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