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

December 5, 2021