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.

Sifting earth	Jesse and Tonya	Creating a sector diagram	Sketch of the water catchment system
Cutting Pipe to length	The joy of cob!	Applying a cob finish	Adobe brick making
500 gallon water tank in place	Karma Farms notebooks	Compost!	Leaf eater
Put that there	Drilling to attach hopper	Learning about sorting and storing seeds	Locating water hopper
Map of Kathy's garden	Thomas

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

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

Images from a few field trips

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