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