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