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