Permakultur - Landwirtschaft im Einklang mit der Natur Page #2

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trees will be planted here.

A fruit tree forest with many varieties.

Now I'm planting plums,

apples, pears and so on.

The tree gets planted, dug in

and when I have stones I add them.

And then I add the seed mixture.

That's the most important thing.

The seed mixture: that's vegetables, support

plants, flowers, wild flowers, very rare ones.

There are about forty to

fifty different plants.

Sowing the simple way.

The seeds are thrown

wherever there's space.

It's good for the soil.

The diversity of plants and

their wide network of roots

will stabilize the

earth, preventing erosion.

The work of springtime is done.

Now it's time to watch

everything grow and blossom.

After only a few weeks there are signs

of growth along the terraces and ponds.

For over thirty years

the Holzers, Sepp and his

wife Veronica have worked

their land together.

Agriculture is their way of life.

Every walk on the farm

is a walk of discovery.

Every square metre is harvested.

Even lettuce grows along the ponds.

Sepp Holzer has learned everything

simply by observing nature.

His experience is the only

source of knowledge he trusts.

Even as a child, Holzer secretly made

small gardens and observed nature at work.

He discovered the bigger the variety

of plants the fewer parasites there are

and a more stable assistant.

He applied this understanding

on the Krameterhof

by grouping all the plants into

what he called plant families.

Thousands of fruit

trees and berry bushes

are surrounded by

lettuce, vegetables, corn

and a variety of spices

and medicinal herbs.

Next to the fruit trees you'll

find the digitalis purpurea.

This colourful chaos has a purpose.

In a plant family the plants provide

each other with the support they need.

Humidity, oxygen and nutrients.

What's extracted by one

plant is taken in by another.

That's how farmer Holzer

saves himself a lot of work.

The plants fertilize and

provide moisture for each other.

If you have the proper vegetation,

doesn't matter whether it's

fruit trees or vegetables,

you can see that the plants

regulate themselves wonderfully.

You need plants with deep,

middle and flat roots.

Deep rooted plants bring up humidity and

nutrients from three to four metres depth

and sweat it out on top.

They give shape to the

ones with flat roots.

So they won't dry out.

That's the exchange,

one plant helps the other.

You don't need to worry

about it being too dry

or too wet if you work

with the earth properly.

You have to listen and observe,

that's the most important thing.

Unlike most farmers,

Holzer likes stones.

They can be found all over his

terraces and bring their own benefits.

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