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