Green facilities

It has been a busy time recently at Forktree, with all manner of infrastructure development. You know all about the seed nursery; now time to update you on the something less glamorous but no less important - our new composting toilet.

Everything at Forktree is a learning experience and a team effort, and the construction of our new facilities has been no different, with multiple phases, each challenging in its own right:

• Dig a MASSIVE hole and a trench for a drainage pipe (thank you, Simon).

• Strengthen the sides of the hole and the trench, and fill in the trench (thank you, Tim).

• Build a rock-solid floor above the hole using as much salvaged timber as possible (thank you, Tim and Jake).

• Design and build the “dunny” itself and fit it in postion (thank you, Ralph).

• use old lengths of corrugated iron salvaged from site to create walls and a roof (thank you Tim, Jake AND Ralph).

• Ok, the door still needs to go on but that will be a breeze after everything else.

Once again, how satisfying to have built this out of 95% recycled and salvaged materials. Volunteers, you now have facilities to use when you visit!

And finally, a huge thanks once again to Tatachilla Lutheran College whose generous donation helped us bring this project to fruition.