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