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