This post is not a continuation of information about Sepp Holzer's methods, but more of an exploration of the category of gardening that his methods fit into. This category is called Permaculture. Here is an explanation of what Permaculture is:
Permaculture - Wikipedia
Here is a link that explains the basics about permaculture design in a way that is easier to understand: Permaculture Design Principles
One of the culminations of all of this permaculture observation, thinking, design and work, is something wonderful called a, "Food Forest". When you get your food forest going well, you can stroll into it at any time of year and help yourself to something good to eat. Once your food forest is producing, it requires minimal maintenence from you in order to supply you with all you need to eat. It can be like a small paradise that you live in all the time.
Some people have created their own food forest in as small a space as an ordinary suburban lot. The abundant and rather luxurious lifestyle that this allows is amazing. I loved the idea as soon as I first read about it. You will probably feel the same way once you take a look at some videos that I will give you links to here.
This link is about a cold weather food forest in a place that has slightly colder weather than the area where I live. Naturally, it appeals to me especially. If your climate is different than what you have seen so far, don't worry. This stuff works in whatever climate you have to deal with. You just adapt it to your particular situation. One of the guys in the videos wrote a step by step book on how to use his techniques, so you win't have to delve too deeply into arcane mysteries of permaculture before you get started making your own food forest.
Here is the cold climate food forest link:
Even if you do follow a step by step book such as the one I just mentioned, you should still learn more about the general principles of permaculture, hugelculture, and food forests, etc. One of the reasons for learning more about permaculture etc. is because of climate change. The climate that you start out with may not be what you will have in a little while. You may need to adapt to changing growiing conditions.
This link is not a regular video. It ia a radio or podcast that includes still photos to illustrate the subject of the conversation. My links might come a bit slow because I can not resist watching things I have not seen before like this link:
This link is a video recording of Sepp Holzer's son talking about the basic ideas used on Sepp Holzer's place, the Krameterhof:
This is the last video I want to give you in this blog posting. I think it is inspirational to see the hardest work you will usually do once you have your food forest established. This usually comes once a year. Harvest might be as hard or harder, but it will tend to be more spread out. The harvest will not be as much work all at once, in other words. You can see from the video that the chop and drop process is kind of fun. Most of the videos I have watched about chop and drop include friends and neighbors helping with the chop and drop process, so maybe some of that is because they think it is fun too.
Here is the chop and drop video link:
I had to give you a link to my favorite gardening video guy and one of his videos about food forests:
. The food forest in this video is amazing not only because of how it works, but because it is much smaller than the last one and still feeds the couple that made it without hiring outside workers. I think that is a much more impressive achievement than a bigger food forest.
Permaculture - Wikipedia
Here is a link that explains the basics about permaculture design in a way that is easier to understand: Permaculture Design Principles
One of the culminations of all of this permaculture observation, thinking, design and work, is something wonderful called a, "Food Forest". When you get your food forest going well, you can stroll into it at any time of year and help yourself to something good to eat. Once your food forest is producing, it requires minimal maintenence from you in order to supply you with all you need to eat. It can be like a small paradise that you live in all the time.
Some people have created their own food forest in as small a space as an ordinary suburban lot. The abundant and rather luxurious lifestyle that this allows is amazing. I loved the idea as soon as I first read about it. You will probably feel the same way once you take a look at some videos that I will give you links to here.
This link is about a cold weather food forest in a place that has slightly colder weather than the area where I live. Naturally, it appeals to me especially. If your climate is different than what you have seen so far, don't worry. This stuff works in whatever climate you have to deal with. You just adapt it to your particular situation. One of the guys in the videos wrote a step by step book on how to use his techniques, so you win't have to delve too deeply into arcane mysteries of permaculture before you get started making your own food forest.
Here is the cold climate food forest link:
This link is not a regular video. It ia a radio or podcast that includes still photos to illustrate the subject of the conversation. My links might come a bit slow because I can not resist watching things I have not seen before like this link:
This link is a video recording of Sepp Holzer's son talking about the basic ideas used on Sepp Holzer's place, the Krameterhof:
This is the last video I want to give you in this blog posting. I think it is inspirational to see the hardest work you will usually do once you have your food forest established. This usually comes once a year. Harvest might be as hard or harder, but it will tend to be more spread out. The harvest will not be as much work all at once, in other words. You can see from the video that the chop and drop process is kind of fun. Most of the videos I have watched about chop and drop include friends and neighbors helping with the chop and drop process, so maybe some of that is because they think it is fun too.
Here is the chop and drop video link:
I had to give you a link to my favorite gardening video guy and one of his videos about food forests:
