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.

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

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

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

Images from a few field trips

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