Building Our Shed

Our house on the farm was finished, but now we needed a shed for all our equipment, and Patric, who works for us, needed a place to stay on the farm.

We decided to make the bricks for the shed ourselves. The idea came when we found out our neighbour had a brick machine. He agreed to lend it to us, and so we started making our own bricks.

Before starting on the shed, we bought a Kubota digger for the farm, one of the best investments we've made. With all the rock in the soil, digging the foundations by hand would not have been possible.

Stages of building the shed and flat

Measuring the area where we wanted to build.

The brick-making machine.

Bricks lying in the sun to dry.

Patric's flat coming along nicely, with a kitchen, pantry, sitting and dining area, bathroom, bedroom and a big walk-in closet.

The shed under construction