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