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