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Donated fruit trees arriving in the village -
The only green in the landscape, Spring 2018 -
Solar generating capacity is restored -
Starting work on the cob bathroom roof repair -
New rafters for the cob bathroom roof -
Roof repair complete and new window in -
Singing the valleys back to life -
Autumn harvest, 2018 -
Burnt out IBC tank cages make fine gabions for new terraces -
Even if life is very basic, good food and music are all you need -
Main building kitchen starts to take shape -
Kitchen nearing completion in time for 2019 summer courses -
Replacing lintels and fallen stonework in the wee house to save the walls from collapse -
The burnt out wee house half way through reconstruction -
The new wee house kitchen wall starts to rise -
Roof being added -
The space starts to feel like a room again -
Wee house kitchen ... with windows -
Wee house reconstruction complete. Only fitting out and furnishing remains -
Main kitchen fully functional for the first courses in 2019 -
Hot compost-making during the first Permaculture Design Certificate course -
Course participants taking a break at the local waterfalls -
2019 Natural Building course and the new shower and toilet block begins to rise -
2019 Natural Building course - cutting mortise and tenon joints -
2019 Natural Building course and the toilet section takes shape -
New bathroom and toilet framework -
Demonstrating the drainage filter for the toilet worm tank -
Installation of the vermicomposting tank beneath the new toilet -
Fitting the drainage filter and covering the drainage layer in the worm tank -
Patio shade structure begins. Post-PDC Practical course 2019 -
Shade structure and fire pit almost complete -
New patio area with fire pit -
Carving panels for the main building balcony doors -
Clearing burnt pines in the woods -
Planting the precious new trees, well guarded by Nelly -
The harvests keep coming -
And coming ... -
And coming ... -
Only to start again the next Spring -
New shower and toilet block with the wattle-and-daub walls under construction -
A slab of cherry from one of our dead trees for a basin counter -
Main building worm toilet structure starts to take shape -
Finished toilet with the worm tank further downslope -
The cob pizza oven rising from its newly-built drystone counter. Post-PDC Practical course 2021 -
Roof structure for the hew 'chill and grill' area. Second Post-PDC Practical course 2021 -
'Chill and grill' with completed roof -
Mobile saw mill cutting timber from the quinta's burnt trees -
Timber converted to kitchen
December 5, 2021