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