Daily fresh food from the kithen, volunteers learn how to cook healthy food from scratchOne of the group of volunteers this summerWe cleared some trees for our fire break and turned it into a shade house for our reforestation effortsHarvesting tomatoes in the gardenWe have cats, dogs goats, sheep, ducks and chickens for petsHarvesting potatoes for our own organic foodEating inside the community houseA group of volunteers during the summer in the courtyard of the community houseThe courtyartThe yoga deckDaily fresh harvest, we have to collect our food every day from the gardenWe have yoga at least once every day, always different stylesEvery week we go on a trip together, this photo is from a trip to a lake on a hot daySarah arting up the bathroomCutting fire wood for our hot showersEvery other week we have a pizza night, where we cook and make pizza together in the old stone pizza ovenSometimes we provide acro yoga classesAcro Yoga, anyone can do it.These two lovely ladies built our greenhouseMaking a super solid washing line for everyone to hang their clothesCuddles with our dog jetRelaxing on the sofa outside in the courtyardHaving fun cooking in the kitchenHarvesting carrotsSinging circle in the chillout roomBuilding a roof together for the straw bale houseVolunteers collected vegetables and seeds and helped separated them for cookingBuilding a strawbale hhouseGroup of volunteers who are working on the strawbale houseAcro yoga fun on the yoga deckPlastering the strawbale house with clayWe don’t only eat greens, today was chocolate mousse day
Click here from some photos to see what volunteers were doing at the start of 2017 when we just bought the land
Photos from Jan to spring 2017
Our group in March 2013, usually volunteers start on similar dates and stay for at least 1 month living together in a community with the residenceWorking n our of our vegetable patches at Keel yoga FarmRelaxing onto of one of the campervan
Every week we make pizza and bed and have an evening off to enjoy local wine
Dennis dug out a perfectly straight tomato bed, installed the irrigation, planted the tomato plants grown in our greenhouse by another volunteer and placed a greenhouse we made over half the bed in case of frost (which never came) and then covered it with a thick layer of mulch. The tomatoes are now flowering and no weeds have made it through the mulchBonnie and Dale are working on cooking pizzas and bread, one of our daily chores. Laurence and Jori made this table out of scrap wood from an old roof, floor and from the scraps pileLouise cutting fire wood for pizza night on this log horse made out of old floor joists by one of our volunteersTim working on our DIY solar water heater, which heats water for our water tank when its not even that hot
Jori worked with us on his first few days fixing all our broken stuff, he then went on to learn all about our small solar system and ten helped to install our new large solar systemVolunteers stripped out our old floor, removed all the nails and Dale managed to put them together and make a door for the chicken house!Volunteers learnt and worked together to build a structure to increase our outdoor living space, it was made with reclaimed wood and tiles!
Jaeron put his hand to carpentry during his stay, he started with making a gate for our fence and then made a simple door for the shower room, before he left he then made a super insulated double door for our battery houseJohanna and Louise helping with the daily task of harvesting various leafy greens for a fresh organic salad for lunch
Volunteers working together to made a shelf for the shared area in the big tent, they made it with trees from our land and tried tying it together with tree bark
There is no time like chill time
Bonnie and Sharmain planting different colors of corn and maze in seed traysOrtwin having his first ever go at roofing with reclaimed wood and tiles
Josie helped us all over the farm but said she liked working with wood so we gave her some and she made us this…. now we have a tidy yoga room with a space for everything on the home made shelvesSharmaine and Bonnie managed to cook in the dining room while the kitchen is being installedPeter rolling out electrics, in the background you can see a wooden frame made by another on of our volunteersEvery week we plant our more vegetables n the gardens and then plant more seeds in seed trays, we made this area to retreat from the sunYoga Teacher Lisa made us the most wonderful homemade yoga blocksTim our resident builder is using lime to render the walls so they can breathJohanna and Louise rolled out the design for the beds my marking them out with stringDale and Lynn working on the roof for the chicken house with reclaimed wood, learning as they goDale and Izzy learning on job as they build a toilet room with reclaimed woodSophie and Ortwin, the dream team with their completed roof
Peter and jori working on the frame for the new solar panels, they evaluated the space, worked out the best angles and site for the panels and then installed them
Bonnie weeding the bed, notice the bed in the front right doesn’t need weeding due to the mulch, mulch keeps the ground moist, feeds the microbiology, protects the soil from sun and stops weeds
We have a daily morning meeting to learn and establish jobs for the day
Tim installed our wood fired water heater that heats the washing machine, shower, bathroom and kitchen
Sharmaine learnt how to tile, and made this with help from Tim and free left over tiles from our local shop. Hot water and beauty
For more photos pls check facebook, if you want to learn more about permaculture, natural building or growing food, then we have the projects for you to have a go out, daily yoga classes, workshops and healthy food. Please check our volunteering page out or submit an application form
There is no time like chill time
