"Permaculture Now! - Desert or Paradise?" movie by Sepp Holzer

Permaculture Now! - Desert or Paradise?

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This is a beautiful, 33 minute long video of Sepp Holzer's projects, philosophies and methods.  English Dubbed.

In this DVD, Sepp Holzer demonstrates his worldwide ecological restoration work using "Holzer's Permaculture". The video focuses on his work with water, and how we humans have messed up the ecological balance through dams and other unnatural water features. Sepp Holzer states, "When the right water balance is achieved, than from my point of view, 70% of the work is done. Because then you've got rich vegetation and diversity." He proceeds to show just what kind of water retaining earthworks he uses, such as retention ponds, terraces, hugelkultur, and even how he would create an oasis in the desert

You will get a view into his different projects around the globe: in Southern Portugal, Russia, and Krammerhoft in the Austrian Siberia. His philosophy is, "Nature is perfect, it keeps itself in balance better than anything else can. So I have to take care that the appropriate natural predators are there--whether ducks, chicken. geese or pigs, depending on the size of the place. To take care of the population of snails, mice or rats. This is not difficult at all. Nature keeps itself in balance better than anything else can. Understand it. Not fight it." You will see the various plants he uses around fruit trees, the sunflower seed landrace he's used since the 1950's as a child, how he uses natural predators like ducks and chickens and pigs to keep.

This movie shows how to make a better world, and it's not through politics. To Sepp, there are no natural disasters. All disasters are from humans mismanaging nature, and the solution is through being with nature and learning from working with it. According to Sepp, "I don't expect anything from politics. As I see it, things will only change if children grow up with nature...because children who grow up with nature, protect their nature."

You can listen to Paul's review here.