Brigitta, a carpenter and vegan cook, stayed for three weeks in June. She continued work on constructing the kitchen and made fabulous vegetarian dishes with produce from the garden.
Starting work on one of the kitchen cabinets using pallet wood and timber found on the land here ..... |
Here standing under the structure for hanging kitchen implements that she helped to make using pallet wood ... |
Helping to fill holes in the sub layer of the earth floor. The finishing layer will be done in a month or so after these areas have dried ..... |
Woofer Elodie and Laura working on the earth floor ... |
Elodie creating in the kitchen ... |
Elodie and Laura preparing vegetables from the land .... |
Woofer Lila in the round garden in front of the greenhouse .... |
Lila helped me to weed and tidy the greenhouse. |
Transformed!! |
Preparing the earth for rendering ... we filtered it into the bathtub and then mixed it with water to soak 24 hours before mixing it with sand and flour glue for rendering a wall in the house. |
Preparing the wall for the earth render ... |
Shelling peas and broad beans from the garden. |
Some creative cooking. |
Making nasturtium leaf pesto - using the first nasturtium leaves of the season. |
Shovelling sand from the trailer - to be used for earth rendering and the earth floor in the house. |
Harvesting onions in the round garden. |
Yeah ... first harvested onion this year!! |