It was not some kind of my personal enlightenment. It was simply my mental illness. About ten years ago most of the then-existent movie theaters in the city where I lived gradually got replaced with big modern movie theaters. And the original ones transformed to other purpose theaters. The new movie theaters came with many cinema halls. They were equipped with the latest technology, for example, with surround sound system and other. Movie theaters became a place crowded with people. There were a lot of bright colors and music everywhere. There were 15 minute commercials before the movie started and...

In a way, the first weekend of a new year marks a tradition for my husband and me. We visit my parents who live around 80 miles south east from us – it is called the Karst region. This is the region where I grew up. For my husband and me the first weekend of a new year is a tradition of walks in nature, more specific, in the woods connecting the old villages with distinctive traditional houses made of stone. An old folk legend goes that the Karst region used to be covered by oak forest. When the town of Venice was being built on sea, the woods were cut and the region turned to a land of pastures....

This would be my last blog on Sepp Holzer’s experimental farm in Austrian Alps. I would like to talk about his greed reduction policies. As I have written in my first blog about Holzer – I believe his philosophy could be shortly described by three sentences: Back to nature. Do not be too greedy. And: Turn disadvantages of your situation into advantages. In the first blog I wrote about advantages, in the second about the nature, so let me say a few words about greed here. It is one thing to say to people: “You are too greedy,” and a completely different thing to be able to show examples of...

As I have mentioned in my previous blog, the saying “Back to nature” well applies to everything Sepp Holzer does on his experimental farm. Let us take snails for example. How does he fight snails on his vegetables? Well, it is a project. He planted lots of the so called »bird cherry trees« (Vogelkirschen). The cherries that grow on this sort of trees are small enough for birds to be able to eat them. Holzer picks some cherries and produces jam, but the rest remains there to be eaten by birds. Those birds like eating snails too. Thus there is no need to poison snails with artificial chemicals. The...

During our summer holidays my husband and I visited an experimental farm in Austria. Sepp Holzer calls himself a »rebellious farmer« and works miracles at the height of 4200 feet above sea level. He turned a steep pine forest into a land of ponds, fields and fruit tree gardens. How? By building terraces. The rain water descending from pond to pond comes down as spring water full of life energy at the bottom of the terraces. By creating a humid microclimate Holzer is able to grow even apricots and lemons at an amazing altitude. He says: “My farm is not supposed to be a recipe. It is merely an...