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