Permaculture progress or lack of!

"Best laid plans of mice of men gang after glay" - or something like that . Was out for a walk today checking out, on our newly planted forest garden and wishing that the weather would hurry up and improve so that we could get on and move things forward . We have at the moment one half mulched  forest garden , awaiting the addition of more planting , tons of soggy cardboard  that now is almost impossible to move and tons of woodchip building up waiting to be moved in situ . Things have been at a standstill like this since November.

Other projects such as the new conservatory that we are trying to design, so that if fulfills all of our needs and is built using permaculture princples. Easier said than done, the conservatory has to provide heat for the house, an extra working space, somewhere to dry clothes , be built of  local materials, so local that the walls could be built from the soil on our land! So many hard decisions to make, so little expertise in so many areas! At the moment we are playing with models ....will post a few photos in a while.....even if it is only of a cardboard model!