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.

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

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

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

Images from a few field trips

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