Sepp Holzer is a farmer, author and international consultant in the field of subsistence agriculture. Sepp is known as a "rebel farmer" for his experience, worldview, perseverance and philosophy of his attitude towards wildlife.
Biography and the beginning of activity
Josef (Sepp) Holzer was born on July 24, 1942 in the city of Ramingstein in the Austrian province of Salzburg (Austria). In 1962, from his mother and father, Sepp takes control of a family farm located in a mountainous region of Austria at an altitude of more than a thousand meters above sea level. Initially, his farming methods in a conservative way did not bear fruit, and Sepp's efforts remained in vain. But Holzer comes up with a fundamentally new method of farming, - the ecological or the method of "permaculture."
Agricultural direction "Permaculture"
For more than 40 years, Sepp Holzer has managed to transform his family farm in the Austrian Alps into an eco-paradise, where tens of thousands of fruit trees, shrubs, vines and highly productive vegetables grow. Here, at an altitude of 1200-1500 meters (about 5000 feet) in the so-called "Austrian Siberia", he created a single, harmonious, self-sufficient "living laboratory", on the territory of which many varieties of vegetables, fruits, nuts, mushrooms, fish, poultry got along. livestock. It uses a modern fertilizer and soil irrigation system.
From childhood, as a child, Sepp observed wildlife and experimented with it. Later, he developed his own form of permanent culture, which today is the subject of scientific research by agricultural scientists around the world. The main thing, according to Sepp Holzer himself, is that nature does not need to be disturbed.
Permaculture involves a fundamentally new type of agricultural business, which is based on the relationships existing in natural ecological systems.
Holzer skillfully uses environmental interactions, allowing nature to do the work for him with a minimum degree of labor under the most natural living conditions for the plants and animals themselves. Thus, he creates his own eco-paradise, which allows to achieve maximum economic success from agricultural activities.
Sepp Holzer's Ecological Paradise
Kramerthof Sepp Holzer left his modernized and expanded family farm in 2009 to his son Josef Andreas Holzer. Since 2013, Sepp Holzer has been living with his family at his new Holzerhof farm in Holzenhof, Austria. Today, he holds seminars on permaculture both at his Holzerhof farm and in other parts of the world.
