Work continues on the land
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| Two young wwoofers, Quentin and Kevin digging up potatoes ..... |
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| Clara weeding in the round garden .... |
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| Harvesting comfrey for the compost bin ... |
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| Wwoofer Gwendal helping me to plant lettuces and leeks in a sheet mulched bed ... |
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| The round garden gets a makeover ... |
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| Roumanian workaway volunteer with the Roumanian lettuces ...... |
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| Bastien, a mechanical engineering student tackles the ferns with the brushcutter - to be used as mulch. |
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| Florentina tidies up the greenhouse. |
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| Gwendal laying the cardboard around the round garden before adding woodchip. |
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| Florentina and newly arrived wwoofer Andrea collecting wild food for supper. |
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| Gwendal collecting Nasturtium leaves and flowers to make a pesto.... |
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| Bastien making bundles of twigs for starting fires ... |
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| Wild axe man Steve, taking down the old fruit tree that is past its prime .... |
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| Sandis and I went on a cardboard run .... a local furniture company lets us take all the cardboard they would otherwise throw out. We use it for sheet mulching ..... |
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| Corinne explaining to Bastien and Quentin how to prepare a bed for planting. A Hive of Activity with various woodwork projects
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| Medical student, Bas, from Holland starts to sand wood found on the land ... the idea is to make a dining table ... |
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| Meanwhile Kevin decides to build a much needed door for the bathroom. |
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| Bastien joins Bas on the table project .... |
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| Bastien helping me to construct some pallet shelves for the bathroom. |
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| Steve starts the pallet bathroom cabinet project ... |
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| ... and Sandis takes over when Steve leaves ... |
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| Sandis, proudly sanding the cabinet ... |
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| Bastien filters the earth into water in the bath. Soaking the earth 24 hours before mixing the render makes it more sticky. |
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| Wwoofers Quentin and Kevin work hard to straighten the wall with the middle earth coat. |
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| Sandis helped me to calculate how much cow manure we would need for the earth floor we will do soon. |
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| ... and we worked out several different recipes for the finished layer of the earth floor ... test patches |
Creative and healthy communal cooking and eating
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| One of our homegrown edible flower salads ... |
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| ... for which there is much appreciation ... |
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| Steve made some wonderful cakes ... |
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| Multi-tasking - food preparation and yoga ..... |
Dry toilet in a barrel gets a new look
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| A group project - how to construct a new roof for the dry toilet in a barrel using willow cut from the land and recuperated plastic sheeting from one of the DIY shops. |
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| The willow dome takes shape. |
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| Florentina and product design student, Andrea from Holland fit the willow dome to the top of the dry toilet barrel. |
At Leisure
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| Workaway volunteer Corinne, a trained and experienced ecologist, biologist and horticultural worker gives a workshop on edible wild plants ..... |
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| Volunteers making use of the extensive library of books on ecoconstruction, permaculture, well being etc etc |
