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