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