receive back to another Survival Gardener “ volume of the week ” post !
Look at the industrial plant in the book cover above .
It almost look like where I exist .
fertile , exuberant , tropical …
… yet all that amazing growth is carry post under some of the bad horticulture condition .
High height , sub - zero winters , pitiable grease , pine monoculture .
Sepp Holzer is n’t in Costa Rica . He ’s located in the Austrian Alps … not a place jazz for its mild climate and racy soil .
His story is fascinating and his psyche is always work .
AsInfogalactic relate :
“ Holzer was called the “ rebel Fannie Merritt Farmer ” because he hold on , despite being fined and even threaten with prison,[2]with practices such as not pruning his fruit trees ( unpruned fruit Tree survive snow loads that will break cut back trees).[3]He has created some of the world ’s good exercise of using ponds as reflector to increase solar gain forpassive solar heatingof structures , and of using themicroclimatecreated by stone outcrops to in effect change thehardiness zonefor nearby plants . He has also done original body of work in the use ofHügelkulturand born branch development instead of pruning ( seeFruit tree pruning ) to allow fruit tree to survive high altitudes and rough winter .
He is presently carry on permaculture ( “ Holzer Permaculture “ ) seminars both at his Krameterhof farm and worldwide , while continuing to work on his alpine farm . His expanded farm now spans over 45 hectare offorest gardens , include 70 ponds , and is said to be the most consistent example of permaculture worldwide . In the yesteryear he has experimented with many different animals . As a result of these experiments , there is a huge role for animals in Holzer Permaculture . For model , Holzer is using pigs to dig new beds . This is a very good way of excavation , as the only matter he has to do is to cast some corn whisky and fruit on the smear he wants dig up . A yoke of days later , he can bring the pigs back to their inclosure and found new plant in the bottom . Holzer is able to successfully grow his plants without using any fertilizer . ”
In his book , Holzer talks about dealing with baffling political science official , exercise with Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree inside complete ecosystem , building simple but first-class shelter with log and other find materials , cultivating mushrooms and farm animal and more . It ’s inspiring , even if you do n’t share his mood ( which I evidently do n’t ) .
Sepp has also try out extensively with creating microclimates , which isa particular enthrallment of mine .
If you are look for idea , love permaculture , appreciate genius or all of the above , clean up a copy ofSepp Holzer ’s Permaculture . It ’s excellent .
