A permaculture garden was created at the Rottenhof and on the neighbouring farmland with the expert Sigi Tatschl created. Permaculture focusses on the development of agriculturally productive, self-sustaining cultural and ecological systems for the benefit of nature and people.
Permaculture also shows sustainable ways of organising lifestyles, landscapes and regional economies. In the city and in the countryside, in the garden, on the balcony and on the farm, when shopping, swapping and sharing, when building and renovating, when transporting and driving, in everyday life, at work and during leisure time.
The permaculture project, through whose borders, raised beds and fruit tree meadows you can stroll and snack, cultivates 550 varieties of fruit trees and shrubs, many herbs and excellent spices.
Pawpaws (Indian banana), almonds, hazel, walnut, witch hazel, orange cherries, Szechuan blackberries, pomegranates, dwarf tamarillos, chestnuts, junipers, snow pears or hawthorns - to name just a few. They bear juicy fruit and fragrant foliage. From the field come Amaranth, horehound, bergamot, tobacco, strawberry spinach, black tortilla corn, ice berries, sugar root up to the green Hokaido Dozens of people are brought up here, indeed, they are being cherished.
Mixed cultivation and biodiversity enable the plants to grow from their Neighbourhood benefit. Resources such as water are saved through clever planning and, for example, the Mulching protected. Thanks to the resilience of the functioning ecosystem and the awareness that every living being in it fulfils several important functions, the use of chemicals can be completely dispensed with. This allows fungi, for example, to colonise, which play an important role as mediators between the plants.
The holistic principle of permaculture emphasises natural and closed cycles and the consideration of all the functions of the individual elements.
