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