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