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Straw Bale Building Day 4- March 9th – Party Time!
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Time to go home :((((( But we will be back! Team Boot Up!Happy Days…What DID she do to deserve that? Boot Up! baby Loosing your rag Party TimeBunting made from carrier bags – arty recycling Has everyone forgotten we are meant to be building a house……
Straw Bale Building Day 2 – March 4th
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Job done! Tamping downLevelling offTaking a rest Level?In position….Team at the ready for lifting the post into position – a momentous and poignant momentAdmiring the patio the kids have just laidlearning to use a post hole digger to make the hole for the feature postPositioning hole for the feature post to hold up the roof […]
Straw Bale Building Under Way – March 3rd
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The frame is ready and the straw bales are going in. And there is no rain!!!!Preparing for a bale cutting demonstrationSewing the bale with baler twine to stop it from fraying before it is cut to sizeEveryone is going to have a go….Hammering in the sharpened hazel wood stakes to secure together the balesHammering in […]
Windmills and Rotation Planting
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Thurs 25th Feb As it was raining today we did some activities in the yurt 🙂 The first group made scarecrow windmills out of holographic paper and recycled materials, including bottletops, cellophane and bamboo sticks. They were just fantastic – it could be the birds stand and admire the windmills rather than be scared of […]
Straw Day!
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Today the lovely warm dry sweet smelling straw arrived from the local farm. The farmer bought it on a trailer behind a tractor across the fields at the back of the garden site. We were there to greet him and unload the dry straw bales onto a massive tarpaulin. It looked like rain was on […]
You’ve been framed!
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Tues 23rd Feb Making the frame for the Straw Bale shelter. After wood working party hauled the delivery up the hill, the wood was stored neatly in the dry polytunnel. The Build Project Manager gave everyone instruction on the how the plans are being interpeted and how important it is to follow the measurements etc […]