This interview was made by Heidi Snel, ÖKOFILM (www.ecofilm.de), during the IPC7 (7th International Permaculture Convergence) in Motovun, Croatia in june 2005.
David Holmgren speaks about the “agro-rebel” Sepp Holzer after his first visit to Sepp´s farm. He also gives some short thoughts about natural farming of Masanobu Fukuoka.
David was recently a guest at the School of Applied Neopeasantry, Tree Elbow University in Djaara Mother Country. He was invited to speak about this next phase of global energy transition, and societal transformation in the local context. Here he is, in conversation with Patrick Jones, followed by a compost of goodly questions from community participants who
Are agriculture and biodiversity always at odds? In the late 1970s, a radical environmental movement rejected this dichotomy — rebuking conventional farming in favour of holistic & mutualistic principles, with the dual promise of plentiful food and a vibrant ecosystem.
When Permaculture was first articulated, it emerged from a simple question: why don’t our food systems look more like forests? In the tropics, traditional Indigenous agriculture integrated perennial foods crops so densely that their gardens had often been mistaken for jungle.
Inspired by these techniques, permaculturists adapted forest gardening for the temperate world. But, in their enthusiasm, they too may have been missing the forest for the trees.
Interview with Heidi Snel (2005) for ÖKOFILM during the IPC7 (7th International Permaculture Convergence) in Motovun, Croatia in june 2005. Available to watch in full on Youtube.
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