Sepp Holzer - living in harmony with nature
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 Published On May 11, 2022

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How can we live in harmony with nature? How can we co-create abundance, diversity, and health? For me, no one has answered these questions more definitively and conclusively than Sepp Holzer has with his life’s work.

Sepp created a mountainside paradise in the coldest part of Austria, on land that was thought to only be useful for conifer monoculture forestry, animal grazing, and a bit of grain. Countless times along the way he encountered resistance from local authorities. He was fined for planting fruit trees, fined for creating terraces, fined for holding water on his land.

Yet from a lifetime of communicating with nature he knew in his heart that what he was doing was right. He knew he was following the true laws of the landscape, the laws of nature rather than the laws of man. Through tremendous civil courage, tenacity, and his whole family helping at each step along the way, he persisted.

As for his vision for his own landscape? It has become the most remarkable farm I have ever experienced. A huge variety of crops grow every year with much less work and effort than more conventional approaches. They are able to follow the seasons and years, using this diversity to their benefit. If it’s an unusually hot or cold, wet or dry season, some things don’t do well, but others have a bumper crop. There is ample productivity throughout the year and between years through natural diversity.

72 interconnected ponds and water bodies are spread throughout the 45 hectares providing abundant water and life. This productivity does not just benefit their agricultural systems, but also their fellow creatures within their ecosystem. There is plenty for the wildlife and insects as well, providing an eco-oasis in what is otherwise a pine monoculture desert.

This was Sepp’s first project, the Krameterhof. It has become a place of such lore that some people call it the garden of Eden on Earth. Sepp has also implemented this vision on projects around the world. Throughout Europe, the Americas (North and South), Asia and Africa Sepp helped guide people through projects on their own landscapes.

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