Terraced Insect Homes.

This blog picks things up kind of midway, and will follow things onto a conclusion next year. I have run a few workshops now with the Friends for Mental Health at St. Martins Hospital in Canterbury. This session was to construct some insect homes which will be placed somewhere in the hospital grounds.

After a nervous start the service users began using saws, cordless screw drivers and hand held tools to construct a row of terraced houses. I had brought with me  'a couple I had made earlier' and others in 'flat pack' Ikea like style that required assembly and screwing together.



we worked in teams of two, to cut sticks and bamboo to the right length

'measure twice make once'



End of terrace.  The end sections will eventually be filled with mud,
as some insects like living in the soil.



The lower section is where my friend is placing sticks collected from the Blean Woods. The upper sections are filled with hollowed out bamboo is to encourage bees.

detail: Rooms to let.

The whole terrace, more sticks required.