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