Images from the current permaculture workshop. Click on slides to enlarge or for slideshow

The permaculture workshop has been busy working on learning the basic principles, visiting examples and creating diagrams for designing a permaculture site. Work with Karma farms, an innovative concept pioneered by Thomas where unused plots of land are cultivated to provide food for those in need. Participants helped create a plan of one of these plots, sort and properly store seeds and install a water catchment systems to sustain the garden.

Cutting Pipe to length	Sketch of the water catchment system	Learning about sorting and storing seeds	creating a sector diagram
Thomas	Karma Farms notebooks	Drilling to attach hopper	500 gallon water tank in place
Map of Kathy's garden	Locating water hopper

The following images are from the construction workshop which ended with a visit to arcosanti

Leah enjoying straw	playing with cob	Framing Amy	Ramming earth
Teamwork	Trowelling poured earth	Sasha working on cob	Carrie testing the cob bench
Tom strapping bales	Sasha finishing plaster	finishing poured earth	Priyanka, Ryan splitting bale
Philip fixing lunch barbeque	Rachel finishing earth plaster	Ryan mud foot	Petra mixing mud
Earth materials lab	Leah shredding straw	Sewing straw

Images from a few field trips

House owner answers questions	Leah with arcology model	zero net energy habitat house	Arcosanti exhibit
Finishes on Sip's	Tony Graham at Habitat house	Viewing Arcosanti	HIghlands Center
House renovation Phoenix	Full SIP's mockup	paper house	Rammed earth house
Tom Hahn explaining wall system	Rammed earth house visit	Trailhead shelter Phoenix