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Week End

The rock breakers did their best, helped by the JCB operator, to finish extracting the rocks from the central pit, I was asking for at the beginning of the week. This area can now be filled up by
the JCB, the 2 heaps of soil have been moved, despite one day of rain which slowed down the rock breaking process (Tuesday) and one machine break down (on Thursday afternoon). I am not sure how many cubic meters of stone have been extracted and cut, but it might be somewhere around 4-5 tons.

Other activities on site included : slightly moving the placement of the Family Cottages, now that the space was cleared; marking the dormitory placement, start sieving the soil for the CSEB ( I still would like to test the selected soil), building a grass fence along a wall where there's a limit disagreement with the neighbour, putting a tent up for the seed storage and day desk, clearing the area where we want to build dry compost toilets and marking their placement, preparing seedlings...

Waiting for the tomarillos to ripe so we can dig to extract more soil for the CSEB
Oops the future alley and service parking are in the middle of the garden - let's change that (the placement, not the garden)

Seiving the soil for CSEB

Grass fence WIP

Volunteer Ludi working with the guys to put the tent up

Break down

Here, the future compost toilets tanks

JCB Local style


Tomorrow the boss is coming back to site, and I am helping with our attendance of the first Farmers Market in Blantyre to advertise our offer on trainings (permaculture principles, sustainable earth building, herbal medicine, compost making...).

Fom Monday on :
how do we get the machine to dig the pond without destroying everything on the upcoming food forest, where lots of new trees have been planted recently ? And an operational meeting with the structural engineer and foreman to set up a working schedule and responsibilities between us.
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