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