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