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Other sustainable agriculture or permaculture advocates have also practiced no-pruning methods with success.

Sepp Holzer has successfully used no-pruning methods on his high-altitude farm in the Austrian Alps, noting that under heavy winter snow loads, short-pruned branches will break, often killing the tree, but longer unpruned branches will bend down and touch the ground, thus giving them another point of support and preventing breakage.