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