Garden Makeover
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| Workaway volunteer Clara helping me to plant Yacon in the forest garden. It is an unusual root vegetable with a taste between cucumber and apple ........ |
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| Clara and I went to collect bamboo canes from a friend's woodland - they are always useful in the garden for building trellises and tipis for climbing plants. |
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| Workaway volunteer Corinne transforming the round garden. Here digging up potatoes .... |
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| Steve and Clara bottling up the nettle tea - to be used to feed plants in the garden ... |
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| Some garden produce ... |
Ecoconstruction
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| Workaway volunteer, Sandis - from Latvia, preparing the earth for rendering in the house .... |
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| Sandis wets the wall before applying the earth render. |
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| Preparing the concrete mixer ... |
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| Clara makes the flour glue that we add to the earth render mix to make it more sticky ... |
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| The concrete mixer team ... |
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| Rendering the wall - the idea of this middle layer is to straighten the wall as much as possible before applying the finishing render. |
Making pallet structures
Corinne and I went on a pallet finding mission with a friend's trailer. It is getting harder and harder to find companies willing to give them away and there are more and more businesses springing up that will buy up and repair old pallets .... nevertheless we were able to find enough for our needs ...
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| Steve and Corinne start dismantling the pallets ... not always easy ..... |
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| Starting to measure up ... |
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| The pallet compost system almost finished ..... |
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| Et voila!! |
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| Corinne cut some comfrey down to the ground - to be used as a compost activator. It can be cut several times a year and quickly grows back. It is a wonderful mineral accumulator ... its roots bring up minerals deep in the soil. |
Cooking with produce from the land
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| An accomplishedc flexitarian cook, Corinne spent many hours preparing delicious meals from garden produce. |
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| A group creative cooking session in the newly transformed pallet and recycled wood kitchen. |
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