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