A documentary of how we made the pond. What to think about before starting, which materials you need to gather and in which steps to proceed. Including some great sketches and tipps from permaculture designers.
Making a Pond
Building a Hugelkultur Garden Bed
UPDATE 2nd September 2016: For the next time that I will make garden beds in a small project like our garden, I would use more simple no-dig techniques. Just layering material like card board, compost and straw in this order directly on the grass in autumn for example. Next spring the grass underneath will have died …
Building A Vermicompost
UPDATE 23th of February 2017: The vermicompost we built got mouldy. We used a lot of cardboard to darken the box, which was see-through. The cardboard soaked up a lot of water. I would not recommend this technique 🙂 So we built another box for the worms, using black containers this time. Also, I removed …
Permakultur Design Course Review
This article is a review about the permaculture design course I attended in Thailand a few weeks ago. I wanted to write a review of this PDC, because the course was very important for me and I learned a lot. A PDC course like this includes at least 72 hours of teachings and it provides the participants with …
Making a Cob Wall
This is the first post I share with you on this very new blog. Very exciting. I am still in Thailand doing a permaculture design course and on one of the working afternoons we learned how to make a cob wall. A cob wall consists of a mixture of sand, clay, water and some long fibre like …