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.

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

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

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

Images from a few field trips

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