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