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  • Strawberry Fields Forever

    Preparing the bed for lots of lovely yummy strawberries………..

  • Woodworking -Freestyle Ideas

  • Bottle It – Cuckoo Pint

    The project took a whole week but we are delighted with the finished shelter…it has created a huge talking point at the garden and looks very impressive. The best thing of all was the lessons and discussions we had around the build. Discussions about plastic waste, peak oil, waste. hunger, recycling, homelessness and communal activity […]

  • Mud Mud… Glorious Mud

  • Shaving and Strimming

    The Straw Bales required shaving to get the walls smooth before we could attempt the cob render. This was laborious and time consuming…..some of us tried to cheat and used the strimmer! It was never going to be THAT smooth but the effort made to give the build a close shave was tremendous.

  • bricks….

    The edible garden at flowerpots is starting to take shape…after the ‘aqusistion’ of a few hundred red bricks, and the purchase of some more, the path has been laid… I think it looks beautiful, and cannot wait to see it twisting in and around our plants! 🙂

  • More smokey pictures, taking by a budding photographer…

  • Making Charcoal

    Today we learnt from an expert how to make charcoal.To start with you make a fire, steadily adding left-over wood remnants to it. Waiting for the wood to go black, with a white hue, then covering it in turfs, until no smoke escapes, to make sure all the heat is kept in and no oxygen […]

  • Messy and smelly (but very productive) fun!

  • Tools of the trade

    Accessories needed for clay rendering…

  • Rudolf the Red-Mud Render!

    Yer Tiz…… we have nicknamed the render ‘rudolph’ as it this stuff is ‘Rudolf the Red-Mud Render’1 Ton of cob render … in convenient sized bucket … heavy though at 40kg each!Hmmmm. will it all fit in?Kevin’s cob and straw house near ottery St Mary. Sadly his roof caught fire and he is repairing it […]

  • Hard Landscaping

    Meanwhile….up at Flowerepots Allotments ……. the decision has been taken to make this into an edible landscape in line with modern ideas about mixing flowers and vegetables in the same plot. To do this we have sat down and planned a garden design and the first think is to put in the hard landscaping. We […]