place in nature, as enablers of her abundance](https://growingradicles.org/taking-our-place-in-nature-as-enablers-of-her-abundance/) - The industrial model of food production is a recent experiment—barely a century old. It promised abundance and efficiency, yet it has steadily stripped nutrition from food, vitality from landscapes, and agency from the people who farm them. Still, it persists. Not because it works well, but because it mirrors a deeper cultural habit: the urge
- [Your land is trying to become a forest](https://growingradicles.org/your-land-is-trying-to-become-a-forest/) - Ever seen a food forest and felt that quiet ache: I want this. Then gone home to your paddock of kikuyu, and asked: 'Where do I start?'
- [Fast Track your Food Forest - Maintenance](https://growingradicles.org/fast-track-your-food-forest-maintenance/) - Planting is 10%. Maintenance is 90%. A food forest grows not by chance, but by the cut of a blade and the return of light. 🌳
- [Syntropic Agroforestry - introduction](https://growingradicles.org/syntropic-agroforestry-introduction/) - The syntropic or successional approach to agroforestry outlines a way of interacting with ecosystems which marks a step in the right direction: the ecological (not social/cultural) indigenisation of humans and agriculture. If we put aside cultural factors, what is the biological and ecological role of humans within the ecosystems they are part of? The uniqueness
- [The Regeneration Pulse — September 2025](https://growingradicles.org/the-regeneration-pulse-september-2025/) - This first “Pulse” tracks how farmers, investors, and communities are stepping into regeneration—signalling the early stages of an exponential curve.
- [Growing Syntropic Food Forests and Community](https://growingradicles.org/growing-syntropic-food-forests-and-community/) - This was the fourth time we’ve offered Session One of our three-part Fast Track Your Food Forest series, and I’m glad to see how it has evolved since we first delivered it in April at the Nature School in Mangawhai. A forest is a great analogy for human society or community. We started by looking
- [Fast Tracking your Food Forest](https://growingradicles.org/fast-tracking-your-food-forest/) - The first in a series of Fast Track your Food Forest trainings began with the question: What Matters to you? Fellow Archan Permaculture founder, James Andrews opened with an Holistic Decision Making exercise that gave space for deepening the context of each person's why.
- [Landshare Communications training](https://growingradicles.org/landshare-communications-training/) - 12 people brought their incompetence and courageous commitment, to a day of learning about effective communication. It was August 2024 in Motueka, Land sharing was the context, and the why, was knowing that so many awesome collaborations unravel because of human misunderstandings and failed communications.
- [Looking for land? Can't afford it?](https://growingradicles.org/are-you-looking-for-land-but-dont-have-enough-money/) - Young people are less likely to achieve home ownership than ever before. And people are looking to share land, so read on . . .
- [Past articles](https://growingradicles.org/past-articles/) - Read recent articles on the buy me a coffee page. You can jump to articles about Syntropic Agroforestry, or articles about Communications skills.
- [Money and Nature](https://growingradicles.org/money-and-nature/) - At four seconds before midnight, on the first day of the evolution of planet earth, nature expressed herself in the form of Homo Sapiens!
- [Regenerative food systems, at the end of the industrial food era](https://growingradicles.org/end-of-the-industrial-food-era/) - If ever there was a field of endeavour worthy of your time, attention and genius, it is changing how we 'do' food.

## Pages

- [Growing Radicles](https://growingradicles.org/) - Food prices are skyrocketing as quality goes down. It's time for new possibilities. There's plenty of land, and lots of willing people - let's go!
- [Start Here](https://growingradicles.org/start-here/) - Home Articles Events Trainings Newsletter About Home Articles Events Trainings Newsletter About Get in Touch Year One on Your Lifestyle Block The first decisions you make will shape your land for decades. Discover how to create an abundant food forest, avoid expensive mistakes, and connect with others doing the same. Start the Guide Watch Intro (2 min)
- [Events Calendar - 2026](https://growingradicles.org/events/) - Events Calendar Pick the training here or view the collection on Humanitix
- [About](https://growingradicles.org/about/) - Meet the Team James Samuel - Two things will help us transition through turbulent times. One is the establishment of vibrant local food economies which are not reliant on external inputs, and which create healthy ecosystems and yield nourishing food. The other is learning to navigate feelings for the intelligence they offer, and emotions for their
- [Fast Track your Food Forest](https://growingradicles.org/ftff/) - Fast Track your Food Forest Trainings If you have access to land and feel the pull to grow real food — not as a hobby, but as a way of living more honestly with the land — this learning journey is for you. If you're ready to join a training day, head over to to
- [Roots So Deep](https://growingradicles.org/rootssodeep/) - An inspiring, positive, data-driven, human, and good humoured film about Adaptive Multi Paddock grazing (regenerative agriculture), and its beneficial impacts. I've watched many films on this topic over the years, and this one beats them all! I was moved to tears seeing what is and what can be, so I got in touch with the filmmakers in

## Categories

- [Syntropic Agroforestry](https://growingradicles.org/category/syntropicagroforestry/)
- [Communication Skills](https://growingradicles.org/category/communication-skills/)
- [Regenerative Agriculture](https://growingradicles.org/category/regenerative-agriculture/)

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