Languages: german, english (and upon request)

The content of this seminar focuses on:
- the priming of the landscape for the permaculture cultivation with fruit trees and berry bushes
- the development of a fruit tree nursery in terms of Holzer`s Permaculture
- the preservation of old varieties
- the planting of stock for later graftage.


Registration: office@tamera.org Tel. +351 / 283 635 306

Holzer's Permaculture is ecological knowledge for the future. It places the human being back again at its natural place in its relationship to nature.

Sepp Holzer is an Austrian mountain farmer who has developed his own very specific type of permaculture for the healing of natural cycles. He leads projects worldwide for the renaturization of landscapes. For two years he has been advising and providing support to the Ecology Team of Tamera in the design and construction of a southern European pilot project of landscape healing.

Through life-long research and practical application, Sepp Holzer has acquired an immense knowledge about the implications in nature and the development of biotopes of abundance, and he now promotes a humane and sustainable interaction with the Earth and all its creatures.

Tamera holds Sepp Holzer in high esteem both for his unconditional solidarity for life at large and for his questioning of established doctrines and refuting them with the visible success of his permaculture. “Think naturally, not normally!”

“Nature is like a mother. If you treat her well, she will give you everything!”

Each living being knows its task and its place in the whole of creation. There is nothing to be fought against; all things complement and support each other as long as the human being does not interfere. The task of the human is to merely direct, so that the whole can again interact harmoniously and the Earth can unfold her natural abundance, which she then gives away so generously.

Training place: Since the Fall of 2008, Tamera has been Sepp Holzer’s international training place in southern Europe (all seminars in German with translation into English, sometimes additionally into Portuguese or Spanish). The original pilot model in the middle European region is the Krameterhof in Austria (seminars in German).

Theory and Practice: In cooperation with Sepp Holzer, the Ecology Team of Tamera offers seminars at regular intervals. The participants are given the opportunity to study and practice Holzer`s Permaculture in the development of a large scale water landscape project. Each seminar is a live process; its content depends on the time of the year and the actual status of development of the water landscape. A few weeks before the beginning of the seminar, the focus of each seminar is published on this web page.

Basic content:
- Water management of the land and the construction of water retention spaces for the revitalization and the healing of a landscape, on the premise that water is the basis of all life.
- The development of biotopes of abundance where all things complement each other; the self-supply of humans with vegetables and fruits; mixed cultivation and high beds; soil regeneration by means of support plants and plant communities; and the symbiosis of plant and animal interaction. “Together is better than alone!”
- “Think naturally” and “learn to read the book of nature.” Observation of the processes in nature; recognition of interrelationships and direction to produce natural cycles so that self-sustained systems are able to (again) develop by themselves.

Presenters: Sepp Holzer will present four days, the Ecology team two days of the seminar.

Cost of each Seminar: EUR 850.- per seminar (for portuguese people: EUR 630.-) includes accommodation in four-bed Visitors’ Huts with your own sleeping bag and vegan food. A room may be available in the Guest House for an additional charge of EUR 20,- per night.

Seminar dates 2009:  December 3rd - 8th

Arrival and departure: On the day before / after the seminar.

Registration: Tamera Guest Office: office@tamera.org, Tel. +351 / 283 635 306

We warmly invite you to participate!

Lilian von Wussow
for the Ecology Team Tamera