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