# 434 Marc Leiber - 200 euros, 160,000 trees, and how to build a syntropic paradise from scratch

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Podcast: [Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food](https://stenobird.com/podcast/investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food-327782)
Published: 2026-07-28T15:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/marc-leiber
Audio file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1154870/episodes/19537378-434-marc-leiber-200-euros-160-000-trees-and-how-to-build-a-syntropic-paradise-from-scratch.mp3
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200 euros in a bank account, no contract, and a vision. Six and a half years later: 160,000 trees, a soil temperature at 15cm depth of a constant 21°C — while the bare field metres away peaks at 38°C — and a landscape so full of birds that visitors ask to walk through it in silence. Marc Leiber, founder of Grow Back and farmer at Quinta das Abelhas, in Portugal, is German agroforestry practitioner who spent nine months on Ernst Götsch's farm in Brazil, arrived in Portugal's Alentejo with almo...

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