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