Sepp Holzer
Josef "Sepp" Holzer (born July 24, 1942, in Ramingstein, State of Salzburg, Austria) is a farmer, an author, and an international consultant for natural agriculture. After an upbringing in a traditional Catholic rural family, he took over his parents' mountain farm business in 1962 and became well known for his use of ecological farming, or permaculture, techniques at high altitudes (1100 to 1500 meters after being unsuccessful with regular farming methods. Holzer was called the "agricultural rebel" by the Austrian biologist Bernd Lötsch because he persisted, despite being fined and even threatened with prison for practices such as not pruning his fruit trees.
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- Name
- Sepp Holzer
- Born
- 24 July 1942
- Birthplace
- Ramingstein, Austria
- Known for
- Permaculture, agroforestry
- Nationality
- Austria
- Occupation
- writer · farmer · agronomist · mountain farmer
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Josef "Sepp" Holzer (born July 24, 1942, in Ramingstein, State of Salzburg, Austria) is a farmer, an author, and an international consultant for natural agriculture. After an upbringing in a traditional Catholic rural family, he took over his parents' mountain farm business in 1962 and became well known for his use of ecological farming, or permaculture, techniques at high altitudes (1100 to 1500 meters after being unsuccessful with regular farming methods. Holzer was called the "agricultural rebel" by the Austrian biologist Bernd Lötsch because he persisted, despite being fined and even threatened with prison for practices such as not pruning his fruit trees.
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• Name — Sepp Holzer • Born — 24 July 1942 • Birthplace — Ramingstein, Austria • Known for — Permaculture, agroforestry • Illustration — A rainwater harvesting landscape designed by Holzer in Tamera, Portugal
Current work
Current work
As of 2010, he was still conducting permaculture ("Holzer Permaculture") seminars both at his Krameterhof farm and worldwide, while continuing to work on his alpine farm. He is author of several books, works nationally as permaculture-activist in the established agricultural industry, and works internationally as adviser for ecological agriculture. He is the subject of the film The Agro Rebel, directed by Bertram Verhaag.
Filmography
Filmography
• Permaculture Now! - Desert or Paradise? (2013) • Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: 3 Films About Permaculture Farming (2015)
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Life and career
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1942
Sepp Holzer born at Ramingstein.
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- 1.Wie kam es zu dem Namen. Holzersche Permakultur. In: seppholzer.at, abgerufen am 16. Juli 2017.
- 2.Hauptgebäude: .
- 3.Hans-Peter Oberdorfer. Sepp Holzer: „Der Agrar-Rebell“. Mit einem Vorwort von Prof. Dr. Bernd Lötsch. Sandammeer – Die virtuelle Literaturzeitschrift. 2003-01.
- 4.In: seppholzer.at, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2017.
- 5.holzerpermaculture.us, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2017.
- 6.In: seppholzer.at, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2017 (mit Link zur Projektmappe mit Sepp Holzers internationale Projekten 1998–2014).
- 7.Der Wissens-Verlag:
- 8.Sepp Holzer über die
- 9.David Holmgren: . In: permakultur.net, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2017 (Übersetzung: Daniel Hackenberg).
- 10.Verschiedene Versionen der Website jena-hof.at von Gertrud Barrada, die die Entwicklung des Projekts und die Einstellung Barradas zu ihm zeigen: . In: jena-hof.at, 27. April 2003, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2017 (Projektvorstellung; erstes Memento). – . In: jena-hof.at, o. D., abgerufen am 26. Juli 2017 (Umbau der Website mit Projektvorstellung; positives Memento). – . In: jena-hof.at, o. D., abgerufen am 26. Juli 2017 (Projektvorstellung; letztes positives Memento). – . In: jena-hof.at, 3. Februar 2007, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2017 (Bericht über den Schadensfall Jena-Hof im Burgenland aus Sicht von Gertrud Barrada; erstes Memento nach kritischem Umbau der Website). – . In: jena-hof.at, 5. November 2010, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2017 (Bericht über den Schadensfall Jena-Hof im Burgenland aus Sicht von Gertrud Barrada). – . In: jena-hof.at, 22. Juni 2012, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2017 (Aktualisierung; letztes Memento).
- 11.Robin Wood (= Peter Steffen) [Hrsg.]: Die Visionäre – Ist unsere Erde noch zu retten? Concord, Mariahof 2005, ISBN 3-9501887-2-X. – UrQuellWasser : In: urquellwasser.eu, 4. Oktober 2007, abgerufen am 26. Juli 2017.
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