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