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Anyone who’s spent time with us will know how much time we spend fighting to keep our rotovators working. Here’s a rare shot of one in action! Creating a new kitchen garden bed near the house.
Connor is planting pumpkin seedlings along the edge of this raised bed. Cardoon […]  This is part of a series of posts where we ask one of our visitors to say a few words about their stay. Ollie volunteered with us in 2015, and this is the blog post he wrote about his stay. “I went to the woods because I wished to live […] Each PDC culminates with participants creating their own permaculture design. These photos are a glimpse at some presentations. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Joao Niels Izzy Jordan Jonathan Levi JP Andy Pia Jonathan Couldn’t resist including this one, taken the morning of the presentations after a late night session perfecting the designs!
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Morning warm ups during our most recent Permaculture Design Course. I think they’re about to launch into a Spice Girls routine.
Or not …..
Josh’s dancing seemingly not universally appreciated 😉
But […] During our recent Permaculture Design Course, Jeroen took the participants through the theory and practice of RAM pumps. With a small stream at the bottom of our property, these are invaluable at Casalinho in lifting water to where we can use it. Taking advantage of the RAM pump pool for a cool down. […] This practical session followed on from the swale building exercise I published yesterday. A contoured raised bed has been created on the downside of the berm, with the swale itself becoming the path above. For the short term this new bed has been planted up with annual veg, but these will be replaced with […] Learning to measure contours and build swales is a wonderfully interactive part of the PDC course. The swale being created here has wood in the berm to create a higher edge. The swale itself is a path, and we’ve built a raised bed on the downside. It’s been planted with annual veg in the […] PDC participants turning a hot compost pile. Put together at the beginning of the course, it’s nearly ready for use by the end. As we were lacking animal manure (so many projects, so little poo!), we’ve been using the pee from the compost toilet to add extra nitrogen. #gallery-4 { margin: auto; } #gallery-4 […] Our Permaculture Design Course participants making adobe blocks and beginning a cob bench on the Natural Building day of the August PDC. #gallery-5 { margin: auto; } #gallery-5 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-5 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-5 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Cob bench in the making Completed blocks beginning the drying process, which will take about a month. Moulding the adobe blocks, a combination of straw, clay and sand. On at least one day during our annual Scout camp visit, we like to direct all that energy into helping out our local community. This year the Scouts did a marvellous job of brightening up the bar and bathrooms at one of our local river beaches in Malhada do Rei with a fresh new […] |
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