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