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