Category: Our Week in Pictures
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Trouble!
I love this photo. Mum Dona plus two sorts of trouble 🙂 These little guys are the remaining pigs from Dona’s litter, enjoying their last days with Mum before Dona rejoins d’Rock (our boar).
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Permaculture Design Course photos June 2018
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. If you missed this course, we’ve another beginning on 17th August. Please join us then. Details here.
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Grazing
Jeroen has been putting in a huge amount of effort over the last weeks to install new fencing which will allow our animals to graze more effectively. We’re not just looking to feed the animals from the land, but use their eating, manuring and treading to actually improve the quality of the soil, the plant more »
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Hot Day, Cool Pig
Hot day, hot pig. Cool bath, cool pig.
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Sheep Shearing
Today I’m feeling rather as if I’ve been run over by a horse, but perhaps it would be more accurate to say a sheep. Yesterday our neighbour and local Super Hero, Carlos, came round to help us shear the sheep. I say help, but he did all the shearing of course, and our job was more »
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Permaculture in practice
Permaculture in practice – Every element should have more than one function 😆😆 These little bundles are looking for new homes. If you can offer one, give us a shout.
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It’s a wonderful time of year to be a Goat
Really, it couldn’t be a more lovely time to be a goat. Tasty flowers in the forest, lush grass in the meadow. I’m even enjoying walking them. Our first PDC of the year begins just a week from now. Can you join us?
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Monster Broom
Wikipedia tells me ”Plants of Cytisus scoparius (broom / giesta) typically grow to 1–3 m tall, rarely to 4 m.” We’ve been cutting down specimens easily 6m today. We’re so happy to see these go. Broom is incredibly flammable, and having a giant impenetrable thicket of them (belonging to our neighbour) so close to the more »
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D’Rock
D’Rock is our boar, so called because he’s has Duroc blood. I don’t think we’d realised quite how big he’d got until we looked at this photo of him next to his girlfriend and Jeroen. Booking places on our upcoming Permaculture Design Courses now. Please join us and meet d’Rock yourself!