Mar 3, 2019
WATER IS LIFE - The Water Retention Landscape of Tamera Sepp Holzer and Bernd Mueller
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WATER IS LIFE - The Water Retention Landscape of Tamera Sepp Holzer and Bernd Mueller
There are many more things that are possible in nature than you will find written down in books. However, you will only discover this if you are ready to fail and you are ready to learn.
Sepp Holzer, Permaculture
Tamera’s ecology experts transformed an area at risk of desertification – and say they can do the same anywhere in the world
The land is called Tamera, the name given to these 330 acres in southern Portugal by a community of 30 people who moved here from Germany in 1995. Today, 200 people from all over the world live here. Through simple practices of digging swales (ditches) and creating water retention spaces, Tamera’s ecology experts have transformed an area on the brink of desertification – and say they can do the same anywhere in the world.
“The ecological knowledge is there and its effectiveness can be proved in so many cases,” he says. “The problem lies in political strategies and social habits.”
(via Arid land to a fertile Eden: permaculture lessons from Portugal | The Guardian)
WATER IS LIFE - The Water Retention Landscape of Tamera
Sepp Holzer and Bernd Mueller explain the construction, the effect and the basic ideas for the construction of a water retention landscape: a local and natural solution to the global problem of disturbed water balance.
(via WATER IS LIFE - The Water Retention Landscape of Tamera | Grace Media)
Sepp Holzer and Bernd Mueller explain the construction, effect, and basic ideas of a water retention landscape in Portugal.
“Featured On: http://thepermaculturezone.com - Sepp Holzer's son Josef walks us through his family farm called the Krameterhof. Fish ponds, productive terraces, fruit trees and grazing animals characterize the lush landscape in one of Europe's oldest and most well established permaculture farms.“
☯ Blown away by the scale of water retention and dedication to permaculture projects at Tamera. Can’t wait to visit in October!
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