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