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