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