Sepp Holzer
Sustainable Farming Innovator, Austria
Born in 1942 in Ramingstein, Austria, Sepp Holzer took over his family’s mountain farm, the Krameterhof, at a young age and transformed it into one of the world’s best-known examples of practical permaculture. Working at elevations between approximately 1,100 and 1,500 meters, he demonstrated that diverse food forests, ponds, terraces, and hügelkultur beds could thrive […]
About Sepp Holzer
Born in 1942 in Ramingstein, Austria, Sepp Holzer took over his family’s mountain farm, the Krameterhof, at a young age and transformed it into one of the world’s best-known examples of practical permaculture. Working at elevations between approximately 1,100 and 1,500 meters, he demonstrated that diverse food forests, ponds, terraces, and hügelkultur beds could thrive even in harsh alpine conditions. His unconventional methods—often developed through observation and experimentation rather than conventional agricultural practice—earned him the nickname “the rebel farmer.” Through his books, seminars, and international consulting projects, Holzer has inspired farmers, gardeners, and land restoration practitioners worldwide to work with natural ecosystems instead of against them, emphasizing biodiversity, water conservation, healthy soils, and self-sustaining landscapes.
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
