PDC 2017-18
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Team 2017-18
Cherryle and Catherine yukkin’it up
The ladies stay dry on tree day
This is how concept designs begin
Eco building
Louise tackles the refractometer
Gisella on a sunny day!
Catherine loves the design process
break time fun
Dan, Catherine and Neville
Ecosystem drama fun
From the founder
Dan as David
Dan as Bill
Shane sharing on tree day
Let it rain
Learning trees on a wet day
Kara, Rachel, Erina and Karen
Gisella in the orchard
Team 2017-18 on water day
Cherryle is passionate about fungi!
Farmer Kate
Chrissy and Erina
Ruth and Kazel
Fun, floor learning on Fundamentals day
Craig and Anaru look serious!
Tessa & Elliot
Beginning Concept Design
Water day
Water day
PDC 2016-17
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Team 2016-17
making friends
RIP Bill
Water doing what it does
Billy and cherryle checking out the soil
Our fire teacher
Michael makes fire
Spunky Kim
Nice bridge Stuart!
Head full of seedlings
Break time fun
Up close with a big girl
One of our classrooms
Lunch food is pretty good
Creative adult education
Kinaesthetic learning
Fun foundation day
A great design technique
Katherine, Yanita and Stuart nutting it out
Billy the Artiste!
Catherine loves the scale of permanence exercise
james, Kim and Catherine making’ cob
Tessa teaches cob
Nice cob building!
Container house
Slug managers
Manu learns the refractometer
Another outdoor classroom
Classic design technique
The boys working it out
Woven garden edge
Making beds at Sharon
Making compost
Chook hotel
Nutting out a vision for the year
Neville smiles at the proceedings
PDC 2015-16
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Dan testing the wind
Iris makes fire
Brad demo’s butchering on resiliency day
Paul shows us how to make fire on resiliency day
Beautiful Papamoa Hills cob
Our energy, housing and transport presenters Phil, Nik and Jo
Dan Palmer on design module 1
Margaret and Keith learning visual soil assessment
Christine’s food forest
Connections Game
Oh Keith
Double dig demo on gardening day
Pricking out workshop on garden day
Brad on seed saving
Seperating seed with friends
Teresa’s gorgeous chart
Gisella leading Tree Crops module
Compost makers PDC 2015
One of Dan Palmer’s designs
Micheal mapping
2015 Graduates
Stacey’s Design
Viola’s presentation
Brad’s project 2015
Chrissy won a prize for this one
Sharon Roy graduates
PDC 2014-15 Inaugural Class
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Graduation 2015
Solar dehydrator
Janice & Julia making cob structure
Christine & friend
Contour mapping
Kati Kaiway
Nicole, Rob and worm friends
Solar energy
Trish & Michael’s garden
Cob creation
Fire pit at the waterman’s place
Maria in Christine’s food forest
Sharon & friend
Ailie & banana tree
Catherine & Neville
Solar tyre oven
Brad’s biochar maker
In class
Neville reading contours
Mixing cob
Ducks at Steve &
Steve & XXX Garden
Solar power at Paul’s
Mobile tiny house
Cob lizard
Tipi
Insect hotel
Chicken house
Living willow hut
Tiny house
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