[Scpg] ECO-FILM NIGHT Thursday Aug 7 7pm Farming with Nature Permaculture in the Austrian Alps

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
ECO-Film Night

featuring Farming with Nature
Permaculture in the Austrian Alps

(also film :Julieitte of the Herbs, documentary of life and times of 
veterinary, author & legendary herbalist Juliette de Bairacli-Levy )

Thursday, August 7, 7 pm
$3 Donation
Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery

Carving terraces out of steep inclines, building an intricate network of 
more than 70 ponds and growing more than 8000 fruit trees including fig, 
apricot and kiwis, and refusing to use pesticides or even fertilizers, Sepp 
and Veronika Holzer have created a Garden of Eden (www.krameterhof.at) in 
the Austrian Alps. In one of Austria's most beautiful and mountainous 
regions, they have developed one of the biggest working permaculture 
systems in Europe, growing tropical and sub-tropical plants in alpine 
pastures.

Working with nature, instead of against it, is the philosophy of the 
Holzer's and Permaculture. Permaculture, an abbreviation of 
permanent-agriculture or culture, is ecological design and the development 
of agricultural ecosystems which are complete and self-sustaining. The 
Holzers' mountain farm Krameterhof (www.krameterhof.at) has been included 
in EXPO 2000 as one of the worldwide projects for sustainable futures. It 
is an example of successful synergy of land, water and human habitats.


For more information: (805) 962-2571/ e-mail:sbpcnet at silcom.com
www.sbpermaculture.org