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