It’s taken me rather a long time to get these uploaded, but here are my favourite photos from our May/June Permaculture Design Course, with many thanks to the photographers Andy, Josh and David.
Andrea demonstrating bouncing on our ‘hugel edge’
Day off, lunch at our local restaurant
Learning about RAM pumps with Jeroen
Fig cuttings planted in sand
Bread / pizza oven just waiting for a roof
Planting cabbages in the new mulch bed
Josh demonstrating measuring contours with an A-frame
After dinner card game
Morning warm up
Reginald
Steve with Minnow
We fashioned adobe blocks.
Sieving clay for adobe
Digging clay to make adobe blocks
View of the house from the shower
Plant identification with Andrea and Stumpy
Mixing clay, sand and straw for adobe
Making connections
You didn’t want to use this mulch, did you?
Building an 18 day compost pile
Ready for action
Josh with Dor Havkin, who joined us for a day
Placing beer bottles in brick moulds to add detail or reduce weight
Listening to the presentations
Our new adobe blocks drying. These will be used in the next course
Natural building with Jeroen
Vermiculture in a bathtub with Andrea
An inhabitant of the wormery
Making a mulch bed with Josh
A broken finger doesn’t stop Jeroen shaping blocks!
Talking about hugel beds with Andrea
plant identification with Andrea
We built a wall in the outside kitchen area with our adobe blocks
Pipsqueak, who seems to get everywhere
Looking at the solar shower with Jeroen
If you missed this course, we’ve another beginning on 17th August. Please join us then. Details here.
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