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